The Earl's Daughter

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She was born to duty. He arrived with nothing. Between them stood everything Victorian society held sacred. Lady Alice Aucourte has spent nearly eighteen years being exactly what the world requires: the obedient daughter of the 15th Earl of Bryer, the steady elder sister to six siblings, a young woman who has never once dared to step outside the narrow corridor society has mapped for her. This summer, there will be no London season, no glittering debut — only the quiet isolation of Sea Castle on the Sussex coast, and a father too consumed by private worry to notice his daughter's quiet despair. Then Thomas Fraser walks into the schoolroom. Brilliant, brooding, and carrying the weight of a disgraced past in Scotland, Tom arrives as tutor to the Aucourte children — a position far beneath his education, but the only refuge left to a man cast out by his own father. He knows the rules. A penniless tutor has no right to even look at an