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The Widow's Reckoning by multi_wlw
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Frichaela, michaela stirling - Fandom, francesca bridgerton - Fandom
18 Mar 2026
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When Francesca Bridgerton returns to Kilmartin House in the wake of her husband's sudden death, she finds the one complication she cannot manage: Michaela Stirling, John's cousin, still in residence, and still capable of unsettling Francesca with a single look.
Michaela was the first person to offer Francesca comfort in London, and the first to abandon her without explanation. Now, forced into uneasy proximity by estate politics and watchful eyes, the two women circle each other through icy silences, sharp arguments, and moments of tenderness neither is willing to name. Francesca insists she is only trying to restore order. Michaela insists she is only trying to keep Francesca safe. But beneath the rules of mourning and the ruthless scrutiny of society, something forbidden begins to breathe.
Francesca is forced to confront an unbearable truth: she may be losing herself to a love she never knew she was allowed to want. Michaela, torn between devotion and fear, must decide whether protecting Francesca means leaving her... or choosing her.
The Widow's Reckoning is a passionate continuation of Francesca's story, where love does not replace what was lost, but dares to exist beside it... even if it becomes scandal.Series
- Part 1 of The Widow of Kilmartin Series
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09 Jul 2026
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Michaela, whilst grieving and overwhelmed with the feelings blossoming in her chest for her cousin's widow, does the only thing she can think to do when asked so sweetly to stay, she flees.
But now, after two years of running, she has returned to London, determined to make amends with the woman she has managed to convince herself she cannot fall in love with, under any circumstances.
Yet her chosen path is not an easy one, for Francesca Stirling, now seething with rage, grief, and a furious current of feelings she neither understands nor can explain, is just as determined to discover the very reason for Michaela's flight in the first place, a reason Michaela is intent on keeping to herself.
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30 Jun 2026
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“Do not come.” Michaela tells her once again, her voice attractively low and hard, leaving no room for argument.
“I-” She feels her blush take over, spreading further, down her chest and to her ears. “What if I do?” She tries to challenge, though it gets lost somewhat in the slight breathiness of her tone, Michaela’s gentle kisses moving from the inside of one knee to the other.
“Then you will ruin my plans for you the rest of the night and we will not be able to do them. You do not want that do you?” Francesca shakes her head, her breathing becoming a fraction more erratic as she feels Michaela’s breath travel hotly against the inside of her thigh. “Then be a good girl and do not come.”
Or Franchaela regency strap au
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- Part 6 of Commissioned Prompts
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29 Jun 2026
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Michaela Stirling wakes up in 2026 with no explanation, in a London flat she shares with Francesca Bridgerton. Their flat. Their life. And a mug in the cupboard that says more than she knows how to.
She spends two months learning to survive a century she doesn't understand, alone, until a hospital calls to say that Francesca needs to be picked up.
Now they must navigate a world that has already decided they belong together, while one of them is only beginning to understand what that might mean.- Language:
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20 Jun 2026
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when the heart would cease (ours never knew peace) by weepingwillow713
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
16 Jun 2026
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It begins, as most things do, rather innocuously. With a phone call.
A phone call that shocks Francesca from her deep sleep, blinking confused and discombobulated in the dark.
She registers her phone ringing on her nightstand with a jolt, and crawls out of the warm nest of blankets, flinging an arm over and answering without even glancing at the caller ID. Her voice is hoarse, brimming over with sleep as she clears her throat and mutters, “Hello?”
“Frannie,” Michaela breathes on the other end.
All of a sudden Francesca’s wide awake.
Or: Michaela’s apartment floods. She moves in with Francesca until it gets fixed. And that should’ve been fine, right? But Francesca’s used to her simple, quiet routine -– bookstore job, piano on the weekends -– and, well, there’s nothing less routine, less controllable, than Michaela. Except maybe the feelings Michaela stirs up within her.
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18 Jun 2026