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  1. Rec 3

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    Gotham, 1945. An ex-soldier who keeps the peace in a great house now instead of on a battlefield. A surgeon whose name is a cage. A botanist who answers to no one. Achingly formal in public, they keep to their stations until every door is closed and all the other staff are long abed — because what happens in the east wing of Wayne Manor stays in the east wing.

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    19 Jun 2026

  2. Rec *

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    In an impulse decision, Dutch decides to sacrifice himself to Agent Milton in order to save Hosea. Now fully in charge of the Van der Linde gang, Hosea does everything in his power to get his family out of this wretched life and race against the clock ticking down to their destruction.

    And then, Arthur starts coughing blood.

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    02 Mar 2026

  3. Rec 28

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    Aldo is looking down at him, his eyes both kind and sad.

    “Acceptasne electionem de te canonice factam in Summum Pontificem?” he asks.

    What can Thomas reply? He closes his eyes and pretends he doesn’t feel the moisture gathering there. “Accepto,” he says, his voice raspy and not steady enough. He has to push the words through; it hurts. Forgive me, he thinks. Forgive me, he prays.

    “Quo nomine vis vocari?”

    His eyes overflow; a tear, two, five flow down. He bites his cheek and wills them to stop. “Ioannes.”

    A heavy hand lands on his shoulder, shakes him and steadies him in the same choked breath. “A good name, Tommaso. A good name.” Tedesco’s voice is gruff, hoarse from the decades of smoking and vaping. And almost a month of grief, too.

    None of this should be happening.

    Innocent’s, Vincent’s papacy was everything Thomas had prayed for and more. In ten years, he changed so many things, and he had planned to change so many more for the next decade.

    He never had the chance.


    A tale of two papacies, and one love story.

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    21 Feb 2026

  4. Rec 22

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    Thomas Lawrence wakes up on the 24th of August. He joins the other Cardinals in the Sistine Chapel. He is caught in an explosion. He listens to Tedesco rant and Benitez preach. The new Pope is decided. He stands in the hallway outside the balcony where Pope Innocent XIV gives his first speech to millions. He goes to bed.
    And then he does it all over again.
    And all over again–
    And over–
    And–

     

    Thomas is stuck in a time loop of the last day of the conclave.

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    19 Oct 2025

  5. Rec 16

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    MI6 is full of survivors. The new M, Gareth Mallory, should fit right in.

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    08 Jul 2025