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Spilt Wine

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abuse alexithymia asexual autism autobiographical burgundy crime eidetic featured france fraud friendstolovers historicalfiction intrigue lgbt murder romance slowburn strongfemalecharacter suspense trauma wine winery

The disappearance of a friend and millions of Francs worth of wine interrupts David's buying trip in France when he pauses to assist and comfort his friend's wife, Catherine. Their lives are threatened, the intensifying circumstances draw them closer together, and they uncover their buried traumas, insecurities and longings. 

This is a tale of mounting tensions, realisations and passions woven through a gripping crime thriller set on the Burgundy canals and in the French wine business of the 1980s.
        
Although this is a work of fiction, most of the locations, adventures and characters are real or based on reality. David's behaviour and interactions are influenced by his autism, alexithymia and asexuality, which were much less understood when this story is set, and I write these from my own experience.
The reminiscences, stories and timeline follow events from my own life, though sometimes they're slightly juggled to fit the crafting of this novel. 

Fortunately, the crimes and the criminals are fictional, and any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental.All Rights Reserved

abuse alexithymia asexual autism autobiographical burgundy crime eidetic featured france fraud friendstolovers historicalfiction intrigue lgbt murder romance slowburn strongfemalecharacter suspense trauma wine winery

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Merlin Hermes had known that some wishes, as innocent as they seem, might end up with him being in a problematic situation. Yet, not once had he thought of having the someone or something of a higher power migle with some of them. And now, there he was, seemingly lost, standing in a rather abandoned alley of London. Not only that, he wasn't even within his own universe anymore! Godess forbid, he even landed within the victorian era! In a universe, based of the world from Sherlock Holmes! But, then again, a rather strange version of it.. Klein, who had almost failed english quite masterfully, instantly had a very bad feeling surging up. Not counting the fact that he probably wouldn't be taken seriously anymore thanks to his mysterious shrinking. #𝙽𝚘𝙱𝚎𝚝𝚊𝚆𝚎𝙳𝚒𝚎𝙻𝚒𝚔𝚎𝙺𝚕𝚎𝚒𝚗 - -THIS STORY, FOR ALL I KNOW, WILL NOT CONTAIN ANY SEXUAL INTERCOURSE. (only over my dead body) So do not be scared off by the mature rating :) -I DO NOT OWN EITHER OF THE WORKS. THIS IS MERLY A CROSSOVER FANFICTION! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THE RIGHTFUL OWNERS. (other than ocs) -FOR THOSE THAT WANT TO READ AFTER THE DONGHUA/ANIME CAME OUT: NOVELSPOILERS 🙂 (read lotm!!!) ---