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life after death by SamHandwich
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
09 Mar 2026
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On Colin’s 19th birthday, Penelope asks him for a moment alone, then surprises him with a very bold statement in the family library. That night, her house and everyone in it burns to ash.
Ten years later, drunk and sad on his birthday in a dive bar in Chicago, he spots a woman who looks just like someone he thought he buried but never stopped grieving.
And he intends to find out if he’s losing his mind or chasing a ghost.
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25 Feb 2026
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**COMPLETE**
**NOW INCLUDES EPILOGUE**Unexpectedly brought back to London by world changing events, Colin reconnects with his family and the woman he left behind...
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16 Feb 2026
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Finding my way home by Ayoisha
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
09 Mar 2026
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Colin Bridgerton leaves his family and his ex-fiancée after catching her cheating on him. Unable to handle Anthony’s disappointment, he walks away from everything he owns, leaving it all behind on a table. Choosing to disappear with nothing but himself, he ends up in a small town, where a few unexpected angels helps him to find a way home.
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27 Jan 2026
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Penelope makes a joke. Colin hears it and well... he doesn't take it well.
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25 Jan 2026
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Penelope Featherington has been quietly in love with Colin Bridgerton for nine years. She's written it all down—every small moment, every unreturned feeling—in a document meant for her eyes only. Colin, meanwhile, has spent those same years being charming and oblivious.
Then Colin calls off his wedding and accidentally discovers what Penelope's been hiding. Suddenly, he can't stop thinking about the woman he never noticed. He wants to know her—really know her. And Penelope has no idea why he's finally paying attention.
As friendship turns into something more, Colin faces an impossible problem: he's falling for her, but she doesn't know how he learned to see her. The truth might destroy everything. But the lies might be worse.
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25 Jan 2026
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The echo of her silence by Alltoowelln22
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
03 Mar 2026
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A month and a half after the fire, grief still sits heavy in the Bridgerton house. London has decided that Penelope Featherington is dead, but Colin cannot make himself believe it, not when he cannot bear a world without her. While the family mourns, the brothers search quietly, convinced that Lord Berbrooke survived and is hiding somewhere. Between loss and hope, between love and obsession, they keep moving, because some endings refuse to stay buried.
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- Part 2 of Her silence
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22 Jan 2026
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Love You Better by BigDramaQuill (CVHsQuill) for somethingfunnybubbly
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
28 Jan 2026
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Colin kissed his best friend Penelope only days before finding out she is the infamous Lady Whistledown. He is now confused and furious, but her eventful arrival at Aubrey Hall to join the Bridgertons for Christmastide helps him understand her reasons to start her column.
He and his family become determined to give Penelope a good Christmas, and show her how loved she is.
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18 Dec 2025
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To the Ends of the Earth. by HorseSad
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
22 Feb 2026
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For Colin, no matter how many countries he visited, how many people he met, how useful he was to the crown, he was haunted by Penelope.
After the first month he started to fill a journal with words that are written about her, for her, hoping to find his way towards understanding and forgiveness (what choice did he truly have, between forgiving her and never seeing her again?). Letters piled up unsent, but he could stop producing them - his words spilling out of him like air.
By the fifth month of his travels, he had started to hallucinate her, catching glimpses of her red hair across a piazza. One night, half-deranged, he trailed the sound of her voice through the streets to find only a dead-end and her absence.
Another night, boots frozen to cobblestones he was trapped under the glare of her bright blue eyes peaking out in shock from under a heavy cloak. A cart toppled behind him, a moment of distraction. When he looked back, the spirit had disappeared.He no longer knew if he was searching for something or fleeing from it. In the seventh month he returned home, and found it was fundamentally changed.
Penelope was gone.
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02 Dec 2025
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Without a Second Thought by NLovett for tartheyes
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
11 Dec 2025
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This is an alternate story on the infamous Entrapment Scene. I know there have been many written, but this is my take because Penelope needed to fight back, Colin needed to explore his true feelings and Violet & Portia needed their time as well!
Note: This is HEA but please read the tags for trigger warnings.
(S3, Regency)
⚠️Explicit Content, Mental Health Issues**STORY IS COMPLETE**
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28 Oct 2025
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After cruel words and broken trust, Penelope decides she will not walk blindly into marriage simply because invitations were already sent and society expects it. When Colin suggests they can decide what their marriage will be after the wedding, she knows too well what a cold home can do to a family.
She has erred too, but she will not repeat her mother’s mistakes by remaining silent or settling for less than she deserves. If she is to marry Colin, it must be with honesty, with conversation, and with the promise of something healthier than what she watched her parents endure. Together, they begin again — not with easy certainty, but with the fragile hope of a future built on choice.
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…the one where Penelope halts her engagement and gives herself time to think about the future she truly wants — where she makes choices, not out of fear or pressure, but the best ones for herself.Bookmarked by keepreading
20 Oct 2025
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Out of the Pyre by Booklover1217
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
25 Dec 2025
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Almost burned at the stake for the dual crime of being Lady Whistledown and a witch, left irreparably scarred and crippled, having been betrayed by the family who she had once loved unconditionally, Penelope Featherington has disappeared from society, hiding in the shadows, grieving the loss of the life that had once been hers and an unexpected love that could've been hers if she had only been selfish enough to take it. Instead, she has been left with nothing and no-one.
Until two years after the pyre and one after she had truly lost everything, a familiar and unwanted figure from her past finds her, bringing news that drags her from the shadows and back into the world. And back to the love and unforgettable man she had lost. And who, just perhaps, has been waiting for her all this time.
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19 Oct 2025
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It was supposed to only be a one time thing; Stiles needed someone to pretend to be his boyfriend for one evening so he asked Derek. Now, both of them found each other asking the other for small favors while pretending to still be boyfriends for certain friends and family. It's only a matter of time before fake feelings start to develop into something real.
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06 Sep 2025
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The sound of her silence by Alltoowelln22
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
07 Jan 2026
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At just eight years old, Penelope Featherington fell silent and no one ever learned why.
By one and eight, Penelope has mastered the art of existing quietly in the shadows, watching as life and love passes her by. Until Colin Bridgerton returns from abroad, with stories in his heart and eyes that see more than most. He doesn't need Penelope's voice to understand her.
Drawn to the quiet strength behind her silence, Colin begins to fall slowly, completely, and irrevocably. But the closer he gets, the more determined he becomes to uncover what silenced her all those years ago.
Can love break through where words once failed? And when the truth comes to light, will it heal or shatter everything they’ve begun to build?Series
- Part 1 of Her silence
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24 Aug 2025
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The First Season, Again by Pollination
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
07 Nov 2025
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Colin is blissfully wed to his darling Penelope, with their young son at his side and another babe on the way. But one morning, he wakes to find himself in 1813—on the day of his Penelope's very first Season. This time, he won’t waste a moment. He’ll win her heart from the start. Unless, of course, he’s not the only one who’s traveled back in time…
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23 Aug 2025
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It’s a winter of firsts for everyone.
It’s Colin and Penelope’s first winter as a married couple.
It’s Penelope’s first time putting on ice skates and venturing onto the frozen lake with the entire Bridgerton family.
It’s Colin’s first time watching the ice crack, just barely out of reach, and seeing his wife disappear into the murky water below.
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15 Aug 2025
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The Vows Unwritten by FeedingDucks for W_M_N
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
10 Jan 2026
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"For god's sake, I cannot watch my wife dance with other men!"
When the final ball of the season forces her family to take the next ship to America, Penelope finds herself in a marriage with the last man she can think of - the very man she loved since ten- Colin Bridgerton. With less than four weeks at hand, Penelope must find a way to escape before she loses not just her freedom, but her heart once more. And Colin must find a way not to be bothered when other men approach the lady he so boldly claimed to never court.
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01 Aug 2025
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The Bridgertons' Ward by cathypancake
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
06 Sep 2025
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When Viscount Edmund Bridgerton finds an unconscious little girl while playing hide and seek with his children, the Bridgertons' lives become a little more yellow. But the question would always remain:
Who is Penelope Aubrey?
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25 Jul 2025
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Two years. Six continents. One unexpected love story.
When Anthony Bridgerton left London, he was burned out, heartbroken, and determined never to fall in love again. What he didn’t expect was to run into Penelope Featherington in a Paris bistro looking nothing like the shy girl his sister once knew and everything like the woman who could change his life.
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16 Jul 2025
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Penelope had no last name.
Left in the woods at only four years old to die, a now twenty-two year old Penelope has been travelling the continent as a healer, with no memory of her past, wanting nothing more than to help others and to protect her heart from any more of the loss and pain she had endured. That is until she meets a handsome nobleman in the markets and her entire world changes, and all the secrets that she had thought lost to the past are slowly revealed.
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21 Jun 2025
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The Magic in Tears and Other Ordinary Things by preferringsleep (mellarkey)
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Jan 2026
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Penelope is a witch studying under Mayfair kingdom’s most powerful sorceress, Lady Danbury. As her ward, Penelope grew up close to the Bridgertons, Mayfair’s royal family, while she learned to control and strengthen her powers. After she hears Prince Colin disparage her and her powers, she resolves to return to her family permanently, where a curious cat chooses her hut as his new home.
What happens when she receives upsetting news from Eloise that calls her back to the castle and the family she knew she would never be a part of? And why won’t this damn cat leave her alone?
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21 Jun 2025