A Bountiful Season (Bridgerton Season 3 Rewrite)

England, 1815. A new year and a new social season. Young ladies from all over the ton will flock yet again for one purpose; finding a husband.
Francesca Brigerton is freshly 18 and ready to settle for someone tolerable. Practical and even-keeled, she does not expect to meet a love-match like her siblings before her.
Penelope Featherington is not keen on entering spinsterhood just to live at the whims of one of her sisters. Stretched between a still kicking crush on Colin, a broken friendship with Eloise, and her ever contentious secret identity as Lady Whistledown, her future happiness depends entirely on how well she can play the balancing game.
Eloise Bridgerton is less than pleased to be entering her second social season. Left reeling from Penelope's scathing pamphlets as Lady Whistledown, she resigns herself to playing nice, if just for the season. Her new friendship with Cressida Cowper leads her to see her fellow ladies of the ton in a new light as Eloise tries find herself amidst the ballrooms she feel so out of place in.
Let's face it, season 3 was a disappointing for pretty much everyone. So I'm rewriting it, and filling in the many gaps and plot-holes that left us questioning