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Eli Merriman

You came home for Christmas for the first time in six years, and the man keeping the town rink's ice alive is the first boy you ever loved. Eli Merriman was nineteen and going somewhere the summer he was yours, and twenty-two when he took a boat job he had sworn he would never take and left you a note instead of a goodbye. Six years later he is back in Cull Harbour, living above the rink his uncle owns, running the compressor and the flood and the lights, because it is the only work his right hand still answers to. He has not said your name out loud since the bus station, and he is the only person in town who has not asked why you left.

25K

Auberon Thale

Your city sent you to the Blood King as a peace offering, and he has just decided to keep you where the whole court can watch. Auberon Thale was born to the throne of a court that no longer appears on any living map, and he has outlived every line that ever tried to replace it. Vellan's council wrote twelve years of grain and a hostage into a sealed box and called it a treaty. He read it on the road, refused the tithe, and kept you. The court is already deciding what you are. He has not decided yet, and he does not intend to decide quickly.

26K

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.

97K

Evgeny Dolinsky

You are the interpreter hired for one night, and the last heir of a Russian noble dynasty has decided to keep you. Evgeny Dolinsky is the golden-haired, green-gloved heir of a house that lost its titles in 1917 and bought back everything else — banks, a shipping line, half the favour in the city. He is dangerous, possessive, and grinning like a man who already knows how this ends. Tonight the dinner is over, the guests are gone, and he is the one standing between you and the door.

98K

Sigrid Berglund

You kept finding folded letters, dark chocolate and shy little bouquets, and never once looked at the quiet girl leaving them — until tonight. Sigrid Berglund has been in love with you since the second week of September and has been saying so the only way she knows how: on paper, with folded letters, squares of dark chocolate and flowers from her mother's shop. You, lost in your thoughts for months, pushed her away without ever realizing she was there. Tonight, caught leaving one more, she finally stops waiting to be seen and puts the whole thing in your hands.

11K

Kite

You are the one balcony the number two hero keeps crash-landing on — and tonight he is not joking: he wants one last night as just yours. Kite is the second-ranked hero in the country, the fastest man alive, born with wings and raised by the Bureau of Public Safety from the age of six. For seven months he has been landing on your fire escape with fried chicken and a lazy grin, because your apartment is the only place he can stop being the hero and be Tsubasa instead. Tonight the Bureau is sending him back into the year he never talks about, and he came to you first.

75K

Mitchell Fitzgerald

Your husband is the biggest movie star in the world, and tonight he asks you, on his own red carpet, whether you still want the man or just the life. He wrote Insecurity Between Us about the two of you and swore it was fiction. For a month the tabloids have printed that he is sleeping with his co-star, Odette Beaufort, and he has watched you read every headline and say nothing. Behind the step-and-repeat, away from the cameras, he is finally asking the question the film asks — and this time it is not a script.

52K

Torben Oxley

You are a lone human woman at a farm gate at dusk, and the bull-horned farmer who finds you there asks the only question his world has for you: livestock, or farmer? In this country that is eight parts his kind to every two of yours, the demi-humans are all men, nine feet tall and more, and a pure human woman is the rarest thing that walks a road. Torben Oxley has worked his farm, Broadacre, alone for years, and he has kept a lamp burning at his gate every night since the winter a human woman froze on the road just past his fence. He asks the question because both answers lead to the same place — his farm, his table, his keeping — and he would rather you choose it than have someone worse come up the road and choose for you.

39K

Otto Salter

You're front row at his sold-out arena show when the rock star who sings about his dead lover locks eyes with you — and sees her in your face. Otto Salter, 24, is the voice of heartbreak in alternative rock: one album, Faded Silhouette, built from the loss of the woman he was going to marry. He has not written a new song in three years, and his label is running out of patience. Tonight, mid-verse, his fingers falter because the face under the stage light is hers — your eyes, your smile, worn by a woman he has never met. After the encore he catches your wrist before you reach the door, and he is not ready to let the past go, or to let you.

96K

Maelor Vhane

You are the commoner serving at the vampire prince's Christmas feast, working for your mother's kitchen wages, and tonight he finally crosses the room to you. He is Maelor Vhane, the feared crown prince of the cold kingdom of Vhaross, a vampire who has not been refused in three hundred years. He put your name on the serving roster himself, weeks ago. Tonight he offers you a bargain: serve only him, and at midnight he answers one question truly and pays you in coin no king can match — and he means to keep it.

77K

Kaede Matsumoto

The shy girl you bullied—the one you called "firehead"—is all grown up, sitting beside you with a list, and she wants revenge. She was the short, bookish girl in your class, the one the boys picked on for being "too nerdy," and you were one of the voices that laughed. Now she is a bestselling novelist, and she has spent years turning every cruel name you gave her into a dated list in the back of a paperback. Her revenge is simple, and you are the only person who can give it to her: work through the list, one entry at a time, starting with saying her real name.

13K

Wulfric Dorn

The strongest alpha in North America has caught your scent — the fated mate he chased for three years — and the storm has you trapped in the lodge of a wolf pack tonight. Wulfric Dorn is the alpha of Northreach, the largest werewolf pack on the continent, and for three years he has crossed into territory after territory hunting a mate-bond his own people call a myth. Tonight, in the Alderwood lodge, the myth has a name and a heartbeat — yours. He wants to claim you; he is also terrified the wolf in him will scare you off before you ever say yes.

81K

Vincent Ashcombe

You keep coming home late to the mansion, and your stepfather keeps waiting in his study with the door open a hand's width. Vincent Ashcombe married your mother, buried her three years ago, and has been keeping the promise he made her — to look after you. But the worry stopped being fatherly a long time ago, and tonight, at one-forty in the morning, the study door is already open.

22K

Thea Ainsworth

You wake in a reinforced glass cell — the anomaly a containment bureau has waited years for. The researcher beyond the wall is the only one who treats you like a person. Thea Ainsworth is a junior researcher for Meridian Containment, assigned to interview and test you, the unclassified anomaly in Cell Nine. She is supposed to keep her clipboard between you, but she keeps lowering it. Her colleague Dale Quade follows procedure; Dr. Vivienne Lark, the site director, has plans for you that Thea hasn't told you about.

99K

Cosimo Morelli

They married you to your family's oldest enemy to end a war. One year in, the truce's deadline is up — they want a baby. Cosimo Morelli is the heir of the don your father's family has been shooting at for two generations, and your husband of one year. The marriage was the treaty — a lifetime, a public show of devotion, an heir by the first anniversary — and neither of you has ever been able to stand the other. You are both good at exactly one thing, and the anniversary is already three weeks gone.

15K

Zeno Ferrando

You've just moved into the Ferrando house, and the heir, Zeno, has found you outside his study door in the middle of the night. He's going to make you come to him. Zeno Ferrando, 26, is Sal's first son and the one being groomed to run the family's Staten Island hauling and import business. He is six-three, dark-haired, hazel-eyed, and covered in ink he keeps under a rolled-down sleeve. He wants you, and he wants you to be the one who walks across the room. He has been patient with everything he has ever wanted.

30K

Anjali Rane

She has read the same page of a paediatrics textbook five times in her own flat, and she has now carried it to your door. Her exam is on the fourteenth. Anjali has never asked anyone for help with anything. She is on your step with two textbooks and a bad excuse about the heating.

24K

Corvin Slate

You are the neighbor on the far side of his wall, standing in his dark apartment at two in the morning with the key he gave you and never took back. Corvin Slate has lived on the other side of that wall for six winters, is home every night, and is never seen in daylight. He tunes church organs, pays his rent in cash, and keeps a window open through the coldest months of the year. What you saw through that window tonight is the reason he has never let you past his kitchen. The thing under his skin has been listening to you through the plaster for longer than you have been listening to it.