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A single flutter of wings, delicate, almost imperceptible, can stir a storm an ocean away. Such is the poetry of the butterfly effect: the notion that the smallest choices can ripple through time, bending destinies in their silent wake.
What if she had never gone to that costume party?
What if, in a rare moment of boldness, she hadn’t seized spontaneity with both hands and fallen into that captivating stranger?
What if she had never met Eloisee, never uncovered the strange, delicate threads weaving her life into his, long before they’d ever spoken a word?It takes only one decision, one heartbeat of courage or chance, to unmake the life you knew and compose an entirely new one.
Or How a steamy encounter at a costume party leads to a series of secret little dates, sparking a romance neither of them saw coming… ?
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Bookmarked by GabyWinter
21 Jun 2025
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The Bridgerton family is the wealthiest and most powerful family in Mayfair. Also the most dangerous.
Penelope's father owes them money and Penelope finds herself as collateral until the debt is paid.
Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington used to consider themselves friends...maybe more...but now he has fully embraced his family role as Penelope's primary captor. A mysterious Whistledown writer is also threatening to expose the Bridgerton family crimes and Colin is trying to unmask the writer to protect his family. How far will he go?
Can Penelope survive her ordeal? And will the damage between Colin and Penelope be irreparable, or can their bond withstand the pressure before breaking?
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- English
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- 6,040
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- 1/1
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08 May 2025
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Bleeding Hearts by KatofKanals
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
09 May 2025
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A collection of moments between Colin and Penelope over the years, each involving her period and the ways in which it oddly plays a defining role in how their relationship evolves over time.
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- Part 1 of Bleeding Hearts & Loving Hands
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- English
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- 6/6
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Bookmarked by GabyWinter
30 Apr 2025
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“This is my fault,” the Viscount said. “I should have taken him to a brothel long ago.” He gulped down his drink. “I should take him now.”
“What use would it have?” Benedict asked. “He’s already engaged, he’d reject the offer in favour of his beloved fiancé.”
“Beloved?” Anthony laughed humorlessly. “He’s too green. I bet you all it’d take for him to abandon this nonsense is to find a willing girl to wet his wick with.”
“What does that mean?” Penelope asked. She did not mean to, but the prospect of Colin saving himself from entrapment prompted her to blurt the question out.
After accidently hearing a rather crude declaration from Colin's older brother, Penelope decides to put the put it to the test.
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or, instead of exposing Marina on LW, Penelope decides to try a different approach- Language:
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- 4/4
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Bookmarked by GabyWinter
26 Apr 2025
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Abducting Mrs Bridgerton by A_quill_in_the_night for Catherine for always listening to me rant
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Apr 2025
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The Ton is horrified to hear that Penelope Featherington was abducted from her bed chambers, the very night before her wedding to Lord Debling
She was simply gone without a trace.
Across the continent Colin, learns of Penelope's upcoming nuptials, and puts a plan in place.
As the Bridgerton's race to find what happened to their beloved friend,
They may soon discover, that the abductor is closer then they think.
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- English
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- 10,668
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- 3/3
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20 Apr 2025
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Where Our Shadows Come to the Shore by gildedruin, Sea_Dragonfly for applepuffsilver
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Feb 2026
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When Penelope Featherington is dragged from her bed in the middle of the night, she’s told that her nom-de-plume has been uncovered. Not by the Queen as she’d feared, but by the men who murdered her father. There are debts to be paid far beyond her Whistledown earnings. Fortunately for Penelope, a mysterious figure from her past is set on protecting her at all costs.
A regency bodyguard AU.
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- English
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- 59,871
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- 17/?
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15 Apr 2025
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Seafoam Green with Envy by whistledownbad
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Jun 2024
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He nuzzled his cheek against it and closed his eyes. This piece of fabric had been closer to Penelope’s skin than he ever would be. It had caressed her, kept her warm, and held her in ways that he could only ever imagine. How he wished he could be that, and so much more, for her.
Or, Colin is mildly jealous of a piece of fabric and does something about it.
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11 Apr 2025
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The Marriage Contract by LightLeadingMe
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
05 Jun 2025
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There was a contract. A contract written by Edmund Bridgerton and signed by both him and Archibald Featherington.
‘If Colin Bridgerton does not find a wife by the age of two and twenty, he is to marry Penelope Featherington or forfeit his trust funds.’
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- 5/5
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Bookmarked by GabyWinter
09 Apr 2025
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2022 - Colin and Penelope share travel, drafts of their writing projects, a London flat, and a bed. Their relationship is perfect, just the way it is. He thinks, anyway. So when Pen tells him everything is about to change, his initial reaction…isn’t great.
1815 - Colin’s relationship with Penelope was perfectly fine. Until she overheard some truly unkind words he uttered to some gentlemen in attendance at the Featherington Ball. Now he fears he’s ruined the most important friendship he’s ever had.
Neither Colin is thrilled with his circumstance at the moment, but it’s about to get a lot worse. Modern Colin is about to wake up in Regency Colin’s time and place, and vice versa. Let’s see how they do trying to clean up each other’s messes… Or will they somehow manage to make everything worse?
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- English
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- 130,013
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- 14/27
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Bookmarked by GabyWinter
07 Apr 2025
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Colin Bridgerton thought he had done everything he could to secure a new position as CEO of his father’s company; unfortunately, there was one more requirement he had to meet in order to prove that he was serious about the job:
1. Get married.
So, what does he do?
He asks his sassy secretary, Penelope Featherington, to marry him.
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- English
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- 57,189
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- 13/15
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16 Mar 2025
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18 Feb 2025
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Netflix and Chill by LostLily7 for LadyDamnBerry
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
06 Feb 2025
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After hearing Penelope's confession from the truth or dare game they played the night before, Colin decides to take some risks and see if she was bluffing.
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- Part 3 of For friends 💕
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06 Feb 2025
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I Scream at You in Poetry by indiaalphawhiskey
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
05 Jan 2025
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Colin maintained that his recent bout of lunacy was, in its entirety, all Penelope Featherington’s fault. For, had she not been so very resolute in her refusal to speak to him after an off-season's worth of unanswered letters, it was wholly possible that – after having overheard his mother lamenting both the state of the Featherington baronry and the effects of Lady Featherington’s now rather indiscreet baby race on Penelope’s chances at a felicitous (if practical) match – Colin would have acted far more rationally than to orchestrate a not-so-clandestine, not-so-very-appropriate, and also not-at-all-truthful midnight tryst between them in the orangery at Vauxhall Gardens.
(Maybe.)
After all, if it was simply time Penelope needed to work her way towards forgiving him and restoring their once warm friendship, as his mother had suggested… Well, then a lifetime together would certainly suit that, with change to spare, wouldn’t it?
— or, Penelope is a storm Colin is determined to weather. A different take on the entrapment of it all.
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- English
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- 14/14
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Bookmarked by GabyWinter
08 Jan 2025
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Public Bookmark 420
Mystery Work
Part of Rottentiger's wip
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This is part of an ongoing challenge and will be revealed soon!
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05 Jan 2025
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Consequences, Regardless by NLovett
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
12 Mar 2025
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Colin panics when he hears that Lady Featherington has promised Penelope's hand in marriage to a rake in the Ton. To save her, and to keep her in his life, Colin announces he has compromised Pen. Penelope, naïve to what compromise all entails, goes along with the lie. Now, the two have to get married.
(set after the Full Moon Ball S3E2- but the kiss hasn't happened yet)
⚠️ Explicit content** STORY IS COMPLETE **
revised march 2025, originally posted Nov 2024
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- 84,092
- Chapters:
- 32/32
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01 Jan 2025
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Something Borrowed, Something Blue by polverse
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
25 Jan 2025
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Penelope is invited to her cousin’s wedding, her best friend—and neighbor Colin Bridgerton doesn’t want her to go alone so he tags along as her plus one.
Colin gets into it with one of the guests at the wedding and tells them that she and he are engaged to protect her.
Penelope Featherington now has to pretend that she’s in love with her best friend except for one thing, it’s not pretend for her.
- Language:
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- 90,152
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- 22/22
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25 Dec 2024
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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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- 86,372
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- 20/20
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25 Aug 2024
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12 Aug 2024
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Strip by writergirl8 for Elle018, wereadtoliveathousandlives
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Oct 2024
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Colin Bridgerton is expecting to have a relaxing holiday at Aubrey Hall with his family. There's just one variable he's not anticipating: he keeps stumbling upon Penelope Featherington in various states of undress.
Penelope doesn't know why fate is conspiring against her to have Colin see her naked, but she has bigger things to worry about. Namely, how she is going to hide her feelings from Colin when they're becoming closer friends every day.
After years of knowing each other, maybe they can finally strip down and see each other bare.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 102,805
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- 13/13
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- 1,737
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03 Aug 2024
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You're the Devil in Disguise by LightLeadingMe
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
21 Oct 2022
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Colin and Penelope meet for the first time at a Halloween party.
- Language:
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- 1/1
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- 63
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Bookmarked by GabyWinter
28 Jul 2024