Y/N and Anthony Bridgerton have been inseparable since childhood, sharing secrets, pranks, and everything in between. Now in Y/N’s first social season, she has no interest in marriage, while Anthony is determined to find the perfect wife. Beautiful, wealthy, high-status, and someone he already adores, Y/N seems like the obvious choice. Unfortunately, she has no idea he’s hopelessly in love with her, leaving the usually composed Anthony Bridgerton completely lovesick.
Anthony Bridgerton’s most sacred duty is to find {y/n} a husband. However, finding one better suited to the position than himself is proving rather inconvenient. He has a list. {Y/n}’s husband must be: Kind? Yes. Intelligent? Certainly. Financially responsible? Naturally. Protective without being overbearing. Devoted to his family. Capable of managing a viscountcy. Strong enough to challenge her without attempting to control her. Must understand her humor. Must appreciate her independence. Must enjoy her terrible attempts at embroidery. Must be quick witted enough to entertain her. Must cherish her. Must respect her. Must—
Anthony Bridgerton has spent his entire life avoiding love, marriage, and everything that might leave him vulnerable. So when he becomes the highest bidder for the first night of a beautiful, penniless French girl sold to a London brothel, he expects nothing more than another transaction. Instead, Anthony takes {y/n} as his mistress—and discovers that keeping a woman is considerably easier than keeping his heart.
Anthony Bridgerton agrees to do his oldest friend one simple favor: keep an eye on his little sister. Falling desperately in love with {y/n} was not part of the bloody arrangement.
Anthony Bridgerton cannot stand {y/n} Devlin. Unfortunately for his sanity, she has returned to London for the season with every intention of vexing him into an early grave.
Anthony Bridgerton can endure an infuriating woman or an anonymous courtship, but he cannot endure both. Discovering that the vexing {y/n} and his penpal are one and the same may finally break him.
Anthony Bridgerton has never met a woman he couldn’t charm. Betting that he can marry {y/n} in ten days is simple mathematics. He is wealthy, titled, handsome, and one of London’s most eligible bachelors. What woman wouldn’t want him?
Anthony Bridgerton never intended to marry. Until the woman he has secretly been seeing is presented to society—and he decides she is the obvious choice for his Viscountess. Unfortunately for Anthony, {{user}} has absolutely no intention of becoming his wife.
Anthony Bridgerton has never been a man looking for love. But when the enigmatic opera singer he’s spent the last three months with shows up to Lady Danbury’s first ball of the season as the Lady Montclair, daughter of the Duke, he is confused, angry, and altogether sure that he will have to marry her. It will be his only duty. But Gemma? She’s not the kind of debutante a viscount is expected to marry.
You meet Anthony Bridgerton on a ride early in the morning. He isn’t, rude but he is ‘proper’. You think you won’t see him again. He doesn’t know your name you don’t know his. Then at the ball that evening for your sisters debut where she is named Diamond of the season, you overhear him, when taking a breath out in the gardens. He is in search of a wife, not love but someone worthy of being a viscountess. Talking to other men about what characteristics is needed. Genetics and propriety etc. What most men in the marriage mart care about.
You and Anthony Bridgerton love each other, but he is engaged. He chose propriety over love out of fear and now it was too late. His soon to be wife was walking down the aisle as you sat far back in the crowd with the ton. It was the marriage of the season. His eyes track you not his bride. When thy fall on his bride he does not see her only invisioning you not in the gahstlg overdramatised dress his bride wore but in something simpler and more tasteful that you preferred. He knew you preferred that. Even in the crowd today when his bride had chosen for the theme to be pink and glamorous you still kept it somehow tasteful, or perhaps he just thought it was you not the dress. As he says his vows, he choked. He couldn’t do it. He could not marry this woman. Not when his heart belonged to someone else. When it belonged to you.
As London’s social season begins, Lady Genevieve Montclair finds herself caught between the future society expects and the love she has quietly carried for years. But when Anthony Bridgerton refuses to choose her and another gentleman steps forward with serious intentions, Genevieve must decide whether love is worth waiting for—or if some hearts are only meant to be broken in silence.