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Runaway by ChelseaMorningGirl
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
26 Feb 2026
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The declaration slams into her. Shackled. The fissure of her heart is so stark and sudden, she’s surprised nobody hears the resounding crack echoing through her. She staggers back a step, putting distance between them. It makes that bond, that thread attached to her rib, linking them together, ache painfully.
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When Cassian breaks Nesta’s heart, she leaves Velaris, determined to leave everything and everyone behind for once and for all.
Unbeknownst to him, Cassian is at risk of loosing not only the love of his life, but a chance at having the one thing he has craved ever since being dumped at the Illyrian war camp as a youngling as well.- Language:
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04 Jul 2026
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“Zer liburu mota da?”
Tilting her head, Nesta furrowed her brows, confused.
Cassian pursed his lips, thinking how best to translate.
“Liburu. Libro. Is, um… “ Raising his hand, he made a mock stabbing motion. “Crime? Or erromantzea…romance?"
“Oh!” Nesta said, understanding. “Oh, yes. Romance. I write romance. Romance books.”
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Or, I take the best storyline from Love Actually and make it Nessian.
For Nesta Week 2026 Day 4: Lover
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12 Jun 2026
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The Other Side Of The Door by ChelseaMorningGirl
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
09 Jun 2026
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“Holy shit, you scared me!” She yanks her wrist back, lowering the tire iron. Her heart is attempting to hammer out of her chest.
“You’re the one brandishing a weapon.” He’s holding up his hands in surrender, eyes gleaming.
“I am a woman alone at a cabin that’s supposed to be abandoned. What else was I supposed to do? This was the most suitable thing I could use in self-defence.”
“Sure. You’re very threatening. I’m positively terrified.” He nods at the tire iron. “Nesta Archeron, rural vigilante. You planning to change a tire or commit assault on a friend?”
Friend. Nesta swallows her response to that.
“I didn’t know it was you! What is—” She gestures at his face. “What is happening with all of that?”
He grins, running a hand over his jaw. “My face? What, you don’t like the mustache?”
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After her father's death, Nesta decides to take Feyre up on her offer to visit Rhys's cabin, expecting to find it empty. Fate (or family members) decides otherwise.
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10 Jun 2026
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White Wedding, Silk Shedding by ChelseaMorningGirl
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
12 Feb 2026
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Nesta wakes to sunlight stabbing through unfamiliar curtains and the immediate, visceral knowledge that she’s made a terrible mistake.
Her head throbs. Her mouth tastes like expensive wine and poor decisions. Her body aches in places that make her face heat even in her half-asleep state. She’s naked—completely, utterly naked—in a hotel bed that is definitely not hers, wrapped in sheets that smell like sex and some woodsy cologne that she can still taste on her tongue.
The body beside her shifts, and Nesta freezes.
Oh god. Oh no.
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Nesta wakes up in Cassian’s hotel room the morning after her sister’s wedding and immediately panics. This was not supposed to happen... Written for romance week day five: Only One Bed.
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- Part 5 of SJM Romance Week 2026
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18 May 2026
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This night is sparkling (don't you let it go) by jsmelodies
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
25 Apr 2026
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When Cassian accompanies his brother to New York to find a wife, he doesn't expect to be drawn in by the very woman Rhys is intending to court.
Nesta Archeron, the daughter of new money in the railroad industry, is determined to marry the visiting Duke of Velaris in order to secure her family's standing in society. She doesn't expect to be so drawn in by his brother.
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Or, a Gilded Age Nessian AU- Language:
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11 May 2026
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Blind Side by ChelseaMorningGirl
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
25 Jun 2026
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RUCK ME
MAUL ME
MAKE ME SCRUMNesta stared at it for one full second, and thought, somewhat deliriously, that Emerie was a dead woman. She considered getting up and leaving, walking directly back into the Edinburgh night.
Then she looked at the man wearing it, and her staring took on a somewhat different quality.
His picture hadn’t done his size justice, since he was broad enough that two people could probably live comfortably on each shoulder. Whoever had assembled him had been working from a different set of specifications than the rest of the population. Dark-haired with mesmerizing hazel eyes and a jaw that had no business being that defined in ordinary life. She was sure he never once had to think about whether he could reach the thing on the top shelf, or punch the light out of someone’s eyes. Her gaze traveled lower, and all coherent thought left her mind. Good god. He had thighs like tree trunks. The man was wearing jeans which were clearly fighting for their lives. He could crush her skull with those things.
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Nesta goes on a date with a rugby player, and it changes her life in more ways than one. That’s it, that’s the plot.
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09 May 2026
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Tharion Ketos drifted through life, unmoored and untethered. Even a betrothal to a princess wasn’t enough to keep him from going with his own flow. Water, after all, is the most powerful force on Migard.
Well, all except one.
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Written for @sjmromanceweek 2026 – Day 1: Confessions
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09 Apr 2026
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What Bloomed in the Darkgarden by ehoney
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
15 Jun 2026
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Elain Archeron is not the trembling fawn everyone believes her to be.
Two years after the war, she feels an awakening- a power which calls her to grow untamed things under moonlight. She then receives an invitation to master her abilities as a Seer under the guidance of an Oracle of the Day Court. All the while fighting an inevitable war of passion for a holy mess of a shadow-wreathed male who looks at her with all the longing in the world.
So perhaps a little more softly, a little more lethally, Elain begins her journey down the path unknown. For there’s something blooming within her. Something darker, softer, and wilder than she can name- reaching for the song of the Void.
“Damn the Cauldron.” Azriel strode towards her. “Damn the Stars.” He closed the distance.
“This-” those scarred hands softly gripped her face, bringing it within an inch of his own. “This-” he wrapped his scent around her and met her gaze directly, making sure she could feel the charge, the need, the nameless want-“This could never be a mistake.”
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22 Mar 2026
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Plié, Relevé, et les Pas de Deux (To Bend, To Rise, and the Step of Two) by erin_onashelf
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
17 Jan 2026
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Nesta had been angry for a very long time. She wasn’t even sure when the anger began, it felt as if it were just always a part of her. It kept her safe, it protected her from the criticism from her mother and dance coach, Miss Amarantha. Their harsh words about her body as she matured and grew, the insults about her lack of effort and will whenever she mis-stepped, how nothing she ever did seemed to be enough. Even after her mother passed, Nesta allowed her dance coach to continue her vicious training regime, remaining silent as the hurled insults and threats increased tenfold.
Another seven years have passed, Nesta was now in her second year of the Velaris University’s Juris Doctor program. With both parents now gone, Nesta knows she should be a good eldest sister and try to keep the family together. She’s already agreed to a weekly dinner with them, often inviting friends too. But now Feyre and her boyfriend are getting serious and she’s trying to integrate her sisters with Rhysand’s brothers. One of those brothers has a knack for getting on Nesta’s nerves, ruining any hopes she had of trying to have as little stress and piss-poor habits as possible in her second year of law school.
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17 Jan 2026
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One of Us Will End Up Hurt by sssoulsuckerrr
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
27 Sep 2025
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Vampire Cassian. Unsuspecting cabin-dweller Nesta. Spooky wind. Lots of biting. What more could I... I mean YOU want?
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- Part 1 of I Know the Way
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12 Jan 2026
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Who’s That Girl? It’s Nes by ChelseaMorningGirl
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
14 May 2026
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Nesta Archeron has always prided herself on being the kind of woman who has her life together. She wears power suits to her editing job at Velaris Publishing, her hair is always immaculately styled, her apartment has been featured in a “Young Professionals Living in Style” blog post, and she’s been in a relationship with Tomas Mandray—successful lawyer, conventionally attractive, wholly appropriate—for three years.
Past tense on all of that.
Because yesterday, she’d come home early from a work trip to surprise Tomas, only to find him very enthusiastically not surprised, and very enthusiastically occupied with his paralegal, Claire, in their California King bed with the Egyptian cotton sheets Nesta had picked out.
The bed that Tomas had paid for, in the apartment that Tomas’s name was on the lease for, because Nesta had moved in with him eight months ago, instead of looking for a new place together.
What a joke.
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A New Girl AU where Nesta is Jess, Cassian is Nick, and no one is emotionally equipped to handle what's happening. That’s it. That’s the summary.
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09 Jan 2026
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The Light Between Sin and Salvation by LunaAtTheZoo
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
04 Jan 2026
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Azriel works for the Mafia under his brother Rhysand, the boss of the family. After Rhys marries Feyre and she has a target painted on her back, he assigns his brothers Cassian and Azriel to guard her two older sisters in case of retaliation from rival families. Azriel begrudgingly accepts the job, but everything changes when he meets brown-eyed, sweet, mysterious Elain. He must contend with his unexpected feelings, keep Elain safe, and, above all, avoid letting her into the bloodthirsty world of the Mafia.
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07 Jan 2026
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She’s my mate. He couldn’t form another thought in his head. It echoed again and again, making him think he might lose his damn mind. Who is she?
Rhys went silent, likely seeking the answer from somebody else. Nesta Archeron.
That name would haunt his dreams.
She was beautiful. Devastatingly so. She was from this awful city. She looked like she could rip him to shreds–
Cassian. She’s married.
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Or, an AU where the Archeron sisters are born in the Hewn City
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05 Jan 2026
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Meet Me in the Middle of the Mess by OurLadyofDeath
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
20 Mar 2026
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Nesta’s first holiday without her kids ends in a one-night stand (sure, Jan) with the hottest man she’s ever seen.
She expects it to be a one-off. Hopes for it.
She does not need this kind of distraction.Except he keeps showing up everywhere - the grocery store, the laundromat, her favorite coffee shop - and suddenly she’s playing competitive Pretty Pretty Princess, learning to change a tire, and watching this man charm her twins like the easiest thing in the world.
Nesta has rules.
Cassian has muscles.
It’s not a fair fight.A soft, chaotic attempt at a rom-com about accidental connection, (un)intentional love, and the slow, delicious unraveling of two people into each other.
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04 Dec 2025
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It's Just Science (Don't Let it Break You) by This_Immortal_Hope for dustjackets
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
23 Apr 2026
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The one thing they could both agree on was this - She did not belong here.
Nesta Archeron had been made for glass skyscrapers and slick offices. She was a soldier in the war against misused semi colons and bad forum selection clauses.
She did not belong on an active drill rig in South America.
She did not belong in Cassian's desert, and she certainly didn't belong inside his head. Yet there she was, and until this job was done - and done properly - neither one of them would be getting a moment of peace.
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21 Nov 2025
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Top Shelf Love by Pumpkinspice_Lou
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
24 Sep 2025
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After an embarrassing first meeting at her youngest sister’s engagement party, Nesta swears that she’ll never think about hockey hotshot Cassian Valdarez ever again. But then he’s moving to her city, refusing to get out of her bookstore, and seemingly determined to get under her skin.
When Cassian gets traded to the Seattle Kraken, it feels like his whole life changes. The last thing he expects is Nesta Archeron, his sister-in-law’s sister and the only person he knows when he moves across the country. Unfortunately for him, the only thing Nesta wants is for Cassian Valdarez to get out of her bookstore. He’s determined to change her mind.
Aka: the most self-indulgent hockey AU you’ll ever read
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15 Nov 2025
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Keep Coming Back to You by dustjackets
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
17 Oct 2025
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They'd flamed out after college. One scorching, all consuming relationship that didn't work. Couldn't work. But that was years ago.
Now, Feyre and Rhysand are married, and Nesta can't escape her ex, even if she tried. Cassian is always there, the best friend of her brother in law, always at mandatory family dinners. That was the most she saw him, except for sometimes... sometimes they decided the flaming disaster of their former relationship shouldn't keep them from enjoying a good time.
They didn't tell anyone about that, though.
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17 Oct 2025
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Baby, Don't Hang Up by dustjackets
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
27 Nov 2025
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All Nesta wanted was to relax with a new smutty book on a Friday night, not answer a call from her baby sister's annoying friend. Nothing ever went to plan.
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5 times Nesta and Cassian fool around out of bed and 1 time they make it back
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29 Sep 2025
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I Could Find You, Darling, in Any Life by TheTeaQueen
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
20 Apr 2026
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Nesta Archeron disappeared three months to the day after the end of the war against Hybern.
Without so much as a whisper, she slipped away into the night, leaving it all behind.
The Night Court. Her sisters. Him.
There were no answers, no justification, no anything.
As quickly as she appeared into his life, she vanished, as if she were never there. The few things she owned were left abandoned, locked away in an attic, to be forgotten like so many other relics of their lost ones.
Three years later and the wound still burned as if she’d stabbed him directly in the chest.
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When Nesta disappears at the end of the war, everyone believes she simply left on her own free will, without a care for anyone, least of all him.But when the hunt for the Dread Trove begins and Cassian is tasked with bringing her back home - at any cost - he learns that not everything is as it seems.
Written for Nessian Week 2025 Day 5: Missing Moments (the literal edition)
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- Part 3 of Nessian Week 2025
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25 Sep 2025
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Bumpy Takeoffs and Happy Landings by TheTeaQueen
Fandoms: A Court of Thorns and Roses Series - Sarah J. Maas
24 Sep 2025
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Flying out at 7 am for a last minute work trip was already bad.
Flying out of Dulles was worse.
But to top it all off, Nesta's morning is entirely upended when the world's most obnoxious (read: gorgeous) pilot spills boiling hot coffee all over in what had to be the worst luck of all time.
Nesta was determined to forget it ever happened, to get through her week and back to her apartment where she could continue to hide away forever. But fate has other plans.
A meet-cute/hate featuring Pilot!Cassian and Diplomat!Nesta for Cassian Appreciation Week 2024 Day 1: Flying
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- Part 1 of Cassian Appreciation Week 2024
- Part 1 of Nessian Appreciation Week 2024
- Part 3 of Nesta Week 2025
- Part 2 of Cassian Week 2025
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23 Sep 2025