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When Alina discovers her arranged marriage to Aleksander Morozova, she held hope that the marriage would be a fruitful one. The kind portrayed in the books and movies- the kind others would write books and movies about. One that was harmonious, happy and would last a lifetime. A marriage that would be different than the one her parents had.
In sickness and in health.
Until death do us part.
Upon meeting him, however, her hopes are quickly dashed.
It's okay, though. Alina may never have the perfect marriage, but that doesn't necessarily mean she won't have love.
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"You told me you wouldn't love me. That I’m free to take as many lovers as I wanted."
Alina tilts her head to the side, eyebrows furrowed in clear confusion as she watches him.
"And so forgive me if I don't understand why you're so angry that I did."
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08 Sep 2024
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without you, I am surely the last of our kind by ladystxrdust
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
21 Dec 2024
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Ivan spoke bluntly. “There is a child, moi soverenyi. A Shadow Summoner.”
Aleksander froze. He felt as though all the breath had been stolen from his lungs. “What?”
“A boy – his mother brought him to the Little Palace, the second she realised what he could do.”
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Glory and Gore by Jo (winterchild49)
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
09 Mar 2025
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Sturmhond let out a shaky laugh and ran a hand through his dishevelled red hair. "Well," he said. "Not the landing I planned."
Alina threw a sharp glance at the privateer and bit on her tongue to suppress a snide remark. She moved the crate to the side and began to stand up, but a sharp pain shot through her right leg. She hissed and sat back down. Only then did she notice the blood soaking through the black fabric of her pants, and her stomach lurched.
Mal frowned. "Are you alright?"
Alina was about to respond when she heard footsteps approaching, and they all froze.
Sturmhond rose slowly to his feet only to get back down and press his back against the railing. "And not the welcome I expected," he muttered, already reaching for his pistols.When the Hummingbird crashes it's not the First Army but Aleksander who finds Alina and her friends.
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26 Apr 2024
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The Dark Face of Love by MissWilllows
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
09 Apr 2024
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Everything changes on the night of Calanmai when Feyre meets the handsome dark-haired stranger who nearly kills someone she cares about. In a tale of twisted love, hate, betrayal, and unexpected friendships, Feyre has to make a choice about being selfish or selfless when she falls for the wrong man.
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04 Mar 2024
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Brave Days of Old and New by orphan_account
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins
09 Jan 2024
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When Coriolanus Snow suggested having the previous Victors as mentors beginning from the 20th Hunger Games, he never thought that his harmless recommendation of turning the district's punishment into an even bigger spectacle would also change his life.
His idea was only supposed to cement the Capitol's supervision and power over the Victors.
It didn't occur to him that he would have to face District 12's only Victor again because, for nine years, he thought her dead.
To him, Lucy Gray was a ghost. An alluring spirit that kept haunting him. Increasing his suffering, she flaunted her eight-year-old son, who had achingly familiar white-blonde curls and light blue eyes./or: Coriolanus learns to be a father and tries to mend his relationship with his secret son's mother, Lucy Gray, and the ensuring chains of events accidentally change Panem forever/
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05 Jan 2024
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Obscura by goldcranes for cattycooper
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV)
31 Dec 2023
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Alina Starkov expects very little from life. But when her talent for art forgery catches the eye of the king of the Ravkan underworld, she's swept into a fairytale. The Brothers Grimm kind of fairytale, that is.
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01 Jan 2024
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When someone great is gone by ordersilvertalon
Fandoms: Hunger Games Series - All Media Types, Hunger Games Trilogy - Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (Movies)
21 Dec 2023
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"I think it’s time you flipped this little scenario around in your head. If you’d been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?” demands Haymitch.
Peeta is rescued by the rebels, Katniss captured by the Capitol. When she's rescued hijacked, Peeta starts the long road to recovery with her.
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18 Dec 2023
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Invisible String by ravenpuff1956
Fandoms: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes - Suzanne Collins, Hunger Games Series - All Media Types
07 Jan 2024
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Lucy sucks in a tight breath. She never expected to be dragged back. She didn’t think the Capitol wanted anything to do with her now that she’d won their little game.
But apparently she had made such an impression that they asked very nicely if she would sing at the opening of the 11th Hunger Games.
How could she have said anything but yes?
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26 Nov 2023
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we said hello and your eyes look like coming home by rosanna_writer
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
12 Sep 2025
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A canon-divergent AU where the bond snaps for Rhys on Calanmai, Feyre unwittingly accepts it, and Fire Night magic proves to be more transformative than anyone bargained for. Feyre drags a mate she hardly knows out from Under the Mountain, then puts him back together as war with Hybern approaches.
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05 Sep 2023
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Trapped by orphan_account
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
02 Sep 2023
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Despair forces Alina to ignore everything she has been taught about the Forest surrounding her hometown.
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03 Sep 2023
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Exile by Separatist_Apologist
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
28 May 2022
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We always walked a very thin line
Humans have been bred for the Fae for as long as the Archeron sisters have been alive. Nesta, Elain, and Feyre are used to the world they lived in and had a plan to escape to the continent, where open revolution has already happened thanks to famed General Jurian. They don't expect Tomas, human overseer for the Fae, to exact his revenge against Nesta's rejection of him, by sending all three Archeron sisters to Fae-held Prythian and the High Lords that govern that land.
Separated, Feyre and Nesta are sent to shadowy Night Court with feared High Lord Rhysand and his unpredictable winged General Cassian while Elain is taken by Eris Vanserra to terrifying Autumn Court to serve the High Lord's wife. Desperate to reunite, the sisters form their own plans for escape, unaware that fate is lurking in the form of Rhys, Cassian, and Lucien Vanserra.
The Archeron's are about to learn that the ties that bind sisters are strong...but those that bind mates are stronger. Set against the backdrop of looming war, each sister will be forced to choose between the person they've been their entire lives and the males desperate to keep them for all of eternity
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17 Aug 2023
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Wonderland by Separatist_Apologist
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
15 Aug 2022
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Haven't you heard what becomes of curious minds?
In a kingdom where a Maiden is forced to be sacrificed to appease the monster in the woods, Elain Archeron is chosen out of spite by her spurned suitor, Graysen. Trapped in a tower with her beast, Elain must unravel if she can truly trust the monster promising not to hurt. She doesn't know he's freed every maiden he's ever been sent...but her? Her, he intends to keep.
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- Part 1 of Dragons
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14 Aug 2023
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Alina is betrothed to Nikolai on the Tsar’s passing whim. They’ve mutually agreed to dissolve it as soon as they can, except Nikolai seems to be having second thoughts. Things are further complicated by Alina’s affair with the Darkling, and their scheme to overthrow the Lantsovs once the stag has been found.
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07 Aug 2023
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Unmaking the Heart of the World by goblins_riddles_frocks
Fandoms: The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo, Shadow and Bone (TV), Nikolai Series - Leigh Bardugo
30 Sep 2025
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Merzost has muddled the boundaries of time, and now everything seems to repeat. The same story keeps wanting to be told.
In one timeline Alina marries Nikolai and becomes queen of Ravka, but in another, she’s only just been brought to the Little Palace following the discovery of her powers. Neither timeline is as it should be.
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29 Jul 2023
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As the World Falls Down by miss_belivet
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
22 Jul 2025
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Based on a prompt from deepwaterwritingprompts: Sometimes in the dead of night on the way to the kitchen for a glass of water, I see an extra door in the hallway, black and imposing.
Five times the High Lord of the Night Court tries to lure his human mate across the wall and the one time she hunts him instead.Bookmarked by beyond_this_illusion
08 Jun 2023
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Of the Archer and the Dark by miss_belivet
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
25 Jan 2023
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She is his mate, his mate, his mate.
Feyre Archeron is the youngest member of the Fae nobility trapped in Amarantha’s court Under the Mountain, and she’s never known anything else; nineteen years ago, she was the last of three sisters born in the dark prison. She has never seen the stars, tasted fruit fresh from the vine, or set foot in her home court.Now, dragged before the High Queen of Prythian in her father’s last-bid attempt to settle his debts by selling his daughters’ hands in marriage, Feyre faces scrutiny from all sides: the wicked queen herself, who takes a particular interest in securing an advantageous match for her; the leaders of the rebellion against Amarantha, who already paid the bloody price of failure once; and the cruel High Lord of the Night Court, who seems to enjoy nothing more than dismantling the defenses Feyre has spent years building against monsters like him.
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01 May 2023
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“She’s my mate.”
The world went silent.
Somewhere far away, a shrill ringing started up—the deafening pealing of a thousand bells drawing closer and closer, until my head rang.
Mate.
I was going to be sick. “What?”
The golden-haired female holding Rhys drew in a ragged breath, her eyes going wide, and Rhys swallowed thickly before repeating, "She's my mate, Mor."
Driven by instinct in the split-second after the mating bond snaps, Rhys abducts Feyre from the balcony during their goodbyes.And now that Feyre has seen Velaris and witnessed Rhysand break down in another female’s arms, spouting nonsense about mating bonds, she is forbidden to leave the Night Court. Forbidden, that is, until Rhysand’s Inner Circle agrees that she poses no threat to the security and secrecy of the City of Starlight.
She may be Prythian’s newly anointed Cursebreaker and their High Lord’s mate, but as Tamlin’s lover, Feyre has a lot to prove in order to convince them to let her go.
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01 May 2023
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A stranger arrives in Keramzin, bringing sea air and suspicion. Alina can't seem to keep out of his way.
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23 Apr 2023
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Bloodlines by usuallysunny
Fandoms: Shadow and Bone (TV), The Grisha Trilogy - Leigh Bardugo
09 May 2023
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“Watch this,” the little girl orders proudly.
She lifts her hands higher, as though she’s operating the strings of a puppet - and then dark shadows begin to crawl from her fingertips. They float through the air in spirals of inky black smoke.
Aleksander’s eyes drop to his own tingling palms.
Like calls to like.
When he speaks, his voice is deathly quiet, and he knows the answer before he asks his question.
“What is your mother’s name?”
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20 Apr 2023
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Reputation by flamesandshadows
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
28 Jan 2023
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At age 23, Nyx thinks that he's got a pretty good handle on life. He's studying his magic, enjoying fun and friendship with his cousins, and finding enthusiastic partners when he goes out on the town. And his mother is finally pregnant again, which is exciting, if a bit worrying, given what happened last time.
But Nyx discovers that his family has a history that started well before he was born, and he struggles to reconcile who his parents are to the rest of Prythian with how he sees them, and to figure out who he really is amid it all.
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- Part 2 of ACOTAR: The Next Generation
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14 Apr 2023