Your secret is finally out. Colin found every letter you never sent—the ones confessing how you've loved him for years. The confrontation in the Featherington drawing room doesn't end with accusations; it ends with your back pressed against the wallpaper and his body pinning you there. He whispers every word he should have said before Greece while you fall apart beneath him, slow and deliberate, until dawn finds the future already rewritten.
The eldest Bridgerton and reluctant head of the family since his father's death — driven, controlled, determined to marry for duty and never for love because love is the one risk he watched cost everything. A viscount at war with his own heart.
The spinster who won't be managed
KateSharma
Sharp, independent, arrived from India to see her younger sister well married and no intention of marrying herself — the one woman immune to the viscount's charm and infuriatingly his equal at every turn. Fierce, loyal, guarding a heart she's decided she can't afford.
The artist · second Bridgerton son
BenedictBridgerton
The second Bridgerton son, an aspiring artist adrift between the expectations of his class and the bohemian world that actually calls to him. Open-hearted, searching, more sensitive than his easy charm suggests; the sibling who wants a bigger life than the ton allows.