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  1. Public Bookmark 37

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    She'd smiled uncontrollably, laughing breathlessly at the gentle weight of the baby against her skin. He'd been wrapped in a fuzzy pink blanket, carefully nestled in her arms. Against her sweaty, still-heaving chest as tears streaked her cheeks.

    Then her skin grew unbearably warm, and she glanced down as the nurses left them alone for the first few moments together.

    "Oh no," She whispered, her eyes wide as Percy screamed, as if he knew then and there the weight of the name branding itself across his flesh. He cried until his tawny cheeks turned red, until the color of health pulsed through his pale, drying skin. Until Sally's heart broke, watching in horror as the gold settled over Percy's heaving chest in lethal, curving, serpentine cursive.

    Phoebus Apollo.

    The initial hope she'd had of a soulmate for her beloved baby was replaced with the cold truth. Any soul bound to burn for divinity was destined only to ash.

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    08 Feb 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 46

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    In a modern-day Bridgerton AU, Penelope discovers she’s pregnant after a drunken one-night stand with Anthony.

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    06 Feb 2026

  3. Public Bookmark 27

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    After Viscount Anthony Bridgerton critically wounds the Duke of Hastings during their duel over Daphne’s honor, he flees London in disgrace, leaving the burden of the title to his brother Benedict. While abroad, he meets Michael Stirling and the two men strike up a friendship.

    When the Earl of Kilmartin dies ten years later, leaving behind a devastated widow and no heir, Anthony travels to Scotland with his friend to help him pick up the pieces of the estate only to discover the wife John left behind is his sister, Francesca.

    As Anthony struggles to maintain his equilibrium as his past and present collide, he finds himself fighting an inconvenient attraction to the last person he ever expected - Francesca’s spinster companion, Penelope Featherington.

    🛑 This is a Pen/Anthony story. If you don’t like this ship, then do us all a favor and skip.

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    05 Feb 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 64

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    Drenched in the cruelty of a phrase uttered between laughs—"I would never dream of courting her, not in her wildest dreams"—Penelope Featherington watched her future turn to ash before the eyes of the entire ton. Condemned to social exile by the words of Colin Bridgerton and the relentless verdict of Lady Whistledown, she departed under a cloak of shame, becoming nothing more than a bitter memory in the ballrooms of Mayfair.

    However, an enigmatic presence has just awakened the second-largest mansion in the city, situated strategically right beside Bridgerton House. The new mistress is the Dowager Baroness of Willbrooke. She moves like a phantom, relocating in the dead of night, shielded by walls of silence and an elegance that no one has yet been able to define.

    Amidst frantic whispers regarding her identity, the Baroness remains an absolute mystery until a golden invitation arrives to shake the very foundations of high society. The doors of Willbrooke House will swing open for a welcoming ball where masks will fall and the past will demand its due. London is about to discover that some wallflowers do not wither; they simply wait for the right moment to bloom with thorns made of diamonds.

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    04 Feb 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 55

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    A single night meant to be forgotten becomes the beginning of everything.

    When Penelope Featherington decides to live before she’s placed on the shelf, she sets events in motion that neither Anthony nor Benedict Bridgerton could have imagined. Desire, duty, and discovery will test them all.

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    03 Feb 2026