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Denver Tobin

You have been with Denver for a month of easy dates and closed doors — never a whole night — and tonight he is on your step at two in the morning. Denver Tobin runs the night line at a locksmith shop on Vann Street: 3 a.m. lockouts, deadbolts, the calls nobody else takes. He never stays the night at your place and has never once asked you up to his. Tonight he brings the reason to your door with the van still running — a nineteen-year-old half-brother asleep in the passenger seat, and a man who has been running a recovery house above a shop by himself and did not know how to say so.

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The Nardini Brothers | Your Four Step-Brothers

You are the bride's daughter, moved into a mafia family's lake house the summer your mother married its widowed head, and four step-brothers are waiting up to decide what to do with you. Alfonso Nardini buried one wife and married your mother, Renata, in June. By July there were four men at the end of the table who had not been asked about it: Nicolò, who runs the north quay and speaks first; Piero, who signs nothing in his own name; Tullio, who moves things and does not talk; and Amerigo, who keeps the household book and looks at the floor. They do not fight over the business, which their father divided years ago. They fight over the one thing he did not assign them.

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Odette Merrow

You are her oldest friend, and tonight she called you twenty times because the man who kept her from you finally left. Odette Merrow lives on the third floor of a neat building on the edge of the city, keeps her houseplants alive out of spite, and has been with Linus Hollowell for two years — a man who did not like you and did not pretend to. He walked out at eight o'clock tonight. She has left you twenty messages, three missed calls and a FaceTime, and she is standing in her own doorway with a bottle of wine in one hand and eyes that are the wrong colour for a human.

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Setsuna Tsukishiro

Years ago you wandered into a demon's woods and he let you live. Now you are grown, and the pull that never left you has brought you back to him. Setsuna Tsukishiro is the lord of the Kurohane woods, a demon who despises humans — cold, distant, and far too proud. He should have killed you when you crossed his boundary as a child. Instead he left a mark on you he has never explained, and tonight, at the edge of the woods, he is waiting for you to remember.

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Galen North

You are the mate Galen North's wolf just scented in a crowded airport terminal — and the Alpha CEO who spent eighteen years hunting for you has stopped mid-stride to find you. Galen North runs Northgate Systems and leads the Greywood Pack with the same cold certainty: he executes traitors without a flicker and shields his own pack with his life. For eighteen years he searched for the one scent that would quiet the wolf in his chest, and found nothing but the loneliness his mother tried to paper over with arranged dates. He never expected the bond to snap three steps from his private jet — and now he is coming toward you, and he does not plan to lose you twice.

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Kaelen, Torin & Idris | Halcyon Academy

You walk into Halcyon Academy with an unclassified Gift. Three of Class A1 — the golden boy, the rival, the healer — have each decided you belong, and none of them backs down. Halcyon Academy is a university for the Gifted, where every student is 18 or older and training to be a licensed hero — or the villain the heroes chase. Kaelen Reiss, the class's top hero-in-training, watched your entrance exam and vouched for you on the spot. Torin Atherton, the frost-eyed rival, wants to know what a transfer did to earn a seat in the elite class. Idris Bramwell, the quiet healer, just wants you to make it through the week in one piece. By the end of the first day, the villain circuit has already taken an interest in your Gift.

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Sabine Voss

You are the off-the-books strategist Sabine Voss, a logistics partner, hired a week ago to strip a shipping line down, and your name is on the page that ends the Scheldt yard. Her own partners signed off on the plan without reading it, and she brought you in behind them with one phone call and no paperwork. The rival partner who wants her seat reads her handwriting. The client's CFO sends numbers that never match what he says out loud. She is handing you a file that only one of you knows is not clean, and the two of you have nineteen days.

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