(meet me in the) afterglow

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❝Whomever taught you to be a lady ought to have been a lot more thorough.❞





AURELIA SALINAS RUIZ WISHED she could have stayed at home in Córdoba when her father passed— but no matter how many hours she dedicated to begging the Lord Himself to 'por favor, Señor, pretty pretty please' prevent her from having to bid adieu to her carefree life in sunny Spain, she knew it was useless.

        After a haphazard and flighty move to the bustling streets of London in early 1810 with her brother with the intention of securing her a husband to allow her to finally break away from the older man and a disastrous first social season friends and acquaintances in the Ton would be sharing breathlessly for years and years to come, Aurelia could not exactly express any form of fondness for her fourth consecutive participation in the ruthless contest to win a man— any man's— affections.

        Bitter and ridiculed, it is merely the first great dance of the season when she is granted the unfortunate privilege of meeting the Queen's newest diamond, a young and fresh-faced Edwina Sharma. Aurelia cannot help but feel resentment towards her.

        That same sentiment about Aurelia could never have passed through Edwina's lips. Nor does she fear will it ever...





✧・゚: *✧・゚:* INTRODUCING... *:・゚✧*:・゚✧



➳ hannah new as DOÑA AURELIA SALINAS RUIZ

➳ hannah new as DOÑA AURELIA SALINAS RUIZ

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