When notorious rake Anthony Bridgerton announces that he has chosen a prospective bride, he faces unexpected opposition when his intended's meddlesome sister Kate decides to protect her innocent sister from the wicked aristocrat.

In an effort to keep himself footloose and single in spite of the efforts of the town's matchmakers, Simon Basset, Duke of Hastings, begins a sham courtship with Daphne Bridgerton.

While spying on Sir Harry Valentine, her new neighbor, who is rumored to have killed his fiancee, Olivia Bevelstoke finds the tables turned when he tires of her prying eyes and decides to meddle in her private affairs

Hyacinth Bridgerton offers to translate an old family diary for Gareth St. Clair, but as they delve into the mysterious text, they discover that the answers they seek are not in the diary, but in each other.

Secretly in love with Francesca Bridgerton, who thinks of him as nothing other than her dear friend and confidant, Michael Stirling, London’s most infamous rake, finally reveals his feelings during one dangerous night when she steps innocently into his arms.

Relegated to the role of servant by her stepmother, Sophie Beckett must sneak her way into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball, where she has a chance encounter with the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton.