In 2010, a Welsh girl came to Belfast to study crime. In 2011, she began chasing it. Following the murder of Fiona Gallagher, academic curiosity hardens into something far more consuming for Adrianne Rhys. Keeping meticulous tabs on the hands strangling the city she has come to call home, she watches the news and circles fresh crime scenes in her run-down Fiat 500. Her bedroom pinboard, once filled with childhood memories, is now a carefully crafted lattice of red string, each connection a neuron in the mind she cannot stop mapping-the mind the press will soon name the 'Music Man'. That is when acting SIO Stella Gibson takes control of the case. And the student's private study becomes a reckless fixation- one Stella warns is drawing her far too close to the very hands she is so desperate to understand. Tropes: -Age gap -Mentor/student dynamics -Crime, psychological -Slow burn -Mutual (repressed) pining 'The Fall' fanfiction- you can absolutely read this without knowing anything about the series I will be covering as much of the plot as necessary.

Daphne walks into the coffee shop and bumps into someone. and the woman doesn't have time for this and waks away. leaving Daphne with a coffee stained shirt and speech less. all she can think about is how beautiful that woman is. later to find out that that Ms Pierce is her cold hearted English teacher. But does it stay that way? Victoria Pierce begins to realize that she can't take her eyes off Daphne but wont take the first step BE AWARE: death parent struggles with eating smut

Lifelong Connection: The Sequel to Logged In The Tumblr chats are gone, but the real story is just beginning. In Logged In, they defied the boundaries of teacher and student, moving from a screen-lit anonymity to a reality more intense than either could have imagined. Now, in Lifelong Connection, Ellie and Dr. Pembrose face their greatest challenge yet: navigating the messy, beautiful, and demanding landscape of a life built together. Spanning over two decades, this sequel chronicles the evolution of a partnership that refuses to be ordinary. What happens when the thrill of the "forbidden" fades into the deep, often gruelling reality of domesticity, career shifts, and the complexities of a family? As the years unfold, the dynamic that once thrived in the secret corners of Tumblr must now survive the spotlight of their shared life. From the quiet, intimate rituals of their mornings to the high-stakes friction of their professional worlds, Lifelong Connection explores the endurance of their bond through every transition. Expect the same heart-wrenching angst, the razor-sharp tension, and the electric intimacy that defined their beginning-but transformed. As they grow together, they will discover that the most difficult "scene" isn't one played out in the dark of a room, but in the vulnerability of being truly, publicly known. Some connections aren't just for a term. Some are for a lifetime.

Victoire never planned to fall in love. Not in the middle of flashing cameras, sleepless nights, and a career rising too fast to control. At just twenty, she's everywhere : on screens, in headlines, under constant scrutiny. And then there's Scarlett Johansson. Untouchable. Iconic. Completely off-limits.

| teacher x student | wxw | slow burn | When 19-year-old Lena James enters English Literature class, she expects nothing special. Instead, she meets Ms. Sinclair her cold, sharp-tongued British literature teacher. Elegant, cutting, and unbearably superior. From the very first lesson, the 34-year-old woman seems to take pleasure in dismantling Lena's every opinion with cruel precision. Lena hates her. She hates the condescending red marks on her essays, the raised eyebrow that makes her feel small, and the way Ms. Sinclair lingers in her thoughts long after class ends. But hate this intense has a way of twisting into something far more dangerous. With a strict 15-year age gap and an unbreakable teacher-student boundary, their slow-burning tension threatens to break every rule both in literature and in real life. Some lessons aren't taught kindly. And some hatreds taste too much like desire. "Ms. Sinclair's Secret"

Is this the sequel to Ms. Hartley? Sadly, this is not a sequel to Ms. Hartley. This is simply closure chapters for my readers who are invested and want to know what happened next..

When Evelyn begins her senior year, the last person she expects to see in her classroom is the mysterious woman she met while working at the diner. Ms. Hartley quickly realizes there's more to Evelyn's life than she lets on, and what begins as concern slowly turns into a bond neither of them expected. But some connections come with consequences-especially when they cross a line that should never be crossed.

One is hiding from the world. The other is trying to find her place in it. Ellie is perfectly content with her single flat and her Criminal Minds marathon, and a healthy dose of Tumblr nostalgia-until MoonPetal45 enters the chat. As the pressure of her final year mounts, this online stranger becomes her greatest support. Dr. Pembrose knows the rules. As a professor, she should have blocked the charming, accident-prone student the moment she recognised her. But in the quiet of her new home, the line between mentor and admirer is blurring, and Ellie's frequent run-ins with gravity are making the doctor fall a little too hard.

Professor x Student | WLW Claire Dover (20) is standing at the edge of something she can't name. It began with a single moment, an instinct to reach out, to care, before she even knew who the woman was. Just a stranger in the wrong place at the wrong time. She didn't expect to see her again. She didn't expect that the woman she pulled back from the road would later introduce herself as Professor Hartmann (39). And Lyn? She never meant to care. She is the kind of woman who carries old grief like a folded letter in her coat pocket. But Claire is all sharp glances, quiet presence, and impossible timing. Now, every look, every pause between words, threatens to unravel something they both try to hold together. A slow-burn sapphic love story about restraint, proximity, and all the things we feel before we can name them.

They never expected to see each other again after that night. What happened in that room was supposed to stay there, a fleeting secret neither of them would speak of again. But fate has other plans. A month later, they come face to face in the last place either of them imagined. (ProfessorxStudent)