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  1. Rec 64

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    It has been four years since Eloise has seen Cressida Cowper and, in that time, both women's lives have changed for the better. They are freer, more confident, and undoubtedly wiser.

    With Cressida's sudden return to the ton, Eloise seeks to rekindle their friendship and Cressida is powerless to refuse her. It is not long after they reunite that they discover that friendship is not all they desire from one another.

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    A Creloise love story that takes place four years after season 3.

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    12 Sep 2025

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    With a few name changes and a slightly different color palatte this could be a continuation of S4. God, that it were. Delightfully well written, even more delightfully thought through. Teaching, a visit to a radical party, a terrible army officer, and Upper Canada all conspire to get our women together.

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    "Eloise did not dream of white knights on trusty steeds or gallant princes from faraway lands come to whisk her off to a castle that might as well be a jail cell. Once she might have dreamt of a handsome printer’s assistant in a grubby print shop. Once she might have dreamt of the smell of rose water on skin and the sound of a tinkling laugh that delighted in everything she said. Now she dreamed only of freedom."

    In which Eloise is an unsatisfied spinster and travels to Wales to meet a friend.

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    01 Apr 2025

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    One of the BEST fix its. Perfect canon story. Bring hankies.

    Eloise gets the perfect mother-in-law. But don't think of it like that.

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    Cressida Cowper was not a nice lady. She was not kind or quiet or demure, the way a lady ought to be. She didn't shine. She didn't curtsey deep enough. Her styles were too noisy. Her sleeves too big. And she was downright cruel.

    These are some of the reasons she'd been given for why fewer and fewer men asked for a spot on her dance card each season. Which was fine with her, perhaps if she held out for another couple of years her parents would forget about her entirely and she could transition to spinsterhood in peace.

    She had been fine being mean. She was good at it. It was one of the few things she was good at. As she aged, her demeanor got harsher and her sleeves got bigger and her prospects slimmed.

    And then she'd been reintroduced to Eloise Bridgerton at a summer house party and it had all gone to shit. Because now she had ideas about women and competition and being nice and apologizing and caring and living authentically.

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    16 Feb 2025

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    I cry every time, but eventually with happiness. The one with the ball.🏀

    "As she aged, her demeanor got harsher and her sleeves got bigger and her prospects slimmed."

  4. Rec 64

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    Michaela doesn’t feel like trying to instill all her knowledge in her best friend before her “obsessed with my wife” upgrade fully takes over.

    Cressida keeps getting closer to her best friend’s sister-in-law/her old secondary school nemesis and doesn’t know what to do about it.

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    18 May 2025

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    They are useless lesbians, but they get there.

    Bonus Franchaela with your Creloise.

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    "But in loving, Leander the good swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and a whole bookful of these quondam carpetmongers, whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned over and over as my poor self in love." - Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing, Act V, Scene II

    When an accident befalls Eloise, Cressida, Gregory, and Hyacinth, the Bridgertons rally around them and escape from Mayfair during the middle of the season. At Aubrey Hall, Cressida reveals herself, little by little, as she and Eloise navigate the treacherous waters together.

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    The Eloise teaches Cressida to swim AU.

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    03 Jan 2025

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    Amazing canonish period appropriate Creloise! One of the classics.

    Anything by this author is worth your time.