❝ Don't you dare look out your window, darling, everything's on fire The war outside our door keeps raging on Hold onto this lullaby even when the music's gone, gone ❞

Honestly, I should have known better. I should have known that things were too good to be true. I should have known that my life was about to go from bad to worse. And I should have known it would be all my brother's fault.

Following the death of her father, there is nothing left for Odette in Scotland. At her uncle's suggestion, she journeys to Paris to be closer to him. Musketeer Athos is sent to accompany Odette from LeHavre to Paris and that should have been the end of it, but their paths keep crossing. While neither Odette nor Athos is keen on marrying an attraction forms between them. What will the captain's niece and the captain's finest man in the regiment do?

Elementary school teacher Hannah Gates isn't one to take big risks, she nearly always plays it safe. But she somehow finds herself on the run from the FBI with her brother Benjamin Franklin Gates, her former college crush Riley Poole, some random lady, and the Declaration of Independence. So much for playing it safe.

Nerissa finds herself on the adventure of a lifetime when she accompanies her brother to Camelot, in hopes of a better future than as some simple farmer's wife. There she finds out that sometimes, dreams really do come true - even in the most unlikely of ways. • Arthur x OC •

As far as her father was concerned, Lydia's current feelings for Benjamin were simply that of a heartbroken girl whose childhood sweetheart had betrayed her. But the truth of the matter was that Lydia Woodhull would always love Benjamin Tallmadge, rebel or not. *Ben/OC*

Despite being nearly twenty-two, I had considered my life all but over before I went through the stones. My mother, father, and husband were all dead. I had nothing in my time. That was probably why I was quick to embrace the new life thrust before me. It was a second chance at life that most people dreamed of getting. Who was I to reject such an offer? • Jamie x OC •

Emily Bartlet, President Josiah Bartlet's second oldest daughter, never meant to fall for his Deputy Chief of Staff Josh Lyman and he never meant to fall for her. Somehow it happened anyway.

Rhea was born the twelfth hour of the first day of October 1989. Reginald Hargreeves did not find her until Rhea until she was thirteen years old. At first, he was hesitant to adopt her, but she proved her value to him and soon became a part of The Umbrella Academy. Years later, she finds herself separated from the others but circumstances bring them together, for better or worse.

Beatrice did not want to marry her intended, but she had no choice in the matter. Her reputation was in tatters and no other prospects would dare look at her. This marriage was her only hope in redeeming herself and saving her family from ruin. It was not fair that the weight of all this was borne on her shoulders when the fault rested with Caroline Bingley.