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    Once the order is in and the stack of eight coffees is secured in the cart she had brought just for the occasion (she learned long ago to not trust herself with carrying that much liquid with her bare hands), Eloise grabs the two remaining coffees - one for herself and one for her demonic boss (she can only imagine his horror if his coffee dared to touch anybody else’s) - before turning.

    Right.

    Into.

    Another.

    Person.

    Or--

    Literature Professor Eloise Bridgerton meets model Cressida Cowper and sparks (and coffee) fly.

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    02 Dec 2025

  2. Public Bookmark 4

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    Penny Sinclair is everything her father demanded: polished, perfect, the mother of the heir. But behind her composure lies a secret love affair, spanning over a decade, hidden beneath the Sinclair performance.

    Enter Vivian: flour-dusted, sunlit, fosterer of strays. Penny is pedigree and polish; Vivian is wild conviction. Not rivals, but mirrors—two women who see through each other, bound by desire the world will never allow.

    This fic threads through canon, reframing Penny’s clipped jokes, brittle smiles, and disordered eating as survival, coupled with religious guilt, comphet, and a decade-spanning forbidden romance. The subtle remarks, the flicker of panic quickly smothered, the way composure slides over her like a second skin, the sharp intake of breath before a deflection—all of it gains new meaning.

    For Penny, the stakes are suffocating. The Sinclair name demands composure, heterosexuality, motherhood. She cannot risk scandal. She cannot lose her inheritance, her place, her carefully curated image.

    It’s fem-for-fem workplace rivals to lovers in pearls and pressed blazers, old money polish against small-town warmth, and an epilogue that finally lets Penny choose love in the open.

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    03 Sep 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 94

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    And if Sophie still dreams about Margo some nights - most nights - so what?

    It doesn’t have to mean anything.

    And, even if it does, nobody needs to know.

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    29 Aug 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 38

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    Margo seeks Sophie out after their game of spin the bottle.

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    29 Aug 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 79

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    After uncovering the truth about Abby’s death, Sophie gives Margo one chance. She’ll stay silent. No police. But in return, Margo has to leave her alone for good. And for three long, haunted months, Margo does exactly that. Then a funeral pulls Sophie back to Maple Brook. She swore she would never look back, but some obsessions don’t die. They just wait.

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    29 Aug 2025