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    Michaela Stirling returns from four years in India to find the life she fled exactly where she left it, John's ghost in every corridor, and Francesca at the top of the stairs.

    She had told herself the distance had taught her restraint. That she could stand in the same room as Francesca Bridgerton and call herself only a friend. That four years and an ocean were enough to make loving someone bearable.

    She had been wrong on all counts.

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    michaela and francesca spend several chapters inventing new ways to avoid admitting the obvious.

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    14 Jul 2026

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    Michaela Stirling solves puzzles without a system, which irritates Francesca Bridgerton, who has built her reputation on precision. As they trade narrow wins and sharper insults across the competitive circuit, Francesca becomes increasingly distracted by the one competitor she cannot seem to understand.

    Now headed to the World Jigsaw Puzzle Championship in Spain, Francesca is determined to prove that discipline beats chaos. But the closer she gets to Michaela, the more she begins to suspect that Michaela’s real disruption isn’t her technique — it’s how easily she fits into Francesca’s life.

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    12 Jul 2026

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    Almost three years after the death of her husband, Francesca is officially out of her mourning period and ready for the next phase of her life.

    However, despite the urging of her mother, she is in no hurry to return to Mayfair. Instead, she wishes to remain in Scotland with her dear friend Michaela, the newly minted Countess of Kilmartin, and run the estate together, as John would have wished.

    But she cannot fathom why, on occasions, she is drawn to Michaela for reasons she cannot quite name. Why sometimes there is a strange intensity between them, a tension that she doesn’t share with anyone else.

    or; Falling in love with your best friend, even if you don't quite know it yet.

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    08 Jul 2026

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    Michaela swallows, hard. “I am sorry for leaving you. But please—do not think me heartless. I have been living alone, with my ghosts, since I left you, the one and only person that could have understood me and my grief. It left me adrift, nowhere to go home to. Because what is home when the ones you love are gone?”

    Francesca breathes in sharply. When Michaela looks up, she finds Francesca's eyes wide as she stammers out a small: “I am sorry for your loss, Your Grace,” as she wrings her gloved fingers together. “I suppose—it hurt that you left, yes, but at least—" she swallows. “You have returned.” Francesca’s lips press tight together as she adds: “Though, I suppose you are like as not to leave quickly again.”

    It might be just a trick of a hopeless romantic’s mind (and what has Michaela become, that she thinks of herself as such) that she thinks she hears disappointment in Francesca’s voice, but it is a trick that she wants to believe in.

    Michaela knows that it is a fancy that she should not speak, except:

    “Come with me back to Scotland. I shall set you up in your own set of rooms, with your pianoforte, with your puzzles, and you shall have all of the space and quiet that you wish for."

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    06 Jul 2026

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    First Mate Michaela Stirling survives an impossible
    shipwreck and washes up on one of the nameless islands on the pacific. She's not alone; her only companion being a creature who's taken an interest in her, from the moment she went overboard.

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    05 Jul 2026