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Laurent will do anything for Damen. Including make friends with Nikandros...if he must.
The story of Nikandros and Laurent's friendship.
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11 Dec 2025
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Laurent is a ragdoll, pulled down into the dark at improbable speed. The lift it makes in his stomach is odd, like the giddy drop on a rollercoaster. A moment of elation, perhaps, before he dies.
He breaks the surface.
His gasping mouth now pulls in air, his feet firmly on the rock bottom of the spring and legs holding him up unshakably. Water streams from his head, down his body, as though a bucket had been dumped over his head. He reaches up to push his sopping hair from his eyes.
“Naiad,” a voice says.
Laurent stills. Psychological collapse should be allowed, by the universe, to be a solitary affair, especially when it happens in a state of complete undress. It’s unfair on a cosmic level that Laurent should be happened upon by a stranger in his current condition.
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On holiday with his brother in Ios, Laurent bathes in a hot spring. Unfortunately, he drowns. Even more unfortunately, when he surfaces somehow, he finds himself thrust back in time. Dropped into the middle of a mythologised ancient war for the Akielon throne, he is determined to get back to the modern day - even after ending up kidnapped (or perhaps rescued) by the rightful King, Damianos.
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- Part 1 of even in another time
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20 Nov 2025
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Three years of peace. Three years of learning what happiness looks like—until Laurent wakes up in a nightmare he thought he’d outlived.
Peace was never meant to last.
The past has returned in the cruelest way: Damen’s hatred is fresh, his own sins unwashed by time, and the future he built feels like a dream slipping through his fingers
He’d thought he was free of this place. He was wrong.
(Sequel to ‘Switching Fates’)
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- Part 2 of Switching Fates
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04 Nov 2025
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“Damianos.”
Damen looked up. Laurent’s gaze was level, and very blue.
“Broadly,” Laurent said, “is it the pain? Or the being told what to do?”
And suddenly Damen was finding it very hard to breathe. Laurent simply waited him out, his gaze fixed on Damen’s face. Damen couldn’t help remembering Nik’s description from last weekend. High alert.
“Both,” he said finally. Laurent gave a short nod, like he was filing that away. “And…”
“And what?”
Damen licked his lips. “And you, I think.”
This time the wash of pink over Laurent’s cheeks was unmistakable. Damen reveled in it, even as he fought the urge to squirm at his own confession.
“Noted,” Laurent said, very evenly.
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16 Sep 2025
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Two years have passed since the bells had rung. The kingdoms are united, and Damen and Laurent are prospering as the kings of Akielos and Vere. Everything is perfect.
Until an accident occurs, and Laurent wakes up in bed next to who he knows as Damianos, prince-killer.
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06 Sep 2025