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    Penelope made the impossible choice to publish the news of Marina's pregnancy through Whistledown to save Colin. On her way home from the printers she gets apprehended and sent to the palace to face her punishment from the Queen. What happens when the Queen gives her the choice, take a husband and produce an heir to show her commitment to the crown or be banished from all she has ever known.

    Which will she choose?...

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    Colin returns home unexpectedly and, to Penelope's surprise, announces their relationship to his entire family. There's just one problem... they aren't in a relationship. Colin convinces Penelope that pretending to be together would help them both, and she can't say no to him. Or Colin and Penelope do fake dating (and fail miserably at it).

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    She couldn't help it… It was too much. Too hard. Too heartbreaking. She knew about it — he told her. She had even helped him choose the ring, yet it still broke her into a million pieces.

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    Why would he always choose the hard way? Why would he love the woman who had chosen his brother, and never once looked at him?

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    When an episode of the Great British Bake off sets off a Bridgerton family competition, chaos ensues. Will flour be the only thing flying or will the sparks also fly.

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    Colin’s life is a mess- a car crash, you might say. Widowed, young twins, barely keeping the family together until Anthony and Violet step in.

    Penelope’s life is plodding along in a decent fashion- job she loves (reception teacher), cougar wannabe mother she generally avoids and a quiet life but that’s ok, right? Who needs anything else?

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    26/?
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    Penelope is a Brazilian girl chasing her dream of becoming an actress in London. Colin is a British heartthrob tired of living behind a carefully crafted image. When a chance encounter throws them into the public eye, they agree to fake a relationship — each for their own reasons. But as the lines blur between what’s real and what’s for show, neither of them is prepared for what comes next.
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    Or, the one where Penelope becomes Colin’s PR girlfriend… and Colin forgets when to stop acting.

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    15/20
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    This definitely wasn’t on Penelope’s 2025 bingo card. To be completely honest with herself, it wasn’t even on her lifetime bingo card.

    Right before he left for his month-long trip to New York, Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington had sex, and it was glorious.

    Songfic: Round and Round by Selena Gomez

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    The realization strikes him like a lightning bolt, a white-hot and searing shock that splinters through his chest and cracks his heart into pieces. All he can hear is his own rapid pulse in his ears and the agonized howl that rips through through his hindmind.

    The box containing the cursed bouquet tumbles to the floor, spilling out its blood-stained petals and wilted blooms, and his knees follow—as if he's being dragged down by the weight of his worst nightmares, which now lie scattered across the carpet.

    Or, a tale of what happens when a young Omega is carelessly spurned by her oblivious True Mate.

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    Sometimes you meet the right person too early. You’re not ready yet, you lie to yourself, you keep pretending you’re “just friends”, until denying it becomes impossible.

    Every ex has a story to tell about that oh-so-“platonic” relationship between two best friends.

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    Penelope in a corset doing a sexy tik tok trend.
    Colin spirals.

    That's it!

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    Penelope loves Colin. Colin loves Penelope. But they are oblivious idiots about it. As time, unfortunate events and misunderstandings drive them apart, they find themselves on opposite sides of the world, miserable, each convinced the other has moved on.

    Then, one day Penelope publishes a book that contains her true feelings for Colin, convinced it will never see the light of day. Colin does read it though. Oh boy does he. He reads the shit out of it.

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    In the shadows of Washington’s brightest lights, President Colin Bridgerton rises as the youngest leader in American history—charismatic, brilliant, but dangerously entangled with the one woman he cannot have: his fixer, Penelope Featherington. While the First Lady smiles for the cameras, Colin and Penelope steal moments in the dark, tethered by a love too powerful to name and too ruinous to expose. Every debate, every state dinner, every crisis threatens to unravel them, as ambition and desire collide behind closed doors. With Michael Sterling circling, Marina suspicious, and the press hungrier than ever, the line between politics and scandal grows razor-thin. The question is no longer if the truth will come out—but when, and what it will destroy in its wake.

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    Penelope is Olivia Pope and Colin is Fitzgerald down-bad Grant.

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    Penelope had to get out. She felt like she was dying every time she had to return to Featherington house, and now with the heir race well underway with her sisters, she knew she had to get out. Penelope was no fool, she knew living with one of her sisters as the new Lady Featherington would be interminable and she’d likely be kicked out and sent to the country – or worse, Ireland in exile. However, Penelope had been planting seeds and she had two plans – hopefully one of them would work.

    The first one involved Lady Danbury and a desperate plea for asylum – before she wound up in one.

    The second one involved telling Anthony Bridgerton she was in love with him and wanted to be his wife.

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    When Anthony Bridgerton is standing on the front steps of his former mistress after having been rejected, the last thing he expects to see is Penelope Featherington get out of a hired carriage and promptly faint.

    So he takes her to his property on the other side of town, far from Grosvenor Square and their own homes, to protect her virtue.

    To his surprise, she is Lady Whistledown.

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    Posting Schedule: Every Thursday until 06/11/2026

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    What if Lady Featherington, along with her unmarried daughters Prudence and Penelope, did flee in the middle of the night with Jack Featherington to America? What would’ve happened when the next day word would spread of it and the Bridgertons, particularly Colin, were concerned over Penelope’s well-being?

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    Colin and Penelope have been close for years. But when she ghosts him while he's traveling, Colin realises maybe there's something he's missing. Will he be able to fix their friendship as they navigate the ups and downs of their relationships with their families and with each other?

    Can what they share be more than he once thought it was?

    And has Penelope always been this beautiful?

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    Penelope Featherington is at her wit's end.
    Due to which mysterious illness has she suddenly become a stuttering mess whenever her best friend - and secret crush - Colin Bridgerton is around?
    For years, she used to be able to control her desires. Now, she turns into a dripping, drooling, writhing pile of hearteyes as soon as he so much as looks at her.

    And, what's more: Why is he suddenly acting weirdly, too?
    Has he been befallen by the same arcane affliction that seems to burden her?

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    Penelope Featherington’s childhood dreams are crushed. Her first love and brother of her former best friend, Colin Bridgerton, will never love her. But this won’t hinder her to keep pursuing her career as Whistledown. Yet, with her nagging mother and obnoxious sister, there is no room for her secret writing, except if…

    She must marry this season. Someone who is not Colin Bridgerton, someone who leaves her the freedom to do whatever it is that she desires. But when no other than William Fife begins courting her with his own ulterior motives and secrets, she has to decide if she dares to trust a man with her heart and her greatest secret, while Fife must choose between the ruthless ambitions he inherited and the love he never believed he deserved.

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    12,066
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    3/?
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    What if Penelope ran away after the Featherington ball to live alone and free abroad? She created one fake persona for herself, why not create another one and live happily ever after. Or so that at least was the plan.

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    20/20
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    409
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    1,062
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