➜ "You gonna keep talking," he said, his voice a calm whisper, almost teasing, "or let me kiss you?" In a city carved by violence and loyalty, Evelyn Harrow was never meant to fall for Thomas Shelby. But desire doesn't follow rules. And love was never part of the plan. ────୨ৎ────────୨ৎ────────୨ৎ──── Birmingham, 1919. Evelyn Harrow arrives in the smoky heart of the city with one mission: spy on Tommy Shelby and bring down the Peaky Blinders from within. Daughter of a ruthless gang kingpin, she is trained to be a weapon-cold and calculating. But as Evelyn delves deeper into the Shelby world, the lines between duty and desire blur. When love threatens to undo her carefully constructed allegiance, Evelyn must choose: loyalty to her family... or the man who might be her only salvation.

A witch out of time. A gangster with steel blue eyes. Birmingham, 1919: the last place Eveline Rosendale expected her experiments to take her. Seeking adventure, she finds a city rebuilding after war and a gang whose leader holds it in his hands. To survive, Eveline must tread carefully between magic and crime, trust and temptation... all while keeping the truth about who (and what) she really is.

It's 1925, three years after River ran away with Newt due to her parents twisting her arm to marry Cantankerus Nott who was willing to pay a very large sum for her hand in marriage. She's returned to England instead of going to America with Newt and is spending her time running wild like a druid and chasing magical creatures rather than facing her family. She comes across a 3-year-old boy who has run into the woods because of a few mischievous pixies. River takes him into her arms, and little Charlie never wants to leave her side again. Thomas Shelby is stricken with more Grief after his son goes missing in the woods. It's been only a year since Grace was murdered. He was completely unprepared for a little woman to come dancing down his lawn with his son laughing in her arms and completely smitten with her. Suddenly, there was light in their lives again. Like the fog lifted and the stars twinkled above their heads bringing in warmth instead of smothering them in its cold embrace. Forbidden fruit never tasted so sweet. River Pandora Scamander was not normal. She was magic and the sweetest honey Tommy ever tasted. His own little bee, with eyes as blue as the sky and skin as pale as a lily. And what is it with her and animals?

Haunted by the frontlines, Doctor Louise Vergne sharpens her teeth until her words cut deeper than her scalpel. No matter how fervently she scrubs, her healing hands remain soaked in blood. To atone for her sins, she devotes every waking moment to her woman's clinic. Charity demands a price, and to pay it, she stitches up the wounded on Alfie Solomons' payroll, balancing the razor edge of salvation and damnation. Her dealings with Alfie Solomons inevitably drag her into the orbit of Thomas Shelby, Birmingham's very own devil, who is relentlessly expanding his empire in the fallout of Grace Burgess' betrayal. Will Louise's sharp tongue draw him nearer or provoke him to draw his pistol?

The Angel of Small Heath...trapped by the Devil. Thomas Shelby a man who played God... Who met his Angel at a young age and decided to never let her go. I Pity the fool who ever tries to take her away from him... Pre-WW1 Season 1

"I do bad things. But you already know that." ~ Thomas Shelby A tragic misunderstanding. A murder. A secret. An unlikely partnership. When the disappearance of a Russian refugee brings Lady Rose MacClare to the doorstep of Thomas Shelby, neither party is prepared for the significant changes a single encounter can inspire. As Rose unwillingly ventures deeper into the world of the notorious Peaky Blinders -- spanning ballrooms to dark alleys -- she finds herself torn between her moral compass, her suppressed rebellious youth, her growing love for a motherless toddler, and her mounting attraction for Tommy, a man she knows she should hate. || A historical fanfiction novel combining the fandoms of "Peaky Blinders" and "Downton Abbey." || ⚠️ Read with caution: foul language, violence, trauma, and sexual content within. This novel is NOT a romance. If you're looking for soft, sweet, fake Tommy, look elsewhere. This novel depicts him as he is in the show: flawed. ⚠️ HIGHEST RANKINGS ~ #1 Downton Abbey #1 Peaky Blinders #1 Tommy Shelby #1 Countess #2 England #2 Spying #2 Lizzie Stark #3 John Shelby #40 Birmingham #241 Historical { Began posting 07.25.22 Finished posting 07.17.23 }