Novellas

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The Cotswolds Proposition
Tamsin Devereaux collects men the way she collects art: exquisite, intense, temporary.
No permanence. No keepers. Just brilliant, fleeting installations.

A commission payment from a substantial art sale changes everything. It wasn't spending money, but making it breathe, preserving and growing a fortune, that demands expertise. Her solicitor points her towards Steven Cantioli, the discreet Cotswolds-based wealth manager who shuns city flash for quiet mastery. Tamsin drives down with cool detachment, ready to assess, delegate, depart. The Cotswolds? A backwater of muddy boots, livestock, quaint little cottages and domestic tedium, nothing more.
Steve is not what she expected. Rooted, unflinching, perfectly composed. What begins as portfolio talk drifts into shared silences, fireside whisky, walks where words aren't needed. She considers him—a potential addition to the collection, perhaps the most intriguing yet.
Then the first night: She stays at his Cotswold stone manor. They sleep under the same roof, but in separate rooms. No seduction. No conquest. Just proximity that feels dangerously different. For the first time, her rules bend. The fortress trembles.
And permanence, once unthinkable, starts to whisper like a possibility.

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The Chicken Hunters
In a quiet village where everyone thinks they know the rules, kindness can be more dangerous than cruelty.
The Chicken Hunters is a slow-burn psychological story about restraint, temptation, and the terrible power of assumption. As loneliness, desire, and good intentions collide, a decent man finds himself judged not by what he’s done, but by what others are ready to believe. Darkly humane, unsettling, and painfully intimate, this is a story about how easily we hunt monsters — and how rarely we bother to check whether they exist.

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