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Phillip Crane has attended every Bridgerton wedding. He has held his tongue at dinner tables, driven to emergency rooms at three in the morning, and sat in the back of ballrooms with a woman who argued, loudly and with complete certainty, that marriage was a trap she wanted no part of. He never argued back. Not about that. Some things, he figured, were better left to time.
Companion Piece to In Plain Sight.
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- Part 2 of In Plain Sight
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Phillip Crane needs a wife. Not because he wants one. Because the family court system has decided that two-parent household is a checkbox, and he has four months before his brother's twins end up with grandparents who never deserved them.
Eloise Bridgerton needs a husband. Not because she wants one. Because her grandmother's trust has a marriage clause she's spent eight years refusing on principle, and principles are harder to hold when fourteen salaries depend on you and everything you built is at stake.
They've been colleagues for two years. They know each other just well enough to end up at the same bar after a bad meeting, and just honest enough, after two drinks and a long night, to say the thing neither of them meant to say out loud.
The math, it turns out, is simple.
Everything after that isn't.
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The Making of Lady Crane by bxtc
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
04 May 2026
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Sir Phillip Crane came to London with a list, a plan, and the reluctant assistance of the ton's most celebrated matchmaker. He had thirty-two successful matches worth of expertise at his disposal. He had a perfectly reasonable set of expectations. He was going to find a wife, return to Romney Hall, and never think about any of this again.
He was nearly certain of it.
He did not account for Miss Eloise Bridgerton.
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Phillip Crane is twelve. Eloise Bridgerton is ten. The pond is technically on Aubrey Hall land, though he has never quite conceded this.
They meet every summer. They write letters when they can't. He makes her a bookmark out of pressed clover so she'll stop bending the pages. She embroiders him a lopsided daisy and calls it character.
It is a very long time before either of them calls it anything else.
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Eloise Bridgerton slept with Phillip Crane at her brother's wedding. It was a lapse of judgment. A recurring one. And now, one by one, every single Bridgerton is about to find out.
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A Field Guide to Fireworks by TheBeardedKumquat
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
19 May 2026
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Eloise Bridgerton has an idea. A brilliant idea. She just needs someone with the expertise to help her execute it.
Phillip Crane has the expertise. Unfortunately, he’s been thrown into a literal turf war with an annoying Classics Professor and her grandiose plans.
Neither of them expected that while they were busy arguing over a plot of dirt, their mutual attraction would result in some seriously soiled reputations.For Philoise Week 2026.
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18 May 2026
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When the Quiet Softens by ajwsashim
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 May 2026
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Three years ago, Eloise disappeared without explanation, leaving behind a marriage no one understood how to mourn.
Phillip learned to survive the silence. He buried himself in work, answered questions about his missing wife with practiced indifference, and continued wearing his wedding ring long after everyone else stopped expecting her to come home.
Then one rainy night, Eloise returns to his doorstep carrying a single bag and far too many secrets.
She tells herself she only came to make certain he is safe. And yet he never stopped leaving space for her.
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18 May 2026
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Phillip and Pen's Ruse by fragmentsoflife
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
24 Apr 2026
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A summer at Aubrey Hall brings unexpected schemes and even more unexpected feelings. It marked the start of Phillip and Pen's Ruse.
Determined to help Sir Phillip Crane win Eloise Bridgerton's hand, Penelope Featherington agrees to assist him in a carefully planned courtship. Their secret partnership, however, does not go unnoticed. As secret meetings and long conversation spark jealousy and misunderstandings, both Colin and Eloise begin to question what they truly want.
Bookmarked by bxtc
28 Mar 2026
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I’ll Go Your Way Too by Laifing
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
15 May 2026
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Eloise Bridgerton doesn't do children, summer programmes, or men with complicated domestic situations. Phillip Crane is all three. His twins have a reputation for chaos and a habit of lying about every adult in their lives. Eloise was supposed to hand them off and go back to her cataloguing. She was not supposed to find him attractive. She was definitely not supposed to give him her number.
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19 Mar 2026
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The Unruly Miss Bridgerton by BibliophileInBonnets
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
28 Mar 2026
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Eloise is nearly two and twenty, Violet’s only unwed daughter, and suddenly the ton (and her own family) decides it is time now that Benedict is finally settled. Anthony wants control, Violet refuses to be moved, Daphne storms back into the season determined to “fix” her defiant baby sister, and the house is overflowing with babies, pregnancies, and matchmaking intent.
Then a letter arrives sealed in green wax: the Cranes.
Lady Marina Crane is dead. Sir Philip Crane is a widowed baronet raising two small children who are not his by blood, and he asks for discretion, not sympathy. Eloise, already reeling from what she’s learned about marriage, sex, inheritance, and the brutal ways women’s bodies become public property, can’t stop thinking about what it means that a wedding didn’t save Marina… and that duty didn’t save Philip.
A season of balls, gossip, grief, and domestic chaos unfolds as Eloise fights being arranged into a life she never chose—until she finds herself drawn, against all reason, toward the quiet, complicated man in Gloucestershire who chose children over reputation.
Love might add to one’s life.
It might also demand everything.
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11 Mar 2026