Guarding Her Secret ~ The Price of Perfect Order

A Regency Domestic Drama Short

By: Alyce Platt

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The Price of Perfect Order

For two decades, Mrs. Eliza Nesbitt, the immaculate housekeeper of Ashworth Manor, has lived by one rule: order is power. Her ledger is flawless, her control absolute, and her secret perfectly buried.

But on the day a timid new maid named Sally arrives, Nesbitt's life is fractured by a familiar curve of the jaw and a single, terrifying truth: A secret she must struggle to keep hidden at all costs..

But, with a triumphant rival housekeeper, Mrs. Finch, closing in, and a cryptic attic note threatening to reveal Nesbitt's past lie, the seemingly cold housekeeper must choose. Will she sacrifice her hard-won respectability and expose herself to ruin to save her daughter, or watch from the shadows as her own blood becomes a target in the ruthless domestic war?
In this Regency short, a mother’s calculated coldness is the only shield she has left—until the truth she guarded costs her everything.

Short read: Approx. 4000 words.