With a single, deliberate announcement, Lady Violet Bridgerton sets the ton alight: this is the season Viscount Anthony Bridgerton intends to find a wife. As eager mothers and daughters descend upon him, the ballroom becomes a battleground of ambition and expectation. Watching from the margins is Kathani Sharma—unmoved by the spectacle, sharp-eyed to the truth beneath it. In a season ruled by duty and appearances, one woman’s refusal to join the chase threatens to change everything.