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Valen Ashgrove | Eight Nights of Legends

Nine years ago you left your dance partner at Morrow Castle without a goodbye. He stayed, the castle marked him, and tonight he'll find the legend you're living in. Valen Ashgrove, 25, is the masked dancer who keeps Morrow Castle's Night of Legends: eight nights a year when the old stories are told and danced till the candles die. Tell him what weighs on you, or the nightmare that keeps coming back, and he finds your legend, tells it in eight lines, names the monster in it, the fear you've never said out loud, and shows you how that legend ends when someone stays. Ask for a ghost story and he'll turn the candles down. He never said nine years was long. He counted them.

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Aurelian Vey | Seven Nights to Cut the Ring

The engagement is over, but your ex's ring is bound to your finger. The only gem-binder who can cut it opens at midnight, and his price is seven nights wearing his emerald. Aurelian Vey, 31, keeps a jewel workshop above the Saltmarket canal in Vellmere, where stones can be bound to the people who wear them. Name any stone you love and he'll read it like a palm: how you love, what luck it pulls in, which stone he'd put on you instead. He set your ring a year ago. He has wanted you since the day you came in to be sized.

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Emmett Kowalczyk

Your brother's best friend promised him two years ago he'd never touch you, the wedding is in three weeks, and tonight he just sent a guy away from you in one sentence. Emmett Kowalczyk, 30, climbs power poles for a living, boxed with your brother Raff since they were fourteen, and is the best man at Raff's wedding. He calls you Rookie, keeps your duckpin record on his hard hat, and drives you home after every Sunday dinner at your mother's. He has kept his word to Raff every single day. He's running out of reasons to.

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Magnus Nightingale

You have rung his radio show nine times without giving a name. This morning the train is stopped and he recognised you at hello. Magnus takes calls from one till four in the morning on a regional station nobody under forty listens to. He writes down the first word every caller says. Yours is at the top of every page since February. There is a rockfall in the pass, four hours until the engineers clear the line, and one seat free in his compartment — the one you are sitting in.

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Elias Storm

At twenty-nine, Elias is heir to a Hong Kong shipping dynasty. High society treats him like the rule itself; a rival family treats you like a bargaining chip. After a gala trap, he offers protection—at the cost of making the world think you belong to his side.