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1. The Lovers by stanleyandlarson

   Fandoms: Rivals (TV 2024), Rutshire Chronicles - Jilly Cooper  

   • Explicit
   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • F/M
   • Work in Progress

   19 Oct 2025

   Tags

   • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
   • Rupert Campbell-Black/Taggie O'Hara
   • Xavier Campbell-Black
   • Bianca Campbell-Black
   • Lizzie Vereker
   • Freddie Jones (Rivals)
   • Declan O'Hara
   • Maud O'Hara
   • Beattie Johnson
   • Jan Van Daventer
   • Cameron Cook
   • Sarah Stratton
   • Slow Burn
   • Heartbreak
   • Infidelity
   • Affairs
   • Dyslexia
   • Parenthood
   • Adoption
   • Emotional Hurt/Comfort
   • Romance
   • Cheating
   • Mentions of Cancer
   • Flashbacks
   • Memories
   • Love Confessions
   • Milla Jovovich plays a fictionalised version of Taggie in a TV drama
   • Rupert Everett plays a fictionalised version of Rupert in a TV drama
   • Taggie is 40
   • Rupert is 60

   Summary

   Rupert Campbell-Black is facing one of the darkest challenges of his lifetime. After twenty years of marriage to his darling wife, Taggie, his whole world is collapsing after he was caught having a brief affair with stable lass, Gala. He returns to find Penscombe in darkness, a note has been left on his bed. What is he willing to sacrifice when he has harmed the only person who can get to him?
   |Follow up from The Vow| (based on events from the novel, Mount)

   Language:

   English

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   5,762

   Chapters:

   3/?

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