My lover, My life He fell out of love... all for a barmaid From small heath with the family she married into To Camden with her brother and niece Old enemies don't always stay old And Old lovers don't either... or do they?

"I know you are a man who has lost a great deal, Mr. Shelby. And I know that fear is the only language you think Birmingham speaks. But I have spent ten years with the Sisters; your shadows don't frighten me nearly as much as the thought of a child going without a coat tomorrow." She is a woman of cloth and conviction. He is a man of lead and whiskey. Mabel is the lead teacher at the Grace Shelby Institute, a place built on the sins of the Shelby family. She isn't under any illusions about who pays her wages; she's seen the blood on the notes. But while the rest of Small Heath trembles at the click of iron-shod heels in the night, Mabel simply keeps her needle moving. When Thomas Shelby wanders into her classroom at two in the morning, he's looking for the silence his own mind refuses to give him. Instead, he finds a woman who refuses to be his victim or his devotee. To Tommy, she is a sanctuary he doesn't deserve. To Mabel, he is a soul that no amount of prayer can fix-but that doesn't mean she won't try. A story of faith, fire, and the mending of a man who thought he was beyond repair.

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.

she was young, much too young for him, much too young for it to be moral but thomas shelby wasn't a man of many morels not in the general sense anyways, they say opposites attract but tommy could swear it on the bible that had they met under other circumstances that he wouldn't have touched her perhaps out of respect but deep down it was more so out of fear, she was the devil wrapped up in angel wings more like him than he could have ever imagined. a wise woman one said the only thing strong enough to blind a man like thomas was love; but his lola wasn't like grace not one bit. broken in a way only he could understand. this is a reright of Tommy Shelbys last love with barely any of the sadness, the turmoil the anguish, tommy shelby isn't a man who can promise much in the way of love or kindness and granted it's hard to love the man sometimes; a man plagued by his own desires. tommy shelby, the definition of an anti-hero // i'm not gonna be mentioning much of grace i want to allow tommy to have his own romance without grace being bought up 24/7, god knows i hate that bitch 'end of season 3 onwards'

Celia Farraday and her family had to travel back to England in order to say goodbye to her dying grandfather. Misfortune falls upon her family then, which forces Celia to find work on the streets of Birmingham to help her parents afford rent. These are the same streets that are controlled by the Peaky Blinders. What happens when Celia finds herself in the direct line of fire of the gang's stoic leader, Thomas Shelby?

{A Completed Peaky Blinders fiction} Shelby Company Limited. The irony was lost on many, for who was the greatest contributor to the company if not Harlow Winters herself? Winters, not Shelby. The war warped all logic and left Small Heath bereft of their Shelby clan for years. Upon their return, could Harlow possibly give it all up, or would she forever find herself intertwined with one of the largest empires Britain had ever seen? // 'You aren't even a fuc*ing Shelby.' || 'And yet we both know if I wanted it that bad, this company would have been mine from the get-go.' \\

MOZZAFIATO, italian adj breathtaking, majestic. literally to cut off one's breath. Gianna might have enjoyed the high stakes and adventure of the mafia life at some point. But now, she wanted out. Being a Changretta, though, her blood bound her to the mob. For a long time, it had seemed like she couldn't get out if she tried. But when Luca Changretta takes his daughter to Birmingham to satisfy his vendetta against the men who killed his father, the girl sees an opportunity amongst the violent gang that rules the city. An opportunity for freedom. An cruel plot fuelled by years of repentance is formed as Gianna takes her one chance of breaking away. And as it unfolds, she does something she thought she would never do again. Take interest in a boy. And risk his life by doing so. ( rated no. 3 in #michaelgray ) a peaky blinders fanfiction; michael gray x oc; set during series 3/4; i own nothing.