Vinca Marel: Stories

Four thousand three hundred and twelve deepfake videos of Alana de Vargas exist online. She never made one of them. At forty, with four Vogue covers and an Academy Award behind her, she answers the only way left: for real. Ten days at the Château de Valéran, ten scenarios, all live-streamed. No recordings, no archives, no second takes. Day One is a library, a professor of architectural heritage, and a photometer.

Cara Whitlock inherits a vast Northumberland estate—but only if she and her fiancé complete a ninety-day residential programme of absolute compliance. Daily orders, impossible clothing, public exposure, and a ledger that never stops adding days. What begins as a test of will becomes something far more permanent.