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  1. Public Bookmark 83

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    Gustave is a borrower. While searching for a new home with his kind, he is saved by a human, their greatest danger.
    It is there, within the walls of this immense manor they decided to move in, that an unlikely bond of trust is about to bloom.

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    30 Jun 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 32

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    Gustave Dessendre died in Paris in December 1905.

    But in Lumière, another Gustave opens his eyes and tries to fight back the erosion of his world. As time grows short, Verso waits across the ocean on the Continent - and makes his own plans for the destruction of his creator.

    Or: What if Gustave had been a Dessendre instead of Verso?

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    26 May 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 27

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    Over ten years after he burned his canvases at the top of the Beaux-Arts de Paris and very publicly went off the rails, Verso Dessendre returns home, a prodigal son trailing rumors of a deeply private family grief. In those same years, Gustave LeClair has built an academic career restoring the aging bridges over the Seine, helping them bear the weight of both history and the humdrum day-to-day. If only he could do the same for his personal life.
    They meet. The confusion is mutual.

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    26 Apr 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 28

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    The letter from the Lord of Varenne was rather curt.

    “I’d like to contract your services for the purpose of finding my son a wife. If the proposed terms are acceptable, respond accordingly.”

    Well. He could have slipped a please or maybe a thank you in there, but Ancel supposed the enclosed sum more than made up for it.

    (Or: Ancel helps Berenger find a wife)

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    21 Apr 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 45

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    “So we got an anonymous report, about some family in the 16ème. You never know, with those, it’s either someone’s ex-spouse wasting our time or the worst shit you ever saw.”

    Emma pours herself a glass and immediately takes a swig. Her face looks hollow in the dimming light of March.

    “It was the second one,” she continues, pressing hard fingers onto the bridge of her nose. “I get to this huge fucking manor, and this lady opens the door, looking down on me like I’m dirt on the bottom of her shoe, right? Refusing to let me in, telling me nothing in there is my business, the works. You know it’s bad when they won’t let you in.”

    In which Emma is a social worker, Gustave is a teacher and Alicia learns to live.

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    14 Apr 2026