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Tim Bradford is a US Marshal and Lucy Chen is under his care as part of the Witness Protection Program. Of course he feels protective of her; that's his job. But the longer he has to the protect her, the less he can keep pretending that's all that's going on. And when everything goes wrong, how far out of his comfort zone is Tim willing to go just to make sure Lucy stays safe?
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18 Jul 2026
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Genny and Tim Bradford spent their entire childhoods living next door to Lucy Chen. As neighbors and best friends, they grew and changed together. However, there was one constant despite all the change: no matter how much time had past, or how different their lives had become, or even how much Lucy tried to fight it, she had feelings for Tim, and through the years, those feelings grew from a little crush to overwhelming love.
Title is lyrics from “Smash Into You” by Beyoncé.
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09 Jul 2026
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Lucy Chen has no idea how touch-starved she really is, not until a certain TO enters her life and cracks through her defenses.
She keeps the world at arm's length because after a million foster homes, a stint in the military, and more death than any child should ever have to witness, the best option to keep herself safe is to shut down her emotions.
If only Tim Bradford would let her stay that way.
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31 May 2026
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The last place Tim Bradford expects to find his soulmate is sitting in the shop beside him.
On her first day as his rookie.
Or: Lucy and Tim are rookie and TO who happen to sometimes understand each other in metaphysical ways. It's completely fine. Tim thinks it's fine, and he knows that Lucy thinks it's fine, too, thanks to the aforementioned metaphysical understanding. And if they're hyperconscious of not brushing up against each other by accident, well--Tim thinks that might be the only thing maintaining the illusion that Lucy is nothing more than a rookie he thinks about a little too often.
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27 May 2026
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Eight seconds is all it takes to win.
Lucy, now a grad-school dropout, follows her best friend, Jackson, to his small country hometown. There, she collides (literally) with a local cowboy and bull rider, Tim Bradford.
What starts as mutual aggravation slowly becomes something deeper as Lucy finds an unexpected purpose and Tim faces an injury that threatens everything he has.
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18 May 2026