9 Bookmarks by carpetfleabagger
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At sixteen, angry and rebellious, you join a religious group in Utah, seduced by the words of charismatic preacher, Pastor David.
Ten years on and your compound in Texas is raided by the police amidst allegations of abuse, and you and your daughters - Ellie and Abby - are forced back into the world you left behind. Your only lifeline is Joel Miller, your mom's friend from college, and his daughter, Sarah. Moving onto his ranch, what starts as friendly support becomes something more. In Joel you find the one thing you didn't know you were craving - love without conditions.
But the father of your children is never far away, and he wants his girls back.
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10 Dec 2025
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terms & conditions by followyourfleart
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
25 Jan 2026
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When your high-powered marketing career goes up in flames, you find yourself back in Texas and out of options—until your old childhood best friend Tommy Miller offers you a job at his family’s growing construction company. The only catch? His older brother Joel, the project manager with a chip on his shoulder and zero patience for your city-slicker attitude.
You clash instantly: you’re clever, confident, and painfully corporate. He’s quiet, rugged, and set in his ways. You push his buttons. He pushes back harder. But somewhere between long meetings, late nights, resurfacing memories, hurt, along with one very unexpected work trip… the tension starts to shift.
What begins as bickering turns into banter. Glances linger. Walls crack. And neither of you is quite sure when things started to change.
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- Part 1 of terms & conditions collection
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02 Dec 2025
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Leaving Florida behind was supposed to be simple. Starting over never is. Between hurricane season, nosy neighbors, and a certain quiet contractor with a knack for showing up when she needs him most, she might just find more than she bargained for — friendship, love, and a family she never expected.What begins as survival, boarding windows, sharing bourbon, waiting out storms, slowly turns into something warmer. Along the way, she’ll face trust issues, unexpected friendships, and the terrifying possibility of letting herself belong somewhere again.
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28 Nov 2025
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Saddles, Sunsets and Second Thoughts by reedispunk
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
11 Jan 2026
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After your fiancé takes a job at Miller Ranch, adjusting to your new life there becomes so much harder when you meet his boss.
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28 Nov 2025
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All the Ways We Leave by DogsCantDrive
Fandoms: The Last of Us (Video Games), The Last of Us (TV)
27 Jan 2026
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You came to Jackson five years ago, and since then you’ve built something that almost feels like a life. Steady work at the clinic, a roof over your head, the closest thing to safety you’ve known since the world fell apart. It isn’t perfect, but it’s yours.
Then you’re thrown onto patrol, partnered with Tommy’s brooding older brother, Joel Miller — and everything starts to unravel.
He’s moody, stubborn, infuriatingly bossy. He gets under your skin with every order he barks, with every look he gives you like he knows better. He’s also the one man you can’t stop thinking about, no matter how many times he’s made it clear he wants nothing to do with you.
But the longer you’re out there together, the harder it gets to ignore the pull between you. Banter turns to touches, touches to something you swore you wouldn’t want. And as the line between friends and something more begins to blur, you’ll have to decide just how much you’re willing to risk.
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26 Nov 2025
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The Princess Diaries by danny_the_coolest
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), The Princess Diaries (Movies)
16 Aug 2025
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Dearest Gentle reader, as another season starts so do the surprises. It has been said that we are to welcome the Queen and King of Genovia for the first half of this season, and not only that but to witness the very first public appearance of their eldest, Princess Y/N Devereaux.
I'm sure the Queen will want us to be the most gracious hosts, even if this family of royals have a reputation for enjoying scandal.
Isn't it exciting when life becomes a fairytale of sorts?(Bridgerton x Princess Diaries crossover)
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25 Jun 2025
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You and Joel are the most competitive parents in your daughters’ soccer league. As it turns out, it’s not so easy being enemies when your daughters become best friends.
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- Part 1 of Soccer Parents AU
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26 Mar 2025
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The Fisherman's Wife by joelmama
Fandoms: The Last of Us (TV), The Last of Us (Video Games)
13 May 2023
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The free-spirited Reader is arranged to marry a divorced Fisherman named Joel Miller. And although she protested this at first, she soon wonders if maybe she could be happy with her new husband.
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21 Mar 2025
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Contrary to what everyone in the ton claimed, marriage was an ugly game and love was a fool’s deception used as a cover to hide that truth.
You could see it very clearly, even when those around you could not.
In your opinion, anyone who believed in the existence of love was either naïve or pitiful and you were neither of those. If this was indeed a game, you were going to win it, regardless of how many feelings were hurt in the process.
People called it heartless. You called it smart.
Love was a plague on people’s hearts, a lie at best and a trap at worst, and you were determined not to let it catch you off guard ever. Even the night before your debut to the society, you laid in bed wide awake, repeating your plan in your head over and over again until the shadows of the night were chased away by the first rays of the sunlight.
But the ironic thing about that perfect plan of yours?
Life had a different one in the works.
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03 Dec 2024