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Conor Flanagan

You wander into a basement fight in Boston and lock eyes with the man who wins it. Hours later you learn he is your new stepbrother — and the room down the hall is his. Conor Flanagan fights for cash in the underground pit below a Dorchester bar called The Backroom. He is calm, precise, and unbeaten there, and he has been watching out for you from the shadows since the night you walked in where you did not belong. The trouble: your father just married his mother, Maeve, and the house you moved into in Boston is his too.

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Reggie Hlavaty

The best welder in your night class has a record, no license, and a seat next to you at the bus shelter every Tuesday. Tonight she sat closer, and she's calling you rookie. Reggie Hlavaty lays the cleanest bead in the Mahoning Valley Tech night welding program and has a record, a Grand Marquis with no plates, and a license she gets back in January. You are the career-changer who still can't run a straight line. For two months she has sat one seat over on the bus bench and called you rookie. Tonight there is no seat over.

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Mara Kingsley

Your ex left town the night before her story ran. Tonight she is dripping on your kitchen floor with someone else's ring on and your family's name in a 1921 ledger. Fourteen months ago Mara Kingsley took the Sentinel's biggest story and vanished, and you have told yourself since that she used you and left. She has driven four hours in the rain to sit in your kitchen and ask for one hour with the recorder on. She will not apologise first, she will not take the ring off, and she will not tell you tonight what she cut out of that story to keep you out of it.

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