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The Unruly Miss Bridgerton by BibliophileInBonnets
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
28 Mar 2026
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Eloise is nearly two and twenty, Violet’s only unwed daughter, and suddenly the ton (and her own family) decides it is time now that Benedict is finally settled. Anthony wants control, Violet refuses to be moved, Daphne storms back into the season determined to “fix” her defiant baby sister, and the house is overflowing with babies, pregnancies, and matchmaking intent.
Then a letter arrives sealed in green wax: the Cranes.
Lady Marina Crane is dead. Sir Philip Crane is a widowed baronet raising two small children who are not his by blood, and he asks for discretion, not sympathy. Eloise, already reeling from what she’s learned about marriage, sex, inheritance, and the brutal ways women’s bodies become public property, can’t stop thinking about what it means that a wedding didn’t save Marina… and that duty didn’t save Philip.
A season of balls, gossip, grief, and domestic chaos unfolds as Eloise fights being arranged into a life she never chose—until she finds herself drawn, against all reason, toward the quiet, complicated man in Gloucestershire who chose children over reputation.
Love might add to one’s life.
It might also demand everything.
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22 May 2026
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When the Quiet Softens by ajwsashim
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
07 Jun 2026
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Three years ago, Eloise disappeared without explanation, leaving behind a marriage no one understood how to mourn.
Phillip learned to survive the silence. He buried himself in work, answered questions about his missing wife with practiced indifference, and continued wearing his wedding ring long after everyone else stopped expecting her to come home.
Then one rainy night, Eloise returns to his doorstep carrying a single bag and far too many secrets.
She tells herself she only came to make certain he is safe. And yet he never stopped leaving space for her.
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18 May 2026
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The vision of her played on loop that night while Phillip tossed and turned on his too small bed in his too warm room, longing for more. To see more, to touch. To taste the water trailing down her neck, the sharp jut of her collarbone. The same old selfish, vivid fantasies he’d written instead of the apology she deserved.
The apology he left on his desk while Hyacinth ran off with the words of his damnation.
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18 May 2026
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Phillip Crane has attended every Bridgerton wedding. He has held his tongue at dinner tables, driven to emergency rooms at three in the morning, and sat in the back of ballrooms with a woman who argued, loudly and with complete certainty, that marriage was a trap she wanted no part of. He never argued back. Not about that. Some things, he figured, were better left to time.
Companion Piece to In Plain Sight.
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- Part 2 of In Plain Sight
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15 May 2026
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standing here, hoping it gets to you by BookPirate
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
02 Nov 2023
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Eloise has to survive one of the toughest situations she's come across; Colin and Penelope getting together. Phillip Crane helps.
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20 Apr 2026