Short Days, Long Nights
lilsunabouzu
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  • Reads 304
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  • Parts 17
  • Time 6h 54m
lilsunabouzu
Ongoing, First published Oct 04, 2020
1920samericafictionflapperflappershistoricalhistoricalfictionhistoricalromanceitalyjazzjazzagelovetrianglenewyorknewyorkcityprohibitionroaringtwentiesromanceusa
On a warm, Italian, summer's night in 1924, the local Casanova Jullio Gugilimi has a run in with Sam Warner, an American antiques dealer, that changes his life.  With the prospect of escaping his terrible reputation and moving to New York City during the height of the Jazz Age, Jullio is eager to begin a new chapter in his life.  However, for a man like Jullio drama is never far behind.  Although vowing to change his ways, it doesn't take long before he becomes infatuated with his spirited coworker Blanch Carson, and tempted by a mysterious Russian heiress, Valera Nijinski.  Will Jullio be able to distinguish what's important in his life, or will this test of his alliances be too much?

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Flying Violets

23 parts Complete Mature

Boston socialite Violet Callahan, daredevil pilot and 1920s flapper longs for independence and continuously lives on the edge of danger by flying in a flying circus and performing dangerous aviation stunts. When she meets Prohibition agent Jack Moran he is horrified at the risks that Violet continuously takes, but her determination for her flying career comes above all things even him. Jack follows Violet's barnstorming career over a period of two years and when they meet up again in a speakeasy in Hilton Head events unfold that bring Jack and Violet together that include a federal trial and the death of a mob witness that cause them to go into hiding. Love and passion are discovered in an upstate South Carolina farmhouse, but will Violet be able to put her aviation career before Jack or is it possible to have both?

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