
Their friendship is full of jokes, laughter, and long walks. She marries the earl and becomes best buddies with her husbands’ heir. Francesca is unaware of Michael’s love for her.

Michael loves his cousin too much to admit how he feels about the future bride, so he locks those feelings inside and becomes her best friend instead. Michael Stirling meets Francesca Bridgerton and falls head over heels in love with her days before she is to marry his cousin, John Stirling, the Earl of Kilmartin. Francesca and Michael’s story is interesting and definitely not typical. Julia Quinn delivers another winner in the sixth addition to the Bridgerton series. To celebrate the arrival of Netflix’s Bridgerton, AAR is running, in reading order, our reviews of the original nine books in the series.

until one dangerous night, when she steps innocently into his arms, and passion proves stronger than even the most wicked of secrets. Michael dares not speak to her of his love. Now Michael is the earl and Francesca is free, but still she thinks of him as nothing other than her dear friend and confidant. Unfortunately for Michael, however, Francesca's surname was to remain Bridgerton for only a mere thirty-six hours longer - the occasion of their meeting was, lamentably, a supper celebrating her imminent wedding to his cousin.īut that was then. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton.Īfter a lifetime of chasing women, of smiling slyly as they chased him, of allowing himself to be caught but never permitting his heart to become engaged, he took one look at Francesca Bridgerton and fell so fast and hard into love it was a wonder he managed to remain standing. Ī moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same.

The sixth novel in Julia Quinn's globally beloved and bestselling Bridgerton Family series, set in Regency times and now a series created by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix.
