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Plié, Relevé, et les Pas de Deux (To Bend, To Rise, and the Step of Two) by erin_onashelf
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
17 Jan 2026
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Nesta had been angry for a very long time. She wasn’t even sure when the anger began, it felt as if it were just always a part of her. It kept her safe, it protected her from the criticism from her mother and dance coach, Miss Amarantha. Their harsh words about her body as she matured and grew, the insults about her lack of effort and will whenever she mis-stepped, how nothing she ever did seemed to be enough. Even after her mother passed, Nesta allowed her dance coach to continue her vicious training regime, remaining silent as the hurled insults and threats increased tenfold.
Another seven years have passed, Nesta was now in her second year of the Velaris University’s Juris Doctor program. With both parents now gone, Nesta knows she should be a good eldest sister and try to keep the family together. She’s already agreed to a weekly dinner with them, often inviting friends too. But now Feyre and her boyfriend are getting serious and she’s trying to integrate her sisters with Rhysand’s brothers. One of those brothers has a knack for getting on Nesta’s nerves, ruining any hopes she had of trying to have as little stress and piss-poor habits as possible in her second year of law school.
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17 Jan 2026
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One of Us Will End Up Hurt by sssoulsuckerrr
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
27 Sep 2025
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Vampire Cassian. Unsuspecting cabin-dweller Nesta. Spooky wind. Lots of biting. What more could I... I mean YOU want?
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- Part 1 of I Know the Way
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- English
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- 19,438
- Chapters:
- 3/3
- Collections:
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12 Jan 2026
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Who’s That Girl? It’s Nes by ChelseaMorningGirl
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
30 Dec 2025
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Nesta Archeron has always prided herself on being the kind of woman who has her life together. She wears power suits to her editing job at Velaris Publishing, her hair is always immaculately styled, her apartment has been featured in a “Young Professionals Living in Style” blog post, and she’s been in a relationship with Tomas Mandray—successful lawyer, conventionally attractive, wholly appropriate—for three years.
Past tense on all of that.
Because yesterday, she’d come home early from a work trip to surprise Tomas, only to find him very enthusiastically not surprised, and very enthusiastically occupied with his paralegal, Claire, in their California King bed with the Egyptian cotton sheets Nesta had picked out.
The bed that Tomas had paid for, in the apartment that Tomas’s name was on the lease for, because Nesta had moved in with him eight months ago, instead of looking for a new place together.
What a joke.
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A New Girl AU where Nesta is Jess, Cassian is Nick, and no one is emotionally equipped to handle what's happening. That’s it. That’s the summary.
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09 Jan 2026
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The Light Between Sin and Salvation by LunaAtTheZoo
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
04 Jan 2026
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Azriel works for the Mafia under his brother Rhysand, the boss of the family. After Rhys marries Feyre and she has a target painted on her back, he assigns his brothers Cassian and Azriel to guard her two older sisters in case of retaliation from rival families. Azriel begrudgingly accepts the job, but everything changes when he meets brown-eyed, sweet, mysterious Elain. He must contend with his unexpected feelings, keep Elain safe, and, above all, avoid letting her into the bloodthirsty world of the Mafia.
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- English
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- 253,710
- Chapters:
- 40/40
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07 Jan 2026
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She’s my mate. He couldn’t form another thought in his head. It echoed again and again, making him think he might lose his damn mind. Who is she?
Rhys went silent, likely seeking the answer from somebody else. Nesta Archeron.
That name would haunt his dreams.
She was beautiful. Devastatingly so. She was from this awful city. She looked like she could rip him to shreds–
Cassian. She’s married.
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Or, an AU where the Archeron sisters are born in the Hewn City
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05 Jan 2026
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Meet Me in the Middle of the Mess by OurLadyofDeath
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
24 Jan 2026
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Nesta’s first holiday without her kids ends in a one-night stand (sure, Jan) with the hottest man she’s ever seen.
She expects it to be a one-off. Hopes for it.
She does not need this kind of distraction.Except he keeps showing up everywhere - the grocery store, the laundromat, her favorite coffee shop - and suddenly she’s playing competitive Pretty Pretty Princess, learning to change a tire, and watching this man charm her twins like the easiest thing in the world.
Nesta has rules.
Cassian has muscles.
It’s not a fair fight.A soft, chaotic attempt at a rom-com about accidental connection, (un)intentional love, and the slow, delicious unraveling of two people into each other.
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04 Dec 2025
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It's Just Science (Don't Let it Break You) by This_Immortal_Hope for dustjackets
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
27 Sep 2025
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The one thing they could both agree on was this - She did not belong here.
Nesta Archeron had been made for glass skyscrapers and slick offices. She was a soldier in the war against misused semi colons and bad forum selection clauses.
She did not belong on an active drill rig in South America.
She did not belong in Cassian's desert, and she certainly didn't belong inside his head. Yet there she was, and until this job was done - and done properly - neither one of them would be getting a moment of peace.
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- English
- Words:
- 9,190
- Chapters:
- 2/?
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- 1
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- 21
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21 Nov 2025
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Top Shelf Love by Pumpkinspice_Lou
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
24 Sep 2025
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After an embarrassing first meeting at her youngest sister’s engagement party, Nesta swears that she’ll never think about hockey hotshot Cassian Valdarez ever again. But then he’s moving to her city, refusing to get out of her bookstore, and seemingly determined to get under her skin.
When Cassian gets traded to the Seattle Kraken, it feels like his whole life changes. The last thing he expects is Nesta Archeron, his sister-in-law’s sister and the only person he knows when he moves across the country. Unfortunately for him, the only thing Nesta wants is for Cassian Valdarez to get out of her bookstore. He’s determined to change her mind.
Aka: the most self-indulgent hockey AU you’ll ever read
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- English
- Words:
- 19,534
- Chapters:
- 5/15
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 100
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- 325
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- 6,035
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15 Nov 2025
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Keep Coming Back to You by dustjackets
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
17 Oct 2025
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They'd flamed out after college. One scorching, all consuming relationship that didn't work. Couldn't work. But that was years ago.
Now, Feyre and Rhysand are married, and Nesta can't escape her ex, even if she tried. Cassian is always there, the best friend of her brother in law, always at mandatory family dinners. That was the most she saw him, except for sometimes... sometimes they decided the flaming disaster of their former relationship shouldn't keep them from enjoying a good time.
They didn't tell anyone about that, though.
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17 Oct 2025
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Baby, Don't Hang Up by dustjackets
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
27 Nov 2025
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All Nesta wanted was to relax with a new smutty book on a Friday night, not answer a call from her baby sister's annoying friend. Nothing ever went to plan.
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5 times Nesta and Cassian fool around out of bed and 1 time they make it back
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 14,002
- Chapters:
- 5/6
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 72
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- 270
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- 45
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29 Sep 2025
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I Could Find You, Darling, in Any Life by TheTeaQueen
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
15 Nov 2025
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Nesta Archeron disappeared three months to the day after the end of the war against Hybern.
Without so much as a whisper, she slipped away into the night, leaving it all behind.
The Night Court. Her sisters. Him.
There were no answers, no justification, no anything.
As quickly as she appeared into his life, she vanished, as if she were never there. The few things she owned were left abandoned, locked away in an attic, to be forgotten like so many other relics of their lost ones.
Three years later and the wound still burned as if she’d stabbed him directly in the chest.
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When Nesta disappears at the end of the war, everyone believes she simply left on her own free will, without a care for anyone, least of all him.But when the hunt for the Dread Trove begins and Cassian is tasked with bringing her back home - at any cost - he learns that not everything is as it seems.
Written for Nessian Week 2025 Day 5: Missing Moments (the literal edition)
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- Part 3 of Nessian Week 2025
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 8,054
- Chapters:
- 2/?
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 56
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- 294
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- 76
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25 Sep 2025
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Bumpy Takeoffs and Happy Landings by TheTeaQueen
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
24 Sep 2025
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Flying out at 7 am for a last minute work trip was already bad.
Flying out of Dulles was worse.
But to top it all off, Nesta's morning is entirely upended when the world's most obnoxious (read: gorgeous) pilot spills boiling hot coffee all over in what had to be the worst luck of all time.
Nesta was determined to forget it ever happened, to get through her week and back to her apartment where she could continue to hide away forever. But fate has other plans.
A meet-cute/hate featuring Pilot!Cassian and Diplomat!Nesta for Cassian Appreciation Week 2024 Day 1: Flying
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- Part 1 of Cassian Appreciation Week 2024
- Part 1 of Nessian Appreciation Week 2024
- Part 3 of Nesta Week 2025
- Part 2 of Cassian Week 2025
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- English
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- 30,743
- Chapters:
- 6/6
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- 3
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- 114
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- 592
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- 92
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- 12,080
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23 Sep 2025
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You Lost Me, So You Lost Manna by This_Immortal_Hope
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
23 Sep 2025
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“Maybe,” she whispered, still feeling stupid. Careful, she was trying to be so so careful and he didn’t even seem to notice there was any risk. “Like fire and water.”
“Which one am I?” Cassian asked, bumping his nose against hers.
“Water,” Nesta said quietly, certainly.
“Alright,” he shrugged. “So let’s go buy some matches.” She laughed once, sharp and sardonic. “I’m serious,” Cassian assured her. “Light me up baby, because I’m not going anywhere. I love you.”
It was the very first time he used those words as an answer and a weapon all in one. An explanation. It didn’t make any sense, his metaphor. You couldn’t light water on fire no matter how hard you tried. It would be years before Nesta reflected on just how quickly the answer came to mind when he asked who was who - how she knew from the start he would douse her flames.
But it didn’t matter if nothing made sense. The answer was simple and resolute. All her caution snapped, her tightrope came loose and Nesta was falling.
Falling, falling, falling.
*Song Fic for Savannah by Jensen McRae*
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 25,643
- Chapters:
- 3/?
- Collections:
- 1
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- 44
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- 93
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- 11
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- 1,812
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23 Sep 2025
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Golden Threads of Time by This_Immortal_Hope
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
21 Sep 2025
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Nesta and Cassian have never required blades or leathers to spar with each other. Weapons change, battles are fought and won and lost and white flags are waved. They say things they don't mean, do things they regret. They aren't good at this. Love. Neither of them grew up knowing what that emotion was, so of course they didn't recognize it when it wrapped its fickle fist around their hearts. No, Nesta and Cassian are not good at love. But what they have is not love. It is life. Bright, passionate, blinding, and vital to their very being's as oxygen. One does not love to breathe, they simply die without it. Nesta and Cassian are not a love story... they are an inevitability.
A collection of Nessian drabbles and one-shots posted from my Tumblr (UnhealthyFanObsession). Some pre-ACOSF, some Post-ACOSF, some in an alternate timeline that I just made up and ran away with. Some smut, some sweet, some angst. Enjoy!
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 97,672
- Chapters:
- 55/?
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 325
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- 1,459
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- 149
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- 42,910
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09 Aug 2025
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An Indecent Proposal by dustjackets
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
26 Jul 2025
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When Nesta learns that her father has lost her sisters inheritance, she has few choices left. There was no knight in shining armor to save them, or any relatives willing to take them in. The only thing a woman has left is her body, and if she is doomed to be a fallen woman, she can at least choose who's mistress she'll be.
Cassian McKay has made it perfectly clear he will never take a wife. It makes him completely unsuitable as a husband, in addition to being rude, scottish, and incapable of carrying on a polite conversation.
Good thing Nesta isn't looking for one. If he's willing to save her sisters, she'll agree to anything... including being his.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 16,229
- Chapters:
- 5/?
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 98
- Kudos:
- 213
- Bookmarks:
- 51
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- 4,283
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02 Aug 2025
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I fell in love with the fire long ago by jsmelodies
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
30 Nov 2025
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Cassian has loved the princess, Nesta Archeron, for as long as he can remember. So when he's tasked with delivering her to her wedding, he's prepared to suffer through it until Nesta is out of his reach once and for all.
All he knows is that it would only take one word from her to throw his loyalties into a raging fire.
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- Part 1 of Princesses
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 42,277
- Chapters:
- 7/10
- Collections:
- 2
- Comments:
- 124
- Kudos:
- 193
- Bookmarks:
- 41
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- 5,859
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27 Jul 2025
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To Tame A Beast by jsmelodies
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
24 Jul 2025
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When Nesta is sacrificed to the monster in the woods, she doesn’t expect to like him.
Or to trap him in a snare. Or to force him into a bargain. But what’s a woman to do?
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 3,619
- Chapters:
- 1/2
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 7
- Kudos:
- 70
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- 15
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26 Jul 2025
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Sleep Now in the Fire by wishcamper
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
22 Jul 2025
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Deep in the wilderness, Nesta is convinced Cassian has brought her there to kill her.
Cassian isn’t her executioner, but he is questioning everything that led him to this moment. Including the brother whose demands for loyalty are forcing his hand.
The old Illyrian adage rings true: the most dangerous male is the one in the next bed over.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 2,749
- Chapters:
- 1/?
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 27
- Kudos:
- 98
- Bookmarks:
- 24
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- 1,562
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24 Jul 2025
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Amidst the Madness by This_Immortal_Hope
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
04 Feb 2026
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Love and war have always followed the same rules: Quick to ignite, slow to extinguish. There aren't many things Cassian has dared to openly want in his 500 years of existence. Not even the position he currently occupies as Lord of Windahaven (far too lofty a spot for nothing more than a well-blodded bastard, if you ask the other Illyrian Lords), but from the second Nesta Archeron stepped foot in his camp, the entire world ebbed into a single truth.
She is his.
He is hers.
Everything else - the war he is meant to lead, the people relying on him, the legacy he should be fighting to protect, cease to exist the second his eyes are caught in roiling silver flames. There is pain in this female, his female. And retribution will be exacted. Rhysand has his war, and now so does Cassian. Whether the two align ... only Nesta can give that order.- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 83,020
- Chapters:
- 27/?
- Comments:
- 462
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- 1,043
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21 Jul 2025
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A Court of Family Secrets - ACOSF by flamesandshadows
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
17 Apr 2022
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When Feyre finds out that Rhys and the Inner Circle have hidden the truth about her pregnancy complications from her, she leaves home and searches for answers and support elsewhere. Along the way, she finds out that she's not the only one whose family has been keeping secrets. The ramifications of her decision extend all the way to Autumn and Day, with far reaching consequences. The Night Court will also be forever changed as Feyre comes fully into her own power as High Lady, building alliances and an agenda of her own.
A partial rewrite of ACOSF that kicks off with Feyre's pregnancy storyline, and diverges from the moment Nesta reveals the deception to her. I'm planning a rewrite of Nesta's full story in ACOSF, so she'll just make appearances here.
Themes of pregnancy termination, pregnancy loss, child abuse, abuse of adult children, and death in childbirth will be discussed.
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- Part 1 of A Court of Family Secrets
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 118,136
- Chapters:
- 49/49
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 860
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- 2,138
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- 376
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18 Jul 2025