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    A movie night between Claire and Jill escalates.

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    16 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 76

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    It begins, as most things do, rather innocuously. With a phone call.

    A phone call that shocks Francesca from her deep sleep, blinking confused and discombobulated in the dark.

    She registers her phone ringing on her nightstand with a jolt, and crawls out of the warm nest of blankets, flinging an arm over and answering without even glancing at the caller ID. Her voice is hoarse, brimming over with sleep as she clears her throat and mutters, “Hello?”

    “Frannie,” Michaela breathes on the other end.

    All of a sudden Francesca’s wide awake.

     

    Or: Michaela’s apartment floods. She moves in with Francesca until it gets fixed. And that should’ve been fine, right? But Francesca’s used to her simple, quiet routine -– bookstore job, piano on the weekends -– and, well, there’s nothing less routine, less controllable, than Michaela. Except maybe the feelings Michaela stirs up within her.

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    12 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 37

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    Francesca is ready for a relaxing summer vacation at Aubrey Hall, but when Eloise invites a friend, it royally screws up Francesca’s plans.

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    07 Jun 2026

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    Francesca plays live piano for a fancy restaurant, which so happens to be the place Michaela decides to bring all her first dates.

    Francesca, of course, is very normal about this.

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    06 Jun 2026

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    The balcony is empty. The air is thick with summer heat.

    Michaela steps closer than she should. Francesca's legs part, almost reflexively, for her husband’s cousin. Michaela slips between them and rests her hands on Francesca's thighs.

    She leans in. Francesca can smell the limoncello on her breath. Her nose brushes Francesca's cheek.

    "Tell me it's killing you like it's killing me," Michaela whispers against her skin.

    Francesca trembles. Her need pulses in her chest, her stomach, lower still.

    "Please, Fran."

    "We can't."

    "I know. I know."

    -OR-

    Francesca Stirling is a high-powered Manhattan attorney on her eighth round of IVF. Her husband's cousin, Michaela, arrives for the summer and immediately upends Francesca's routines. When her husband leaves for a work trip to London, Francesca is forced to reckon with the woman she has spent years refusing to look at — and with the question of whether she can finally become herself without breaking the man who loves her.

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    06 Jun 2026