The Viscountess

He made a list. He forgot to check whether he was already in love.

Anthony Bridgerton has made a decision. He is going to marry. He has a list, a plan, and a diamond of the season, and he is conducting the whole affair with the efficiency of a man auditing an estate.

There is only one flaw in the plan. The woman who once taught his youngest sister that soup is a matter of broth and intention left his household a year ago, with a pressed flower in a book she never sent and a question she never answered - and she has just walked back into every room he owns.

Gwen O'Brian returns to London as the restored niece of the Marquess of Radcliffe, to see her sister through a season. She is not there to be courted. She is there to manage. She has spent her whole life at the edge of rooms, and she has learned to believe the edge is where she belongs.

But the Viscount keeps turning up in the same rooms. And a mother's sealed letter is waiting to be opened. And a marriage, it turns out, is not a feeling. It is an architecture - and this time, Gwen intends to read every clause before she signs.

A slow-burn Regency romance about rooms, settlements, and the difference between being useful and being chosen. Sequel to The Governess. 27 chapters. Complete.

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She read the settlement, asked the questions, and made it contractual.