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The Last Witch in Whitby

The witch of Whitby is supposed to be a story people tell to frighten tourists. She is actually twenty-six, works nights at a chip shop, and has been keeping the sea out of the harbour since her grandmother died. Then a man arrives with a surveyor's map, a government contract, and a smile she does not trust, and the tide starts behaving like something with an opinion. He is either the end of everything she has protected or the first person in a century who believes her. Whitby has one week before the water comes over the wall.

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03

Backstage at the End of the World

Wren has front-row tickets and a press pass she did not earn, and she intends to use exactly one of them. The band's lead singer is the boy who used to play her his songs before anyone else had heard them — and the man who walked out of her life without a forwarding address. Three cities, forty nights, one tour bus with no privacy and a setlist that keeps changing. He still plays the song he wrote for her. She still knows every word. The tour ends in four weeks, and neither of them can afford an encore.

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04

The Convenience of Strangers

The contract is four pages long and covers everything except the parts that matter. Ana needs a visa; Daniel needs an heir his mother will stop asking about; neither of them needs to like the other. They agree on separate bedrooms, separate lives, and a clean exit in twenty-four months. It holds for eleven weeks. Then Daniel's grandmother moves in, the press finds the wedding photos, and Ana discovers that the man who signed her paperwork keeps a drawer of things he has never explained. Renegotiation is not in the contract.

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05

Everything We Never Said Out Loud

Nora and Ellis have been best friends for nineteen years, which is exactly nineteen years longer than Nora has managed to say the thing she has been carrying since she was fifteen. Then Ellis announces he is moving to the other side of the world in six weeks, and asks her to help him pack up the house they grew up in. Every box is a year, every room is an argument they never had. She has forty-two days to ruin a friendship or keep it forever. She is running out of both.

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06

Ninety Miles of Bad Weather

Ivy Lane has ninety miles to reach her sister's wedding and one rental car that has just died in the worst rain of the decade. The man who stops to help is the same man she publicly humiliated at a conference in March, and he has not forgotten. He also has the only working tow truck in three counties and a rule about not talking to passengers. Nine hours, two diners, one motel room with a broken heater, and a conversation neither of them meant to start. By dawn they are still not friends. They are something considerably worse.

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