14 Works in Bess Sinclair
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Scotch, Champagne, and Brandy by xoeyx
Fandoms: We Were Liars (TV 2025), We Were Liars Series - E. Lockhart
09 Mar 2026
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hey so this is my first fan fiction and I think Blake and Johnny deserved their happy ending once in a life time x
johnny sinclair.
salt swagger and reckless.
He has a secret but will he be able to lie his self out of it this time? -
Salt and Silk by purebloodames
Fandoms: We Were Liars - E. Lockhart, We Were Liars (TV 2025)
23 Feb 2026
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16-year-old Amilia Buchanan, a wealthy Chicago teen with golden hair, blue eyes, and Juilliard dreams, becomes an unexpected part of the Sinclair world on Beechwood Island. Invited by Mirren to spend the summer with the Liars, Amilia’s quiet confidence and her musical soul catches Johnny Sinclair’s guarded heart from the moment he first sees her disembark the ferry.
Their connection unfolds in stolen dawn walks along the beach, secret piano performances late at night, and shared vulnerabilities. Between board-game laughter, sunrise picnics in the rose garden, and a bittersweet almost-kiss, they tiptoe toward something real, even as the weight of Sinclair expectations creeps in.
Across the Sinclair estate, tensions bloom: Johnny’s grandfather Harris vets Amilia’s family and hints he’ll make Johnny heir if he “settles down,” while Carrie and Ed quietly support him, and the Sinclair sisters bristle over their father’s attentions and legacy battles. As Amilia and Johnny navigate jealousy, family politics, and their own fears, Salt and Silk weaves a summer of longing, music, and the brave hope that love can outlast even the heaviest expectations.
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somber eyes by dulcetbrooks
Fandoms: We Were Liars - E. Lockhart, We Were Liars (TV 2025)
10 Feb 2026
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All-star tennis champion Dallas Ruiz has loathed Johnny Sinclair ever since he caused the downfall of his dad’s chocolate shop.
When their shared sport forces them into each other’s limelight, Dallas realizes he might actually like the reckless fire that shines in Johnny’s eyes. Dallas has always loved fire.
Until one day it burns too bright, causing Dallas to wish he had stayed in the shadows.
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Truths That Were Never Told by Im_Not_A_Pineapple
Fandoms: We Were Liars (TV 2025), We Were Liars Series - E. Lockhart
02 Feb 2026
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The Sinclair family always believed their story was perfect—sunny summers, flawless smiles, and well-kept secrets. But when they are all brought together to face the events that marked Beechwood, there's no more pretending.
As Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat relive each memory, the adults in the family are also forced to confront truths they chose to ignore. Pride, guilt, denial, and pain intertwine as the past is exposed, chapter by chapter, before everyone.
Each reaction reveals more than words ever spoken.
Each silence weighs as much as a confession.
Because when the whole family watches their own story unfold, no lie is pretty enough to hide the truth.
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Evangeline Claire Harrington - pearls, posture, and thoughts that spiral after midnight. Evie finds herself on the Beechwood island once again, spending time with the rest of the liars one more summer. After yet another boring and depressing school year in Vermont, Evangeline is rather eager to see her best friends again, but she has no idea how much this year has changed them. The "heir games", as she likes to call them, continue, only making their differences much more obvious and the gaps between the friends grow bigger.
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Salt, Swagger, and Reckless Abandon by josephzadasarsenalshirt
Fandoms: We Were Liars - E. Lockhart, We Were Liars (TV 2025)
18 Oct 2025
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Johnny Sinclair is the golden Sinclair grandson. The first male heir. He can do no wrong in Harris' eyes. Apart from one thing.
Blake Beaumont is the tennis star. The 'good boy'. His parents last hope after his sister went so terribly wrong in life.
What could rich prep school boys possibly have to worry about in life?
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The Summer We Became Liars by orphan_account
Fandoms: The Summer I Turned Pretty (TV 2022), We Were Liars - E. Lockhart
16 Sep 2025
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In which they did, in fact, know how to do arson.
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She was never meant to be a Sinclair. But on Beechwood, even outsiders are bound by the family’s lies.
Lavinia “Livvie” Moreau has always been almost a Sinclair—close enough to belong, but never quite one of them. With her French accent, dark eyes, and jet-black hair, she stands apart on Beechwood, the island of golden children and perfect summers.
But when Harris Sinclair decides she must marry Johnny to secure the family fortune, her place shifts from outsider to pawn in a legacy she never asked for.
With Johnny, though, it never feels like duty. Their summers are built on pinky promises, laughter, and midnight escapades. What starts as childhood loyalty grows into something fragile, something dangerous—something hers.
Until the fire. Until Johnny is gone.
Now Livvie is left with ghosts: of a boy who knew her best, of a future stolen, of an island that can never be what it once was. Beechwood was never a fairytale. It was always built on lies, and now, it is built on ghosts.
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In the end Cady thought it would have been kinder if the universe had taken her too.
- Language:
- English
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- 338
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Kudos:
- 15
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- 197
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Ashes, Ashes, (We All Lie Down) by GemsandJunk
Fandoms: We Were Liars - E. Lockhart, We Were Liars (TV 2025)
05 Aug 2025
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In which the Liars do know how to do arson.
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Johnny Sinclair, salt, swagger, reckless abandon, and a secret.
One shots of Johnny coming out to his family.
- The Liars
- The Littles
- Carrie
- Ed
- Harris.Or, four times Johnny comes out and one time he gets outed.
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Penny Sinclair was raised to be perfect: marry a good man, uphold the family name, never want too loudly. And Sam—predictable, pedigreed Sam—is exactly the kind of man she’s supposed to love.
Then there’s Eleanor.
Eleanor, the gallery’s head curator, all sharp smiles and sharper wit. Eleanor, who watches Penny with a gaze that lingers just too long, who presses a chilled glass of wine into her hand and lets their fingers brush like it’s an accident.
It’s not love. It’s hunger—raw and reckless, a thing that claws its way out in stolen moments: a glance across the auction hall, a laugh shared too late at night, a very inappropriate tryst in the gala’s bathroom.
But the Sinclairs don’t indulge. They don’t risk. And as Eleanor’s mouth burns against her skin, Penny has to decide: How much of herself is she willing to lose for a taste of freedom?
(A oneshot AU where Penny Sinclair trades pedigreed dogs for priceless art—and learns that some cages are gilded, but a prison all the same.)
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When Mirren throws herself off a cliff just to make her mother see her, she wakes up bandaged in Bess's childhood bedroom. Between them, there's a mended canvas and years of unspoken love stretched thin by impossible expectations and generational trauma. Mother and daughter finally begin to unpick the mess their relationship has tangled into.
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what if?
what if?
what if?
what if?they actually survive and are going through the same thing? who is lying to them and who is telling the truth? would they ever even lie to each other?