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After the death of her beloved cousin, Michaela Stirling arrives at her new home to claim her inheritance. Francesca, her cousin’s widow, tends to keep to herself, preferring the comfort of the shadows. On one particularly dark night, Michaela uncovers a horrifying truth: Francesca is a vampire.
Desire pulls them toward one another, but guilt and fear keep them apart. They must choose to either turn away from temptation or offer themselves up to it completely.
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For Franchaela Week 2025 Day 2: Catholic Guilt/Forbidden Romance
& Bton Pride 2025: Longing/Star-Crossed- Language:
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12 Jun 2026
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The Midnight Graft by mateomanhattan
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Love Island (UK TV)
09 Jun 2026
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Francesca has perfected the art of the Love Island performance. The pool-side bikinis, the patience, the hollow, scripted devotion to dreadful men who don’t even know who she is. She knows her lines, and she knows exactly when the curtain is supposed to fall.
Michaela is the only one who sees through the act, and she is far more interested in dismantling Francesca than she is in winning the prize money.
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They say the island changes you. They do not tell you it starts by peeling you open, piece by piece, until you are begging the person who ruined you to never stop.
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11 Jun 2026
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The streetlamp was doing something unfair and beautiful to Michaela’s face, picking out the slope of her cheek, the deep warm brown of her shoulder. Francesca looked down at her, the height difference indecent in these heels, and felt something settle in her chest.
“I’m not changing my mind.”
“Say it properly.”
“I want to go to your hotel. I want you to take me upstairs. I want—” and here her voice caught, only a little, the ghost of the old Francesca who had blushed across dinner tables, “—I want you to stop being good.”
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Franchaela Week Day 2, "music"- Language:
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08 Jun 2026
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"I do not possess wickedness in me," Francesca declared.
"Do you have no desire beyond marriage and children?"
Was that how Michaela saw her? As a simple woman needing a child to give her purpose? A child and no joy.
or: Francesca finds a scandalous book in the Kilmartin library, and it does very little to help her understand intimacy with John.
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“Is it so unthinkable of a suggestion? Am I that off-putting, that horrible that you cannot even imagine pretending to date me?"
"No, Fran. It's not that. It's—" Michaela stopped, shaking her head and sighing. "You deserve more than that. More than what I'm looking to offer."
"I want nothing more!" Francesca spoke too emphatically, drawing attention to herself. "It's seamless. It solves both of our problems. You get a steady, unobjectionable partner and in turn, the estate. I get a reprieve from my family's haranguing, as they'll see I'm happily coupled. Nobody needs to know that our partnership is platonic masquerading as something more."
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Michaela can’t inherit the Stirling Estate unless she reforms her womanizing ways and Francesca can’t get her family to cease their incessant badgering about her finding true love. Realizing they both stand to gain from a relationship, they start up a fake one. Inconveniently for their plan, they’re already in love.
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12 May 2026