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    He had managed to control his thirst for centuries, exposed himself to human blood over and over again, reached into open chests, operated on more people than he could remember, their faces blurring together. He had bandaged, glued, and stitched wounds, washing the blood from his hands every day. Never touched it, always maintaining control, had seen himself in a position to teach others to control themselves as well.

    So he wondered what had happened, what had led him to stand behind Forks' chief of police, so close, his chest was pressed against his back, whose injured hand gripped so tightly by him—it must hurt, lowering his head, a second away from tearing the man's carotid artery open.

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    Carlisle tells the story of a fateful night when his self-control and ethics were severely tested by an overworked police officer.

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    05 Jul 2026

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    There are men turning up dead in the woods, and Chief of Police Charlie Swan has a job to do—figure out what, or who, left the poor bastards torn up as they are. Chief of Police Charlie Swan is too old for this mess. Too old and too sick of this shit to pretend Forks is just a sleepy old rural town anymore. Between the gruesome corpses and the quiet, unsettling doctor Cullen who shows up like a statue in pressed slacks, lying through his teeth, Charlie’s got more questions than answers—and no one seems too keen on giving him either.

    Charlie’s trying not to notice how his breath catches when the doc gets too close. He’s also trying not to notice how the bodies keep piling up, unsolved. Neither effort is going particularly well.

    And if one more person tells him it was a bear, he’s going to shoot something. Probably not a bear.

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    04 Jul 2026

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    After accompanying his sister Isabelle to Eisande to begin her medical training, Alec Lightwood’s plans to return directly home to resume his post on the border are derailed when he’s asked to escort the mysterious — and distractingly beautiful — Magnus Bane, a Priest of Naamah with a target on his back, home to the City of Elua.

    Bound by his vows as a descendent of the Unforgiven to protect anyone under threat in service to the Crown, Alec finds himself on a journey that becomes so much more than a simple fortnight of traveling. With each day he spends in Magnus’ warm, sensual, infuriating presence, the desires Alec’s suppressed for years in service of his duty become impossible to ignore. And with each flash of Magnus’ smile, Alec’s forgets a bit more why he ever tried.

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    23 Jun 2026

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    Magnus Bane has been taken. Alec Lightwood is not merciful in his quest to take him back.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    Alec can’t breathe.

    The cracked vinyl hospital bench creaks beneath him as he rocks forward to hunch over the borrowed cellphone in his hands, the fluorescent lights glaring up off the sterile, bleach-white floor to burn his sleep-tired eyes.

    He’s too late.

    The emergency message from the Red Cross took three days to reach him, and Alec is far, far too late.

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    30 May 2026