milevenxregent
in the rigid calm of the regency era, two lives move in parallel, never meant to touch.
eleanor ives is everything society approves of. she is quiet, intelligent, and impeccably restrained, living within rules that reward her silence and punish her curiosity. michael wheeler exists on the opposite edge of respectability: outspoken, watched, and quietly dangerous, a man who has chosen truth over comfort and learned the cost of doing so.
branded enemies by circumstance and reputation, they begin as strangers bound only by the same city and the same unspoken hunger....for agency, for recognition, for a life chosen rather than assigned. as society tightens its grip and whispers grow louder, their worlds draw inexorably closer, each encounter charged with restraint, defiance, and longing.