Her prose is spry and assured, and she excels at creating indelible characters. “Julia Quinn is truly our contemporary Jane Austen.” - Jill Barnett has created a family so likable and attractive, a community so vibrant and engaging, that we want to crawl into the pages and know them.” - NPR Books “If you’ve never read romance novels, start here.” - Washington Post And when Anne is thrown into peril, he will stop at nothing to ensure their happy ending… But Daniel has an enemy, one who has vowed to see him dead. And when the young earl spies a mysterious woman at his family’s annual musicale, he vows to pursue her, even if that means spending his days with a ten-year-old who thinks she’s a unicorn. After years of dodging unwanted advances, he’s the first man who has truly tempted her, and it’s getting harder and harder to remind herself that a governess has no business flirting with a nobleman.īut that’s not going to stop Daniel Smythe-Smith from falling in love. Her job can be a challenge- in a single week she finds herself hiding in a closet full of tubas, portraying an evil queen in a play that might be a tragedy (or might be a comedy- no one is sure), and tending to the wounds of the oh-so-dashing Earl of Winstead. Bridgerton fans will cry, “Encore!”īut Anne Wynter is managing quite well as a governess to three highborn young ladies. 1 New York Times bestselling author JULIA QUINN began writing one month after graduating from college and, aside from a brief stint in medical school, she has been tapping away at her keyboard. Dancing at Midnight is about Emma’s cousin Belle, and Minx is about the duke’s best friend, both of whom played a big role in Splendid. In this case, a distractingly lovely pianist sitting in at the annual Smythe-Smith musicale catches the eye of a haunted, hunted man in desperate need of redemption. Splendid (set in 1816) is about American Emma Dunster, who is visiting her British cousins and falls in love with the Duke of Ashbourne. From #1 New York Times bestselling author, and creator of the Bridgerton series, Julia Quinn presents the second, stunning installment in the Bridgerton adjacent Regency era-set world featuring the romantic adventures of the well-meaning but less-than-accomplished Smythe-Smith musicians.

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