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Here is the following list of books in the Enchanted Hearts collection, a series of immensely popular bodice-rippers written by Brooke's mother under the pseudonym Priscilla Penwright.

Blackmail and Bodices
Of Bustiers and Bruises*
The Countess' Corset* - A young, beautiful woman is married off to an old, but rich (gay? maybe?) Count, with whom she shares no passion. One day, one of her best corsets is pilfered (oh noes!), and after an exhausting search by her and associated lady staff, she ends up finding it, weeks later, being kept by one of the stable boys, a strapping young lad who confesses his love (stalk, much?) and the two embark on a torrid, passionate affair. YAYZ.
Diary of a Duke - Girl finds a book filled with the heartfelt, pensive thoughts of a tortured artist who is obviously her soul mate, only to find it's the callow duke she's betrothed to against her will. Happily ever after and sexy times ensue.
Fidelity and Fire
Indecent Indulgences*
Lusty Liaisons
The Musician's Marriage - A musician's once stellar career stalls after his new wife/muse is KILLED BY umm...ninjas? and then he's all forlorn until he...sees a beautiful girl singing in a grove in the moonlight, and is all inspired! but, BUT she is betrothed to...big bad local nobleman, who he must DEFEAT through the power of SONG, thereby liberating the peasants AND winning girlytwirl's 'art and marryin' her on the spot. TA-DA!
Plundering the Player* - Crackling UST between playboy owner of a quidditch team and his star seeker finally comes to a head.
Quiet Quills
Silk Scarves and Secrets*
A Witch or a Wench?
The Woes of a Wizard
The Privateer's Paramour*

... and most recently released Piracy and Pleasure* - Noble lady and her bff/serving girl are captured by VERY bad (but obviously very attractive) pirates. They switch identities to protect the rich one, who ends up attempting to seduce sweet, naive cabin boy, while the other girl has a lot of UST with the captain and the first mate, which causes a rift between them. F.M. ends up leading a mutiny, during the chaos of which, captain and the girl slip overboard and shack up on an island to make sweet, sweet loves. The other girl then throws over the now hopelessly smitten cabin boy for the former first mate (now captain) because he has all the power, ends up his pirate wench bride. The family that pillages together, etc. The end.

*Those that are particularly smut-tastic.

Please note that these were created by the marvelous and brilliant Jane. Who totally needs to make up more of the this delicious crack.

Okay folks, heap lavish amounts of praise and love on Stevie and Lisa, who collaborated and put together this phenomenal tableau of places to visit at Diagon Alley. It is incredible.

There is now a direct link to it on the mod home page, too. Happy perusing!

As some of you have no doubt realized, today was the first multicultural relations class. Basically, today was just an introduction to the class, the expectations, and the schools. There won't be exams and grades are pass/fail, but there will be various projects and multicultural events throughout the term. The first assignment is simple: interview each other. Everyone has been placed into a group of 4 or 5, and they're expected to ask about things like hometowns, family traditions, etc. They'll also have to do also be a brief write up (paragraph or so) of each person in the group. You as players are not required to do anything, but feel free to thread or journal the interviews or reactions to the assignment/interviews!

Here are the groups

1. Dorian, Audrey, Charles, Jana
2. Jonni, Scorpius, Penny, Ronnie
3. Avery, Lorcan, Corrie, Riley
4. Danny, Jonathan, Maddie, Alessandro
5. Chase, Elliot, Nate, Leonard
6. Corbin, Wren, Ava, Dani
7. Tanner, Rosalind, Albus, Ryu
8. Maggie, Lysander, Nikki, Roald
9. Lily, Eddie, Garrett, Katja
10. Georgie, Alice, Lennon, Caer
11. Olivia, Ian, James, Eirik, Felix
12. Hal, Jack, Catie, Mei
13. Aggie, Estella, Lucy, Didi
14. Rose, Clover, Lisa, Cel, Anais
15. Tori, Dexter, Duck, Willow

If you have any questions about the assignment or the class in general, feel free to ask here!

CREATIVITY AND YOUR INPUT NEEDED! See below.

( pop culture and diagon/hogsmeade )