Dancing With Serpents

1911, is a world were strict rules keep the lower classes from ever reaching higher - achieving more.
Alice Drench is a sixteen year old ladies maid - trying to find her place in a world of injustice. Plagued by her past, her brother, memories that refuse to die, she is never alone.
Tom he's seventeen, her best friend and the one she tells everything to - well almost. He's looking to the future. After running away from his father when he was twelve and not going back, he blames himself for the fate of his family, but he cannot let go.
She thinks that she is falling for him.
He may think of her as more than a friend.
Can the two even distinguish love from fear, do they have the courage to confess? What will happen when they do?
Or will the events that were powerful to shatter the hearts of an entire generation and that are already in the shadows waiting to unfold, tear them apart forever.
In a world where secrets and lies are the coal for any flame and scandal is lurking around every corner, will they even survive?

Book One in a Trilogy.