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    “Well, I heard in town that you were looking for some help digging a well. And I thought I might provide my services.”

    Penelope stared at him. “Now why on God’s green earth would you want to do that?” she asked, more bluntly than was perhaps proper for a young lady. “We can’t pay you.” Their father had left them with almost nothing, save this land and the house they were standing on. It was a pretty nice house - better than some of the others in the area - but life was hard.

    He shook his head and turned his hat over in his hands. “No, I didn’t expect you could. I hoped you might instead pay me in kind.”

    Penelope’s cheeks flushed red and she looked down, her hands smoothing the faded yellow cotton of her day dress. She didn’t suppose he meant what it sounded like he meant, being a gentleman and all, but the idea of Colin Bridgerton taking that sort of payment from her made her cheeks hot.

     

    OR: local cowboy offers to help farmgirl dig a well (aka cowboy colin meets prairie girl pen)

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    25 Apr 2025

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    My heart has been rendered devoid of feeling since your departure. I find myself utterly lost in your absence, bereft of the touch of your affectionate hands, left in desolation, consumed by a profound sense of longing, deeply enamored and yet so wretchedly unloved.

     

    What is to become of me now, without you at my side to give some meaning to this arduous existence?
    – excerpt from Mr. Colin Bridgerton’s personal journal, 20 of April, 1819

     

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    In an alternative universe in which Penelope never stopped Colin and Marina from eloping, after near a decade of repressed pain and a devastating loss, Colin is granted a second chance to start all over.

    (S1 Time Travel AU)

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    25 Mar 2025

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    The Danbury Ball of the 1813 starts out as usual until one Mr. Colin Bridgerton spots a redhead in yellow across the room that his gut is telling him he's met before. But how could he know Miss Penelope Featherington, a distant relation of his neighbours across the street, who had just arrived to the Ton for the social season? And, more importantly, why does she seem to know him too; perhaps more than he knows himself?

    Penelope Featherington carries many secrets and, of course, Lady Whistledown is just one of them.

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    Or, how does Penelope from 2024 end up in 1813? And, now that she's there, how can she stop herself from falling in love with a gentleman born in 1793? Is the past unwilling to be changed?

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    24 Mar 2025

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    Penelope Featherington has a drunken one-night stand with her best friend, Colin Bridgerton, and there are major consequences. They now have to figure out how to mend the pieces of their broken friendship all while navigating this complicated and life-changing journey they've found themselves on together.

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    14 Mar 2025

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    “Perhaps you should take a seat,” said Violet.

    Colin wouldn't remember the details of what his mother told him next. He would remember her hand warm on his knee, her eyes wide with concern, her voice gentle as velvet. All of it in stark contrast to the devastating news she shared.

    Penelope was ruined.

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    11 Mar 2025