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Zosia never meant to fall for the woman behind her grandmother’s favorite romance novels.
Carol Sturka writes sweeping straight love stories and guards her private life carefully. But one late-night message turns curiosity into connection, and connection into something neither of them can ignore.One lives in New York. The other in Albuquerque.
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22 Mar 2026
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Blackwater, Maine does not ask questions.
Detective Carol Sturka chose it for that reason.
Zosia Borowska never needed to choose.
When men who threaten Carol begin to disappear, protection turns possessive, justice turns intimate, and love begins to look a lot like violence.
In Blackwater, someone is always watching.Bookmarked by cowboydan2004
22 Mar 2026
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Zosia wakes up--hands bound, World broken. Against all odds she gets her bearings. (What's a magnetic field to someone like her?) But once she does, the real trouble starts.
(Post-unjoining, Carol and Zosia grapple with the side effects of happiness, and with what they mean to each other amidst it all.)
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21 Mar 2026
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“I didn’t keep most of the memories. Other people’s memories. I get flashes of big things, births, deaths. Except about you.”
Carol feels the confusion slip onto her face. Nervousness creeps up her spine again. “Me?”
“I know everything that anybody has ever thought about you, Carol. Every memory. Every feeling. Helen. Your ex-girlfriends. Your dentist. It’s like I have a Carol encyclopedia in my head.”
Carol had thought that she was done experiencing fresh horrors. What a nightmare it is to realize that she is not. “Oh, god.” She says.
“Oh, god,” Zosia agrees.
After they manage to break Zosia free of the hive, Zosia and Carol try to navigate the field of landmines that is their relationship.
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04 Mar 2026
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Their furious first kiss becomes a five-minute bargain where Carol fools herself to believe that Zosia might still be her own person beneath the collective.
Missing scene filling the gap between their kiss and the morning after in S1E8 "Charm Offensive"
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25 Feb 2026