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      "title": "The Breeches Role",
      "summary": "Free historical romance short story — Georgian London, 1780s. Player Kit Aldous performs both Sebastian and his disguised sister at the Coronet, and lives between the two off-stage as well. The company's new swordmaster, Tomas Reyes, is the first person who never asks which they really are.",
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      "summary": "Naturalist Eleanor Fane has waited three months for Lord Ashfield's answer. When he grants her access to his extraordinary hothouse collection, the exchange of botanical expertise becomes something neither of them had classified.",
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