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Ten years ago, Sophie Baek spent just two weeks in London. It was meant to be nothing more than a holiday, but one unexpected night changed everything.
That was when she met Benedict Bridgerton: charming, untethered, and dangerously unforgettable. The kind of man who seemed to belong to no one. And because of that, Sophie convinced herself that, to him, that night had meant nothing at all.
Now, at twenty-eight, Sophie is a pediatric emergency medicine resident who has been living in London for the past two years, thanks to a life-changing scholarship. Independent, driven, and exhausted from carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders, she is on the verge of a new chapter beyond the city: in just one month, she will leave for Manchester, where she’ll begin a pivotal year in her career.
Benedict, on the other hand, at thirty, is trapped in a life he never chose. Heir to the Bridgerton Group and his older brother’s right hand, he moves through a world of meetings, responsibilities, and family expectations, while his true passion, art, lies forgotten in drawers and blank canvases.
When fate brings them face to face again, London seems to stand still.
Sophie tries to act as though she doesn’t care, convinced Benedict wouldn’t even remember her.
But the closer they get, the more the past resurfaces.
There’s a cruel dilemma between them: she already has a departure date set, and he can’t promise a future when he’s not even sure he belongs in the present.
Now, they have only one month to find out whether some stories really end the first time around, or if love, in London, can happen twice.