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  1. Rec *

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    Penelope needs to prove that pineapple cannot truly change one’s taste. And Colin, well, he just wants to help a friend conduct an experiment.

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    20 Oct 2025

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    People talk a lot about the physical and emotional impact on women during “that time of the month.” For Penelope Featherington, though, there’s an entirely separate portion of the month that hits her the hardest, and the symptoms she experiences are distinct from that other time. It’s a different sort of ache that settles low in her belly, a different form of discomfort driving her to cocoon herself in bed, and a different type of tenderness that envelopes her body and her mind. As time goes by, it’s only getting harder and harder to deal with on her own. If only she knew someone kind and handsome and trustworthy to help her through it…

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    Or, Penelope experiences extreme horniness when she’s ovulating every month and Colin offers to sleep with her “as a friend.”

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    13 Aug 2025

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    Penelope Featherington is on holiday celebrating her birthday with one of her best friends in literal paradise. All of these things should add up to her spending the week with a beaming smile plastered on her face and having the absolute time of her life. Instead, though, she starts off the trip fixated on the milestone-nature of this particular birthday and one life milestone that she wishes she’d already checked off by this point. Quietly resigned to ringing in her birthday in a few days’ time without making any further progress, Penelope is entirely unprepared for a very helpful offer from her best friend who just also happens to be the person she’d spent years previously hopelessly crushing on.

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    Or, the one where Colin takes Penelope’s virginity “as a friend.”

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    21 Jun 2025

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    Penelope Featherington may have only just turned 32 years old, but she’s come to a very important decision in her life. She’s ready to become a mother. She’s got a career that she’s passionate about and is completely financially independent and secure. All that’s missing is the man, but she’s done waiting on love. It’s time for Penelope to take matters into her own hands and do what she’s always done in her life—make her own dreams come true.

    Colin Bridgerton, one of her best friends, is entering a bit of a hiatus from his jet-setting career as a travel photographer. He’ll be permanently in place in London for the foreseeable future while, at 35 years old, he tries to figure out what he wants to do with his life. While his intention in finally sitting still for a while had been to work out what his professional goals are going forward, Colin’s quickly becoming fixated on a very different kind of aspiration for himself.

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    Or, the one where Penelope and Colin decide to make a baby “as friends.”

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    07 Jun 2025

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    It is not until he buckles her into the back seat of his car that she says anything. “You ot Eweeze,” she mumbles, pretty blue eyes blinking at him. “Coh-win.”

    “Want to run that one by me again, kid?”

    Kid. He’s called her that since she was five and he was ten. She grimaces and puts her fingers into her mouth, pulling out a wad of soaked, lightly bloody cotton wool. Colin holds out his palm and she drops it in.

    “You’re not Eloise,” she repeats, and the words are still warped and fuzzy but much more understandable. Colin balls up the cotton wool and with nowhere else to put it, shoves it in his pocket. “You’re Colin.”

    “Good looking out,” Colin says, walking around to the driver’s seat and climbing in. He finds her eyes in the rear view mirror. “I am, in fact, Colin. The same Colin who took you to the hospital this morning, remember?”

    Penelope nods solemnly. “You look like Eloise, though,” she tells him. “Same hair. Bet it feels just like hers.”

     

    Or - Penelope gets her wisdom teeth removed and Colin offers to take care of her!

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    11 Mar 2025

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