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    Francesca is in need of money to expand her music shop. Penelope thinks volunteering them for the newest late-night game show, The ChallengeShip, will be a good way for Francesca to acquire the money. The problem? Francesca Bridgerton is an unmated alpha. She's not even seeing anyone casually. But it's too late to back out. Things only get more confusing for Francesca when her best friend's omega cousin, Michaela Stirling, volunteers herself to be Francesca's pretend mate. This would be helpful...if Francesca wasn't head over ass in love with the woman. She's so fucked.

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    24 May 2026

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    “I do not know you.”

    “Yet I should like to know you.”

    Francesca finds that her eyes have already drifted back to her left, back towards Michaela.

    “I—” She feels her cheeks paint pink, “Well you should—” She coughs. “Not.”

    Michaela just smiles, nonplussed, “I fear your repellant disposition is having the opposite effect, Miss Bridgerton.”

    Francesca cheeks redden even further as she rolls her eyes, looking away again, “I told you to—”

    “Tell me then, Francesca..” Michaela purrs, turning towards Francesca and stepping closer. Francesca’s neck jerks right back to her at the sound of her voice. Her heels click once, twice. And she teases a small pout, a dangerous gesture indeed, “What mountains must I move to earn favor with you?”

    Francesca’s eyes unconsciously fall to Michaela’s lips for a half-second.

    And when she looks back up, Michaela's pout transforms into that same damned enigmatic smile.

    Holding her gaze steady, seemingly unaffected, Francesca finally suggests,

    “Perhaps you can start with Everest.”

    Or, Queen Charlotte decides to spice up this year’s season by adding a jewel to her collection of diamonds.

    Francesca/Michaela

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    18 Apr 2026

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    Sympathetic resonance is a phenomenon in which a string initially at rest responds to external vibrations that are harmonically similar to its own without direct physical contact. It’s always made sense to Francesca that when she holds down a key on the piano, those with frequencies alike echo and the sound waves continue to ring in the wooden body after the original note has faded away. It’s physics, it’s music theory, it’s perfectly comprehensible.
    At least, it had been all of that until she started noticing the sensation within her, the amplified waves crashing through every nerve in reaction to another person. A stranger. Her husband’s cousin. A woman.

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    18 Apr 2026