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Fandoms: Frederica - Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch - Georgette Heyer, Sylvester or the Wicked Uncle - Georgette Heyer, The Reluctant Widow - Georgette Heyer, HEYER Georgette - Works
05 Jul 2026
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Time: now.
A year or so after their wedding, Frederica asks Alverstoke for assistance at a Managing Beautifully Ltd book launch for Phoebe Marlow's new romantasy book. It's more complicated than she knows -- but with the help of noted fixer Francis Cheviot, the company spouses will also manage beautifully.
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- Part 3 of Modern Frederica
- Language:
- English
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- 2,011
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 7
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The only thing worse than coming back from sabbatical, Dr. Natasha Trace discovers, is coming back from sabbatical and finding Dr. Jake Seresin in the same welcome-back faculty meeting hell.
She can't keep running this time.
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A year after El Reno, Tyler gives up hope of Kate ever loving him. But he shouldn't.
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Tyler's fine with Kate being the professional star in their relationship, which, according to Jace who does their premarital counseling, makes him a unicorn.
Unfortunately, Kate's not so fine when the dynamic shifts.
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- Part 2 of Relationship Goals
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In premarital counseling, Kate and Tyler get three little words. They come in handy in all sorts of situations.
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- Part 1 of Relationship Goals
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For some men, a midlife crisis involves buying a sportscar and banging a twenty-something. For Dexter James, it involves running away to join the Tornado Wranglers.
(Because the older characters in Twisters deserve a little love -- but there's Tyler/Kate too.)
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It's a meteorology conference when Kate learns more about something in Tyler's past and someone who hurt him.
She believes in revenge. This isn't over.
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On a cold November night, Kate finds one of Tyler's triggers. He has to get through it.
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A vignette in the life of the Carter-Owens household:
As he pads away, she looks at the outside of her notebook. Data-gathering, it says.
The data she’s gathering is the mystery of Tyler and his fear, disdain, downright avoidance of clothes when they’re tucked in at home.
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Sometimes there are dangerous places where the worlds get too close together, places to avoid during a storm.
This is what happens when Tyler Owens gets too close to a dangerous place.
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Discreet, adj. Careful and prudent in one's speech or actions, especially as to avoid giving offence or attracting attention. (Oxford English Dictionary)
Kate and Tyler don't know the meaning of this word.
Or, five times Kate and Tyler are indiscreet about their relationship. There is no time when they behave themselves.
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A few years after "Best Moves," Ben reconnects with Kate, Tyler, and the extended family.
This is the last of the "Best Days and Best Laid Plans" series.
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- Part 5 of Best Days and Best Laid Plans
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Everyone's conspiring against Tyler for his and their own good.
Also, there's a dog.
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- Part 4 of Best Days and Best Laid Plans
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It's time for Kate to defend her dissertation, but May is a terrible time to schedule that when her fiance is a tornado chaser.
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- Part 3 of Best Days and Best Laid Plans
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A storm's coming. It's showing Kate and Tyler what matters.
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- Part 2 of Best Days and Best Laid Plans
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When Kate comes back from New York City, she has a new job at the Storm Prediction Center in Norman: modeling, yes, working at a desk, yes, but with space on a National Weather Service field team testing some new theories. She moves into an apartment. She buys a king-size bed.
Sometimes she will have an overnight guest from Arkansas, after all.
Sometimes becomes a whole lot of the time.
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- Part 1 of Best Days and Best Laid Plans
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"Sliver of ice. Graham Greene was right, at least in your case."
"I beg your pardon?"
"The sliver of ice in the heart of an artist. He wrote about it in himself, a few years ago, in an essay." Blanche's eyes sharpen still further. "It keeps an artist detached enough to notice and to use what he sees. But I do suspect, Adam dear, that it's not much use in love."
Adam Dalgliesh has to ask himself some hard questions before he and Kate Miskin take the next step in their romantic relationship.
Canon-compliant through Series Two "The Murder Room," but diverging after that.
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After Kate Miskin transfers to the City of London force, she's free to date Adam Dalgliesh. Or she would be if their schedules would cooperate.
[This diverges from TV-show canon after "The Murder Room," the last episodes of Series 2.]
Song mentioned: "I didn't know about you," by Duke Ellington.
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Canon-compliant through the end of Series 2 Episode 6 "The Murder Room.," diverging thereafter.
Kate Miskin can only pine for her boss Adam Dalgliesh so long. She's waiting for a sign.
Title from Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders' "Game of Love."
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On the evening of 6 July, 2022, Finn Kirkwood and Liz Garvey celebrate a job well done, amidst a political disaster that for once they didn't have to spin.
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- Part 4 of Political Disasters