London's high society is immersed in the excitement of the new season! Nothing exciting is happening, and the public is unanimous in saying what a boring year it has been... There is some intrigue about whether thirty-three-year-old Colin Bridgerton will lose his bachelor status, as he has just returned home from a trip to Greece. According to Lady Whisledown, there are no obvious candidates for a wife on the horizon. Besides, nothing prevents Colin from taking off at a moment's notice and running away to meet adventures, away from his mother's annoying hints about marriage and the stale social atmosphere. Of course, Penelope Featherington would not want to do that, because she has long been absorbed in her feelings for Colin, which have grown into something more than friendship. Nevertheless, Penelope has been attending the season for years and years, and is already on the verge of a lifetime of loneliness... And while her entire narrow-minded family is trying to turn the youngest of the Featheringtons, Felicity, into an object of interest for the prominent groom Colin Bridgerton, the irrepressible Lady Danbury turns her back on Penelope. She announces a hunt for the legendary Lady Whisledown!