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  “En garde,” he murmured, and with his imaginary épée, he jousted with the heavens. He laughed as he lunged forward, aiming straight for that one spot. And then . . .

  He went still. Was that a star?

  It twinkled merrily, and as Andrew stared up in wonder, it was joined by another, and then another. Three stars in all, but the first, he decided, was his favorite. It was a fighter.

  He didn’t really need a lucky star.

  But maybe . . .

  He glanced back through the window, where Poppy and Roger dozed peacefully in the bed.

  Maybe he’d had one all along.

  About the Author

  JULIA QUINN started writing her first book one month after finishing college and has been tapping away at her keyboard ever since. The #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than two dozen historical romance novels, she is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and is one of only sixteen authors ever to be inducted in the Romance Writers of America Hall of Fame. She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her family.

  Please visit her on the web at www.juliaquinn.com.

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  Praise for Julia Quinn

  “If you’ve never read romance novels, start here.”

  —Washington Post

  “Quinn is…a romance master. [She] has created a family so likable and attractive, a community so vibrant and engaging, that we want to crawl into the pages and know them.”

  —NPR Books

  “Like an episode of Downton Abbey mixed with a great rom-com.”

  —iBooks Best of the Month (on Because of Miss Bridgerton)

  “Julia Quinn is truly our contemporary Jane Austen.”

  —Jill Barnett

  “Quinn is a consummate storyteller. Her prose is spry and assured, and she excels at creating indelible characters.”

  —Publishers Weekly (★Starred Review★)

  “Simply delightful, filled with charm, humor, and wit.”

  —Kirkus Reviews

  By Julia Quinn

  The Other Miss Bridgerton

  The Girl With the Make-Believe Husband

  Because of Miss Bridgerton

  The Bridgerton Series

  The Duke and I

  The Viscount Who Loved Me

  An Offer From a Gentleman

  Romancing Mister Bridgerton

  To Sir Phillip, With Love

  When He Was Wicked

  It’s in His Kiss

  On the Way to the Wedding

  The Bridgertons: Happily Ever After

  The Smythe-Smith Quartet

  Just Like Heaven

  A Night Like This

  The Sum of All Kisses

  The Secrets of Sir Richard Kenworthy

  The Bevelstoke Series

  The Secret Diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever

  What Happens in London

  Ten Things I Love About You

  The Two Dukes of Wyndham

  The Lost Duke of Wyndham

  Mr. Cavendish, I Presume

  Agents of the Crown

  To Catch an Heiress

  How to Marry a Marquis

  The Lyndon Sisters

  Everything and the Moon

  Brighter Than the Sun

  The Splendid Trilogy

  Splendid

  Dancing at Midnight

  Minx

  Copyright

  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

  the other miss bridgerton. Copyright © 2018 by Julie Cotler Pottinger. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins Publishers. For information, address HarperCollins Publishers, 195 Broadway, New York, NY 10007.

  Digital Edition DECEMBER 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-238821-6

  Print Edition ISBN: 978-0-06-238820-9

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