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Lady Hartwell has spent three years as Sir Aldric Hartwell’s finest acquisition: dressed, displayed, and quietly forgotten once the guests go home. Her beauty enhances his reputation; her thoughts, desires, and bruises are carefully edited out of the frame.
To prove their “perfect” marriage to the ton, Aldric commissions a portrait from Lord Rafayel Vale, the scandalous Earl of Selwyn—an artist whispered to hide dangerous meanings in his work. He expects a flattering trophy for his salon.Rafayel refuses to paint a ghost.
In a north-lit studio and a chaotic atelier, Lady Hartwell discovers a different kind of gaze: one that notices the tension in her shoulders, the truths in her silences, and the way her eye goes unerringly to the paintings that shouldn’t be there. As their sittings deepen into conspiracy, they uncover a web of forgery and theft threaded through Hartwell’s collection—and begin to weave its exposure into the very canvas meant to glorify him.
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- Part 4 of The Alderwyn Brides
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13 Dec 2025
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In a world fractured by divine mistakes, technological ambition, and metaphysical memory, you are the unknowable First Song — the spark that birthed sentience. Reborn over countless timelines, you alone hold the tether between soul, power, and time. In this lifetime, you begin unaware, working as a Deepspace Hunter in Linkon. But the return of all five of your soul-bound counterparts marks the first time they’ve ever converged together in one reality. Drawn to each of them for the piece of you that they hold, your divine soul seeks completion — a cosmic event the god Astra seeks to prevent at any cost.
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