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He filed every feeling under the wrong heading. None of them stayed filed.
Miss Gwen O'Brian arrives at Bridgerton House to teach Hyacinth pianoforte, Gregory Latin, and all of them that drawing is intelligence, needlepoint is pain tolerance, and poetry is ammunition.
She is twenty-seven. Irish. Competent. Self-erasing. And precisely the kind of woman a Viscount cannot afford to notice.
Anthony notices.
He files it under propriety maintained. It does not stay filed.
When duty calls Gwen back to Ireland and a failing family estate, Anthony is left with a household that runs correctly but feels wrong, a blank page he cannot bring himself to write on, and a marriage list drafted from the profile of a woman who is not available for consideration.
Meanwhile, a dead man's love letter is hiding inside a book Anthony sent to Ireland without knowing what he carried.
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Set during Bridgerton Season 1. Slow burn. Dual POV. Ends in failure. Book Two is where it gets fixed.
Book One of the Written in the Stars series.
Complete - 59,000 words - 18 chapters