Jane Austen's lovers, given a little more time.
Sweet, witty Pride and Prejudice variations: the drawing rooms, the letters, the walks to Meryton, and what might have happened if a single conversation had gone differently.
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A Pride and Prejudice Variation
Elizabeth Bennet answers her poetry in pencil, in the margins where no one will read it—until Mr. Darcy picks up her book.
A sweet, witty Pride & Prejudice novella: an argument becomes a courtship, written in the margins. A guaranteed happily ever after.
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A Pride and Prejudice Variation
One day at Pemberley was dangerous enough. Three weeks might change everything.
Elizabeth Bennet arrives in Derbyshire intending nothing more than a single morning's tour of Pemberley—admire the grounds, avoid the owner, and leave with her composure intact. But when word comes from London that her uncle's affairs can spare him until September—he should not hurry back, his partner writes, if he would rather stay—one planned week in Lambton stretches to three… every day of it in reach of the man she refused.
And Mr. Darcy is not behaving as expected. He is civil. He is warm. He argues with her about poetry in his library as though her opinion were the most interesting thing in Derbyshire, and his shy young sister is looking at Elizabeth like the answer to a wish. Day by day, walk by walk, Elizabeth's certainty about the man she rejected is coming quietly, alarmingly undone.
Then a letter from Longbourn shatters everything—and within the hour, Mr. Darcy is gone.
He once asked for her hand in the worst way imaginable. Given three weeks and a second chance, can a proud man prove—without speeches, without grandeur—that he has become a man worth accepting?
A tender, witty Pride and Prejudice variation of slow-burning courtship and second chances—sweet romance, all the yearning, and a guaranteed happily-ever-after.
About the author
Lucy Merrow writes Jane Austen variations for readers who can never quite bring themselves to close the book on the last page.
She has strong opinions about Mr. Collins, a soft spot for Mary Bennet, and believes Caroline Bingley deserves at least one novel in which things go badly for her. Her stories keep to the world Austen built—the drawing rooms, the letters, the walks to Meryton—while asking what might have happened if a single conversation had gone differently.