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Ava never thought happiness or this idea of 'happily ever after' could ever exist for her as she lay alone staring at the ceiling trapped in her bed back at the orphanage all those years ago, but it did. And she had finally found it only for it to be ripped away from her far too quickly. Because the world was unfair and cruel but Ava didn’t care how bad the world was if it meant she got to have Bea by her side to face it with her.
Which is why it hurt so much coming back after years had been lost only to be told the person who she loved most in this world couldn’t bear to love her anymore, to remember her anymore. That the sheer memory of her was enough to leave Bea shattered into broken pieces she couldn’t manage to glue back together again on her own.
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind AU
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20 Mar 2026
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Ava Silva, the Captain of the Thorn, has evaded the Royal Navy since 1747. When naval officer Beatrice goes yet another on a mission to find her rival, she might find an even bigger enemy waiting for her. Can Ava and Beatrice put their differences aside and fight for the greater good? Or will they both end up as two more unnamed skeletons at the bottom of the ocean?
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- Part 1 of Hoist the Colours
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19 Mar 2026
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All Ava wanted was to survive. All Beatrice wanted was to disappear. But fate has other plans – involving assassins, hidden agendas, and feelings neither of them are ready to admit.
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18 Mar 2026
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“Hello, Mrs. Silva. I’m Beatrice Young.” The woman reaches her hand out for a handshake. She has a posh accent, which Ava unfortunately finds very attractive. “At last we meet.”
Oh. Ava blinks a couple of times. Beatrice Young, teacher of Year 3 A, had been e-mailing her for a few days, asking her for her lesson plans so they can synchronize their classes. From the e-mails, with their serious and professional tone, and her lesson plans, extremely meticulous and standardized, Ava could not have imagined that…
Beatrice is very hot.
“It’s Miss Silva.” Ava corrects, cringing a bit. This will be a correction she will have to make multiple times, she sees. “You can call me Ava, though.”OR: After a personal loss and a messy divorce, Ava Silva returns to teaching Year 3 at Sacred Heart of Mary Primary School, where she is excited to use her chaotic and revolutionary methods. Beatrice Young, her more traditional counterpart, only sees it as irresponsibility. When a (surprisingly fun) rivalry over class averages ignites between them, sparks fly (and not just the competitive type).
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01 Mar 2026
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When her best friend at the orphanage gets sick with Mountain Fever, Ava has no other option than to become an outlaw to get him enough money for a doctor. She braves out of her small Kansas town in the Wild West into her new life of crime and ends up accidentally kidnapping U.S Marshall Beatrice Young, leading to a long and harrowing journey through Kansas as Ava tries to ignore how pretty the Marshall is and get to Dodge City. Of course, nothing ever goes to plan.
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09 Feb 2026