The famed concert pianist and unidentical “twin” brother of the Earl of Dundee. Always roving for creative peers, musical students, enemies, and lovers. None of these are mutually exclusive.
Maggie Gladwin
Maggie is a maid who is usually sweet ray of country sunshine. However, she returns to London under a cloudy sky. Will the clouds clear for her or are there more storms on the horizon?
Amira St. Clair
Antiquities dealer & smuggler/Governess
Early-mid 30s · Ciswoman
Played by Chelsey
FC: Tuppence Middleton
FC: Tuppence Middleton
Mrs. Alice Johnson-Riley is an unassuming governess recently arrived from Boston. Looking to start over with a new life, she seeks employment with a respectable family, with impeccable references from New York. And it all looks perfectly ordinary on paper, does it not? A flawless referral delivered by a thirty-six-year-old woman with freckled skin and eyes a bewitching shade of hazel-green. A woman whose father named her Amira Hanım Andrews Al-Rashid, after his wife died shortly after bringing the tiny little girl into the world ahead of her time. A woman who certainly spent her time as a governess in her twenties — but whose current interests lie in providences that wax poetical. By law or by hand, ancient mysteries mixed up in recent tragedies, and the combination creates a woman with a singular agenda: find out who killed her family.
Adella Sturridge
The Countess of Ripon is a fast friend of anyone who will suffer her company and an annoyance of those of the in-crowd who would rather she keep to herself.
Zelda Rhodes
There are two Zeldas: The public-facing academic, known for her depth of knowledge, fierce independence, and dedication to feminism; and the meticulously-private sexual “deviant” who would rather spend her free time at a masked bacchanal than pursue the more traditional forms of romance. Sharp, confident and more than a little stubborn, she’s never felt the need to reconcile these two parts of her identity, nor to prove the worth of either. To know her is to love her, but good luck in getting to know her, or in getting her to acknowledge more than friendship.
Tansy Robarts
The daughter of a wealthy gentry banker and bright in every sense of the word, Tansy skewered her own reputation to save her younger sister’s and embarked upon a chapter she never could have fathomed. After traveling the world as a companion and being encouraged toward independent thinking, she finds herself now back in the mire of polite society. Well over the bridge into spinsterhood, her family refuses to allow her to live alone. Is the answer to find a man desperate enough to marry her, remain with her parents, or some other, less-obvious option?
Philippa Carrington
The lucky bride in a love match that lasted over ten years, Philippa now finds herself a single mother to two girls and adrift without the steadying influence of her husband. The strictures of society and reality of their circumstances have placed her and her girls back in London, where Pippa will try to find her footing and discover herself anew.
Nikolaas van Lynden
The queer son of a Dutch count exiled into the ostensibly strict hands of his English relatives, Nik is a natural romantic attempting to wrest himself back from the control of addiction. He longs for connection and creativity, but fears this bleak country may provide very little of either.
Hepzibah Innes-Ker
A bluestocking through and through, Her Grace the Duchess of Roxburghe is considered an eccentric by some, and a disgrace by others. Married to her father’s best friend, who rescued her from a life of obscurity and destitution, she’s never had a lover of any kind, including the man she married. He wishes she would find one, thinks it would make her happy in a way Eppie has never fathomed, but with talents that lie more in the realm of science and medicine than social savvy, it remains to be seen if she shall ever catch the eye of someone she can care about in turn.
Augustus Kinkade
The Premier Viscount of England and known rake, Gust Kinkade is a man of contradictions. He is conscientious about his finances and role in Parliament, and kind to his tenants. He also tumbles through beds with aplomb, and has a reputation for carousing. Loyal to a fault, and shy of commitment. A bright and charming light with a dark and troubled history.