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  1. Public Bookmark 3

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    He knows which mug she saves for him. He knows the long way she walks home. He knows what she writes when she thinks no one is watching.

    Frank Castle came to Milford to disappear. A rural house nine miles into the woods. A corner table at the local bakery. A past soaked in blood that nobody in this sleepy river town will ever learn about.

    Then a soft-spoken baker with ink-stained fingers hands him his coffee in a chipped blue mug, and something in him that’s been dead for years opens one eye.

    Evangeline Whitcomb is sweet. Proper. Painfully shy. She’s also running from something, and the men in long black coats who’ve started asking about her in town want her back.

    Frank will protect her. He’ll kill for her if he has to.

    He just won’t tell her that he’s been watching her too.

    One coaxing word at a time, he draws her closer, certain he’s the one in control. Certain she’s the lamb and he’s the wolf.

    He’s never been more wrong.

    Obsession. Devotion. Possession. A dark romance where the only road in is the only road out.

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    English
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    Chapters:
    16/?
    Comments:
    10
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    12
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    22 Oct 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 1

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    Frank Castle has built a life that revolves around the idea that he is, eventually, going to die. At 39, he has spent the last 16 years of his life smuggling people as a black-market extractor, specializing in helping people get somewhere without being found. He helps fugitives, witnesses, undocumented people, and individuals escaping dangerous situations. The problem with that kind of lifestyle is that it is unsustainable.

    Peyton Tims is a nurse who is, by all accounts, sunshine. Her happiness is as carefully constructed as Frank's roughness, a kindness that she has turned into a career, a life, and a community, brick by brick, careful not to be to others what the world was to her. At 28, she has it all figured out. The tools, the therapy, the communication. What years of working through her past did not prepare her for was a man who has been more forged than born.

    Or: sunshine meets thunderstorm. Sunshine is also a biting, mean bitch with teeth, and we love her.

    AU/OoC Frank Castle.

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    English
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    16,440
    Chapters:
    7/?
    Comments:
    2
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    3
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    1
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    98

    18 Oct 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 8

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    One Saturday night, you find yourself in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Witnessing something that you shouldn't have.

    Now you're on the Maggia's tail.

    The Punisher makes sure that nobody finds you.

    Language:
    English
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    21,278
    Chapters:
    3/?
    Comments:
    13
    Kudos:
    33
    Bookmarks:
    8
    Hits:
    832

    18 Oct 2026

  4. Public Bookmark *

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    When Damage Control is hunting you for the technology you helped create, Spider-Man entrusts your safety to the last man you'd ever choose as a roommate: Frank Castle.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    67,446
    Chapters:
    12/?
    Comments:
    203
    Kudos:
    650
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    114
    Hits:
    10,800

    17 Oct 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 3

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    Shiv moved to New York almost a year ago to change her life. Frank Castle ends up on her doorway and suddenly everything falls into place… and falls apart.

    "Two weeks away. You come back bloodstained," I nudge to the toe of his boot, splattered in blood. "bruised, and who knows what else. I'm not stupid, Frank. There's only one vigilante out there who fits your description and I don't think you'd fit into a Spidey suit."
    I meet my eyes with Frank's, expecting shock, but all I see is a resigned kind of grief.
    "And if I am...?" He says quietly.
    "The Punisher? I'd be more shocked if you said you weren't."

    Language:
    English
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    33,781
    Chapters:
    12/?
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    11
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    3
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    502

    16 Oct 2026

  6. Public Bookmark 3

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    Frank Castle is the Punisher. Frank Castle is also Cassandra Neilsen's next-door neighbor in their apartment complex. Cassie is a lively, spirited woman who also is quite inexperienced with the sink that keeps needing replacements. She also just happens to be a nurse. All is well until one vigilante night gone a little too rough has Cassie crashing through Frank's door to help.

    Language:
    English
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    4,596
    Chapters:
    3/?
    Comments:
    1
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    1
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    3
    Hits:
    84

    15 Oct 2026

  7. Public Bookmark 1

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    Julia Brown has never had a library patron like this one.

    He visits the library every Saturday. Sits in the same spot. Julia can’t help but notice the man who makes her shifts just a little more interesting.

    But what happens when she has something of his?

    Language:
    English
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    4,209
    Chapters:
    2/?
    Kudos:
    1
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    1
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    46

    14 Oct 2026

  8. Public Bookmark 11

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    Lady Cecily Clementine Harcourt has survived thirty years of corsets, chaperones, and suitors with gelled hair and white trousers. She came to New York for a few weeks of ordinary freedom with her cousin. Instead, she’s spent four days chained to a pipe in a shuttered City Island boatyard, still sitting up perfectly straight, because some habits are harder to escape than chains.

    Frank Castle didn’t come for her. He came for a man who’s already gone. What he finds is a barefoot noblewoman in a ruined evening gown who greets him with “Good evening,” offers to dress his wound, and then, with complete sincerity, asks him to marry her.

    He laughs. She does not understand why.

    But Cecily heard every word her captors said and Frank needs every one of them. She wants a way out that doesn’t lead back to her family. He wants the man who got away. So they strike a bargain that neither of them fully trusts.

    He calls her princess. She corrects him. Every single time.

    A comedic romance about a bloodied vigilante, an extremely polite lady, and a marriage proposal that started in a cell and absolutely refuses to go away.

    Language:
    English
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    167,955
    Chapters:
    18/?
    Comments:
    17
    Kudos:
    20
    Bookmarks:
    11
    Hits:
    463

    14 Oct 2026

  9. Public Bookmark 3

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    For years, Tessa Hayes has known things she shouldn't.

    When Frank Castle rolls into her trailer park looking for somewhere to disappear for the night, she knows two things immediately: he's lying about his name, and he desperately needs somewhere to stop.

    Language:
    English
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    Chapters:
    1/1
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    15
    Bookmarks:
    3
    Hits:
    295

    14 Oct 2026

  10. Public Bookmark 9

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    After failing the last semester of her senior year, Y/N returns home for the summer to stay with her mother and stepfather, expecting nothing more than a quiet few months before going back to finish her degree.
    What she doesn't expect is Frank Castle, her stepfather's older, frustratingly attractive neighbor.
    Between afternoons by the river, fishing lessons, farm life, and a softer side of Frank she never expected to see, what begins as an innocent summer connection slowly becomes something neither of them planned for.
    Y/N came home thinking she'd fallen behind. Maybe slowing down was exactly what she needed.
    And Frank had gotten used to the life he had left , until she wandered into it.

    Language:
    English
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    21,742
    Chapters:
    7/?
    Comments:
    25
    Kudos:
    29
    Bookmarks:
    9
    Hits:
    749

    10 Oct 2026

  11. Public Bookmark 14

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    Language:
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    Words:
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    Chapters:
    26/50
    Comments:
    14
    Kudos:
    71
    Bookmarks:
    14
    Hits:
    2,580

    08 Oct 2026

  12. Public Bookmark 2

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    The funeral crowd is gone, leaving an empty house with rooms overflowing with a dead man’s life. When the back door latch clicks open in the middle of an October storm, it isn't an intruder— it's Frank Castle.

    Coming with no patience for hollow condolences, he silently sets to work repairing what your dad left unfinished. His towering presence turns a quiet house heavy with unspoken tension and a physical awareness neither of you can ignore.

    A story about midnight whiskey and the dangerous intimacy of the only man who understands your grief.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    4,290
    Chapters:
    2/4
    Comments:
    4
    Kudos:
    11
    Bookmarks:
    2
    Hits:
    126

    08 Oct 2026

  13. Public Bookmark 6

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    Leonara Faith is a rare-book specialist with an unfortunate habit of pulling at loose threads until something unravels.

    Frank Castle is not a loose thread.

    He is, however, standing in her bedroom.

    After a late-night experiment with a manuscript goes spectacularly wrong, Nara finds herself responsible for a very armed, very irritated stranger who insists he does not belong in her world.

    Frank wants to go home. Nara intends to figure out how to send him there.

    That should be simple enough.

    Instead, there are research notes, bad coffee, boxing gyms, impossible questions, too much takeout, and the increasingly inconvenient problem of getting used to someone who was never supposed to stay.

    A slow-burn multiversal story about two people trying to put one impossible mistake back where it belongs.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    282,702
    Chapters:
    23/?
    Comments:
    34
    Kudos:
    45
    Bookmarks:
    6
    Hits:
    716

    05 Oct 2026

  14. Public Bookmark 6

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    Gigi came to New York looking for a fresh start. Dancing at Velvet was never supposed to become part of it.
    Frank Castle owns the club, keeps his distance, and has made a habit of knowing everything that happens beneath its neon lights. Gigi is just another dancer on his payroll—or at least, that's what they both keep telling themselves.
    Between late nights, lingering looks, bad decisions, and a line neither of them should cross, keeping things professional becomes increasingly difficult.
    A very slow-burn Frank Castle x original female character story.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    29,130
    Chapters:
    7/?
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    12
    Bookmarks:
    6
    Hits:
    184

    05 Oct 2026

  15. Public Bookmark 79

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    You moved into a new building four months ago.

    Closer to work, a great café on the corner, the park nearby. It was a good choice.
    Your neighbor in 4B is anything but close. Frank Castle is stubborn, quiet, gets in too late, and stares a little too much. His bruises don't come with explanations. His words are two syllables or less. And his arms are hard not to stare at...

    Lucky for you, his dog decided yours was his new best friend.

    And eventually, close enough stops being enough.
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    NO USE OF Y/N. medium-ish burn.
    This is NOT a lore/canon accurate punisher character study (no dead family/frank is just an asshole). pieces of MCU lore are cherrypicked and sprinkled throughout for gentle immersion, those characters i DO NOT OWN.
    Expect: neighbors, dogs, thin walls, grumpy Frank, mutual staring, questionable "security work," tension, feelings against everyone's better judgment, and eventually an absolutely irresponsible amount of smut.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    77,747
    Chapters:
    20/?
    Comments:
    150
    Kudos:
    387
    Bookmarks:
    79
    Hits:
    8,406

    05 Oct 2026

  16. Public Bookmark 2

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    Jane Hawke is loving her new job as a paralegal finally doing what she's always wanted, until Frank Castle walks in and fucks everything up.

    Jane hates it when people undermine her, Frank hates how stubborn she is. Both of them can't seem to stay away from each other.
    Somewhat of a Punisher meets Suits type of vibe.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    54,025
    Chapters:
    18/?
    Comments:
    2
    Kudos:
    7
    Bookmarks:
    2
    Hits:
    373

    04 Oct 2026

  17. Public Bookmark 52

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    Set after the events of Spider-Man: Brand New Day.

    Everyone in the building knows to leave the Punisher alone. Marley never did — and now she's in too deep to stop.

    An OR nurse by day, something else entirely underneath, Marley has spent years hiding exactly what she is. But keeping her distance from the grumpy, bloodied vigilante across the hall gets a lot harder once he starts bleeding on her couch, calling her sweetheart, and looking at her like she's something worth staying for.

    Hidden powers. A man who doesn't know how to want anything without fearing what it costs him and a woman who's about to show him exactly what she can do to protect what's hers.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    137,367
    Chapters:
    18/18
    Comments:
    23
    Kudos:
    137
    Bookmarks:
    52
    Hits:
    6,458

    02 Oct 2026

  18. Public Bookmark 8

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    Getting divorced was supposed to be the hard part.
    Turns out, learning how to be alone after spending years as half of something is harder. Between a new apartment, a new hobby, and figuring out who you are without your ex-husband, you're finally starting to feel like yourself again.
    And then there's Frank Castle.
    Your grumpy, ridiculously secretive regular who barely talks to you and somehow keeps showing up everywhere you go.
    Seriously. Why the fuck is he everywhere?

    Language:
    English
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    56,723
    Chapters:
    17/?
    Comments:
    6
    Kudos:
    27
    Bookmarks:
    8
    Hits:
    914

    01 Oct 2026

  19. Public Bookmark 9

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    When a dying billionaire leaves you a fortune with one impossible condition, you find yourself tied to Frank Castle—a man investigating the very family you’ve just inherited. The marriage is supposed to be temporary. Falling for him was never part of the deal.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    87,068
    Chapters:
    17/17
    Comments:
    5
    Kudos:
    32
    Bookmarks:
    9
    Hits:
    838

    01 Oct 2026

  20. Public Bookmark 12

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    Carolina Alvez moved to New York to start over.
    Three years after losing her wife and leaving behind a life full of grief and trauma, she’s finally built something that feels almost normal: a little house in Astoria, two spoiled dogs, a classroom full of teenagers, and a life that belongs to her.
    Then she meets Frank Castle.
    He’s rude, guarded, dangerous, and somehow the first person in years who makes her feel completely safe. What starts as a chance encounter slowly becomes friendship, desire, and the terrifying possibility of a second chance.
    The problem is, Frank doesn’t believe men like him get second chances.
    As their lives become more tangled, Carolina and Frank have to decide whether two people carrying this much grief can stop surviving long enough to actually live—and whether love is enough when Frank’s darkness inevitably follows him home.

    Language:
    English
    Words:
    214,589
    Chapters:
    33/45
    Comments:
    31
    Kudos:
    45
    Bookmarks:
    12
    Hits:
    1,854

    30 Sep 2026

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