Tempered Glass

The story is set in England after Queen Victoria has passed the throne to her son, Edward VII. Edmund Park has inherited his own throne of sorts (a glass factory) after his father's death. After a series of mishaps and disruptions from labor unions, the business that Edmund's father built is about to come crashing down around him. Meanwhile, a beautiful young woman named Audrey stumbles onto the Park Estate one night. It is learned that she has run away from a school for orphaned girls called Evington Hall and its violent headmistress. As Audrey discovers the truth about her family and her fortunes start to rise, Edmund's continue to fall. It is a story that puts a new twist on the roles of women and men in Victorian society as well as a celebration of the possibilities that came to be in that time in England. But above all, it is the story of the uncontainable power of true love between a man and a woman who are each other's perfect match in every way.