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    “Now, I have to tell you… she wore out one painter before you.”

     

    Vi’s brow furrows. “How so?” She can’t keep the question at bay.

     

    Cassandra looks down at her tea. “To put it simply, she refused to pose. He never saw her face.”

     

    Vi sits up a little straighter, concern tightening her muscles.

     

    “Why won’t she be painted, exactly?” The image of the smudged face barrages her, filling her vision with blue and gold.

     

    “She refuses this marriage,” she replies sternly, lines etched along her brow. Cassandra glances up to her own wedding portrait before meeting Vi’s gaze again. “You must paint her without her knowing.”

     


    OR:
    When Caitlyn Kiramman refuses to be painted for her arranged wedding portrait, Vi is commissioned to paint her in secret at Holdrum estate (The Portrait of a Lady on Fire au)

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    25 Apr 2026

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    Trinity Santos is three hours into a double shift, alone in the break room, when her phone buzzes with an unknown number. A stranger has sent a photo by accident, a red dress, an ornate mirror, a bare back, and is immediately, catastrophically mortified about it.
    Trinity is polite. She says she deleted it. She saves the contact as 'very hot stranger 🔥'.
    That's where it starts.

    Wrong number. Slow burn. Enemies to lovers. SMAU-adjacent.

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    23 Apr 2026

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    So yeah, maybe Santos had Garcia’s driver card stuck to her bedroom mirror during her formative teenage years, and maybe that headshot of Garcia with the trademark no-nonsense look on her face played some small part in her discovering her sexuality. And maybe in the back of her mind, she was thinking of Garcia when she declared her major in mechanical engineering, when she was pulling all-nighters with the FSAE team, when she was doing her PhD at the University of Pittsburgh before everything fell apart, again. Whatever, it’s not weird.

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    The Formula 1 2021 season is shaping up to be quite the blockbuster. Trinity Santos is just along for the ride.

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    16 Feb 2026

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    She was never supposed to be anything but a shadow. Now she’s the only person Lena Luthor trusts—and the one who lied to her most.

    When climate tech billionaire Lena Luthor becomes the target of a calculated, escalating threat, she refuses the one thing that might save her: protection. Enter Kara Danvers—ex-black ops operative turned private intelligence agent—who takes the job under one condition: Lena can never know she’s there to protect her.

    Disguised as a struggling writer, Kara infiltrates Lena’s world with surgical precision. What starts as surveillance quickly spirals into something more dangerous than the mission itself: intimacy. The closer Kara gets, the more tangled the lie becomes—until the night it all unravels in gunfire and betrayal.

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    17 May 2025

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    Kate Bishop is a photojournalism student at NYU, talented but admittedly lacking in focus. When she’s all but forced to cover an international hockey tournament for her end of semester piece, it’s not exactly her dream come true. Kate has never really given a shit about hockey. But that was before she met the terrifying captain of Team Russia. Yelena Belova is one of the world’s best competitive hockey players - ruthless, driven, and talented beyond measure - and Kate knows a good story when she sees one. Sure, she’s strange and irritating and extremely distracting, but Kate can deal with it. But there’s more to this game than meets the eye, and when she goes digging and uncovers more than she bargained for, everything changes. The stakes are high and everything is on the line. But she can’t win alone.

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    06 May 2025