At 23, Elena Vance has her life mapped out: survive law school, get through her late night shifts at a Manhattan diner, and eventually build a career putting dangerous men behind bars. Then a dangerous man starts sitting in her section. He calls himself Pete. Pete Castiglione. He drinks his coffee black, keeps his back to the wall, disappears for days at a time, and looks like he hasn't slept peacefully in years. Elena knows he's lying about who he is. She just doesn't know how much. Until one rainy night, he walks into the diner bleeding. A bottle of cheap whiskey, a roll of gauze, and one gunshot wound later, Elena finds herself standing between the knees of a shirtless stranger who carries more scars than explanations - and realizes the quiet man from her corner booth is tangled in something far darker than she ever imagined. His real name is Frank Castle. And Elena should run. Instead, she starts asking questions. Frank has already buried everyone he ever loved. He has no intention of dragging a sharp-tongued, stubborn law student into the blood-soaked world of the Punisher - no matter how easily she gets under his skin, how useful her brilliant legal mind becomes, or how quickly the diner starts feeling like the only place in New York where the ghosts go quiet. But Elena has never been particularly good at doing what she's told. What begins with black coffee, bloodstained gauze, and sarcastic midnight conversations becomes something neither of them knows how to survive: a slow, dangerous collision between a woman determined to choose her own life and a man convinced that loving her means staying out of it. Because Frank Castle knows how to take a bullet. He knows how to wage a war. He knows how to lose everything. What he doesn't know is how to let himself have something worth coming home to.

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BEWARE: THE LUNAR ECLIPSE. marvel / peter parker far from home - brand new day.

𝐋𝐘𝐒𝐀𝐑𝐀 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐊 was raised on honor, blood, and the belief that family came before all else. As Robb Stark's twin, she stands at his side when the North rises, bound to him by loyalty stronger than any oath. But some bonds are harder to name. Raised in Winterfell alongside the Stark children, Theon Greyjoy has always been both familiar and distant-half brother, half stranger. As war tears through the Seven Kingdoms, old loyalties strain and unspoken feelings resurface, forcing Lysara to confront the cost of love in a world ruled by duty and betrayal. game of thrones season one - eight fm!oc x theon greyjoy fm!oc x m!oc bolton fm!oc x fm!oc multiple pov © 𝐤𝐧𝐠𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫

I think he did it but I just can't prove it. pippa fitz-amobi / A GOOD GIRL'S GUIDE TO MURDER

❝ 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙤 𝙬𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙚 ❞ 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐧 𝐰𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐡 𝐚 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐲, 𝐞𝐱-𝐜𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐟𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐞𝐬 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐬 𝐚 𝐬𝐮𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐜𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐨𝐝. cover made by @vanillainkss <3