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  1. Rec 67

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    Penelope is having a problem with her... releases and Colin offers to help, offering up his body for her free use. She just has to agree to one thing: she cannot finish until he tells her to.

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    24 Dec 2024

  2. Rec 88

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    After being hit by a car in 2024 Penelope Featherington wakes up in 1815. Just month before travel author Colin Bridgerton is set to be murdered. Trying to navigate time travel, new rules, murder suspects and and blossoming feelings, will Penelope manage to change the past and with that, her future.

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    18 Dec 2024

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    In a world where the marriage ritual leaves a permanent mark on you, the word that reflects your match’s first impression of you appears in your skin.

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    Penelope had known since she was eight years old who she would marry. She had heard stories about him, how brave and noble he was, and spent her whole life in love with the boy in the picture.

    Something that had never crossed Penelope’s mind, however, was the possibility that Colin Bridgerton would be disappointed upon meeting her.

    “Speak now, Penelope, with clarity and conviction. What is the word, bestowed upon you by the gentleman ordained as your match, that defines you in his eyes?”

    The celebrant’s voice suddenly felt like a distant hum, her vision blurred by the tears welling up in her eyes. On her wrist, visible to anyone close enough to read it, was written her word with golden letters.

    Shallow.

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    13 Dec 2024

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    Colin and Penelope find themselves in a very public unseemly spectacle that force them to marry. Surely, it’s agreeable to marry your best friend and carry on as if nothing changed, right? Except you cannot get away; that person is always there, always present, always flashing an ankle trying to tempt you. And tempted you are.

    Only to realize they were the one that you loved the whole time.

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    17 Dec 2024

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    Colin Bridgerton had been a fool to not realise what had been before him all that time. He loved his wife more than anything, and the life they had built. Yet often he wondered why he hadn’t known sooner that she was the one. Why he hadn’t noticed how very wonderful she was? What if he too had loved her from the same moment she had fallen for him…

    Story is complete and I will post regularly.

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    15 Dec 2024

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