A New York Times Bestseller From #1 New York Times bestselling author Julia Quinn comes the story of Eloise Bridgerton,in the fifth of her beloved Regency-set novels featuring the charmingpowerful Bridgerton familynow a series created by Shondaland for Netflix. ELOISE’S STORY Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinsterand so he’d proposedfiguring that she’d be homely and unassumingand more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except . . . she wasn’t. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quietand when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouthall he wanted to do was kiss her . . . and more. Did he think she was mad? Eloise Bridgerton couldn’t marry a man she had never met! But then she started thinking . . . and wondering . . . and before she knew itshe was in a hired carriage in the middle of the nighton her way to meet the man she hoped might be her perfect match. Except . . . he wasn’t. Her perfect husband wouldn’t be so moody and ill-manneredand while Phillip was certainly handsomehe was a large brute of a manrough and ruggedand totally unlike the London gentlemen vying for her hand. But when he smiled . . . and when he kissed her . . . the rest of the world simply fell awayand she couldn’t help but wonder . . . could this imperfect man be perfect for her?