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    "Are you the new neighbor then?" the young man asks, his gaze sliding over her in assessment. "The one who moved into the Lothrop house?"

    She nods. "That's me, Penelope Featherington."

    "I'm—"

    He's cut off abruptly by the sound of Violet Bridgerton entering the kitchen and exclaiming loudly. "Colin! Finally! Where have you been all day?"

    Penelope's eyes widen at the same time that her stomach sinks to the now glass-free kitchen floor. Colin. The young man standing before her—the handsome, sweet, careful one who cleaned up her cut and made her spine tingle and her thoughts meander—is Colin Bridgerton. He's the third Bridgerton boy, the one with the somewhat mysterious background and who's been away from home for a few years. He's her new friend Violet's son.

    —

    Or, the one where 41-year-old divorcee Penelope experiences her first Cape Cod summer and gets entangled with her 24-year-old neighbor Colin.

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