Darcy's Refuge

A Dark Pride and Prejudice Variation

He offered her sanctuary.
Then he made himself the price of her safety.

After her father’s death, Elizabeth Bennet accepts a teaching position at a remote Scottish school to escape a cousin who believes she belongs to him by right of debt and marriage.

Mr. Darcy promises protection.
What he gives her is a fortress.

Locked gates. Controlled correspondence. A house designed to keep danger out—and Elizabeth in.

What she doesn’t know is that Darcy has already taken possession of her fate.
He’s bought her family’s debts.
Cut off every path her cousin could use to reach her.
And told himself it’s all for her own good.

But protection turns dangerous when desire gets involved.

As attraction burns into obsession, Elizabeth must decide whether the man who controls her circumstances is also the man she can trust with her heart—and her freedom.

Because when her past arrives at Arden Hall’s gates, she will have to choose:

Run from the cage built in her name…
or stay with the man who may love her enough to destroy everything to keep her.

He gave her safety.
He gave her desire.
He never gave her the chance to leave him untouched.

A dark, gothic Pride and Prejudice variation featuring a morally gray Darcy, obsessive protection, power-imbalance romance, and a hard-won HEA.

Tropes: Forced Proximity • Gothic Regency • Morally Gray Hero • Financial Control • Protector to Obsessive • Touch Her and Die • Found Family • Dark Darcy