The queen chose her diamond. Society chose its bachelor. Neither had any intention of choosing each other. After nearly a decade away from society, Miss Matilda Lillinton returns to London for her first season, only to be named Queen Charlotte's diamond. Calm, elegant and almost impossible to read, every eye in the ton turns to her - including Anthony Bridgerton's. Anthony Bridgerton, London's most eligible bachelor, has every intention of choosing a wife on his own terms-until Queen Charlotte and Lady Danbury begin orchestrating one "coincidental" meeting after another. Forced together. Every encounter is perfectly polite... and impossibly tense. He cannot read her. She sees straight through him. And somewhere between stolen glances, lingering silences, and words that never quite mean what they should, Anthony begins to realise there is only one thing more dangerous than the Queen's matchmaking- Falling for the one woman determined to remain a mystery, and perhaps the greatest love story of the Season was never meant to be planned at all.