Sharp tongues and sharper secrets collide when Eloise Bridgerton forms an unlikely alliance with her fiercest rival, Cressida Cowper. As their game of insults turns dangerously intimate, Eloise's hunt for Lady Whistledown's identity uncovers something far more scandalous: the fire beneath Cressida's ice. Now, with society watching and Penelope's betrayal fresh, these enemies must decide-will they tear each other apart, or tear down the rules that chain them?