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Penelope’s Benediction: A Reckoning in Blasphemy by AFlowerInTheSun
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
03 May 2025
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Summary
In July 1814, Benedict Bridgerton vanished from London society and entered a remote Irish Monastery, more out of defiance than devotion. After discovering a betrayal too great to forgive, he renounced art, family, and temptation alike, determined to prove he could become something more than a failed spare. But a year into his penance, with Anthony's letters growing colder and silence settling from home, Benedict finds himself imprisoned in a life he chose out of spite.
Then, she arrives.
Familiar, furious, shaking him to his core.
She is not there to repent. She seeks revenge on a world that caged her, on a God that ignored her cries, on the man who took her innocence and walked away unscathed.
In her, Benedict sees the ghost of his past, his sister’s best friend, his brother’s discarded ruin.As Penelope plots her escape, refusing his pity and scorning his penance, Benedict is drawn to her fire that refuses to be tamed. She does not want saving. But she might burn him, and everything else, to the ground.