a lovely night ▹ e. bridgerton

━ a lovely night

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──── ❝ summary ❞ ────

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          HELENA BARROW was tired. Only seventeen years old and already worn to the bone with work for a family that, although kind and generous, didn't give her a second thought, Helena often dreamt of living like London's nobility. Naturally, the life of servitude she had been forced into was far from the idealistic dreams of castles and gowns she had thought about as a child. 

          So, when her best friend and seamstress, Mary, offers her the chance at living like royalty for a single night, it's all too difficult to not jump at the opportunity.

           In a single night, Helena, masquerading as a nameless woman, had managed to capture the attention of all too many young gentlemen who had been looking for a lovely young lady, much unlike Helena, to wife. This wouldn't be much of an issue had it not been the first event of this year's social season or, as the servant's called it, the Season of Shagging.

          Due to her error in timing, Helena now had to grapple with the scandal surrounding her alter ego. There were men looking for the fair maiden who rushed off in the middle of the night, one seeming to be especially adamant about finding the woman he danced the night with. Ladies of the ton were snooping around with their gossip-ridden tongues, hoping that someone would know the true identity of the wretch who had stolen the gazes of the ones they had hoped to arrange marriages with. Even the queen herself was curious about the lady who waltzed her way into a party she hadn't even been invited to.

          Yet of all these powerful people who were on the hunt for a mysterious, dark-haired beauty, perhaps the one Helena feared most was a girl she had run into on her way home. It was only a few minutes, fifteen at most, but of every second spent at the party, those few were the most pleasant and the most dangerous.

          But why dangerous? Well, Helena had been watching the young girl from afar for years as she scrubbed the floors of the Bridgerton estate. Eloise Bridgerton's intelligence was unmatched, and when she put her brilliant mind to something, she wouldn't stop until she found the results she desired. As of the eventful night in April of 1813, the one thing Eloise wanted was the name of the very girl who was only rooms away from her.

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───── ❝ cast ❞ ───── 

hailee steinfeld
as helena barrow
❝ the servant ❞

additional cast | claire holt as
mary wood | jesse rather as
james wood | quincy fouse
as joseph steele | kali rocha
as eliza barrow | abigail breslin
as ellen barrow | brec bassinger
as eleanor barrow | leo howard
as nathaniel wynn | bridgerton
cast as their respective characters

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───── ❝ playlist ❞ ─────

❝ in my own little corner ❞

helena | so this is love, emile
pandolfi | chasing cars, vitamin
string quartet | love me like you
do, vitamin string quartet | viva
la vida, the regency philharmonic
orchestra | a thousand years, the
piano guys | young and beautiful,
brooklyn duo | clarity, daniel jang |
the story, allen & bright | barrow

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