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    Hermione's eyes catch on the sight of his long-fingered hands and his precise movements as he butters his toast and stirs milk into his tea. Merlin, she must be truly hard-up if she’s so easily distracted by him doing completely mundane things at breakfast in the Great Hall.

    She really needs to get her ill-advised attraction to Severus Snape under control.

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    23 Jun 2026

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    Think back to the day when a seventh-year Head Girl could develop an overwhelming need to fornicate with her greasy-yet-attractive Potions Master, and call it a retro-cliché smut-fest.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    Lady Danbury sets her tea cup in its saucer on the table and fixes Penelope with her intense gaze.

    "I'd like to sponsor you."

    Penelope chokes on her next swig of tea so badly that Lady Danbury rises, moving next to her and patting her back until her hacking abates. Penelope takes in a few steadying breaths, willing air into her lungs. She is sure she misheard, that the shock of her choking has altered her memory. "Pardon, my lady? You wish to…?"

    "Sponsor you. For the season."


    After Archibald Featherington loses the family fortune when Penelope is thirteen, the family is forced to adapt to life as members of the lower class. By nineteen, Penelope has become Madame Delacroix's apprentice, and her fine skills with a needle catch the eye of Lady Agatha Danbury. Debuting in society thrills and terrifies her in equal measure, as she knows nothing of how a proper lady should behave, but she wants nothing more than to escape from her cruel, embittered mother—and she is perfectly content to settle for a straightforward, comfortable marriage in order to do so.

    Enter Colin Bridgerton.

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    22 Jun 2026

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    After dancing with Penelope at a society ball for the first time, Colin begins to see his friend in a new light.

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    21 Jun 2026

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    Colin would like nothing more than to teach his dearest friend the true art that could be found in a game of pall mall, although he only wished he could do so without the help of the peanut gallery and all their meaningful 'looks'. Penelope, for her part, is determined that a slight against Lady Whistledown will not go unchallenged setting her thoughts upon a most dangerous path.

    Pall mall, rain, and midnight trips to the library. What could possibly go wrong?!

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    21 Jun 2026