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Cheaper Than Free: An Anniversary Story (The Dance A/U Sequel)

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***A sequel to The Dance (Alternate Version) Parts 1&2***

Twenty-five years ago during the holiday season of 1997, just after wrapping The Dance reunion tour with Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham were married privately in the hospital where Stevie had an emergency C-section at age 49 after complications during her pregnancy with their daughter, Amber Robin Buckingham. 

What followed was 25 years of wedded bliss but still the ups and downs of their careers and their lives - two Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame inductions, countless tours with The Mac and solo, profound grief over losses in their family and the industry, and later, the health problems that come from two people in their 70s who have lived hard. 

On the eve of their silver anniversary party, Stevie prepares for a houseful of people and reflects on the Wild ride from 1966, the first time she laid eyes on Lindsey Buckingham, to the present day of Thanksgiving 2022.

Be prepared for a twisted, outrageous, fun, sappy, sexy, sad and heartfelt look back at the world of Buckingham Nicks, the one that was...and the one that could have been.All Rights Reserved

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Fall From Grace: The Dance Thriller, Part 2 by GoldDustLinda77

It's Fall 1997 and Stevie and Lindsey have it all...almost. With a wedding being planned and a baby on the way, a Fleetwood Mac reunion tour and the news of the band being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, everything has fallen into place. That is, except for Lindsey's tie to a woman from his past that can't seem to take no for an answer. Pregnant with Lindsey's child from their brief relationship , Kristen Messner embarks on a campaign to get Stevie and her unborn child out of the way to have Lindsey for herself...and what results is a fall from grace...and quite possibly, the Buckingham Nicks happy ending that should have been. "One night in a world of pain and you finally understand." ~ Stevie Nicks, "Fall From Grace", Trouble In Shangri-La, 2000

Buckingham Nicks A/U Series Part 7: Say You Will by GoldDustLinda77

***The Buckingham Nicks alternate universe returns in the early 2000s with the era of Say You Will!!!*** It's 2002 and Stevie, just home from her Trouble In Shangri-La tour, joins Lindsey, Mick and John in the studio for the first time without Christine to make a new album. However their professional lives may be stressful, however, pales in comparison to the drama, the struggles and, yes, also the happiness, that comes with having two grown children, a young teen and a daughter just starting school...the family they have created over 25 years of marriage. A new album, a tour, a health scare, a wedding and the first grandchild of both the Buckinghams and the McVies color the first few years of the new millennium for our favorite rock and roll love match, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham. "That kind of romance comes only once, that kind of love that kind of fever dance...that you love because you become someone else in an instant..." ~ Stevie Nicks, "Say You Will", 2002

Tango In The Night Part 2: When I See You Again by GoldDustLinda77

***The sequel to Tango In The Night Part 1: Big Love*** It's 1987 and Lindsey Buckingham has left Fleetwood Mac after a tumultuous and violent argument/showdown with Stevie and the band. Two new guitarists are hired and "the show must go on"...except that Stevie's pre-birthday night of passion with Lindsey has left her carrying his child! Stevie's avoidance of Lindsey drives him to seek help winning her back from unlikely sources...as well as prompting Mick to propose marriage to help her raise her child. Which of Stevie's "great loves" will be her husband of 35 years by Thanksgiving 2022, the start of the flashback story? Will Lindsey's wrongdoings be forgiven, or is Mick Fleetwood at the right place at the right time? And WHAT is her anniversary surprise? Find out in the conclusion of Tango In The Night...

Stand Back (Mirage Era: Part 3) by GoldDustLinda77

***The final installment of the Mirage Era Trilogy*** Stevie shocks everyone in her life when she marries her best friend Robin's widower, Kim Anderson, in January of 1983, in an effort to get over the loss and raise the newborn baby boy Robin left behind. The most shocked and appalled by this sudden union is Lindsey, who had made it clear before the wedding that he wanted Stevie back! "Stand Back" takes us through the story of Stevie's ill-fated three-month stint with marriage and motherhood, her descent into drugs and madness as The Wild Heart Tour takes her away from the situation... ...with an alternate-universe ending no one will ever see coming! <3

Buckingham Nicks A/U Series Part 1: Over My Head by GoldDustLinda77

On New Years Eve, 1974, broke and dejected and desperate to make it in the music business, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham join Fleetwood Mac at a Mexican restaurant... What followed is the story of five very different people becoming a family, dysfunctional though it may have been from the start, making beautiful music together and enjoying almost instant stardom and riches beyond their wildest dreams. At the center of it all, with their relationship on the rocks after years of being tested by crippling blows from the industry and living below the poverty line, remains the beautiful, romantic, once-in-a-lifetime love affair of Stevie and Lindsey, two kids out of Northern California whose perfect harmony exists not only in their music but in their hearts...and in their bed. This is the story of the inception of Fleetwood Mac, a love story that exists when two people in love with making music and each other find themselves "over their heads...and it sure feels nice."

Kind Of Woman (Mirage Era: Part 1) by GoldDustLinda77

"All there was, was tea...and Lindsey." After three grueling tours in six years, two painful breakups, a growing addiction to cocaine and a very successful solo album called Bella Donna that she's dead-set on following up with The Wild Heart, Stevie cuts her first solo tour extremely short to honor her promise to Fleetwood Mac and join them in a castle forty miles outside of Paris, France to record an album that will be a lot more commercial than Tusk...much to Lindsey's chagrin... But when Stevie receives word that her best friend Robin is not only dying of leukemia but pregnant, she begins to rely more and more on Lindsey for support, and things heat up and emotions run high as the situation between them, the situation with Robin, as well as growing addictions and drama within the band, take hold. "Six weeks in a foreign country, how the time flew...I didn't speak the language, but somehow I knew..."

Too Much For One Heart by WorldWithinAWorld

Dance Era. Imagine if things turned out very, very differently.

Everybody Loves You by GoldDustLinda77

On Monday, January 9, 2023, the four remaining members of Fleetwood Mac gather in Malibu at aa private memorial service for Christine McVie, whose death six weeks earlier shook them all to their core...particularly Stevie Nicks. As Stevie appears in Malibu to bid farewell to yet another best friend, she finds herself more anxious than sad, because two of the most important men in her life will be there, and so will their decades-long connections and conflicting emotions... Mick Fleetwood, who has made it clear to her since Christine's death that life is too short to deny oneself happiness...and happiness for Mick is to love Stevie in a way he was denied decades earlier during their brief love affair. Lindsey Buckingham, whom she has not set eyes on in 5 years, ever since the infamous MusiCares incident that got Lindsey kicked out of the band and put an abrupt end to 20 years of "almost" after their breakup after The Dance. Stevie, still grieving the loss of her friend, must decide once and for all who, if either of these men, will be the one with whom she will spend the remaining years of her life - the man whose comfortable friendship and home in Hawaii is waiting for her, or the man she has loved and hated and lusted after and mourned for her entire adult life but has never gotten over. Told in the first-person point of view by all three people involved in this love triangle, "Everybody Loves You" will answer question... Will Stevie choose comfort, passion, or her own independence from it all?

If You Were My Love (Double Love Series Part 1) by GoldDustLinda77

From 1995-2023, I chronicled the affair-turned-feud-turned-marriage of Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, finally uniting them in "The Wild Heart" and continuing their journey in "Gold And Braid; A Love Story". In "Outside The Rain", it was a life-threatening illness in 2022 that was the catalyst for a Buckingham Nicks love reunion. And now, how about another alternate ending to the greatest love story in rock & roll history... The year is 2022. Separated by miles and by their long-standing feud since the 2018 MusiCares debacle, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham are enjoying their separate solo careers in their 70s on two separate tours... That is, until a phone call to both from a band member about ANOTHER famous Fleetwood Mac couple's late-in-life reunion throws them both together for the first time in nearly 5 long years... The chain may keep them together, but will it help them all find their way back together for good after 5 years apart? Find out in my next present-day Buckingham Nicks reunion love story, "If You Were My Love".

Gold And Braid: A Love Story (Original Series Sequel) by GoldDustLinda77

Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham's epic journey, beginning in "Twisted" and spanning three decades to its conclusion in "The Wild Heart", is not over yet... In 2022, Stephanie Nicks Buckingham has it all - She has finally married the love of her life, they share a beautiful home on the beach in Hawaii near Mick Fleetwood, and after her first solo tour in three years after a global pandemic and lockdown, the Rumors lineup of Fleetwood Mac, reunited, is heading out for a farewell tour! But this is a Buckingham Nicks story after all, and there would not be Shangri-La without a little trouble... This is the story of Mr. & Mrs. Buckingham, after the glitter fades...❤️

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Kind Of Woman (Mirage Era: Part 1) cover

Too Much For One Heart cover

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If You Were My Love (Double Love Series Part 1) cover

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Fall From Grace: The Dance Thriller, Part 2

It's Fall 1997 and Stevie and Lindsey have it all...almost. With a wedding being planned and a baby on the way, a Fleetwood Mac reunion tour and the news of the band being inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, everything has fallen into place. That is, except for Lindsey's tie to a woman from his past that can't seem to take no for an answer. Pregnant with Lindsey's child from their brief relationship , Kristen Messner embarks on a campaign to get Stevie and her unborn child out of the way to have Lindsey for herself...and what results is a fall from grace...and quite possibly, the Buckingham Nicks happy ending that should have been. "One night in a world of pain and you finally understand." ~ Stevie Nicks, "Fall From Grace", Trouble In Shangri-La, 2000