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After surviving the horrors of a black-ops psychological program and fighting the world together at a military hospital, Tier-One operator Cal Isaac and FBI Agent Emily Byrne are finally trying to reclaim a normal life. Hidden away in a quiet sanctuary, they begin the fragile process of healing and the delicate work of reconnecting with their family, desperate to leave the violence of their past behind.
But their hard-won peace is shattered in a split second by a catastrophic event. In the chaotic aftermath, damning physical evidence points to an unthinkable betrayal, while a devastating memory blackout leaves the absolute truth buried in the dark.
As the FBI closes in, the situation demands a terrifying surrender: everyone must put their blind faith in each other. With deeply held beliefs pushed to the breaking point, the couple and their allies face the ultimate test of loyalty.
This is a gripping psychological thriller that explores the heavy toll of trauma and asks a haunting question: how do you prove you aren't a monster when you can no longer trust your own mind—and who else will be brave enough to believe you?
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- Part 8 of The Trust Series
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She is navigating a terrifying world in the dark. He is fighting a war entirely in his head. When every instinct screams that the world is a lethal threat, surrendering control becomes the most dangerous mission of their lives.
Extracted from a brutal black site, FBI agent Emily Byrne and Tier-One operator Cal Isaac are thrust into a classified military hospital, where the line between patient and prisoner blurs.
Robbed of her sight, Emily is forced to navigate her new reality by relying entirely on a man whose leash she has held countless times in the past, just as he has held hers.
But Cal's mind has been hijacked by psychological torture, turning him into a feral protector. This transforms the medical and psychological care they desperately need into a volatile battlefield. Now, they must face their most dangerous challenge yet: lowering their impenetrable defenses to place their faith in an outsider.
They are surrounded by a system they can no longer trust and held by an agency that no longer trusts them. They have to find a way to dismantle the triggers burned into both of their heads—before the terrifying instincts designed to keep them alive end up robbing them of their freedom, permanently.Series
- Part 7 of The Trust Series
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Elite partners Cal and Emily are prisoners in a facility that demands their souls. When a brutal new protocol begins turning their unshakeable trust into paranoia and intimacy into physical agony, they are forced into a deadly psychological war where the only thing more dangerous than their captors is their connection to each other.
Cal Isaac and Emily Byrne are the Bureau’s most lethal partners. They are also the only thing keeping each other alive. Now, stripped of their names and bound by invisible chains, they are prisoners in a facility that demands absolute emptiness.
Their captor seeks the perfect soldier: cold, compliant, and solitary. But between Cal and Emily lies a connection that defies the data—a stubborn, dangerous spark that refuses to be extinguished.
To fix the flaw, the system has begun to turn. Through a labyrinth of psychological warfare and manipulated reality, the program is rewriting their instincts, turning their trust into paranoia and their intimacy into a trigger for pain.
As the lines between ally and enemy blur, they face a terrifying question: How much of your soul can you hollow out to survive, before there is nothing left to save?Series
- Part 6 of The Trust Series
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Suspecting his exoneration is a trap, Emily and Cal forge a radical partnership of scrutiny and submission, relying on the strength of their bond to solve the conspiracy without destroying each other.
The FBI has officially cleared Cal Isaac, but as Emily nursed him back to health, a chilling realization took hold: his exoneration could have been planted as easily as the crime.
Their bond has reached a depth that makes traditional suspicion impossible, yet Emily cannot abandon her oath. They forge a radical, heartbreaking partnership: Cal becomes an active participant in his own investigation, submitting to her scrutiny to protect her integrity as much as his own. They enter a dangerous game of survival that tests the very fabric of their trust and affection, threatening to scar their souls forever, regardless of whether they uncover the truth.
Now, caught in a crossfire of planted evidence and deep-state conspiracies, they must decide what they are willing to sacrifice. In a world where every answer is a weapon, the truth may be the one thing their relationship cannot survive.
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- Part 4 of The Trust Series
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When a former Handler is framed as a traitor, she is forced into a brutal role reversal, becoming the Asset to the very man she once controlled—compelling them both to decide if shared trauma will heal their bond or shatter it forever.
Branded a traitor by a web of synthetic evidence, Emily is thrust into the very shoes Cal once wore, experiencing the suffocating grip of the leash she once used to bind him.
Following the same brutal psychological path Cal once walked, Emily must submit to the crushing weight of physical and digital restraints, proving her innocence through total vulnerability.
While the trauma is deep, she is left at a crossroads: will she resent the man who holds the keys to her cage, or will this shared vulnerability finally allow her to understand the terror she once put him through?For Cal, the challenge is even greater: he must overcome the doubt that his training demands he never ignores. He is caught in a war between his tactical training and his heart, struggling to be the Handler he once feared.
In this crucible of surveillance and submission, their shared pain becomes their bridge. Will this heal their old wounds, or shatter their relationship beyond repair?
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- Part 5 of The Trust Series
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The Trust Saga is a relentless, eight-part psychological thriller series that charts the volatile, deeply complex evolution of FBI Agent Emily Byrne and Tier-One operator Cal Isaac. Thrust together by grim necessity and bound by intense suspicion, their relationship is forged in the fires of black-ops conspiracies, psychological warfare, and devastating trauma. Across the series, the narrative explores the darkest corners of the human mind, the heavy toll of weaponized conditioning, and the terrifying limits of absolute loyalty. It is a story about two broken warriors who must continuously decide what they are willing to sacrifice to save each other—and themselves.
What begins as a volatile alliance defined by Emily’s absolute control over a suspected traitor evolves into a harrowing saga of intimacy, conspiracy, and survival. Navigating deep-state lies and a haunting role-reversal, they survive a ruthless black-site program that weaponizes their unbreakable bond. But just as they find sanctuary, a catastrophic event and a devastating memory blackout shatter their hard-won peace, forcing them into one final, terrifying leap of blind faith when the ultimate betrayal might be hiding in their own minds.
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The Trials of Mairon by bynightmylove
Fandoms: The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power (TV 2022), The Lord of the Rings - All Media Types
25 Sep 2024
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After the end of it all, ages after, Galadriel is called to Aman where a prisoner dwells in the shadows. A prisoner whose trial is at last approaching. And he will talk to one alone: Galadriel.
Galadriel must devise three trials to put Sauron through to prove he is worthy of redemption - and failure is not an option. After the first two trials were less than a success, Galadriel has to pull out all the stops for the third and she does not like it, at all. For the third trial will not only test Sauron but her as well. Because for this most crucial one, she will have to live through a time where when Sauron asks her to join him, she tells him yes.
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07 Apr 2025
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With more time to plan before the Death Wave hits, Clarke and Roan need to find a way to get the Coalition to work together and save more people to from the second Praimfaya. What will it take to get the 13 clans to work together and find a way to survive together as life on planet Earth rapidly approaches it's end?
Sorry summaries really aren't my strong suit at all. Starts in 4.08 and goes off canon from there.
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Erik and Sigefrid were never defeated, and now they have conquered many Mercian territories, each day getting closer to Wessex.
While the lord of Mercia licks his wounds on Winchester, the King of Wessex makes an irresistible offer to the brothers: his daughter’s hand in marriage in exchange of an alliance.
They accept.
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Or: Aethelflaed marries Erik instead of Aethelred.
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16 Feb 2019
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Fire and Ice by Calleva
Fandoms: Aethelflaed/Erik - Fandom, The Last Kingdom (TV), The Warrior Chronicles | The Saxon Stories - Bernard Cornwell
26 Jul 2017
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Educated, intelligent and accomplished, Aethelflaed fails to impress her husband as much as her father. Locked in an abusive marriage, she longs for the heroes of myth and legend but they seem to have all gone. Then her world is turned upside down when she is kidnapped for ransom. Fighting the attraction, she finds herself falling for a man whose life and values seem so opposite to her own, but who strangely resembles the heroes in her storybook. But can they have a future together?
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13 Jan 2019