arranged marriage / tommy shelby
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In the smoky heart of 1920's Birmingham, where power is currency and loyalty can cost a life, eighteen year old Anastasia Whitmore is sold into marriage with the most dangerous man she's ever heard of - Thomas Shelby.
For Tommy, the union is strictly business - a deal to secure influence and bury old debts. For Anastasia, it's a prison dressed in silk and lace. But beneath the cold arrangements and whispered threats of the Shelby world, something unexpected begins to stir.
He's all sharp edges and quiet fury. She's light, grace, and defiance wrapped in innocence. When their worlds collide, neither is prepared for the fire that follows.
In a city ruled by smoke, blood, and ambition, love might just be the most dangerous deal of all.
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Birmingham had a way of pulling people back. No matter how far they ran, how long they stayed gone, the smoke and grit clung to their bones like memory. When Nora's dad had sent her away to London, her life had changed: she had changed. She built a life of her own, she learned how to be independent, how to fend for herself. After five years, she's back in Birmingham, where everything feels different but exactly the same all at once. Back where it all began, where her soul still bled, back where loyalty was currency and love was a debt that never really got paid.
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