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    Summary

    She’s not trying to be anyone’s heroine. Bella Swan just wants a quiet life: a night shift, a list from her therapist, and enough distance from the past to keep her hands from shaking.

    Untethered is a slow-burn Twilight/Vampire Diaries crossover about recovery, identity, and power that doesn’t always look like strength. It’s about the softness that returns when you stop surviving long enough to feel it. And what it costs to hold onto that softness in a town that runs on sharp edges.

    Mystic Falls isn’t safe, but neither is standing still. Damon Salvatore isn’t here to rescue her. He doesn’t ask why she flinches or what the scar on her wrist means. He just keeps showing up, even when she wishes he wouldn’t. Especially then.

    This isn’t a redemption arc. It’s recovery in all its mess: two people circling something they won’t name, held together by silence, timing, and the fact that neither of them knows how to let go first.

    Some ghosts are gone. Some are leaning on the inn’s front desk like they own the place. If you like slow burns that hurt, character work that lingers, and Damon Salvatore being the most infuriating man alive... welcome.

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