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Francesca and Michaela can’t stop thinking about each other. The long for each other. Scotland and England have never felt further apart. But when things become to real, they both run. Will they learn to stay put and work through it or will they continue running?
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29 Jun 2026
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Heart Full of Whatever Stars are Made of by portraitofawriteronfire
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV)
20 Jun 2026
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The Bridgerton Coven and the Stirling Coven are at odds.
Centuries of conflict have built up resentment on both the witches and the vampires' sides, but when a larger problem looms, threatening to destroy the supernatural community at large, something has to give. Known for her dedication to magical studies, Francesca is her coven's choice to get to the bottom of things. Meanwhile, Michaela has been chosen by her coven more to prove her worth after certain...incidents...rather than to solve anything. But when the two women, witch and vampire, stumble across each other's paths, they may just realize that blood magic, their individual specialties combined, is the key to success.
Or things might simply fall apart.
After all, there are rituals to be done, parties to be attended, and feelings to avoid.
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The non-fraternization rules remain in place.
The supernatural pairing season waits for no one.
And the world holds its breath for something awe-inspiring.Bookmarked by Rechaela
26 Jun 2026
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Francesa Bridgerton is a world-class pianist whose only joy in her career is to play freely for the world. That is, until her agency replaced her travel manager with a very chaotic and mirthful Michaela Stirling, who is determined to prove to Francesca that music and life can offer so much more.
orrrr...
Michaela spends their travels together teasing Francesca until she snaps...
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26 Jun 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 Jun 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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22 Jun 2026
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"The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself..." - The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Limits are set when it comes to pleasure, and Michaela has no problem with that. Her work allows her to fully indulge her two passions: design and physical contact, casual sex, without expectations of continuity or establishing an emotional or romantic bond.
If the opportunity presents itself, she takes it; if the desire is mutual, she will do her part. But after a quick encounter with her cousin's new wife (who ends up being the hostess of her next big project), she'll realize that, in reality, fighting against her own needs is much harder than giving in to them.
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22 Jun 2026
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Michaela dismisses Francesca’s fears with fierce reassurance, kissing her roughly to emphasize her devotion. She declares Francesca perfect, asserting that she’s exactly where she wants to be—whether slow or desperate—leaving Francesca overwhelmed by the intensity of their connection.
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19 Jun 2026
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University AU where Francesca is supposed to be in a perfectly loving relationship with her boyfriend, John, with a sensible future of marriage and children on the horizon, right up until John's cousin, Michaela Stirling, returns from a sabbatical abroad and Francesca finds herself, suddenly, hopelessly curious about another woman in ways that are utterly nonsensical.
Now Francesca finds herself unable to stay away and trying very hard not to think about why telling Michaela she and John are dating feels like it would ruin everything. Surely keeping that little detail about her relationship status cannot be seen as lying if Michaela never asked. Right?
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Or, finding the courage to be yourself before it's too late.
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Doesn't love make us all a little crazy though? Or is that just Francesca?
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09 Jun 2026
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A map back to you by VelvetVerse
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Franchaela - Fandom, Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
29 Jun 2026
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Part 2 of The Shape of Wanting series. Sequel to Before We Were Brave.
Modern AU Franchaela, with characterisation kept close to canon. All of the Bridgertons will make an appearance.
Francesca Bridgerton thought Spain was over. She thought Michaela Stirling belonged to the holiday: to sunlit streets, late-night bars, warm skin, dangerous smiles, and the kind of wanting Francesca had never quite known what to do with before.
Then her dog gets hurt, and the vet who walks through the clinic door is Michaela.
They find each other again in London, but the reunion is far from simple. Francesca has questions she never asked. Michaela has grief she never explained. Between them sit missed messages, wrong assumptions, and all the things they were not brave enough to say before goodbye.
Spain was supposed to be temporary.
This was not.
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- Part 2 of The Shape of Wanting
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09 Jun 2026
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An accomplished principal ballerina with the Royal Ballet. A jaded photographer who never stays in one place for too long. Ten years ago, the summer romance between Francesca Bridgerton and Michaela Stirling came to an abrupt, heartbreaking end. Now, they are back in the same place, at the same time, only not exactly by choice. Will their second chance at first love end differently this time around? Or will the duet they try to dance together falter once again?
or the exes to friends to lovers ballet AU no one asked for!
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09 Jun 2026
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“You will be perfect. This is your home as much as it is mine. If anything, I’m sure Michaela would be more than happy to offer advice.”
“Michaela’s here? I’m sure she will be a great help, but is she not still in the States?”
“Oh, did I not let you know? I received correspondence just before we departed. As it turns out, Michaela will be–”
“Gossiping about me already, cousin?”
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Francesca was not expecting many things, but most of all, she was not expecting Michaela Stirling.
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- Part 1 of between the breaths
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08 Jun 2026
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When Loving Her Was Wicked by kinverses
Fandoms: Franchaela - Fandom, francesca bridgerton - Fandom, michaela stirling - Fandom, Bridgerton - Fandom
25 Apr 2026
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How could something feel so natural and so unforgivable at once?
That was the thing Francesca could not reconcile. Not the wickedness of it, which society would have named readily enough if society had known. Not even the betrayal, though that cut its own deep wound. But the ease of it. The instinct. The terrible, unsought understanding of how one woman could want another and be answered without translation. She had thought, once, that desire had a shape. A prescribed form. A body it belonged to.
Michaela Stirling had shown her, in a single evening, how wrong she had been.
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Inspired by When He Was Wicked, this version rewrites the original story through Michaela Stirling, transforming it into a romance shaped by secrecy, grief, friendship, and a love even harder won.
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07 Jun 2026
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The fictional story of the beautiful yet tormented love story between Michaela Stirling and Francesca Bridgerton, set in the regency era…with some twists
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07 Jun 2026
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Before We Were Brave by VelvetVerse
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Franchaela - Fandom, Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
11 May 2026
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“Excuse me,” said a voice beside her. “I was wondering if you could help me. There’s something wrong with my phone.”
(...) Francesca blinked. “Sorry?”
The woman held up her phone with a solemnity that fooled no one. “Terrible malfunction.”
Francesca, still a step behind whatever was happening here, said, “Do you need to ring someone?”
“That’s the issue,” the woman said. “It doesn’t have your number in it.”A modern AU Franchaela story in which Francesca Bridgerton goes to Spain for two weeks with her sister Eloise and their friend Sophie, fully intending to recover from heartbreak quietly and in peace.
Instead, she meets Michaela Stirling.
What begins as sun, flirtation, and something that looks like a holiday distraction slowly becomes harder to define, and even harder to ignore. In a place that feels far from home, Francesca finds herself drawn to a woman who makes wanting feel easy, and honesty feel like something neither of them quite knows how to do.
And when the holiday ends, neither of them is brave enough to say what happens next.Series
- Part 1 of The Shape of Wanting
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The Only Exception by NotTheBrightestt
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
29 Jun 2026
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After spending an ample amount of time with her family in Mayfair, and beginning to fully process what has now become of her life after John's passing--Francesca decides to return to Scotland. She returns in hope to find peace and comfort in the place her and John grew to call home. Though peace is a thing easily interrupted by the right force...
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24 May 2026
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Sickly Sweet by bluebumblebee888
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn
18 Jun 2026
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Francesca character analysis type of story
“Why did you leave me?”
Francesca had long thought of confronting Michaela about it. She had imagined countless scenarios of the fight that would make her scream louder than she had ever allowed her voice to go.
They all contained explosive fights, venomous words, and undying bitterness. A fire she had fed with ire and resentment, at last unleashed.
They were nothing like what she had enabled just now. Her nose was red, and cold. Her boots were wet. Her heart burned with the desire to understand. For a resolution. To be good enough to know Michaela, to be worthy enough to speak the language of her perfectly guarded heart, and even more impassable mind.
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Francesca is sent away to Scotland to cure her melancholia.
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23 May 2026
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People say desperate times call for desperate measures, and that's exactly what drove Francesca and Michaela together.
Francesca Bridgerton, top of the class student at Stanford, needs an elite athlete for her study if she wants to graduate in time.
Michaela Stirling, international rake and record-breaker, needs to convince the manager she's seeing a therapist or they'll cut her from the national swimming team.
Or: Swimming AU! where Michaela and Francesca need to get along if they want to achieve their goals.
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DISCLAIMER: Inspired by Buttonupjuno's fanfic, In Too Deep (on wattpad)Bookmarked by Rechaela
22 May 2026
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You want me, I know you do by vinn374
Fandoms: Bridgerton (TV), Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Franchaela - Fandom
30 Apr 2026
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19 May 2026
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What the crown forbids by Lesbianoftheton
Fandoms: Bridgerton Series - Julia Quinn, Bridgerton (TV)
11 Jun 2026
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‘Here,’ Francesca continued awkwardly, ‘we can share the blanket. You can sleep on the right side and I’ll sleep on the left side. But uh… if you prefer another side, you can choose. I do not want you to feel forced into sleeping somewhere specific.’
Michaela smiled slightly.
‘I think I’ll survive whichever side you give me, princess.’
She climbed onto the bed and ended up laying on one of Francesca’s plushies.
Francesca realized Michaela was probably too tired for another conversation, so she quietly laid down beside her.
For some reason, sleeping next to Michaela made her stomach feel strangely warm and nervous at the same time, though Francesca didn’t really understand why.
At Westbridge Royal Academy Francesca Bridgerton tries her best to be the perfect princess, the perfect student, and the perfect girlfriend to John Stirling.
Unfortunately for her, Michaela Stirling has just arrived at the academy, and the fact that she also happens to be John’s cousin certainly does not help Francesca avoid falling in love.
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18 May 2026
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John is dead. Michaela is gone. Michaela, halfway across the world and drowning in grief of her own.
After John Stirling’s death, Francesca is left with grief, unanswered questions, and a pregnancy no one saw coming. Michaela Stirling is left with a title she never wanted, feelings she cannot confess, and the unbearable knowledge that she has fallen in love with her cousin’s widow.
Forced back into each other’s lives by duty, mourning, Francesca and Michaela build a life together one moment at a time, until friendship becomes longing, longing becomes scandal, and London threatens to tear them apart before they can name what they are to each other.
Or: Francesca Bridgerton and Michaela Stirling fall in love very slowly, very painfully, and very inevitably.
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17 May 2026