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When a mission gone wrong leaves John "Soap" MacTavish in a coma in a foreign hospital, the language barrier turns Simon "Ghost" Riley into Soap's husband instead of his partner.
What begins as a bureaucratic mistake snowballs into a full-blown fake marriage as Ghost is forced keep up the ruse in order to deal with hospital staff, paperwork, and, to his horror, very real in-laws.
By the times Soap wakes up, he has acquired a very devoted husband the nurses swoon over and his parents have accepted into the family.
As Soap recovers, he and Ghost try to navigate their growing feelings as the line between pretend and fake starts to blur. By the time Soap is cleared for active duty again, they must figure out what their relationship really is… and whether the fake marriage everyone believes in might not be so fake after all.
Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
12 Jan 2026
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Ghost is many things: an enigma who likes to keep people guessing, a force to be reckoned with in the field, and a massive sugar addict.
But, by no means is the omega sweet.
Innocently getting breakfast one unassuming morning, Soap is blindsided by his stoic lieutenant getting in his personal space, practically clinging to him. Soap plays it off as a fluke, until Ghost keeps pestering him. Sure, it's far out of character, but Soap thinks he's just reading into things too much.
When he finds out that Ghost is going into heat, Soap gets to witness just how sweet Ghost really is.
Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
11 Jan 2026
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Simon Riley, known as “The Ghost of Manchester,” has spent fifteen years as the most feared hitman in Britain’s underworld, until one last job grants him a chance at a new life. He escapes to Wynndale, a picture-perfect Yorkshire village decked in Christmas cheer, determined to live in the shadows and forget his violent past. Which proves impossible when Johnny MacTavish, a cheerful ex-soldier turned coffee shop owner of The Sneaky Kilt, and relentless spreader of holiday spirit, crashes through Simon’s defenses like nothing he's ever experienced before.
As Wynndale celebrates the season, Simon is drawn into Johnny’s world of found family, sparkly kilts, the true joy that comes with Christmas, and after-hours decorating. Before long, he finds his dark grey world slowly transformed into golds, greens, and reds, though none as vibrant as the blue eyes of Johnny.
However, when Simon discovers Johnny's in danger from more than just the local thugs threatening his coffee shop, Simon must confront the darkness he can’t outrun, a lifetime of cold and calculation, and what it truly means to love and live with another.
Or as I like to call it: "Hallmark Presents : A Hitman For Christmas"
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Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
16 Dec 2025
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Soap doesn’t even like reading.
But apparently he does like emotionally tortured war poetry disguised as fanfiction that accidentally reveals his deepest fears and unspoken desires...
So that’s new.
Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
15 Dec 2025
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Most people run away when they see a man that shoots lasers from his eyes try to rob a bank. They rather not be cut up like half the place is.
But Soap isn't most people. He's a journalist, and his job is to document exactly what's wrong with this city, even if it endangers him.
Well… It's not his job yet. As it stands right now, his actual job involves editing the lifestyle section of a local newspaper firm, "Manchester Mail", which… Does not entail running straight into an ongoing crime scene, but he digresses.
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Soap's dream is to become an investigative journalist, uncover the injustice that lurks in the streets of Manchester. He gets himself into dangerous situations, trying to get a glimpse of the truth, when he stumbles upon Ghost, the city's mysterious shadow-wielding super.
Every day, he comes to a local café called "Roast & Toast", chatting with its only worker, Simon, who, for his part, is furious to find the reporter that has been pestering him while he's working as Ghost, reach his day job by sheer luck.- Language:
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Bookmarked by Vamoose (too_soft)
14 Dec 2025