House of O'Connor | Edward Guinness x MaleOC
Ireland, 1868.
After years of study in Paris, Aiden O'Connor returns to his family estate in Roscommon - a noble Catholic house quietly fading under the shadow of the empire. The trains are faster, the factories louder, and Dublin hums with talk of reform. But even before Aiden reaches home, the newspapers bear the headline that will change everything: Benjamin Guinness is dead.
His sons - Arthur and Edward Guinness - inherit not only the brewery, but the weight of Ireland's future. One seeks peace in the bottle and distractions, another in duty and ambition. Aiden's path crosses theirs first out of courtesy, then politics, and soon out of something neither man dares to name.
As Ireland stands between faith and progress, Aiden must choose between the ideals he brought from the continent and the loyalties that bind him to home. And as Edward rises to power, determined to modernize both Dublin and the family name, friendship gives way to fascination - and fascination to dangerous intimacy.
In an age when legacy was law and silence, the price of survival.
Hey You!
Yeah You!
I dare you to read the author's note!
Edward Guinness x MaleOC
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