"It's true what they say; you can never go home again... Until now, everything in Birmingham had glowed with a faded sense of familiarity. The buildings, the pavement, the people. Walking up the stairwell, any sense of certainty was clouded. I didn't know what to expect. I was going to meet a stranger today, even though we had already met." After 12 years in the US, you have returned home to Birmingham. The struggling owner of an editorial company, you've spent two years hustling and begging with nothing to show for it. With no money and nowhere to go it seemed like all hope was lost. Until one day, when the past came knocking on your door. But with a forked past marred by shadows and blood, love becomes Vendetta. "I remember when there was homework to run from and wildflowers that grew in the hedgerows. Had I known what was to come, I might have run further and picked many more..." A Violette Portrait novel - Vendetta

Because every girl needs their own prince charming, but some girls need their own birmingham gangster. •BOOK ONE COMPLETED• •SEASON ONE- SEASON TWO PEAKY BLINDERS• •Thomas Shelby x female oc• •started 25:06:2020:: finished 10:09:2020• •#1 in #peakyblinders 6:8:2020• •BOOK TWO FINISHED• •UNDER EDITING• I wrote this when I was like 13, it's messy :)

"I have heard many rumours about you, Mr Shelby." "Anything of interest?" "I could write a whole book about you, Mr Shelby." The smog ridden city had many secrets and Katherine Williams had a way of finding out every single one of them. Before the war, Kat was known simply as a busybody. But then the war came and then it left, forcing the men to return home different people. And when the men changed and so did the woman with little choice. Kat was no different to any other woman in Small Heath, she wasn't the same woman she was before the war. No, she was a force to be reckoned with. She knew things that could bring anyone to their knees and she revelled in that fact. But not even she was immune to the fear and terror the Peaky Blinders brought with them and nor was she immune to the icy blue eyes of the leader of the infamous gang.

Lily Adler was a girl with looking for answers. Stumbling into Small Heath to find the one woman that could help her she meets a Thomas Shelby. Will she uncover the truth about her childhood, Will the people that ripped her from her childhood bed get their comeuppance? This is a slow burn story that will be full of intense moments! Enjoy.

When Annabelle, a young eighteen year old is sent to her grandmothers attic to fetch something she discovers some old photographs and newspaper clippings from 1919. The dates go back to when her grandmother was a child and lived out her own teenage years among the blinders fears. After speaking with her grandmother about the men in the picture her curiosity gets the better of her and and decided to do some further investigations. However nothing would ever prepare her for the journey she was about to begin.

Her mother saw it in her the moment she was born; a darkness that swelled in her eyes. She felt it within her, building up and drowning her from the inside. But it was he, Thomas Shelby of all people, that gave her air to breathe once again. A couple to be feared, a couple that destroys any that got in their way... including each other. THERE WILL BE SWEARING I ONLY OWN ANY CHARACTERS AND STORY IDEAS THAT ARE NOT DEPICTED IN THE SHOW 'PEAKY BLINDERS' WRITTEN USING AUSTRALIAN SPELLING