"It's a fitting punishment for a monster. To want something so much--to hold it in your arms--and know beyond a doubt you will never deserve it." -Renee Ahdieh, The Wrath and the Dawn All rights owed to Steven Knight and BBC Studios.

After abruptly calling off her arranged engagement to a wealthy but cruel London banker, Clara Whitlow is sent away in disgrace by her parents. To avoid scandal, they send her north to Birmingham to live with her aunt and uncle, who promise to "keep her in line." Clara expects a dull exile-grey streets, strict manners, isolation. Instead, she meets Ada Shelby, a young fiercely loyal woman with a rebellious soul. Clara and Ada become unexpected best friends, despite coming from completely different worlds. Soon Clara meets Thomas Shelby. Ada's older brother and falls for him almost instantly. "Stay away from the Shelbys. Especially Thomas Shelby." But warnings come too late.

Birmingham, 1919. The city is a battleground for power and survival, ruled by men who thrive in shadows and women who outwit them. Among them is Rosemary King, known as The Whisperer, a sharp-tongued, resourceful informant who trades secrets in exchange for survival. But her quiet life shatters when Thomas Shelby, leader of the notorious Peaky Blinders, pulls her into his dangerous orbit. As Rosemary navigates the Shelby family's bloody rise to power, she finds herself entwined with Thomas-a man as ruthless as he is magnetic. Together, they face shifting alliances, deadly enemies, and the scars of war that haunt them both. With every whisper shared and promise made, their bond deepens, but trust is a perilous game in a world where betrayal lurks at every turn. In this gritty tale of ambition, survival, and forbidden connection, can Rosemary and Thomas find solace in each other, or will the secrets they keep destroy them both?

When the world ended, they were still holding on. Catherine Rossi was a war nurse - gentle hands, quiet eyes, and a heart she swore she'd never give away. Thomas Shelby was a soldier with too many ghosts and not enough faith left to believe in love. In the ruins of a broken world, they found something beautiful - and lost it just the same. Because love doesn't always survive war. Sometimes, it becomes the wind that never stops haunting you.

࿐☆*:・Intoxicate me now ━━━━ ▃▃▃▃▃▃ ❝ So run mri kamli, run away. Run until your legs give out. Run until they make you stay. ❞ In which Claudette 'Claudia' Thorne wanted to tell him, she wouldn't leave him ever but that would be a lie. She couldn't lie, not again because first chance she got, she would leave━leave Birmingham, and everything behind. Including him. [Peaky Blinders pre1-6] [Thomas/Tommy Shelby x OC] © maraerys 2026

Before Thomas Shelby became the king of Birmingham, there was Elsie Hayes - the girl three doors down who carried grief like an old friend and stitched her life back together in quiet, stubborn ways. Their love wasn't built on promises or grand gestures - it was forged through blood, smoke, and the brutal certainty that neither of them would ever belong to anyone else. From the muddy streets of Small Heath to the soft hush of the Hayes house, they built something rare: a life stitched together out of everything the world tried to tear apart. Even when death came, even when the war never truly ended, one truth remained, Elsie was his only peace, and Thomas was her only home. "You were my only peace."

Aristocrats and gangsters have a lot in common. They're both selfish, get bored easily, and have access to wads of cash they didn't work honestly to get and neither have any interest in bourgeois rules or morality. ------------------------ So when Thomas Shelby manages to marry into that world, to a woman whose blood is almost as blue as that cursed sapphire of his, a perfect match is the only result one could expect, a stunning result for success. Well... ...on the outside, at least.

As kids, they'd been convinced they'd hate each other forever. But when Bryce's life began to fall apart at the seams, Tommy was always trying to piece her back together. It was only when the war threatened to pull them apart for good that they realised, the thing they hated about each other the most, was that they loved the other so much it hurt. Together. They would build a new empire together. Through hell and back. Together. Warnings: Violence, Swearing, Mature Themes, light Smut from ch22

𝙋𝙡𝙖𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙫𝙞𝙡𝙨 𝙂𝙖𝙢𝙚.... In which Thomas Shelby finds himself beaten by Billy Kimber and a rival Romani gang. Evelyn Heron, the daughter of Birminghams new leader, has spent years on the run, living in the shadows in an effort to reunite with her son. When she stumbles upon the Peaky Blinders, Thomas is quick to realize that she is the only woman who can help him take back his throne - for a price. DISCLAIMER: All characters that appear in Peaky Blinders belong to Steven Knight & the rest of the writers/directors. Some elements remain true to the original plot, other elements do not. This does not follow the timeline of the show whatsoever - it was my own AU/rendition where the Blinders exist. Canonically, this storyline would occur between seasons one & two! Thomas Shelby x OC Mature themes/Content

Cosima Blackshaw had buried a hundred men, but never one still breathing. When Thomas Shelby came to her with smoke in his voice and a plan stitched in sin, asking for a casket for a man not yet dead, she looked him in the eye and told him no. Death was not a game, and her work was not a stage. But fate has cruel hands, and in Small Heath, the line between the mortician and the gangster frayed too easily-so their paths crossed again, and again, like moths drawn to the same quiet flame.