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    Five years.

    Twenty matches.

    One hotel, different floors and the kind of tension that has been mislabeled competitive awareness for far too long. Francesca and Michaela are the greatest rivalry in women's tennis — and, it turns out, each other's most inconvenient problem.

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    26 Mar 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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    16 Mar 2026

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    When Michaela left, she took the final puzzle piece.

    It was impulsive, as so many of Michaela’s actions were, and the entire trip back to Scotland, in carriages and coaches and in temporary lodgings, she held the piece tight in her hand or traced her fingers around its edges and thought about going back to London.  Francesca would surely miss the puzzle piece, or at least notice the new gap in the middle of her formerly perfect puzzle, and if Michaela turned around and returned it and blamed her sudden flight on temporary madness brought on by grief, Francesca would forgive her.  She could be the support Francesca needed until the next season, or for a few more weeks at least, and everything would be fine.

    Then she remembered the way John looked at Francesca like she was his whole world, and how it had felt when Francesca held her hand, warm and tingly and exciting, and she did not turn back.

    Michaela runs away and in doing so, realizes she can't run from grief. Or from love.

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    04 Mar 2026

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    There is something strange about Michaela Stirling.

    Francesca cannot quite put her finger on what it is, but it has become clear after three weeks on the road to Scotland that she simply cannot be near her.

    And Michaela - well, she is worried that Francesca Stirling née Bridgerton is a little plain. And one will eventually start to feel guilty teasing a plain person.

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    25 Feb 2026

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    Shadowheart, the guitarist for a small-time metal band on tour, nearly crashes her band's van into an auto body shop in a podunk called Rivington. That's the least of her worries. Every day on the road revolves around the devolving relationship with her ex, the Avatar of her religion and the frontwoman of the band. Everything is Shar, and Shadowheart knows no escape nor if she deserves one.

    At least until Ash, the head mechanic of that dinky garage, questions everything Shadowheart's ever known, digging into her life until they both bleed.

    Ash told herself to forget about them. Forget about Shadowheart. She needed to make forgetting easy and turn her heart to stone to the attractive, enigmatic stranger.

    That’s all Shadowheart was. That's all she should be.

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    20 Feb 2026