A Night Like This

Name: A Night Like This
Rating: 4.3 (7940 reviews)

by Julia Quinn Book 2 in the Smythe-Smith Quartet series.

First published 2012

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Anne Wynter works as a governess while hiding from the consequences of an earlier encounter with a powerful man. At a Smythe-Smith musicale she meets Daniel, Earl of Winstead, recently returned from exile after a duel. Their attraction is immediate but shadowed by dangers attached to both of their pasts.

Daniel’s pursuit crosses class boundaries, while Anne’s precarious position shows how little protection a respectable household can offer a woman without rank or family influence. The romance develops into a struggle against coercion, revenge and the assumption that a governess can be pursued without consequence.