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Boyfriend on one knee, Stanford Law's top graduate, and a cushy attorney job at the largest real estate brokerage in Texas waiting for her back home. Shelby's life was falling right into place... until a phone call throws a wrench right into Shelby's plan.
Shelby's mysterious estranged great-aunt has left her an inheritance—an old brick building in New York City called Holiday House. As if things weren't complicated enough, Holiday House is very much occupied.
soul-searching Lawyer Shelby x heart of gold Mechanic Toni
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21 Dec 2025
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Toni was already dreading the idea of acting in a romantic comedy, but it was only made worse when she was confronted by a ghost from her past, Shelby Goodkind.
After a rocky reconciliation, they agree to go through with filming the movie while working to rebuild their friendship, establishing a new type of relationship along the way.
An actor/fake dating/friends with benefits AU
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19 Jun 2024
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Shelby was a pop star discovered in her childhood bedroom in Texas. Toni was a shot in the dark out of Minnesota that landed on a basketball court. For years, they clashed in clickbait and media sound bites without ever actually exchanging a word. But everything changed when Toni attended Shelby’s sold-out show in Arizona. Will ironclad contracts, stifling fame, and deep-rooted fear drive them apart or be the catalyst of something bigger than they could have ever dreamed.
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A story told in headlines and the moments that actually made them. Celeb AU.
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13 Mar 2024
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Two years after the FBI rescues them from the island, most of the Unsinkable Eight are living near each other in California. Nobody has seen or heard from Shelby in over a year ever since a conflict at the trial.
Toni and Dot are working as paramedics when they get an unexpected call that brings Shelby back into their lives and changes their perception of what happened out on the island.
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21 Feb 2024
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Shelby and Toni have been best friends since they first met in kindergarten, but their relationship takes an unexpected shift the summer before middle school.
After a spur of the moment marriage ending with a messy breakup following their senior year, Shelby moves with her family to New York, begrudgingly leaving Toni back home in Fort Travis.
Years later, Shelby comes back to Texas to see if there is any spark left between them, or if it’s too late.
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(Loosely) Sweet Home Alabama AU
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21 Jan 2024