Young Ciel Phantomhive is the Earl of England.
His stately duties are a bore and he desires life outside the strict palace
walls, but how will he escape? The answer comes from a poor, young pauper named
Alois Trancy who mysteriously looks a lot like Ciel. The two trade places and
realize how life is on the other side. Now Alois has to face an arranged
marriage with Elizabeth Middleton while battling emotions for her butler while
Ciel has to work to gain respect or money from his new bosses, Grell Sutcliff and
Drocell with his confusing emotions for his own butler. The two try to conjure
up a plan on how to work out their new lives and whether or not it's really
what they want and in doing so they uncover a dark mystery that was hidden away
from them. Do Ciel and Alois merely look the same…or is their more to the
story? Join the excitement, drama, romance and suspense with all the Black
Butler characters you love while uncovering the deep labyrinth of tangled
mystery that is...THE EARL AND THE PAUPER.