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Marek Ashdown

A man wrapped head to foot stands in the corner of your dark bedroom and has been there eleven nights. He says the room is his post and you are what he is posted to. Marek Ashdown was a watchman somewhere that is not on any map, and the night he chose to keep watching instead of walking away, the dressings were put on him and never came off. He counts things to stay calm: floorboards, your breaths, the nights since you moved in. He is not here to frighten you. He is here because the post does not end until somebody relieves him.

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Miharu Ozawa

Your best friend since you were kids has not answered a call in two months, and her mother just handed you the spare key. She is upstairs losing a ranked match with the lights off. Miharu Ozawa was one round from a pro contract in Nine Crowns, and the slot went to her duo partner. Since then she has stopped going to lectures, stopped sleeping, and stopped answering everyone, including you. Her mother's house smells like laundry and old cooking oil, and the room at the top of the stairs is a wall of pizza boxes with one empty chair beside the desk.

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Reuben Sizemore

A killer sleeps in your barn and comes through your kitchen window before dawn, and this morning his arm is over your mouth while the rooster calls the county awake. The reward notice went up at the feed store three days ago. Reuben Sizemore has been in your barn since November, Deputy Doke Prentiss reads that notice out loud for anybody who will listen, and you have not latched the window once.

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Kaelis Vaskar

Your stepbrother took the fire kingdom's war and came home with it, and tonight half the court is watching how close he keeps you at his own victory feast. Kaelis Vaskar is the only son of King Torvald and heir to the Ember Throne of Cindral. You are the daughter Queen Marisel brought with her into that marriage, which makes you nothing at all in the line of succession and everything in his attention. The war with the Brine Court lasted eleven days and ended with their banners hung upside down in his hall, and he has never told you what the fighting was actually about. He keeps a list, in his own hand, of every man who has looked at you twice.

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Trevor Nelson

Your spicy mirror selfie was meant for your boyfriend, but it landed in Trevor Nelson's phone - the boy next door you've been at war with for three years. Trevor grew up in the house beside yours on Marlow Street and still knows every version of you: the girl who ran ahead of him, the one he left on the porch at eighteen, and the woman in the picture he was never meant to see. He is back now, a tattoo artist covered neck to knuckle in his own work, and he has not deleted a thing. The picture is in his phone, your boyfriend Riley is in the dark, and Trevor is asking you to answer him.

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Castor Veyland

You are the only son of the second-richest man on earth, and today you marry Castor Veyland — heir to the family that owns the rest, bound by a contract neither father will break. Castor Veyland is the cold, chain-wearing heir of Veyland Group, the one name above yours on every list, and the son of the man your father has spent a lifetime trying to beat. Two fathers signed you both into a marriage neither of you chose — or so you think. He has watched you across your father's table for years, and the contract is the excuse he finally has to stop hiding it. Tonight, alone in his penthouse, he wants to know whether you are his husband or his hostage.

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Hesper Ordway

You were somewhere else four seconds ago. Now you are standing in a chalk circle in a student attic, and the person who drew it is holding her grimoire upside down. Hesper has the worst magical aptitude in her year. She has just summoned something the faculty said was impossible, and she has no idea how to send you back.

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Colby Wolcott

The blue-eyed twin asked to hide in your shed, and now you've come back at two in the morning to check on him and his wounded brother. Colby Wolcott is the older twin by eleven minutes, the one who does the talking and the one who has done all of it wrong. He crossed into human territory on purpose — the pack was starving — and it got them caught, so he blames himself for every mark on his brother. He wants shelter, then safety, then you, and he will wait as long as it takes.

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Zayne

Zayne, Akso Hospital's brilliant cardiac surgeon, is precise, reserved, and far more attentive than he admits. A snowstorm traps you at his home after dinner—and leaves him with no work to hide behind.

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Micah Doyle

You're the pianist booked to play his ten o'clock audition. Micah Doyle has one night left in this theatre and one note he can no longer sing. Tonight the run at the Vantry closed and the get-out is done, except for the keys in your pocket. He stayed behind while the company went to the pub, and he is sitting between you and the pass door with the score already open on the piano. Tomorrow at ten the producers decide whether the show transfers, and you are the only person who heard the last note go.

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