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    The marriage of convenience fic no one asked for.

    The morning after the Netherfield Ball, while Mr Collins is proposing to Elizabeth, Mr Bennet collapses. With her father unconscious and apparently near death, her mother pressuring her to marry Mr Collins, and the gentleman himself ignoring her protests, suddenly saying 'no' is not so easy. Faced with poverty and homelessness if she continues refusing, the gossip soon reaches Netherfield that she will have to marry Mr Collins. Just as Mr Darcy is about to mount his horse and follow Mr Bingley to London, never to return, he overhears the servants talking. The thought of Elizabeth married to a fool like Mr Collins is unbearable to him, and he resolves to make her a better offer. But, when she refuses him, he finds that he's willing to do anything for love - even marry her without the hope of being with her.

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    27 Jul 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 34

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    “Improvisation is one of your many skills?”

    “I speak fluent thespian, darling.”

    Jack looked away as if Phryne had just removed her blouse—a very understated number, by the by.

    “We won’t last five minutes if you can’t even look me in the eye, Jack.”

     

    Or, the only logical thing to do when your suspect is a marriage therapist.

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    05 Jul 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 52

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    Danny’s voice has a tired, stung quality to it. “Look, with Tucker out of town, my ghost-fighting cover rotation is down by half. If you didn’t wanna let me in, you could’ve said so.” Quieter, he says, “Wouldn’t blame you.”

    There is, in fact, a single and definite moment that Danny falls in love with Sam.

    She just doesn't notice.

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    13 Apr 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 56

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    She loves that Luke is fighting back, that he’s raising awareness among young artists about what their contracts do and don’t allow them to do. But she has been dreading the day that the band starts working on Finally Free (Sunset Curved), the re-recording of their second album, because it’ll mean dragging herself into a studio with him to re-do her feature on its title track.

    Eight years after Luke and Julie break up, Sunset Curve's re-recording project brings Julie back into Luke's orbit. Because if there's one thing a broken heart needs, it's three weeks at her secluded recording studio with her ex.

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    04 Apr 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 35

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    “I love you. I think I do at least. I mean, I think about you rather a lot and have found it horrible to be away from you and want to be near you all the time and… and…”

    Tewksbury’s mouth has dropped open.

    “…and. Well – that’s what makes me think I love you because quite frankly I don’t have another explanation.”

    He chuckles. “When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”

    “Well, yes,” she replies with surprise. “That is rather eloquently put.”

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    Enola and Tewksbury learn to speak each other’s language.

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    Set after the first film, this is a very slow burn, slightly angsty on occasion and rated E for later chapters.

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    27 Mar 2025