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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    It’s a miracle, really. Not just that the Joining was reversed, but that there were little to no lingering side-effects after the year that to most just felt like a strange dream. No brain damage. No societal collapse. No mass trauma. It’s only been eight months, and the world is already back to some semblance of normal.

    And don’t worry, Carol. The United States government will take excellent care of the botched science experiment we found living in your basement.

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    23 Mar 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 11

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    Zosia Zulawski, a Polish art restorer with crippling anxiety, arrives at an isolated Yorkshire village to uncover a medieval mural hidden beneath centuries of whitewash.

    Carol Sturka, an American archaeologist based in England, is digging up the grounds beside the same church, looking for a grave that may or may not exist.

    Two women used to uncovering what time buried.

    The mural reveals itself slowly. The excavation deepens its meaning. And something between them begins to surface.

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    15 Mar 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 84

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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.
    And falling in love might cost more than just the distance between them.

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    14 Mar 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 21

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    “No shit. Not sure I wanna wear a stranger’s panties, though.”

    “Your loss. I’ll even let you keep them. Call it a souvenir from your first night in London.”

    OR: 33-year-old Carol Sturka goes to a writer's networking event in the hopes of bagging herself a book deal, and, instead, finds a charming Polish model.

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    14 Mar 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 91

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    "Carol knows in her heart that she shouldn’t pour herself another drink. The glass is sticky enough to remind her that she’s spilled the amber liquid over her own hands at least three times, and she’s licked them clean as if wasting a single drop of her favourite poison were a crime. If anyone could see her now, they would deem her pathetic, disgusting, hopeless. The fact that she can still feel the stinging shame of knowing that she’s exactly all those things makes her realize that she’s not drunk enough."
    [...]
    “You’re Carol, right? I’m Zosia. I hear you’ve had quite a day.”
    Carol scoffs, trying to conceal the cracks in her voice.
    “And it’s not even noon yet.”

     

    or

    the one where Carol struggles through loss, grief, addiction and trauma, doesn't ask for help, but gets it anyways.

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    08 Mar 2026