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    Penelope Featherington is trapped in Iceland when a volcanic eruption closes the airport.

    There's one way home, by ferry, from the other side of the island. But the only way she can get there in time is by catching a lift with Colin Bridgerton - the first man she fell in love with; the only man to break her heart. And someone she has avoided for the last ten years.

    OR: A road trip during which Penelope discovers she hates vanlife, but her feelings about Colin are far more troublesome.

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    20 Mar 2025

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    They started the dance silently. She wondered why he had bothered to ask her to dance at all if he didn’t want to talk. There was so much left to say, but none of it in polite company. And, most importantly, none of what she had to say mattered now. They were both married.

    “I almost forgot to congratulate you-”
    “You do not need to.”
    “But I must-” She insisted.

    “I’d really rather you didn’t.” He said sternly. Colin’s face was unreadable as he couldn’t meet her eyes. Instead she stared at his clenched jaw. She supposed she wouldn’t have wanted his congratulations either after her own wedding, not that he tried to offer any.
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    1814: Colin Bridgerton realizes he is in love. It should be a joyful time, but with competition for Pen's hand and secrets that threaten to ruin them, the pair's far from a happily ever after.

    1816: Penelope Debling is trying to make peace with her new life as a Countess running an estate for an absent husband. She is determined to feel content, but when she has to host Colin Bridgerton, old feelings threaten to unravel her.

    This story will be told in 2 alternating timelines (complete with double ch drops!) until the first timeline catches up to 1816.

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    11 Sep 2024

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    When Colin awakens, the world as he knows it has changed.

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    19 Aug 2024

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    Penelope swears that she will make it Aubrey Hall if it kills her. The universe takes up her challenge.

    Sans carriage and caught in the worst storm that has struck England in living memory, Penelope bumps into a familiar face on the road (what a mystery who could it possibly be!). Their only hope of a shelter in the storm requires a degree of... creative... application of the truth and Penelope finds herself wondering how a young lady is to comport herself when the bounds of propriety have been all but swept away.

    Enter Colin, who has a suggestion or two.

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    18 Aug 2024

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    Penelope woke up alone. Alone and in her childhood bedroom. For the third day in a row. Her hand slid down to her lower abdomen. The life that was supposed to be fluttering there did not exist yet and neither did the beautiful children that she had already given birth to.

     

    She had three days to accept that something had happened that had sent her back to just before her first season. She wished she had more time, but with having to wake up every day in the wrong house, the wrong bed, without her husband and children—Penelope had to accept that her current present was her new reality.

     

    No matter how often she cried every morning, hours before Rae came to get her ready for the day.

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    14 Aug 2024