Before the Last Bell
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Lavinia wants the man whose temporary vows keep him out of reach. She will not be his secret or the reason he leaves the life he loves.
One kiss would change everything
Slow burns where the waiting is the point
Nothing rushed. These stories take their time getting the leads into the same room, then the same thought, then finally each other — and the delay is most of the pleasure.
Before We Call It Love
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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For eleven years Felix has answered Nina's calls. Now he wants her to choose him before she leaves for Copenhagen.
The Court We Choose
Completed · 19 chapters · Warm
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Saskia wants her tennis partner after the match. An injury stops her playing just as Mara is offered a place beside someone else.
Notes Toward a Second Language
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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Two translators, divorced, are left a dead friend's last novel on one condition: they finish it together, in one room, in six months.
After the War, Tea
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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A retired battle-mage runs the village tea-house. The general she defeated moves in across the lane; the treaty forbids private dealings.
The House That Keeps Her
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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A guild exorcist has fourteen days to clear a widow's haunted house, and the widow is the first client afraid of the cure, not the ghost.
Private Viewing
Completed · 20 chapters · Warm
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An art-fraud investigator is assigned a forgery claim on a widower's gallery, and he is the first person in years to ask what she found.
The Plus-One Clause
Completed · 19 chapters · Warm
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A wedding speechwriter becomes a chef's fake girlfriend for a television season, and the clause she wrote about kissing stops being funny.
The Frost Ledger
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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A city debt-reader inherits a page that can end a border lord's endless winter, and the price only counts if nobody makes her pay it.
A Week of Small Repairs
Completed · 19 chapters · Warm
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A week of wedding work on a tidal Norfolk creek puts her back beside the man she loved in secret at twenty-five.
The Standing Invitation
Completed · 19 chapters · Warm
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Tess loves her husband. She is falling for the architect beside her. Six hours with him show her what she has stopped saying at home.
The Other Side of the Pass
Completed · 18 chapters · Warm
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Six weeks in one kitchen with the critic who savaged her first restaurant, and neither of them gets to stay right.