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  1. Rec 69

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    Mary and Tom's wedding night. Both are virgins. Mary is thrilled, terrified, and determined to do it right. Tom is delighted by Mary's Mary-ness and cannot wait to bed his wife. Much awkwardness, tenderness, and eventual steaminess ensues.

    AKA I refuse to believe Mary and Tom are naturals at sex but by God they get there eventually.

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    15 Jun 2026

  2. Rec 7

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    Sherlock and James are touring Europe together after faking their deaths at Reichenbach Falls, enjoying sightseeing by day and having all the sex by night, when a chance encounter with Sherlock’s sister shatters their happiness. She has a case for them to solve together which brings up uncomfortable truths from the past.

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    08 Jun 2026

  3. Rec 23

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    A night of passion in Constantinople leads to angst and misunderstandings for James and Sherlock. Is this the end of their friendship or the start of something beautiful?

    They agree that Appleton Manor will be subject to a truce and out of bounds for their Great Game, and so the story tracks their trysts there over the years as their relationship develops and goes through twists and turns. Appleton becomes their haven, the only place they can truly express their feelings.

    But in order to win the Game, one of them must kill the other.
    Can they somehow find their way to a happy ending or will it all end at Reichenbach Falls?

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    08 Jun 2026

  4. Rec 73

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    When Sherlock, Mycroft, and Cordelia leave Constantinople after Silas’s death, James and Beatrice are not on the train with them. Hurt and angry, Sherlock doesn’t understand why James would abandon him.

    Six months later, James Moriarty turns up on the doorstep of Appleton Manor. Although Sherlock can’t easily forgive his friend, following the trail of bees, books, and a mysterious key Silas has left him does much to reknit their relationship.

    As they chase an increasingly unsettling lead from Oxford to Vienna, Sherlock and James grow ever closer and it becomes harder and harder to deny their desire for each other…

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    Six months. Yes, it had been a long time, given how inseparable they had become prior to Constantinople. But it had also been the very first thing Sherlock had thrown at him. Not Where is Beatrice? What have you done to her? Where have you been?
    But: You’ve been gone for so long.

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    05 Jun 2026

  5. Rec *

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    Amidst the clink of fine china and his father’s soaring praises, Sherlock Holmes is drowning in a velvet haze of Bordeaux and a truth he isn’t ready to voice.

    James is having the time of his life, and the evening is just getting started.

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    04 Jun 2026