6 Works in Declan Rourke
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Waiting For Sunrise by starsandspells
Fandoms: The Books of Beginning Series - John Stephens
06 Sep 2025
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The year is 1899, and siblings Kate, Michael, and Emma have just been thrown out of their latest orphanage by the cruel Mrs. Crumley. The trio haven't seen their parents in over ten years, despite promises of reuniting, and have been left alone in an unforgiving world, not least because they are magic users in a time when hatred towards their kind is on the rise.
In search of safety - and, perhaps, help finding their lost family - the three make their way to New York, a place with a strong magical population. It's there they meet the Savages, a gang of fellow magicians, kids who live in an abandoned church and make their living as thieves. The children, their protector, the capable witch Henrietta Burke, and the gang's leader, a fierce young sorcerer named Rafe, welcome the siblings, and within the shelter and camaraderie that they offer, Kate, Michael, and Emma finally find a place to call home.
Yet even as they embrace life within the city that never sleeps, there are still challenges awaiting the siblings, from the enduring mystery of their long ago abandonment, to ever-present social inequities bearing down, to a shadowy, powerful force threatening those the children hold dearest, and the whole world.
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In The Woods Somewhere by starsandspells
Fandoms: The Books of Beginning Series - John Stephens
29 Oct 2024
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Cambridge Falls is no stranger to the unnerving. For over a century, people have gone missing, and the townsfolk know who to blame. The Dire Magnus, they call him, a sorcerer who rules an enchanted forest, one that's a dark mirror of the woods surrounding their home. He snatches away residents without warning, and now his terrible shadow has fallen upon the Wibberlys.
Kate, Michael, and Emma have had a hard life. When they were small, their parents left one day and never returned. Put in the care of their godfather, Gabriel, who moved them to his hometown, the trio has spent years relying only on each other, and their steadfast guardian, all while wondering what happened to their parents. Little do they know their troubles have just begun. After a late night escapade, Michael and Emma become the latest missing locals. The Dire Magnus has taken them to his realm, from which none have ever returned. But Kate and Gabriel will not accept that they are truly gone.
Setting out on a rescue mission, the pair venture into the dark, magical domain the town has long feared. No matter what surprises await, they're determined to save their family. Even if, to do so, Kate will have to bargain with the Dire Magnus himself.
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Dancing With The Devil by starsandspells
Fandoms: The Books of Beginning Series - John Stephens
13 Jul 2023
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Kate Wibberly wakes up in a new world, and finds the last person she wants to see there to welcome her to it.
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- Part 14 of the books of beginning oneshots
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Conversing With Darkness by starsandspells
Fandoms: The Books of Beginning Series - John Stephens
13 Jul 2023
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During her captivity, Emma is brought to speak with the Dire Magnus. Their discussion reveals shocking new information about her enemy, as well as her very own older sister.
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- Part 10 of the books of beginning oneshots
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Rafe couldn't bare to spend one more minute holed up in the mansion. He had spent the better part of eleven months shoved inside there, first adjusting to his new role, and then studying magic, and the books of beginning, non stop, while ordering the monsters at his command to handle other things. But while the mansion held secrets to power, it was also a constant reminder. Rafe had spent eleven months there and still had not re-entered the ballroom. He couldn't, not when she had been in his arms, bleeding out, slipping from life.
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Snippets of Rafe's century spent as the Dire Magnus.
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- Part 8 of the books of beginning oneshots
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The year is dying in the night by adranysa
Fandoms: The Books of Beginning Series - John Stephens
04 Jun 2023
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It's New Year's Eve, and six-year-old Rafe is counting down the minutes.
Or, a retelling of some of Rafe's backstory.