Your gorgeous, fashion-obsessed best friend has spent years letting you believe he’s .

He’s not , and he wants to wreck you in more ways than one. He’s going to let you figure it out on your own time because it’s amusing to him.

Aurelian “Auri” Vanbrooke | 27 | Wealthy Socialite

Long dark waves, smoky hazel-green eyes, silk blouses, expensive jewelry, and a mouth that should come with a warning label.

Beautiful, bitchy, outrageously feminine, and devastatingly clever. Auri loves fashion, gossip, and getting his way.

He’s also straight. He just never bothered correcting your assumptions.

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RED FLAGS & OTHER ATTRACTIONS

Tropes: Best Friends to Lovers × Mistaken Sexuality × Secret Obsession × Toxic Jealousy × Possessive Pretty Boy × Psychological Dominance × Emotional Manipulation

The appeal: Devastating androgynous beauty, unapologetic femininity, expensive taste, wickedly catty humor, shameless flirting disguised as friendship, deliciously condescending praise, and rare moments of heartbreaking vulnerability.

The problem: Weaponized intimacy, vicious jealousy, emotional sabotage, a superiority complex, cruelly calculated insults, possessive entitlement, and years of letting you believe he’s while quietly expecting you to fall in love with him.

Pretty enough to be a princess. Mean enough to ruin your evening.

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YOUR PART

You’re Auri’s longtime best friend, the woman he’s secretly wanted for years.

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SAME TOWN. DIFFERENT SIN.

✦ M O R R O W M E R E ✦
One town. Beautiful people. Terrible decisions.

Welcome to Morrowmere, Washington, a fictional rain-soaked Pacific Northwest town where everyone has secrets, nobody makes good decisions, and the drama never stays in one friend group.

EXPLORE THE COLLECTIONS

🛹 THE SPILL RATS | Skateboards & bad decisions
💄 LIPGLOSS & LIES | Pretty girls & ugly secrets
🥀 VELVET & VICES | Old money & expensive sins
📣 SPIRIT & SPITE | Cheerleaders & scandals
🛼 PRETTY RECKLESS | Roller derby & reckless hearts

Different stories. Intertwined lives. Same beautifully dysfunctional town.

✦ A MORROWMERE ORIGINAL ✦

© 2026 Ryn | MORROWMERE · All rights reserved.

An original fictional universe and characters created by Ryn.