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1. The Heart Beside by scarlettb11

   Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)  

   • Mature
   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   21 Aug 2021

   Tags

   • No Archive Warnings Apply
   • Daphne Bridgerton/Simon Basset
   • very minor mention of Daphne x Friedrich
   • Daphne Bridgerton
   • Simon Basset
   • Anthony Bridgerton
   • Kate Sheffield
   • Violet Bridgerton
   • AU
   • Romance
   • Enemies to friends to lovers To enemies to friends to lovers
   • slowburn
   • HEA for Daphne x Simon
   • Angst with a Happy Ending

   Summary

   Canon Divergence after the events of The Art of the Swoon, 1x03

   Daphne accepts the Prince's proposal after a turbulent interlude at Lady Trowbridge's ball. She lives happily ever after with her husband and young daughter in the Prussian countryside.

   Fate throws a wrench in her idyllic life when Daphne finds herself widowed and traveling to London for the birth of her brother’s first child.

   Throw in some meddling mamas, a dubiously reformed Rakish Duke, pre-birth chaos, a few scandalous house parties, and a confused mess of feelings that never truly went away from that fateful spring in 1813.

   Rating elevated for new and future chapters!

   Language:

   English

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   7,806

   Chapters:

   5/?

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