SensualRead Medium Stella can see the dead — it’s her job. But the Victorian ghost who has been following her for a full lunar cycle isn’t a client. He’s a murdered writer who has been invisible for over a century, and he’s chosen her because she is the first person to see him in a hundred and thirty-three years of loneliness.
10 min readAcademy student Thea makes a chalk error in her summoning circle and accidentally calls forth a Duke of Hell instead of a minor imp. The ancient demon offers a bargain: seven days of mortal experience in exchange for perfect practicum marks. But when an immortal being discovers coffee, rain, and Barber’s Adagio, going back to Hell becomes unthinkable.
8 min readWildlife veterinarian Elise finds a wounded phoenix in her rehabilitation centre — a firebird whose regeneration has been disrupted by a magical poacher. As she heals him the old-fashioned way, the ancient being who has maintained the planet’s thermal balance for four billion years discovers something he never expected: a reason to stay on the ground.
9 min readOn her thirtieth birthday, Vera’s family curse activates: a blood bond tethering her soul to a stranger’s. She has three blood moons to find them or die. The bond leads her to Prague, to a supernatural researcher who has been studying curses like hers from a safe academic distance — and who is now, to his scholarly horror, living inside one.
10 min readWitch Rowan has waited seven years for her familiar. When a massive black cat finally arrives, he immediately starts playing matchmaker — kidnapping a handsome veterinarian and depositing him on her doorstep. The cat, it turns out, has identified something Rowan missed: Dev has dormant healing magic, and the universe has decided they belong together.
8 min readReaper Iris arrives at a hospital room to collect a dying music teacher’s soul. Instead, she finds a man who can see her, who wants to grade compositions together, and whose soul is singing a love song so beautiful it refuses to detach. What follows is the most unprecedented case in the history of the afterlife department.
9 min readLondon, 1814. The widowed Duchess of Ravensmere is not mourning — she is hunting the man who killed her husband. When spymaster Lord Blackwood discovers her one-woman investigation, he offers a partnership: his resources for her access. What neither expects is that working together will prove far more dangerous to their hearts than to the enemy.
10 min readConstantinople, 1203. A Byzantine scholar and a Damascus merchant begin exchanging letters about astronomy. Over two years and forty-seven letters, their correspondence grows from intellectual curiosity into the most honest relationship either has known — until the Fourth Crusade arrives, and ink on paper must become a real goodbye or a real beginning.
8 min readRenaissance Florence, 1497. With Savonarola burning art across the city, painter Marco needs a model for a dangerous commission. The widow who appears at his studio at midnight is not interested in being Venus — she wants to be herself. The painting that emerges will change both their lives and challenge everything the city believes about beauty.
8 min readScotland, 1746. After Culloden, a wounded Jacobite captain collapses at the garden gate of an English surgeon’s daughter. Eleanor risks everything to hide him in the cellar, and over four weeks of whispered conversation in candlelight, two people on opposite sides of a war discover that the space between enemies can become the only place that feels like home.
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