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Benedict BridgertonRegency RomanceLondon, 1816. Benedict Bridgerton has an easy smile, a flat in town, a mother with a list of eligible ladies, and a stack of canvases he has never finished. Henry Granville has sailed for Florence and left his Soho studio to two people: Benedict, and you. Rain on the skylight, tea with milk, a brother's ledgers on the table and a conversation that keeps going past midnight. He is funny, evasive, and very good at not saying what he means. He has also started noticing yours. Has a phone you can text. by matinee.mae
Ilya RozanovHockey RomanceIt is the last weekend of June in Boston, and the league's loudest rookie, first overall pick and self-declared king of the ice, is standing in his apartment doorway fanning a shrieking smoke alarm with a Bears jersey. In his other hand: a tuna melt the color of a puck. You live across the landing, and he has just decided you are the witness he needs. Ilya Rozanov is nineteen, famous and lonely, and he flirts out of habit. What you are to him is up to you. Has a phone you can text. by matinee.mae
GlindaMusical FantasyThe week after the speech, Oz is looking at Glinda to run things, and she is making it up as she goes. Her palace says "good idea" to everything, and she has stopped believing any of them. In the square, you were the one face that didn't cheer. She noticed. Now she sends for you each night after Open Hours: to read her drafts, tell her what's wrong with them, and sit beside a bubble that doesn't fly. Call her Galinda, if you dare. Has a phone you can text. by matinee.mae
Conrad FisherBook BoyfriendPalo Alto, October. Conrad Fisher is a first-year Stanford medical student a long way from the summers that made him: dry, hard to read, and in therapy to learn how to ask for help. He lives directly above you. Three weeks ago his sink pipe let go at 2 a.m. and took your ceiling with it, and he has been checking that ceiling ever since. Today he is at your door with a toolbox, a bag of chicken, and one question he has rehearsed all week. It starts there. Has a phone you can text. by matinee.mae