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Velarisse has spent most of her young life behind monastery walls — an orphan who learned early to mother others before she ever learned to be a child herself. Among the quiet prayers and candlelight, she became a soft constant for the younger children, a small warmth in a world that had taken too much.
But fate, relentless and cunning, had other plans. When Velarisse and her younger brother leave for the port city of Vincent Harbor, accompanied by a few of the children she helped raise, she finds herself drawn into a world far removed from holy silence. Beneath the city’s glittering surface lies a web of political and economic intrigue — and at its heart, the ruthless games of the local mafia.
As Velarisse navigates this dangerous new world, she must balance the masks she wears: the perfect sister, the gentle caretaker, and — unwillingly — the hunted. For somewhere in the city’s shadows, a man has set his sights on her. And when the prey begins to awaken to her own power, the line between innocence and danger blurs beyond recognition.
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as certain dark things by burnerbook1
Fandoms: House of the Dragon (TV), A Song of Ice and Fire & Related Fandoms
07 May 2025
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When Daemon Targaryen claims his bastard daughter, Maelyra, born from a pirate captain he took for a lover in his time as King of the Narrow Sea, it’s not to raise her in court and gown her in dresses. That’s for his trueborn daughters, Baela and Rhaena. No, Lyra, the child of a fallen Tyroshi pirate captain, possesses too many skills Daemon can use in his strategies and plots, as he senses building strife between the courts of Queen Alicent and Princess Rhaenyra. He needs a spy, an assassin, and a dragonrider no one expects, so he brings his bastard into the household of Driftmark, disguised as nothing more than a foreign serving girl.
Lyra grows up between Driftmark, the Red Keep, and Dragonstone in the events leading up to the Dance, and as tensions rise, her loyalties are tested, especially when she finds herself caring for someone who may bring doom upon those she calls kin.
(Basically all of Rhaenyra and Daemon’s kids have a secret older sister who will smother them with eldest sister energy in all events leading up and into the Dance. Also slow burn friends-to-enemies-to-secret-third-thing between female OC/Aemond.)
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04 Jul 2024
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Always loved House of Dragon fanfics even though i never saw the series 🤣 this one is brilliant, i love the complex relationship between the OC and Daemon !
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Tom watched as the mother and son stop at a spot by the fountain. The witch whom he's never met before in his life, with bushy brown hair atop a heart-shaped face, and the boy who looked exactly like him when he was at that age.
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28 Nov 2023
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Magnificently Cursed (my house of stone, your ivy grows, and now I'm covered in you) by wthbaby
Fandoms: Outlander Series - Diana Gabaldon, Outlander (TV)
20 Dec 2023
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Craigh na Dun was a place that always gave her the chills, and not because of the cold. The rocks organized in an almost perfect circle, and the way sound traveled through them, always seemed weird to her. That and the way they seemed to buzz with energy, almost like bees singing a melody, or the static sound old TVs used to make after being turned off.
"Besides the body, this is the only indication there was someone else here, and that this was a murder."
There, right next to the stone that stood in the middle of the circle, a body laid with a black plastic cover on top, being gently ruffled by the cold wind. The grass beneath the body was darker than the rest. And above the body, on the big stone as if they were in an 80's horror movie, two bloodied palms were printed on the surface.
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While investigating a crime, Detective Aurora Cameron stumbles upon the impossible: mystical time travel. Following the culprit, she ends up in the 18th century, lost and alone. The craziest idea forms into her head, and now with the help of one red-headed, blue eyed and tall scot by the name of Jamie Fraser, they will bring justice to the victim of that crime.
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24 Nov 2023
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Death Is Buffy's Next Big Adventure by Sharie1
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Harry Potter - J. K. Rowling, Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (Movies)
31 Jan 2025
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After her jump from the tower in The Gift, Buffy Summers wakes up to find she is 15 years old, it's 1942, and she has amnesia. Her only known relative (Joyce Summers) is in hospital after a Grindelwald attack and Buffy is sent to a London orphanage.
There she meets a mysterious boy who is seeking information on his own parentage.Buffy learns that there is more than one war raging, there is a magical one as well. How does she fit in that world? Who are her family? Why are people keeping secrets from her? Why is a dark wizard chasing her? Who is Grindelwald? What's a boggart doing living in her closet? And most of all, can she trust her new friend Tom Riddle?