Paperback – 496 pages

ANew York TimesBestseller

The inspiration for season three of BRIDGERTON, a series created by Shondaland for Netflix, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn: the story of Colin Bridgerton and Penelope Featherington in the fourth of her beloved Regency-set historical romance novels featuring the charming, powerful Bridgerton family.

COLIN AND PENELOPES STORY

Penelope Featherington has secretly adored her best friends brothera classic friends to lovers predicamentfor . . . well, it feels like forever. After half a lifetime of watching Colin Bridgerton from afar, she thinks she knows everything about him, until she stumbles across his deepest secret . . . and fears she doesnt know him at all.

Colin Bridgerton is tired of being thought of as nothing but an empty-headed charmer, tired of the notorious gossip columnist Lady Whistledown, who cant seem to publish an edition without mentioning him. But when Colin returns to London from a trip abroad, he discovers nothing in his life is quite the sameespecially Penelope Featherington! The girl who was always simply there is suddenly the girl haunting his dreams. When he discovers that Penelope, a classic wallflower heroine, has secrets of her own, this elusive bachelor must decide . . . is she his biggest threat or his promise of a happy ending?