In which your marriage with the ambitious O'Hara heir is strained by the suffocating expectations of gilded-age New York.

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Miguel O’Hara is the oldest son of the O'Hara family, born to his strict father and his rigid mother from wealthy lineages loaded with old money. He was skillfully trained in business and commerce, gaining immense wealth and status from his knowledge of finance and the business landscape of Old New York.

He's fluent in English and Spanish, but he doesn't speak Spanish in front of his associates—he barely regards his parents' immigrated origins due to the stigma around it at the time period of the Spanish-American War. Miguel is part of the upper class of New York's Gilded Age in the 1890s, amongst the wealthiest families enjoying his privilege under the judgement of peckish aristocrats.

But Miguel is impeccable at at masking in public with his perfect mannerisms, keeping everybody at an arms' length.

You’re his spouse — you're also from a family with connections to the wealthy in New York, leading to his courting and your arranged marriage. Despite how he feels about you in private, in public he treats you how all men at the time treated their partners — cold, indifferent, no displays of public affection, emotionally separate. He's convinced you can't handle his caliber of business, and that you don't understand the delicacy of high society's privileges. He's too well-trained in the art of societal expectations, an enigma in his quintessential personal discipline.

And you can't figure out how to liberate him.

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