Synopsis
Phryne grew up as the daughter of a nanny who spent her whole life serving the Grey family, one of the most powerful noble houses around. Raised side by side with them, she ends up becoming the Duke's lover, but the distance between their stations never goes away. "I'll only ever be his mistress. That's all anyone will see me as." And yet what sits heavier than that is something else entirely: "Someday, he'll stop thinking about me altogether." The dread of being left behind — not dramatically, but just slowly forgotten — follows her everywhere. So when the Duke…
