Category Archives: Past

After endur­ing two sea­sons in Lon­don, Daphne Bridger­ton is no longer naive enough to believe she will be able to marry for love. But is it really too much to hope for a hus­band for whom she at least has some affection?

Her brother's old school friend Simon Bas­sett — the new Duke of Hast­ings — has no inten­tion of ever mar­ry­ing. How­ever, newly returned to Eng­land, he finds him­self the tar­get of the many marriage-minded soci­ety moth­ers who remain con­vinced that reformed rakes make the best husbands.

To deflect their atten­tion, the hand­some hell-raiser pro­poses to Daphne that they pre­tend an attach­ment. In return, his inter­est in Daphne will ensure she becomes the belle of Lon­don soci­ety with suit­ors beat­ing a path to her door...

There's just one prob­lem, Daphne is now in dan­ger of falling for a man who has no inten­tion of mak­ing their cha­rade a reality.

Anthony Bridger­ton needs a wife.

Hav­ing spent his twen­ties in a rak­ish pur­suit of plea­sure (whilst tak­ing care to ensure the finan­cial secu­rity of his mother and seven younger sib­lings and mother) he knows it's high time he set­tled down and ensured the con­tin­u­a­tion of the Bridger­ton line.

Edwina Sheffield is con­sid­ered the most beau­ti­ful debu­tante of the cur­rent sea­son. She is also sweet, inno­cent and emi­nently bid­d­a­ble — Anthony is sure she'll make a per­fectly accept­able wife and vows to make her his. The only obsta­cle in his way is Edwina's older sis­ter, Kate.

Kate is deter­mined to do all she can to allow her sis­ter the chance to marry for love rather than con­ve­nience. And the rogu­ish vis­count is begin­ning to think he may have met his match in Kate's keen wit and sharp tongue. Until, that is, he makes the mis­take of kiss­ing her... Con­tinue read­ing →