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  1. Public Bookmark 8

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    Almost 8 years after the fall of Fittes, Anthony Lockwood starts receiving some rather concerning threats. He insists that Barnes is overreacting, and Barnes says that he'd rather have an overprotective streak than a dead CEO of Psychic Solutions, previously known as Fittes Agency. Unfortunately, George and Holly both seem to agree with the aging man, and Lockwood finds himself soon-to-be-saddled with a team of apparently overqualified bodyguards. He's one of the nation's most famed heroes, he certainly doesn't need bumbling international intelligence soldiers.

    Almost 8 years after the fall of Fittes, Lucy Carlyle still knows Marylebourne like the back of her hand. It's been 7 years since British Intelligence forcibly recruited her. She doesn't have a choice but to put her past behind her, never had, no matter how much it hurts. That is, until Lucy's handler assigns her and her partner a case well below their normal pay grade: protecting one rising star of the corporate world in central London, one Anthony Lockwood.

    Almost 8 years after the fall of Fittes, who knows how things have changed? Who knows how they never could?

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    26 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 3

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    Something big and ugly was eating its way through London, slowly but surely paralysing the city he loved and it was coming for him, Lockwood just knew it.

    He had felt it for a while now - bumping into unconnected hints, into unsatisfactory loose ends from cases, into uneasy feelings at unexpected street corners - a strong sense of glimpsing a silhouette, a shadow, a suggestion of something that vanished whenever he tried to take a closer look.

    Tonight, this something had reached Lockwood's doorstep in the form of three men chasing Lucy. And even though it was still a shadow, still an unknown entity, Lockwood recognised a thrown gauntlet when it hit him in the face - and he was more than ready to rise to the occasion.

    Whenever his unknown enemy decided to test the waters, he would be ready.

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    20 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 97

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    Choice is something Lucy Carlyle had never been given. She'd been forced to join Jacobs' agency; forced to go into that mill, forced to leave her team to die so she could live. So she makes a choice that is just for her: she files an official DEPRAC report on her own behalf, to expose Jacobs and the corrupt adults of her town. When Inspector Montagu Barnes is sent to investigate the claim, he meets a brave but traumatized young girl that he knows won't survive if she's left behind when he returns to London. So he does the only thing he can in the short time he has to get her away from her abusers: he legally adopts her and brings her London with him.

    Now, practically every choice is Lucy's. Now she can have the opportunities the adults of her town would have denied her. Except, she doesn't choose Fittes or Rotwell; she chooses Lockwood & Co. Now Barnes has to deal with Anthony Lockwood as both a DEPRAC officer and as the father-figure of the girl with whom Lockwood is clearly smitten.

     

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    20 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 80

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    “The...other me. Did he love you?”

    “He never told me." Lucy felt the lump in her throat grow bigger. "But to be fair, I never told him either. There were so many thing I wanted to tell him, I should have told him...and then when I got sent back, I realized I had the chance to actually say it to him, to you. And...and doesn’t it mean something, that I loved you so much to do this all twice? That I needed to come back, so badly I'd go through all this pain again? For you?”

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    Lucy looks into the Bone Glass and gets sent back to the Mill where it all began. This time around, she's not letting Lockwood and George go gentle into that good night.

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    19 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 33

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    The whole thing was fucked up anyway. Even as a child of twelve, even before she saw her number, she knew that the universe was cruel. Why give a number and no names? Why no sign when you finally—if you ever—crossed paths with a soulmate? The only time the number changed was the slow march down to zero, when one of the souls passed to a place unreachable.

     

    Soulmark AU where all you get is a number. Follows Lucy and her three great loves throughout the series.

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    18 Feb 2026