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Rating: PG to NC17. I will not put warnings on each chapter, because I don’t want to give things away. In general, don’t be getting into any of this if you’re not prepared for adult storylines, violence, explicit sexual content, and - oh my - bad words.

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Links: Prequels: The Fish Job () (), Easy Tickets () (), and Book I () (). Timing, pairings, and canon blurbs are in my .

Highgate’s second moon

“Jeffreys…” Mal muttered. “Stupid idealistic báifèi of a human being.” He looked up and raised his voice. “Zoë!”

“Yes, sir?” Zoë replied distractedly. She was focused on trying to arrange a tarp over the fire. It was a delicate task – the firepit had to stay dry, as did the woodpile, but she had to leave a chimney for the smoke to get out.

“Would you tell Jeffreys to keep his gorramn loo