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  1. Summary

    A lonely Senior Lecturer and an angry book-loving solicitor find each other - and love - through secret, forbidden notes tucked into priceless London Library books.

    This is their story: glances, confessions, all the moments that make their life together special. Big and little glimpses, highs and lows, laughter and desire and heartbreak - all written in literature, in notes and vignettes, in the margins.

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  1. Public Bookmark 25

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    There is definitely something worse than having to plan an entire art exhibition centering around the precious inherited painting you’re too broke to hold on to with your hereditary enemy, and that is doing all of the above while being hopelessly attracted-to and most definitely despised-by said hereditary enemy.
    When art-critic Anthony J. Cleaver-Crowley finds himself in such a predicament, he can only hope entrusting Cabanel’s Nemesis, once belonging to his late grandfather, to the angelic hands of esteemed curator Aziraphale Darcy-Fell is the right thing to do.
    He’ll just have to set his prejudice towards the Darcy-Fells and his totally minor crush on the man aside. And hope he won’t make too much of a fool of himself in the process. And keep the Cleaver-Crowleys’ reputation intact.
    Which, as you can guess, Crowley can do with his eyes closed. Mostly. Given the right circumstances. He just needs to find a way to keep this work arrangement strictly professional before he and his own nemesis cancel each other out…

    🎨 The story is pre-written and will update weekly 🎨

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    06 Jul 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 79

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    Still grieving the death of his kids’ mum, Crowley takes his eight-year-old twins to an all-inclusive resort in the Caribbean. There he meets the most beautiful man he has ever seen, a bookseller who is also a single father. This man balances Crowley’s bastard with his own in the best possible way. Is this a holiday fling or could they start something real when they return to London? Is his heart ready to let in another person?

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    05 Jul 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 44

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    1811. Returned to London after the death of his father, infamous rake Anthony ‘Crowley’, Duke of Morningstar, has three months to restore his tattered reputation and secure himself a proper match, on pain of having his title stripped from him.
    Enter the irreproachable Lord Aziraphale, newly minted Viscount Eastgate, who would very much like to discourage his many suitors from lining outside his door in Mayfair so he can go back to enjoying his peaceful existence on the shelf.
    After a chance meeting at a gentlemen’s club, it appears the two may lend each other a helping hand after all. While a fake engagement will not solve their problems once and for all, it should buy them enough time to put their respective affairs in order.
    If only the ultimate goal of their Arrangement would remain as clear and unchanging as it should…

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    25 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 79

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    Leonard's extended family will not stop harassing him about bringing a significant other home, and it's ruining his holidays. In an attempt to help his friend, Jim volunteers to come back to Georgia with him as his "boyfriend", as long as Leonard will do the same thing at Jim's company New Years party. This eventually devolves into the pair of friends having a standing arrangement of pretending to be boyfriends at holiday gatherings, and really what could go wrong?

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    08 May 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 42

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    They met at Ana and Newt’s pre-wedding party. Aziraphale remembers being absolutely stunned by Crowley’s good looks—and mortified by his coarse language. That only lasted until they began a hilarious (and frankly unhinged) conversation about the intelligence of dolphins and whales, and something about the kraken, if memory serves.From that moment on, they have been nearly inseparable.

    That was five years ago. These days, Aziraphale frequently slips onto a bar stool and keeps Crowley company for a few hours while he works a slow shift at an upscale Mayfair pub, and Crowley spends many a lazy day lounging in Aziraphale’s bookshop in Soho.

    But there’s nothing more to it than that. Because Aziraphale and Crowley are merely friends. They’ve never been more than friends. They never will be.

    Of course not.

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    24 Apr 2026