After your father dies, you discover he left you in the care of the Shelby brothers. You're used to taking care of yourself. But soon you learn that's not necessary anymore, with the brothers and Michael all too willing to take care of you instead. Slow burn. Smut. Apparently not a 'true' rh as Tommy becomes protective of how the others treat her in the harem (and I stand by it as he'd be ooc otherwise) so don't read if you have a problem with that. But poly to the end and bonus Ada joins the harem too. *I don't use y/n in my stories, in this you are 'Bancroft'*

[FINISHED] She is like a cat in the dark and then She is the darkness She rules her life like a fine skylark and when The sky is starless All your life you've never seen A woman taken by the wind Would you stay if she promised you heaven? Will you ever win? Will you ever win? - Fleetwood Mac -

Gypsy wisdom teaches that fate is something that lurks in every decision, in every glance at the stars, in every sound that seems to resonate in the heart. They say that fate is not something permanent, but a dance between free will and inevitability. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if Thomas had met his first love before he went to fight in the war? Maybe history would have turned out differently... #1 in peakyblinders #1 in 1910s #1 in 1920s #1 in 1930s #1 in tommyshelby #1 in arthurshelby #1 in shelbyfamily #2 in Birmingham

When a girl who's loved meets a man who's feared.

FINISHED! Roelynn is a shy girl around 5 years old. She is an orphan and lives at the all girls orphanage of Small-Heath. Never in her life would she talk to strangers, but when a certain family of gangsters start to fund the orphanage. Little Roelynn starts to leave her little bubble with the help of Tommy Shelby.

Camilla Rosatti was not supposed to fall for Arthur. 🥃 "There is snow on the floor, I can't see straight." 🍸 Most characters belong to pb Any mature content is between consenting fictional characters

"I know you are a man who has lost a great deal, Mr. Shelby. And I know that fear is the only language you think Birmingham speaks. But I have spent ten years with the Sisters; your shadows don't frighten me nearly as much as the thought of a child going without a coat tomorrow." She is a woman of cloth and conviction. He is a man of lead and whiskey. Mabel is the lead teacher at the Grace Shelby Institute, a place built on the sins of the Shelby family. She isn't under any illusions about who pays her wages; she's seen the blood on the notes. But while the rest of Small Heath trembles at the click of iron-shod heels in the night, Mabel simply keeps her needle moving. When Thomas Shelby wanders into her classroom at two in the morning, he's looking for the silence his own mind refuses to give him. Instead, he finds a woman who refuses to be his victim or his devotee. To Tommy, she is a sanctuary he doesn't deserve. To Mabel, he is a soul that no amount of prayer can fix-but that doesn't mean she won't try. A story of faith, fire, and the mending of a man who thought he was beyond repair.

"For it was not an enemy that reproached me; then I could have borne it... But it was thou, a man mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance." - Psalm 55:12-14 ------ The word forgiveness appears more than a hundred times in the Holy Bible, depending on the version one reads. In Leonor's - once the book of a devoted Catholic - much to Thomas Shelby's dismay, it seemed to appear none at all.

Aristocrats and gangsters have a lot in common. They're both selfish, get bored easily, and have access to wads of cash they didn't work honestly to get and neither have any interest in bourgeois rules or morality. ------------------------ So when Thomas Shelby manages to marry into that world, to a woman whose blood is almost as blue as that cursed sapphire of his, a perfect match is the only result one could expect, a stunning result for success. Well... ...on the outside, at least.

In 1919 Birmingham, power is everything - and peace is rarely an option. When a long-standing rivalry between two families threatens to turn violent, a deal is struck: a marriage. Ruby Hale is bound to John Shelby, a man she neither trusts nor understands. To him, she is nothing more than a solution - a means to an end. But alliances built on obligation are fragile, and beneath the surface of their arrangement lies something far more dangerous. Because hatred can turn into something else entirely... if you're not careful. And in a world like theirs, love might be the most dangerous thing of all. ~ a john shelby fanfic series one - onwards