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"I am so sorry," a voice yelps from behind her. "I did not—I mean—"
"Perhaps you should—" Michaela starts to admonish her attacker, whirling around to face them, but the words sputter and die in her throat before she can finish.
Michaela must admit she recognizes most of the women here. Many of them, intimately. She has already lost count of the married women who have flushed and avoided her eyeline, and she has not even been here ten minutes.
But Michaela knows she has never met this woman. She is positive, because she would have remembered meeting an angel.
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Michaela and Francesca are forced to choose between love and loyalty.
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10 May 2026
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After two years shrouded in grief, Francesca Bridgerton decides to marry again, returning to London for the Season and facing the excruciating marriage mart. But the unexpected return of Michaela Stirling sweeps her off her feet, condemning her to the hopelessness of furtive glances and sleepless nights bathed in unconfessed pleasures.
Now, torn between society’s expectations and stolen kisses from a certain wicked countess, Francesca must choose between everything she has ever known or surrender to a kind of love hidden away in the forgotten corners of her neglected heart.
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28 Apr 2026
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Sickly Sweet by bluebumblebee888
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Jun 2026
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Francesca character analysis type of story
“Why did you leave me?”
Francesca had long thought of confronting Michaela about it. She had imagined countless scenarios of the fight that would make her scream louder than she had ever allowed her voice to go.
They all contained explosive fights, venomous words, and undying bitterness. A fire she had fed with ire and resentment, at last unleashed.
They were nothing like what she had enabled just now. Her nose was red, and cold. Her boots were wet. Her heart burned with the desire to understand. For a resolution. To be good enough to know Michaela, to be worthy enough to speak the language of her perfectly guarded heart, and even more impassable mind.
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Francesca is sent away to Scotland to cure her melancholia.
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28 Apr 2026
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Composure by ocean19
Fandoms: Francesca Bridgerton/Michaela Stirling - Fandom, Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 May 2026
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Michaela plucked a strawberry from the platter. It was deeply red and ripened to the point that was uncommon for fruit in early spring. She assessed it before she bit into it, turning it around in her fingers.
Francesca detected the white of her teeth as her mouth closed on the tip.
She took two bites. When she got to the heart of it, her lips enclosed around the remainder and she drew the last of it into her mouth slowly, sucking at its juices.
Then she looked up.
Francesca was still watching.
Their eyes met and held.
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Michaela Stirling has returned to Mayfair after two years of unexplained absence. Her presence slowly whittles away at Francesca's carefully maintained composure, until it breaks.Bookmarked by croomb
15 Apr 2026
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glinda upland, fresh out of college, is hired as a private tutor for one nessarose thropp of nest hardings by the girl's mysterious and brooding older sister. a fair amount of mutual obsession ensues— glinda, after all, isn't used to not getting what she wants.
or, the booksical elphaba-is-a-repressed-vampire-living-in-a-gothic-estate fic!
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04 Feb 2026