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An Offer from a Gentleman

An Offer from a Gentleman

Inspiration for the Netflix Original Series Bridgerton
Historical RomanceRegency
Pages
576
Published
2001
Language
English

Synopsis

Sophie Beckett is the illegitimate daughter of an earl, raised in his household and then reduced to servitude by her cruel stepmother after his death. When she slips away to a masquerade ball in a borrowed gown, she shares one magical, anonymous night with Benedict Bridgerton—and then vanishes before he can learn her name.

Benedict cannot forget the mysterious woman from the ball. Years later he crosses paths with a housemaid who stirs the same feelings, never guessing she is the woman he has been searching for. Sophie, terrified of the shame her birth would bring him, keeps her secret and holds him at arm's length, even as her heart betrays her.

A tender Cinderella retelling and the third book in Julia Quinn's Bridgerton series, An Offer from a Gentleman is a Regency romance about class, longing, and the courage it takes to believe you deserve to be loved.

Prose complexity
4/10

Vibe

RomanticEmotionalSpicyHeartwarming
Secret IdentityForbidden LoveFamily SagaSlow Burn

Genres

Historical Romance Regency Romance Historical Fiction

About the author

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Julia Quinn

Julia Quinn is the pen name of Julie Pottinger, born Julie Cotler in 1970, an American writer of Regency-set historical romance. She was raised primarily in New England, took a degree in art history from Harvard, and had begun preparatory coursework for medical school when her first two novels, Splendid and Dancing at Midnight, appeared in 1995. She chose the name Quinn so that her books would shelve alongside those of Amanda Quick. Her best-known work is the Bridgerton series — eight novels pu...

Characters

Sophie BeckettProtagonist

The illegitimate, mistreated daughter of an earl who shares one night with Benedict and hides her identity.

Benedict BridgertonProtagonist

The second Bridgerton brother, haunted by the memory of a masked woman from a ball.

Araminta GunningworthAntagonist

Sophie's cruel stepmother, the Countess of Penwood, who reduces her to servitude and later has her arrested on a false theft charge.

Posy ReilingSupporting

Araminta's daughter and Sophie's stepsister, who ultimately confesses to a theft Sophie was falsely accused of and leaves to join the Bridgertons.

All characters in An Offer from a Gentleman

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