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  1. Rec 15

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    Ilya appears on Shane Hollander's doorstep after reading the author's article on Anna Anderson, a woman claiming to be the slain Grand Duchess Anastasia Romanov, Ilya's sister, and tells Hollander his life story. His claim to be a bastard Romanov son is extraordinary, but if he were making his story up, wouldn't he give his it a better ending?

    But this isn't the end of Ilya's story. Hollander is certain of it. He persuades the man to allow him to assist him in bettering his life and circumstances in exchange for the right to tell his story, someday, in novel form. Ilya agrees, but only if nothing is said of his past life, meaning Hollander can't use any of the story the man has already told.

    Ilya Romanov's story is over. With Hollander's help, Ilya Rozanov's is just beginning.

    Set primarily in 1920's Jazz Age London.

    This is an EXPLICIT story for adults only. The graphic depictions of violence tag refers to the murder of the Romanov family, and fist fights. (No domestic violence)

    Human made 100%

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    18 May 2026

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    It was new, knowing he was cohabitating with his mother. They couldn't speak, not truly, and he couldn't feel her touch barring occasional cold spots, but there was a weight in the air just knowing she was there. Growing pains, Ilya thought softly.

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    Shane and Ilya struggle to be together while juggling his dead ghost mother's unfinished business, the mental illness Ilya swears he doesn't have, homophobia Shane promises he's not a victim of, and Russia which seems unwilling to let them go.

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    30 Mar 2026

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    She looks, if he unfocuses his eyes, if he tries very hard, if he pays close attention to the bridge of her nose and the baby fat still in her cheeks, not much different than she did when he last saw her. A little stone angel marking time at a mean old man's wake.

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    09 Mar 2026

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    ‘I want to write about you,’ Daniel finally says. It's true.
    ‘Based on what you've shown me, I'd prefer you didn't.’
    ‘But you'd like someone to write about you.’
    ‘I'm not even twenty-five yet, I scarcely require a biographer.’

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    Daniel Molloy has been living in New York for nearly ten years but his career is a non starter, taking assignments from a wire agency to fund his drug habit. One of these assignments leads him to the De Romanus Balletics Company where he meets the enigmatic, beautiful principal dancer, Armand. Daniel thinks he might be able to grow closer to the object of his affection and advance his career, resulting in a spiral of sex, drugs and (ballet) dancing.

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    08 Mar 2026

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    Shane Hollander meets Ilya Rozanov on his twenty-fourth birthday at The Ice Palace, the gay club where Ilya works as a bartender. Shane has never been to a gay club before, and never been with a man before. He's shocked that it's seemingly this easy to pick up a shirtless, Russian bartender, with the most beautiful lips he's ever seen. That was the point of coming to the club, as a test of his homosexuality, but Shane leaves, alone, unsure as to whether he passed or failed.

    Ilya passed. He passed Shane a secret birthday message on a cocktail napkin. Shane doesn't know what it says, but he knows it's special. He doesn't know this meeting, that message, and a birthday gift that was already late will change his life either. He'll never spend another birthday alone though. Ilya will make sure of that.

    Set in the 1980's... and I promise there's a happy ending
    This is an EXPLICIT story for adults only.
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    08 Mar 2026