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  1. Public Bookmark 6

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    Some nights, the wind shakes the branches of the trees so viciously that in the strange seconds between sleeping and waking, Francis believes he's back at sea.

    Francis and James, the expedition's only two survivors, return to England as changed men. But history has a habit of repeating itself, and habits aren't easy to break.

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    30 Apr 2026

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    “For any transgression, money will be deducted from the prize.”
    “Fuck,” Zoey mutters.
    No kissing. No sex. No jacking off. As if she’s not sitting there between the two sexiest women she’s ever seen in her life. God. She’s fucked.
    Lana chimes one last time.
    “Welcome to Too Hot To Handle.”

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    25 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 8

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    The sky was still bruised black and blue when Francis woke. He stood over the bed and laid his thumb against the line of James’ jaw, rubbing gently, so James would know it wasn’t a ghost that had gone. Then James sighed like a good dream had got ahold of him and rolled over, one hand flung out into that empty cooling space. Francis put on his boots and left.

    Francis Crozier learns to swim.

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    09 Feb 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 60

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    It was a living, alright, the way Francis saw it, but it wasn’t a life. A life was made of something other than dry red dust and the dregs of a whiskey bottle. When he imagined his grandparents, who he had never met, he thought, That there must have been a life. What they had belonged to them: six children, twelve acres of green Ulster farmland, a body that joined you in slumber and rolled over to touch you in the morning.

    Texas, 1881. Francis Crozier is a cow boss who drinks to drown old hurts. James Fitzjames is a secretive city slicker from New York. Their paths cross at Coppermine Ranch.

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    09 Feb 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 12

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    November 13th 1851
    2 Kensington Park Mews, London.

    Dear James,

    James would you believe me the morning that your letter reached me the dogs howlled your name and the birds too at my waking. I had thought–

    Peace. I will come. Expect me there.

    Your Francis.

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    25 Jan 2025