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Of Gentle Things and Gentlemen by pussshhh
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
23 May 2025
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Anthony Bridgerton was never supposed to confide in Penelope Featherington. But between the lines of their letters and the spaces between their meetings, something tender takes root.
As seasons change and scandals rise, they remain each other’s quiet constant—until friendship begins to look an awful lot like love.---
“You write like a man twice your age,” Penelope scrawled at the bottom of her reply.
Anthony’s next letter arrived with only one line:
“That’s rich coming from a woman who hides behind an alias to scold the entire ton.”- Language:
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31 Jul 2025
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Signed, Sealed... Desired by pussshhh
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 Sep 2025
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It was supposed to be a favor. One secret bid to help her boss dodge romance.
Now Penelope’s the one being chased.
And Anthony Bridgerton? He’s learning what happens when the quiet ones stop waiting to be chosen.- Language:
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18 Jul 2025
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The Anatomy of a Scandal: A Bridgerton’s Guide to Ruin by AFlowerInTheSun
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Jun 2025
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The Bridgertons have always had a talent for drawing attention, whether through triumph or whispered disgrace, they are a family forever teethering on the edge of scandal. Passion and consequence weave through their lives like an unbreakable thread, drawing the eyes of the ton with every misstep.
Penelope Featherington, however, has spent years accepting her place on the fringes, her sharp mind dismissed, her presence overlooked. The irony, of course, is that no one knows London’s scandals better than she does. After all, she is the one writing them.
That is, until Benedict Bridgerton takes notice. And suddenly, she is no longer a mere observer of ruin, but a player in the very game she has chronicled, ensnared in the very thing she has always observed from a distance.
A flirtation that tempts fate. A dance along the razor's edge. A secret that should never be spoken. A game of chance played in shadowed corners, where a single misstep could mean ruin.
Because when the writer of scandal entangles herself with a family born to create it, there is only one certainty: sooner or later, the next scandal will be theirs.
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- Part 1 of The Rules of Ruin: Scandal Seasons
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14 Jul 2025
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Sugar by lixabiz, murderbymushrooms
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
24 Nov 2024
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“I—” she stared up at him and said in a small voice, “it’s too much to ask of you.”
“It’s not,” Colin said firmly. “Don’t overthink it,” he urged her.
Ten minutes ago, she had no home and no chance that she would ever know where her dad was. Colin had just walked into the room and taken control of everything within a matter of minutes, like her own personal white knight.
“Just let someone take care of you for once.”
In which Colin slowly, inadvertently, and inevitably becomes Penelope’s sugar daddy.
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01 Sep 2024
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Penelope is determined to mend things with Eloise while keeping her distance from Colin.
Colin is determined to close any distance between them.
Both find themselves thwarted by circumstances as mistakes, misplaced memories, and mayhem abound over Christmas at Aubrey Hall.
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19 Jul 2024