The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twelve stories written by Arthur Conan Doyle featuring his famous detective.

Flora Millar; a dancer - caused a disturbance at a wedding reception. A mysterious man at the church picked the wedding bouquet dropped by the bride and handed it back to her. Another unknown man was seen going into Hyde Park with the bride. And then Hattie Doran went missing with her wedding dress and ring found washed up on the shore of the Serpentine... First published in the Strand Magazine, Apr. 1892, with 8 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

Mr. St. Clair disappeared in front of his wife, inside an opium den. Holmes investigates this missing man case in disguise. A shocking truth revealed; the missing man has been living a double life... First published in the Strand Magazine, Dec. 1891, with 10 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

Miss Mary Morstan arrives at 221B, Baker Street to request help with the mystery of her missing father, her anonymous gifts of pearls and a letter requesting her to meet an unknown person that evening. First published in the Lippincott�s Magazine, Philadelphia and London, in February 1890. First book edition by S. Blackett in Oct. 1890

Mysterious letters each with KKK signs and five orange pips, followed by mysterious death of the Openshaw family who received them one by one. This has caused Sherlock Holmes' anger and makes him determined in solving it. First published in the Strand Magazine, Nov. 1891, with 6 illustrations by Sidney Paget.

A Study in Scarlet is a 1887 detective novel by British author Arthur Conan Doyle. Written in 1886, the story marks the first appearance of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson, who would become two of the most famous characters in popular fiction. The book's title derives from a speech given by Holmes, an amateur detective, to his friend and chronicler Watson on the nature of his work, in which he describes the story's murder investigation as his "study in scarlet": "There's the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it." Cover by the wonderful @-capetown

'Ordinary' Sawyer Emerson had always felt herself compensating for the void she never felt she filled, volunteering galore and globally to create a difference. Even despite meeting thousands of new faces on her journeys, she'd still fall into bed each night with a painful ache of unimportance. But all it took was one attempted murder, one stray hound and one broken man to flip her entire introverted existence and toss it onto its head.

The Scarlet Letter: A Romance is an 1850 novel in a historical setting, written by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne. The book is considered to be his "masterwork". Set in 17th-century Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, during the years 1642 to 1649, it tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter through an affair and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity. Throughout the book, Hawthorne explores themes of legalism, sin, and guilt.

On Christmas Eve, around 1812, Pip, an orphan who is about six years old, encounters an escaped convict in the village churchyard while visiting the graves of his mother, father, and siblings. The convict scares Pip into stealing food and a file to grind away his shackles, from the home he shares with his abusive older sister and her kind, passive husband Joe Gargery, a blacksmith. The next day, soldiers recapture the convict while he is engaged in a fight with another convict; the two are returned to the prison ships from which they escaped...

I have permission from Masonfitzzy to incorporate some of his story to write a kind of continual of his Family comes first story. This is after Jimmy got out of jail and is going back to Julie and Hunter to protect them from the outside world.