13 Bookmarks by carpetfleabagger
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hold·ing pat·tern
- the flight path maintained by an aircraft awaiting permission to land.
- a state or period of no progress or change.You move back to your childhood home in Florida to care for your ailing mother, only to find the past waiting for you in every room. Your always kind older cousin Santiago refuses to let you disappear into the sadness, pulling you into his world without hesitation. But Santi's world involves Frankie Morales; your cousin's best friend and the boy who broke your heart decades earlier. Thrust into each other’s orbit again old memories make their way to the surface, blurring the line between hatred and desire. Because the boy you learned to despise is the man you can't seem to forget.
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08 Jun 2026
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After saving a little girl’s life, you’re thrust into her and her father’s small cabin oasis. She wants to be your friend. He wants nothing to do with you. Fighting for a better life, you’re forced to reconcile your differences, battling against a world wrought with monsters and raiders.
Because while they might not be family, they’re the only ones you’ve got.
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- 51/51
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07 Jun 2026
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Dr.Michael Robinovitch thinks he's losing his mind when his new social worker starts waking feelings in him he thought he could never have for a girl half his age. Immagine his surprise when he finds out his desiers are not only accepted, but greatly reciprocated, despite the unexperienced nature of his employee.
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- English
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- 43,863
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- 11/?
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10 Mar 2026
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You’re the security guard known for bullying Robby into eating lunch and stopping Myrna from escaping. You aren't the girl who gets the guy. But one debate about Market Garden changes the landscape. Suddenly, Jack is on your couch and arguing about D-Day.It’s all platonic until the "Cabal" gets involved. Dana knows too much, Samira is planning the wedding, and poor Whitaker is begging to be excluded. But when Jack stumbles upon your secret plan to become a single mother via a sperm donor
"So" You swallowed hard."You want to be my donor?"
Jack’s face scrunching up, as if he had just stepped in something disgusting."I didn't say 'donor.'"
“Yes, you did!”
"I meant the father," Jack grumbled, dragging a hand through his curls. "And I certainly didn't mean I want to go into a sterile little room with a plastic cup and a sticky copy of a magazine from 1998 while a nurse scowls at me."
Your brain screeched to a halt."Wait," you whispered, the realization hitting you."You mean..."
"I mean the traditional way," Jack said, his voice rough, his gaze dropping to your lips for a fraction of a second before snapping back to your eyes. "No cups. No doctors. Just... us.”
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16 Feb 2026
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At sixteen, angry and rebellious, you join a religious group in Utah, seduced by the words of charismatic preacher, Pastor David.
Ten years on and your compound in Texas is raided by the police amidst allegations of abuse, and you and your daughters - Ellie and Abby - are forced back into the world you left behind. Your only lifeline is Joel Miller, your mom's friend from college, and his daughter, Sarah. Moving onto his ranch, what starts as friendly support becomes something more. In Joel you find the one thing you didn't know you were craving - love without conditions.
But the father of your children is never far away, and he wants his girls back.
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- Part 1 of Angels and Demons
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- English
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- 205,522
- Chapters:
- 42/42
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10 Dec 2025
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terms & conditions by followyourfleart
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 Jul 2026
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When your high-powered marketing career goes up in flames, you find yourself back in Texas and out of options—until your old childhood best friend Tommy Miller offers you a job at his family’s growing construction company. The only catch? His older brother Joel, the project manager with a chip on his shoulder and zero patience for your city-slicker attitude.
You clash instantly: you’re clever, confident, and painfully corporate. He’s quiet, rugged, and set in his ways. You push his buttons. He pushes back harder. But somewhere between long meetings, late nights, resurfacing memories, hurt, along with one very unexpected work trip… the tension starts to shift.
What begins as bickering turns into banter. Glances linger. Walls crack. And neither of you is quite sure when things started to change.
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- Part 1 of terms & conditions collection
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- English
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- 752,712
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- 46/51
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02 Dec 2025
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Leaving Florida behind was supposed to be simple. Starting over never is. Between hurricane season, nosy neighbors, and a certain quiet contractor with a knack for showing up when she needs him most, she might just find more than she bargained for — friendship, love, and a family she never expected.What begins as survival, boarding windows, sharing bourbon, waiting out storms, slowly turns into something warmer. Along the way, she’ll face trust issues, unexpected friendships, and the terrifying possibility of letting herself belong somewhere again.
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28 Nov 2025
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Saddles, Sunsets and Second Thoughts by reedispunk
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
31 May 2026
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After your fiancé takes a job at Miller Ranch, adjusting to your new life there becomes so much harder when you meet his boss.
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28 Nov 2025
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All the Ways We Leave by DogsCantDrive
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
05 Feb 2026
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You came to Jackson five years ago, and since then you’ve built something that almost feels like a life. Steady work at the clinic, a roof over your head, the closest thing to safety you’ve known since the world fell apart. It isn’t perfect, but it’s yours.
Then you’re thrown onto patrol, partnered with Tommy’s brooding older brother, Joel Miller — and everything starts to unravel.
He’s moody, stubborn, infuriatingly bossy. He gets under your skin with every order he barks, with every look he gives you like he knows better. He’s also the one man you can’t stop thinking about, no matter how many times he’s made it clear he wants nothing to do with you.
But the longer you’re out there together, the harder it gets to ignore the pull between you. Banter turns to touches, touches to something you swore you wouldn’t want. And as the line between friends and something more begins to blur, you’ll have to decide just how much you’re willing to risk.
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26 Nov 2025
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The Princess Diaries by danny_the_coolest
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), The Princess Diaries (Movies)
16 Aug 2025
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Dearest Gentle reader, as another season starts so do the surprises. It has been said that we are to welcome the Queen and King of Genovia for the first half of this season, and not only that but to witness the very first public appearance of their eldest, Princess Y/N Devereaux.
I'm sure the Queen will want us to be the most gracious hosts, even if this family of royals have a reputation for enjoying scandal.
Isn't it exciting when life becomes a fairytale of sorts?(Bridgerton x Princess Diaries crossover)
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25 Jun 2025
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You and Joel are the most competitive parents in your daughters’ soccer league. As it turns out, it’s not so easy being enemies when your daughters become best friends.
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- Part 1 of Soccer Parents AU
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26 Mar 2025
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The Fisherman's Wife by joelmama
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
13 May 2023
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The free-spirited Reader is arranged to marry a divorced Fisherman named Joel Miller. And although she protested this at first, she soon wonders if maybe she could be happy with her new husband.
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21 Mar 2025
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Contrary to what everyone in the ton claimed, marriage was an ugly game and love was a fool’s deception used as a cover to hide that truth.
You could see it very clearly, even when those around you could not.
In your opinion, anyone who believed in the existence of love was either naïve or pitiful and you were neither of those. If this was indeed a game, you were going to win it, regardless of how many feelings were hurt in the process.
People called it heartless. You called it smart.
Love was a plague on people’s hearts, a lie at best and a trap at worst, and you were determined not to let it catch you off guard ever. Even the night before your debut to the society, you laid in bed wide awake, repeating your plan in your head over and over again until the shadows of the night were chased away by the first rays of the sunlight.
But the ironic thing about that perfect plan of yours?
Life had a different one in the works.
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03 Dec 2024