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A week after the storm that destroyed Arcadia Bay, Max Caulfield finds herself stranded in a timeline where she lost her best friend and her rewind power. Recognizing Max’s declining mental health, Kate Marsh comes in to save the broken photographer and help her find a new sense of self. However, as their relationship blossoms, Kate's own issues start to flare up and Max finds herself in a romance that's more complicated than she could have ever anticipated.
This story is about Max discovering who she is in a post-storm Arcadia Bay while she explores the entanglement of her trauma, mental health, insecurity, and intimacy.
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To Rachel, guys are easy. So when she spots Caleb Price at a party and draws him in, she has a pretty good idea of how things should go. Even if he's not around much and isn't the most talkative guy, she likes him, and she's got a plan to get him for herself. It should be simple.
But there's nothing simple about Caleb, and the mess underneath his skull is one he keeps right there, under lock and key. Until Rachel's actions bring everything to the surface, and his life falls to pieces.
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08 Jan 2026
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Christmas break was supposed to be a time for prayer and family for Kate Marsh, but a rushed mistake at the Blackwell library changes everything. Anxious to head home and pressured by her mother’s relentless texting, Kate grabs a book at random from Max to read over the holidays—a pact made with her best friend to stay connected while they are apart.
However, what she finds between the covers is neither classic literature nor spiritual guidance. To her horror (and secret fascination), Kate finds herself in possession of a lesbian erotica novel centered on a ruthless heartbreaker. As the nights go by, Kate's evening prayers are slowly replaced by the feverish reading of forbidden chapters.
The real problem? The book’s protagonist is the spitting image of Rachel Amber.
Struggling with Christian guilt and awakenings she never allowed herself to feel, Kate begins to experience visions so vivid that the line between fiction and reality starts to dissolve. When the holidays end and she finally crosses paths with the real Rachel—who happens to be the best friend of her own best friend’s girlfriend—Kate realizes that what happened over the break was only the beginning of a much more dangerous obsession.
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06 Jan 2026
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Kate Marsh: dutiful daughter, exemplary member of the Church. In a world of judgment, fear, and strictures, that's who she's allowed to be. Only one night a year does she allow a glimpse of her real self.
That changes when she attends Blackwell. Away from the people that would judge, constrain, and condemn her, she decides for the first time in her life to embrace who she is. Life will never be the same.
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25 Jun 2025
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Endlessly repeating the same week over and over to try and achieve the perfect future, Max has given up hope of escaping from the destructive cycle she is stuck in, slowly sinking into the depths of despair as everything falls apart for her.
This is until a chance decision by Victoria unexpectedly changes everything, and an entirely new timeline is begun which alters the fate of both them, and ultimately, the future of the world.
Russian translation by karmic_storm available here: https://ficbook.net/readfic/12477052
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- Part 1 of Butterflies
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23 Jun 2025
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At eighteen, Max has never been kissed, even though there are a lot of people she wouldn't mind kissing - more or less every girl in her dorm at Blackwell, in fact. Getting the chance to do so would require some kind of magic spell or something, though, probably. And what are the odds of that?
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11 Jun 2025