Mr. Darcy's False Courtship: A Pride and Prejudice Variation
By Anna Tess Alden
[US + UK] Before Darcy can propose at Hunsford, a false engagement binds him to Elizabeth Bennet.
Elizabeth Bennet wants only to escape gossip.
At Hunsford, she hopes for quiet, distance from Meryton, and a little relief from her mother’s newest matrimonial scheme. Instead, she finds Mr. Darcy at Rosings, more attentive than she likes and much harder to avoid than she expected.
Then Anne de Bourgh asks the impossible. Will Elizabeth enter a staged engagement to Mr. Darcy so Anne may mar...
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[US + UK] Before Darcy can propose at Hunsford, a false engagement binds him to Elizabeth Bennet.
Elizabeth Bennet wants only to escape gossip.
At Hunsford, she hopes for quiet, distance from Meryton, and a little relief from her mother’s newest matrimonial scheme. Instead, she finds Mr. Darcy at Rosings, more attentive than she likes and much harder to avoid than she expected.
Then Anne de Bourgh asks the impossible. Will Elizabeth enter a staged engagement to Mr. Darcy so Anne may marry Colonel Fitzwilliam before Lady Catherine can prevent it?
Elizabeth knows the danger at once.
A public engagement, even a false one, is not a harmless game.
If the deception succeeds, Anne may gain her freedom.
If it fails, Elizabeth’s reputation, Darcy’s honor, and two families’ futures may all be ruined.
But the longer Elizabeth and Darcy play their parts, the less certain either can be where the deception ends.
When Wickham returns to London, old lies and new dangers threaten everyone Elizabeth loves.
The truth may cost Elizabeth the very attachment she never meant to form.
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