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    "Double or nothing," said Webster abruptly.

    "How exactly do you mean to double 'everything I had?'" said Ash. He meant it to come out level, but there was a quaver in his voice.

    "One more trick," Webster said. "Play, and win or lose you will walk away with your fortune." Ash stared at him. Webster made an impatient gesture. "I don't want or need your money. Or your house. Or your coat and shirt, come to that."

    It was an offer of princely generosity. Ash's mouth was dry. "And what would you have from me?" he asked.

    Something flared in Webster's cool expression for a moment, like a shark flashing a fin in still waters. "A month," he said.

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    09 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 48

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    Of course, Emma was right there by Henry's side as she watched her son mourn for his mother that wasn’t dead, simply trapped in an eternal cursed sleep; a fitting punishment, Emma’s own mother and father had decided, for the woman that had cursed a realm to sleepwalk away 28 years of their lives in a small town in Maine.

    That’s how it would have, no doubt, continued had Henry not sneezed.

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    Regina has been sentenced to living the rest of her life under a sleeping curse as punishment for enacting the Dark Curse; Henry is devastated and begs Emma to read to her when he's too unwell to visit Regina at the hospital.

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    30 Oct 2025

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    Survival, Will calls it. Not honour, not valour. Kim cannot seem to reconcile Will's vision with his own, too easy an out to offer himself.

    Or what Kim does the night Will puts his hand on his knee and he leaves rather abruptly.

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    23 Oct 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 8

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    “Stubbornness runs in the family, I’m afraid.” Robin looked a bit sheepish. “The entire family, actually. Edwin could argue magical theory with the world’s leading experts, and none of the bureaucrats at the Home Office are a match for Addy.” He paused. “From what I’ve heard and observed, you’re no pushover, either.”

    Violet remembered how Maud had called her family. Lady Enid had spoken in her letter about kindred spirits and how true family was more than just blood. She had never let herself be bound by the limitations and rules of society, and neither would Violet. Family could be what they made it.

    Violet offered Robin one of her genuine smiles. “It sounds as though I’ll fit right in with the rest of your family, then.”

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    A reflection on the meanings of family, and the stories of five people who joined the Blyth extended family.

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    04 Sep 2025

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    A man who likes books meets a man who owns a bookshop.

    Edwin Courcey thrust his hands deeper into his pockets against the February chill as he made his way along Charing Cross Road, but there was a spring in his step as he trod the familiar pavement. He so rarely had the time to simply walk about in London these days, between his work at the Assembly and the university, and he was savouring having an afternoon entirely to himself. He simply hadn’t told the Assembly that his students were studying for examinations this week.

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    09 Aug 2025