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Carol Sturka, Oscar winning director, and long time producer, Helen Umstead, have announced their divorce after 34 years together. Click on the link to read more of the shocking details. Who served who? Are the rumors of an affair true? And when did Sturka get so close with model, Zosia Mazur?
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07 Apr 2026
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Just a slow burn Bartender AU
Carol Sturka is a sad (possibly pathetic), usually drunk, grumpy 53 year old author. She spends 4-7 days a week hanging out at the local lesbian bar ‘The Hunnycomb’. Where she flirts, drinks and crushes hard… on the Bartender.
Zosia Wydra is that bartender. A ex model that is all smiles, hopelessly in love with Carol, and absolutely terrified of loosing a friendship. To make matters worse, she promised her best friend (Koumba) that she’d bring Carol as her date, but problem is… they aren’t together… yet.
Can they get their act together and finally go after what they want? Or will Carol’s insecurities from her past get in her way? Will Zosia finally takes what she wants?
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16 Mar 2026
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Zosia never meant to fall for the woman behind her grandmother’s favorite romance novels.
Carol Sturka writes sweeping straight love stories and guards her private life carefully. But one late-night message turns curiosity into connection, and connection into something neither of them can ignore.One lives in New York. The other in Albuquerque.
And falling in love might cost more than just the distance between them.- Language:
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10 Mar 2026
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Carol Sturka is a fifty-three-year-old best-selling fantasy author who secretly hates the story that made her famous.
She is also a widow.The world knew Helen Umstead as her manager. Carol knew her as her partner of twenty years.
On her first European tour without her, Carol boards the ÖBB Nightjet from Amsterdam to Vienna with a deluxe sleeper cabin still booked for two and no interest in speaking to strangers.
Zosia Wyspiańska is thirty-nine, a cultural anthropologist who studies intimacy, identity, and the way people perform love in public. She boards in Münster. She recognizes Carol immediately. She is not a fan. She is curious.
What follows is a two-month book tour across Europe, a slow collapse of control, and a love story Carol once believed she had already lived.
Slow burn. Grief. Mutual tension. Very explicit.
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27 Feb 2026
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“I didn’t keep most of the memories. Other people’s memories. I get flashes of big things, births, deaths. Except about you.”
Carol feels the confusion slip onto her face. Nervousness creeps up her spine again. “Me?”
“I know everything that anybody has ever thought about you, Carol. Every memory. Every feeling. Helen. Your ex-girlfriends. Your dentist. It’s like I have a Carol encyclopedia in my head.”
Carol had thought that she was done experiencing fresh horrors. What a nightmare it is to realize that she is not. “Oh, god.” She says.
“Oh, god,” Zosia agrees.
After they manage to break Zosia free of the hive, Zosia and Carol try to navigate the field of landmines that is their relationship.
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11 Jan 2026