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    Well. If this just doesn’t take the biscuit. Just when she thought the night couldn’t get any worse.

    “Are you mad? I would never court Penelope Featherington. Not in your wildest fantasies, Fife!”

    The boy she’s loved since she first laid eyes on him all those years ago, disparaging her for all the Ton to hear. She’d put up with it when he’d implied she did not count as a woman. Helped to free him from a planned entrapment by her own cousin, to her own family's detriment. Accepted that he only saw her as a friend. She had worked very hard on that part.

    Penelope is a lady. She does not curse. But this is a step too damn far.

    In one night she’s discovered her cousin Jack has been fleecing the Ton and has chosen to run, leaving the Featheringtons ruined and practically destitute. Her best friend Eloise has discovered that she is Lady Whistledown, declared them no longer friends and ravaged her bedroom. They had fought so viciously, words spoken in the heat of the moment, explanations and apologies ignored.

    Any other night she would have fled in tears at Colin’s words. But tonight? After all this? She is fuming.

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    22 Apr 2026

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    "Now," the boy (Colin, Colin, Colin) says, as he eases himself to his feet languorously, so he looms and teeters upon the wall. Penelope's breath catches in her throat — she stares up at him in frozen terror as he reaches a long arm out to snatch the top of the cherry tree, his body bowing elegantly into the nothingness of open air. One wrong move and he will tumble, she is sure of it. "Penelope with the Greek name and lovely face and hair like fire," (Penelope wonders if she might die from blushing), "if I throw you down some of the sweetest cherries from the top of the tree," (he begins to pluck and twist the green stems, the branches shaking precariously), "the ones the sun has kissed to perfect ripeness, the kind of cherries you have never tasted before in your life," (he pops one in his mouth and gives the rest of his speech pouted around it), "even as the daughter of a duke who always tastes the very best of everything — well, do you think you might favour me with a smile?"

    Oh, she thinks (for even at fourteen she is decisive; knows her mind well). I am in love.

     

    On the day she finds out she is to be married, Penelope falls in love

    Renaissance Era AU

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    04 Feb 2026

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    For Colin, no matter how many countries he visited, how many people he met, how useful he was to the crown, he was haunted by Penelope.

    After the first month he started to fill a journal with words that are written about her, for her, hoping to find his way towards understanding and forgiveness (what choice did he truly have, between forgiving her and never seeing her again?). Letters piled up unsent, but he could stop producing them - his words spilling out of him like air.

    By the fifth month of his travels, he had started to hallucinate her, catching glimpses of her red hair across a piazza. One night, half-deranged, he trailed the sound of her voice through the streets to find only a dead-end and her absence.
    Another night, boots frozen to cobblestones he was trapped under the glare of her bright blue eyes peaking out in shock from under a heavy cloak. A cart toppled behind him, a moment of distraction. When he looked back, the spirit had disappeared.

    He no longer knew if he was searching for something or fleeing from it. In the seventh month he returned home, and found it was fundamentally changed.

    Penelope was gone.

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    17 Jan 2026

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    Penelope Featherington expected a quiet stay at Aubrey Hall. Cards by the fire, polite conversation, perhaps a glass of wine. What she did not expect was to end up the center of attention for three very determined Bridgerton brothers.
    It begins as a game, a silly forfeit, but it doesn’t stay that way for long. Anthony is steady, Benedict is wicked, and Colin—Colin is utterly undone. With every touch, every kiss, every teasing word, Penelope learns just how desperately they want her… and how much she wants them in return.

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    Anthony Bridgerton doesn't intend to give up his life as a rake anytime soon, but he knows he must fulfill his viscount's duty and marry. To do so, he seeks a wife who fits the role of viscountess. In his search, he comes across Penelope Featherington, the Mayfair wallflower, and she seems to be perfect for the role.

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