Educating Elizabeth

Elizabeth opens a school for underprivileged factory girls in London's East End with the help of her Blue Orchid Society friends. She's committed to the students' welfare, though her reform activism for the poor has raised the ire of certain lords. Her mounting debt prompts her to seek a new patron in Charles, a handsome earl with cavalier manners, who agrees to help on the condition that Elizabeth give speech lessons to Alice, his young Midlands ward. A bargain is struck, but neither anticipates the unexpected pull they feel toward each other — until Elizabeth discovers her school is being sabotaged, and realizes her country romance may not withstand the scheming of the ton.