The Taste of Bittersweet | Sean Rafferty

"I do not desire mediocre love, Mr. Rafferty. I want to drown in someone."

Ester Guinness, the youngest of the dynasty and twin to Edward, had grown up surrounded by copper kettles, ambition, and expectations heavier than iron. She knew three things with unwavering certainty:

1. A woman of her station was rarely granted a choice in her future.
2. Sean Rafferty-the brewery's brilliant foreman-was as forbidden as sin itself.
3. Ester had never been skilled at keeping away from forbidden things.

In the shadow of the roaring vats and the clamor of Dublin's 1860s expansion, Ester finds herself torn between the gilded path her family demands and the dangerous, intoxicating pull of the one man she cannot have. And as the Guinness empire rises, so too does the cost of desire.

Sean Rafferty x OC
House of Guinness Season 1.