Madeline Duvall and her sister Lydia were born into the Merchant Class. Something Madeline overheard at 17, a fierce argument between the handsome Earl of Fairbane and his scandalous wife, forever changed that sense of being in control of her destiny and her heart, and a kiss of supposed anger, parting words of bitterness, forever placed Dorian Engstrom in her imaginings of what passion could be.
