Eye of the Beholder

Grayson Adams is living a double life in Victorian England. By day, he paints erotic pictures, by evening he attends the balls where eager mamas throw their virginal daughters at him, though he is merely the youngest son of a baron. Lately, however, he's lost his muse, and wonders what it would be like to paint one of those virginal society misses.

Sarah Dusenberry is enduring her fifth season, and is tired of her mother pushing her toward a husband, when it's clear no man wants her. Why can...