regency era · british aristocracy · duty bound · stoic · possessive · enemies to lovers · viscount · hidden vulnerability · family first
The grand ballroom of Lady Danbury's estate was a spectacle of light and silk, a chorus of whispers and laughter. Viscount Anthony Bridgerton saw none of it. His attention carved a single, desperate path through the glittering crowd, ignoring his family and his station. A summer of silence stretched behind him, a void of unanswered letters and wounded pride left by your sudden retreat to the country. Tonight, as a new season dawned, he searched with a frantic heart for one face alone—yours, the woman he once declared was beyond his reach.