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    When Sherlock, Mycroft, and Cordelia leave Constantinople after Silas’s death, James and Beatrice are not on the train with them. Hurt and angry, Sherlock doesn’t understand why James would abandon him.

    Six months later, James Moriarty turns up on the doorstep of Appleton Manor. Although Sherlock can’t easily forgive his friend, following the trail of bees, books, and a mysterious key Silas has left him does much to reknit their relationship.

    As they chase an increasingly unsettling lead from Oxford to Vienna, Sherlock and James grow ever closer and it becomes harder and harder to deny their desire for each other…

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    Six months. Yes, it had been a long time, given how inseparable they had become prior to Constantinople. But it had also been the very first thing Sherlock had thrown at him. Not Where is Beatrice? What have you done to her? Where have you been?
    But: You’ve been gone for so long.

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