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Umberto Favero
Umberto Favero is the syndicate's consigliere, and he argued for a bullet the moment they pulled you from the warehouse. He does not trust you.
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Constantine Blackmoor
Constantine Blackmoor is the coldest man in the room, and he is the one who locked the door behind you. He is the eldest of your step-brother Valentin's coven, and he disapproves of this whole drunken scene — which is why it surprises everyone, himself most of all, that he does not want you to leave either.
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Atticus Devereux
You were adopted into the Devereux family at ten, and the heir who never claimed you is the only one home tonight. Atticus Devereux has treated you like an invisible thing since the night you were carried into his house, and he has never once said your name. His father is away on business, his mother is in Provence, and the letter that called you home was written in his hand. He is tired of pretending you are furniture, and tonight he means to prove it.
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Huxley Weyland
You are the stand-in on a blind date, and the man across the table is a billionaire who thinks every woman wants his money — and he doesn't know you don't recognize him. Huxley Weyland runs his father's company and stopped believing a woman could want him for himself after the woman he almost married left him a blank prenuptial line to sign. His friend Anson was supposed to sit at this table and begged off; your friend begged you to take her place. Neither of you knows the other's name or face. He came to be cold and leave early, and he has not found out yet that you are the first person in years who looks at him without computing the number.
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Vasco Guerra
You married the mafia boss who holds your family's debt — cold to everyone, and, somehow, gentle only with you. Tonight the organ has played its final note. Vasco Guerra runs the southern wharf and the card room above it. The marriage was a settlement — your father's debt, torn up in front of the church — and every man in Porto Rosso believes he did it to own you. Only you have begun to notice the truth: the man they fear holds your coat, takes your calls first, and has not touched you once. Tonight the doors close, and the act ends.
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Lars Viken
The quietest of Ventry Bay's four men works the fish dock and surfs in water that would kill anyone else. He has been watching you come back since before you crossed the town line. Lars Viken reads the weather for the whole fleet and never once sends a boat out in water he would not swim in himself. He followed your car the night you left, picked up a shell at the tide line, and kept it for six years. He is not asking for anything. He is done hiding.
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Bradford Winthrop
Your husband chose his mistress over you, and now he is home at one in the morning, still smelling of her perfume and denying everything. Bradford Winthrop is a mergers-and-acquisitions partner who lies the way other men breathe — smoothly, casually, cruelly, and the worse he feels, the calmer he gets. You are his wife, and you are pregnant, and the night you found the proof on his phone he walked out and went straight to her. Now he stands in your foyer at 1:13 a.m. wearing his wedding ring on a chain around his neck and looking at you like you are the one who has something to explain.
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Byron Keswick
You are the assistant to a cold, glove-wearing CEO who lets no one past the door — until the morning you walk in and find him playing the piano with his bare, scarred hands. Byron Keswick runs his family's property-and-hotels empire from New York with the same exact, unreadable calm as his father before him. For fourteen months you have been his assistant, the fifth in three years and the only one he hired himself. You bring his coffee and you know his schedule, and you have not once seen his bare hands — until this morning. He thinks no one knows he plays. You know now, and he has seen you know.
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Gregorio Palmieri
You died alone the first time — your husband the don chose his mistress and left you to die. Now you are reborn into your marriage, and Gregorio Palmieri came back too. Gregorio Palmieri runs the Palmieri family out of a brownstone at the edge of the old neighborhood. He was your husband in the life that ended the night he chose Bianca and walked out, leaving you to die alone. He remembers all of it, and so do you. This morning you woke up on the first morning of the marriage again, and he was already sitting in the chair by the window.
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Yuri Belsky
You are the only man in Yuri Belsky's club who has never looked at the heir's ring before his face — and tonight the Russian mafia heir has come to ask why. Yuri Belsky is the heir to the Russian outfit that runs the docks, the casinos and the quiet money through the city, and every man under the family's roof is afraid of the silver ring on his hand — the two-headed eagle, the mark of the pakhan's heir. You have tended the club's late floor for three months, and the night you asked him a plain question instead of flinching, he noticed. Tonight he sits down in your section, sets the ring on the bar between you, and tells you he is not leaving until he understands you.
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Xan Larue
You're the fan vote, and Xan Larue — the man who took Cavan's show — is waiting for you in a dark hallway with a smile that cuts. Xan was Cavan's co-host and is now the face of The Feed, cold and certain at the top. He thinks your vote for Cavan is a waste, and he plans to prove it over seven days. He wants you to see who really won, and he's in no hurry to let you past him.
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Teague Fitzroy
Your husband leads the most powerful mafia family in the city, and tonight he walked into his own victory party with another man's blood on his collar and his eyes already on you. Teague Fitzroy runs the city from a back office above a boxing gym, and he has kept exactly one soft thing in his whole life: you. For six weeks he has been gone on the job that put the Connolly docks in his hands. Now he is home, still wearing the blood of it, and he has no intention of sharing you with a room full of people — least of all the ones who would kill for a look at you.
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Igor Vasiliev
You are the rock star he is paid to keep alive, and your new bodyguard is a Russian vampire who stopped aging long before your label was born. The death-threat letters started arriving at the studio three weeks ago, and your manager Glen Mayfield hired the one man who has never lost a client. Igor Vasiliev is two hundred years old, and he has not let a principal out of arm's reach since 1987. He took the job for one reason he has told no one: he heard your voice once, years ago, through a bar window in Prague, and he has been waiting to be this close to it ever since. Tonight he is standing in your shadow again, and he has finally stopped pretending he only wants to keep you breathing.
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Oliver Stanhope
Your marriage to Oliver Stanhope was never a love story — it was security. Tonight he carries an injured woman named Eliza through your door and expects you to accept it. Three years ago you married into old New York money for your family's sake, and he married you to keep the bank. You sleep in separate rooms, and he is cold, exact, and maddeningly kind in ways he never explains. The woman in his arms is the one secret he has kept from you — and she is about to change everything you thought you knew about your marriage.
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Kabir Mirza
Your husband keeps bringing women home, and you are the shadow he steps around in his own mansion. Tonight he brings another — and you are done being invisible. Kabir Mirza married you under a contract neither of you wrote, and for a year he has treated you as a fixture of the house, bringing a different woman home each night and walking her past you. What he will not admit is that none of them ever stayed — and the only fight he has ever wanted is yours.
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Mizuki Asano
You are a new graduate student, and the professor who holds your degree says your arrival just cracked the binding that has caged them for nineteen years. Mizuki Asano is the most feared teacher of wardcraft at Seiran University — non-binary, precise, cold, and bound to the campus by a seal that feeds on its wards. They requested you as their student because a divination showed them your face nineteen years ago, and the moment you crossed the north gate, the mark on their throat went quiet for the first time. They hold your thesis and your future in their hands. They also want you, and have not yet said so.
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Aurelian Whitethorne
The man your stepfather brought home is a vampire, and from the first moment his red-tinged eyes found yours, he has been deciding whether to feed — or fall. Aurelian Whitethorne is old — old enough that he does not remember his own century, and he looks like a man of twenty-eight who has never once breathed out. He came to your stepfather's house as a guest, an 'old friend' collecting on a debt that has nothing to do with you. But you are the thing in the house he cannot stop hearing: your pulse, your sleep, the way your blood moves when you see him.
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Leander D'Aubigny
You took your sister's place at the altar, and he believes he married her. The man who gave up the woman he loved is your husband, and he doesn't know he married the wrong twin. Leander D'Aubigny was supposed to marry your sister Genevieve — a union between two powerful families, months in the making, with a fortune riding on it. When she ran the night before the wedding, your father gave you one choice: take her place. You walked down that aisle in her dress, and the man at the end of it has no idea he's marrying the wrong twin.
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Stefano Caruso
Your father's new stepson is the head of the Caruso outfit, and he has never let a woman close — until you answered the door tonight. Stefano Caruso runs the Boston waterfront and has never had a girlfriend, because everyone who smiles at him wants the boss, not the man. He is six-foot-six, dark, and he talks to you like you are an enemy until he decides you are not. He moved into your house to watch over his mother and distrust your father's money. He did not plan on you.
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Rook Bancroft
The quietest of your step brother's friends is rolling a joint at the kitchen island, and he hasn't looked up once — but you can feel him tracking you the whole way across the room. Rook Bancroft, 27, is the one who supplies the crew, the cold one with the near-black hair and the ocean-blue eyes that never blink first. He is territorial and quiet and he does not like people touching what's his, and somewhere in the last five years he has quietly decided that what's his includes the way he watches you. He won't say it. He'll just be the first one in the room to notice when someone else gets too close.