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  1. Public Bookmark 11

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    Gustave Lumière has spent six years surviving. The only thing he could do was take whatever engineering work he could find while trying to ignore the grief, poverty, and humiliation left behind by the railway accident that took his left arm.

    When he is hired to repair the aging Dessendre manor, he expects cold aristocrats. What he could not expect is Verso Dessendre.

    The middle child is curious, lonely and endlessly persistent. Verso is fascinated by both Gustave’s work and the man himself. When the distance between them shrinks, Gustave has no choice but to confront the possibility that he may deserve more than survival.

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    30 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 9

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    There is a new man in Verso’s life. One that has everyone suspicions up. Verso has always known how to endure. Pain, fear, hunger, and exhaustion none of it matters if he can keep moving, keep smiling, keep pretending he is fine. But Gustave sees the truth beneath every joke and every flinch, and he refuses to let Verso drown. Surrounded by people who care more than he knows what to do with, Verso must learn that survival is not the same as living, and being loved is not something he has to earn.

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    26 Jun 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 25

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    encordés (French, mountaineering, plural): roped together; tied to a partner on the same rope, so that if one of you falls, the other can hold the line.

    Gustave is an experienced climber. When a route in the French Alps goes wrong, he expects broken bones and weeks of gruesome recovery. What he does not expect is, instead, to fall, slowly and catastrophically, for the unfairly attractive mountain rescuer who keeps visiting his hospital room.

    But Verso carries his own scars, and Gustave has learned the hard way that being wanted means hiding the parts of himself that are broken, and that leaving first hurts less than being left behind.

    This is a story about concussed flirting, scars and second chances, about being seen completely — and two stubborn idiots learning that the rope works in both directions.

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    23 Jun 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 77

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    Gustave Écrivain is a Head Mechanic of the Jaeger program, creator of the Painted series of Jaegers, and a former Jaeger pilot cadet.

    Verso Dessendre is one of the pilots of Painted Cypher, one of the fastest and most lethal Jaegers in the world, and currently without a co-pilot.

    Both of them have their past, their baggage, and a hundred reasons that they should not work together as Jaeger pilots. Yet the second they step in a sparring ring together, it is obvious from that very first exchange - they are meant to be.

    Can they overcome their respective pasts, and all of the obstacles in the present - to end up together in the one place that matters.

    The Drift.

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    16 Jun 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 2

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    In the scorching summer heat, the aptly named disaster expedition seeks out a Gestral beach where they can relax.

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    16 Jun 2026