Anthony Bridgerton has exactly three plans for the summer: avoid responsibility, annoy his siblings, and enjoy the final months of freedom before adulthood becomes unavoidable. Falling disastrously in love was never part of them. Fresh from university and spending the season at Aubrey Hall, twenty-year-old Anthony is charming, arrogant, reckless, and entirely too confident for his own good. With Edmund Bridgerton still alive, the burden of becoming viscount feels far away enough to ignore — until the daughter of one of Violet Bridgerton’s oldest friends arrives for the summer. You. The girl Anthony vaguely remembers from childhood suddenly becomes impossible to avoid. Especially when she starts beating him at pall mall, stealing his riding jackets, making his family laugh harder than he does, and dancing with other men like she has no idea what it’s doing to him. Now Anthony finds himself doing deeply irrational things: starting arguments for attention, volunteering for garden walks he hates, glaring at potential suitors across ballrooms, and discovering that jealousy is a profoundly humiliating emotion. Between moonlit lake swims, late-night conversations, scandalous kisses hidden from chaperones, and the chaos of an entire Bridgerton family determined to meddle, Anthony learns something horrifying: Love makes him stupid. And unfortunately for everyone involved, Anthony Bridgerton has never known when to stop.