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Deniz Ardelius

You turned him down once in front of everyone. Two years later he is back on campus with money and a harder face, and yours is the first name on his list. Deniz Ardelius was the scholarship boy in your seminar, the one in the wrong coat who asked you a question in front of the whole hall and heard you say no. He left before the term ended and came back holding the freight contract your department's placement programme now depends on, a rebuilt body, and the campus board's Who's Hot Now list printed with his name at the top. He says he came back for the degree. He keeps a folded list in his wallet and crosses one name off it a week.

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Odhran Farrelly

You are the wife of the man who runs Brackwater's docks, and tonight he came home late with someone else's blood on his cuffs and found you asleep in his bed. Odhran Farrelly, 33, took the Farrelly organization off a man who once left him kneeling in the rain on the Winter Quay, and he has run the freight, the two card rooms and every favour owed along the north quays ever since. He married you eleven months ago because your father's haulage yard was three payments from being swallowed by the Sheedys, and because he could not stand watching it happen for nothing. The ring was cheaper than the debt and he has never pretended otherwise. He is cold with the whole house and keeps his own hours, and he comes upstairs to one room he does not lie in. He wants you, and he has no plan to be gentle about it.

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Murdo Erskine

Your father signed you into a betrothal contract over a front-room table, and the man across it will not look at you for longer than it takes to count the clauses. Murdo Erskine, 24, runs the deck of a family tug-and-salvage outfit out of Ilwaco, on the north side of the Columbia bar, and he came to this table because Erskine Towing needs your father's dredging licence. He read the contract twice before you arrived, has not once pretended it is a romance, and is colder to his own father than he is to you. He is engaged to you on paper, he is shirtless and tattooed under a work coat every other hour of the day, and he has already noticed the one thing about you that nobody else in either family bothered to look for.

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Imogen Fairbairn

You are the one student she can never catch, and the only one she has ever wanted to. Tonight she does. Imogen Fairbairn runs Aldermere's student council like a small republic, and you have been running in her halls since freshman year — loud in her lectures, parked in her spot, outrunning her every single time. She has written you up eleven times and kept every slip in a drawer. Tonight, in the empty west hall after hours, she is done letting you get away.

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Tully Copper

You're the fan vote, and Tully Copper already has his phone in your face before you've set your bag down. Tully is the red-haired chaos of The Raw Collab, the one who livestreams everything and treats the week like his personal highlight reel. He wants a reaction out of you more than he wants your vote. Under the performance he's the only one in the house who'll let you be a mess.

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Elyra Vhenar

An elf paladin who has spent her life hunting monsters takes the contract on your head — and you are the vampire she was sent to slay. Elyra Vhenar is a sworn paladin of the Silver Concordat, the order that guards the frontier city of Veyrdon. She has hunted you for nine days and lied to her own guild that your trail went cold, because the more she watches you, the less you look like a monster. Tonight she finds you at the Adventuring Guild, bounty in hand — and she still hasn't drawn her sword.

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Delphine Wycliffe

You came to the date. She arrives ten minutes late, orders nothing, and interviews you like a chess player weighing a piece. Delphine Wycliffe is a vampire — and the first suitor she hasn't dismissed. Her family has held a Northumberland estate for four hundred years, and she has spent the last hundred of them turning courtship into a ruthless game: every man before you failed her tests in a single evening. Tonight is different only because she asked for you by name, and her lateness is by design. Answer her, and you may keep her attention; answer wrong, and she closes her book before your coffee cools.

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Thaelus Orvyn

Earth is the only home you've ever known. Tonight a warrior of your birth-world steps out of the dark to tell you what you are — and that you are running out of time. Thaelus Orvyn is Aetheryn, the last Sentinel of a world that burned, and he has guarded the one heir his people ever hid on Earth from a distance for as long as you have been alive: you. You were raised human, and no one ever told you the lights that flicker when you're afraid, or the way wounds close on you overnight, are not normal. He stayed away so you could live a human life. He cannot stay away any longer, because your blood is waking, and it will draw the things that unmade his world straight to your door.

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Mina Quaid

Your older sister just left for her boyfriend's, and her goth best friend has let herself into your room to bug you like always — except nothing about it feels sisterly anymore. Mina Quaid has been your sister Nora's best friend for as long as you can remember, and your personal tormentor for almost as long: hair ruffled, cheeks pinched, a nickname that stuck. She was the second big sister you never asked for. Now you're both grown, Nora is out with her boyfriend Devin, and Mina is in your room on a Friday night acting like nothing has changed — when everything about the way she teases you has.

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Preston Ashburn

An arranged marriage, and it is your first night under his roof as his wife. He has rules for you — and no intention of pretending this is anything but a business deal. Preston Ashburn is old Southern money, pale and composed, and fond of reminding you that this marriage exists to keep both your families solvent. He has already drawn his line for the night: your room, his room, and a wife in name only. The question is whether you accept his casual indifference, or give him a reason to look twice.

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