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    Ilya. He is still sleeping fitfully in Irina’s bed, face crumpled and lips turned down. Irina leans over him and presses a single kiss to the crease between his eyebrows, and then leans back just enough to watch Ilya’s big, blue eyes blink open at her.

    She holds a finger against her lips, waiting until Ilya nods before she straightens up and beckons him to get out of bed. When Ilya is standing, Irina helps him into a clean sweater, his coat, scarf, and hat. Ilya looks terribly confused, but allows himself to be dressed like a toddler, watching his mother curiously but without question. He is twelve years old, certainly old enough to dress himself, and maybe Grigory has a point when he insists that Irina coddles Ilya too much, but, good heavens, that face, how could she not?

    It is not until Ilya notices the suitcase by the bedroom door that his expression changes. His eyes darken at first, and then his face screws up minutely, looking at Irina with thinly veiled horror.

    “Be completely silent, solnyshko,” Irina breathes. “We have to go.”

     

    Irina Rozanova chooses differently.

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    18 Jun 2026

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    Childhood love

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    Shane Hollander only meant to attend a few hockey games — a small act of rebellion against the boyfriend who controlled every part of his life. But that night changes everything. The arena becomes a refuge, Rose becomes a friend, and the Montreal Metros become the first place he’s felt safe in years.

    No one knows he’s living with domestic violence.
    No one knows he’s planning to run.
    No one knows how much he’s breaking.

    And no one expects him to fall for Ilya Rozanov — the loud, brilliant, closeted Russian winger recently traded under suspicious circumstances.

    Ilya has secrets he can’t share, a past he can’t escape, and feelings he doesn’t know how to handle.

    Shane is learning how to live again.
    Ilya is learning how to feel again.
    Both are learning how to trust.

    But when the truth about their pasts threatens to surface, they’ll have to decide whether they can face it together — or lose each other trying.

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    Or: A story about healing, found family, and the terrifying, beautiful risk of choosing love after surviving what was meant to break you.

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    30 May 2026

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    As the war goes on, Shane and Ilya continue meeting in secret, exchanging information. But tensions keep escalating, and both are forced into making impossible choices while trying to ignore what still lingers between them.

    When the war finally ends, Shane has to make the most difficult choice of all—let Ilya go, or risk everything to save him from his fate.

    (sequel to: we chase misprinted lies (we face the path of time))

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    19 May 2026

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    For centuries two souls have been reborn.

    Achilles always rises into greatness.
    Patroclus always stands beside him.

    And in every lifetime Patroclus dies for Achilles.

    In this life they are reborn again.

    Achilles remembers.

    Patroclus does not.

    So Achilles chooses the only thing he believes might change the ending.

    He refuses to let Patroclus love him.

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    10 May 2026

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    The first year of courting between vicious feral omega shane and obsessed infatuated alpha ilya.

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    27 Mar 2026