β Scribed by KJ Charles
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Music-hall singer Miss Christiana is in serious debt, and serious trouble. She owes more than she can pay to a notorious criminal, and now he plans to make an example of her. There's no way out.
But Christiana has an admirer. Stan Kamarzyn has watched her sing for a year and he doesn't want to see her get hurt. Stan's nobody specialβjust a dodgy bloke from Bethnal Greenβbut he's got useful friends, the sort who can get a girl out of trouble, for a price. Christiana's not sure what it will cost her...
The two slowly reach an understanding. But Christiana is no criminal, and she can't risk getting mixed up with the law. What will happen when Stan's life as the fence for the notorious Lilywhite Boys brings trouble to his doorstep?
A trans f/m asexual romance short story (16,000 words), set two years before Any Old Diamonds.
Content warnings: Story opens with misgendering/transphobia and threat of gendered violence.
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