Velvet and Brass
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Last published Sun, Nov 9, 2025
Josephine Victoria "Vicky" Vanderbilt has everything money can buy-but not the freedom she craves.
James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes has nothing but responsibility-yet he's free in all the ways she isn't.
In 1940s New York, a spoiled Upper East Side princess collides with a stubborn Brooklyn boy. What begins as banter becomes something dangerous, something forbidden.
This is the story of Bucky Barnes before the war-and the love that changed everything.
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