The Price of Pride

A Pride & Prejudice Variation

De: Abigail Reynolds

Narrado por: Elizabeth Klett

In love with his brother's betrothed...

As far as Fitzwilliam Darcy is concerned, the only good thing to come of Elizabeth Bennet’s bitter refusal of his heart and his hand was his new resolve to prove himself a better man. He’d done it, too, by closing the painful distance between himself and his estranged younger brother, Drew. And now Drew is newly engaged to be married…to Elizabeth Bennet.

Family duty forces Darcy to support the engagement, especially since even the smallest hint of disapproval could ruin the brothers’ hard-won reconciliation. But how can he bear to watch his brother marry the woman he loves? To see her in Drew’s arms, bearing Drew’s children, and forever out of his reach?

An Accidental Compromise...

Elizabeth has no choice but to accept an engagement to handsome Drew Darcy. He’s amiable, educated, and respectable, and if it weren’t for his last name, she wouldn’t even mind the idea. But to marry the brother of the gentleman she’d so coldly rejected only months before? Especially now that she realizes her feelings for him are far from sisterly. How can she marry Drew while longing for his brother? But the cost of breaking her engagement would be ruination, and with it, the loss of any hope of a life with Darcy.

Trapped by loyalty, love, and propriety, there is no way out. But old family secrets haunt the two Darcy brothers. Could those secrets, when brought out in the open, change everything?

This intensely emotional variation on Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice will make you fall in love with Elizabeth and Darcy all over again.

©2020 Abigail Reynolds (P)2021 Abigail Reynolds

Favorite author Anne favorite story!

Love this P&P variation, the ones who get in the way the most of ODC’s love are themselves. The villain is pride and the resolution is love, just as in the original story.

Enjoyed the story line

Enjoy the book. It kept me waiting to find out what would happen next. No dull periods I was always waiting to hear how each new person will fit in the story. It was a surprise.
All the love scenes were done tastefully.
Waiting for the next listen.

A Fun Variation

I really enjoyed this variation of Pride & Prejudice! The narrator was engaging, and the story was very entertaining. A really fun read/listen!

Genius plot

Another great P&P variation by Abigail Reynolds. Clever and original plot with good doses of angst. The story and characters are well developed . However that last 1/3 -1/4 of the story was rushed and not as skillfully executed as the first 2/3 of the story.

Love Abigail Reynolds' books

Reading Abigail's books started a love of Pride and Prejudice variations. It remains to this day! I hope she keeps writing for many more years😏

Absolutely adored this book.

This was a great story as always from Abigail Reynolds. I have been a fan of hers since 2004. Love listening to Elizabeth Klett as she is very skilled at narrating. Highly recommend this book to a Jane Austen fan fiction lover.

Wonderful story

This was a great story! Full of strong characters and their foes! I love the idea that Darcy had a brother and that poor forgotten Mary finds happiness! This is a must read!

Un-put-downable!

Very good narration and excellent story. Highly recommend. Abigail Reynolds never disappoints and this book is no exception.

Book Review:
The story begins three months after Elizabeth refuses Darcy’s proposal. We learn Darcy has an estranged younger brother, Andrew, who has recently accepted the living at Kympton after Darcy offers it. Just as Darcy is hoping to now repair their relationship and bring him back into the family fold, he receives the shock of his life. Andrew is engaged—to Elizabeth of all people! Ohhh the angst!

Rather than make Andrew a villain, Ms. Reynolds has made him a good man. He is handsome and educated. We can’t hate him. There is someone we can hate, however, and his name is Wickham. He has a direct role early on, but thankfully, isn’t in the entirety of the story.

This book is an emotional ride. There definitely is angst throughout, but because the author promised her readers a happy ending (benefit of being a Austen Variations member, wink, wink) I wasn’t completely losing my stomach—or my mind—over the ordeal. Darcy’s anguish for his lost love will bring you to tears, as will Elizabeth, as she sees no hope for resolution to a forced marriage to a man she doesn’t love—imagining herself forever in the path of the one man she now wished she could have because he will be family—her brother. If she breaks the engagement, she will be ruined and so will her family and sisters’ prospects.

There are also some Darcy secrets to be discovered, which places an intriguing twist into the storyline, as Lady Anne makes her presence known, even from the grave. Her love story having similarities to the plight of our dearest couple.

How, oh how will this ever be resolved? Ms. Reynolds has gifted us with another very well written, captivating and romantic page turner. It is an absolute must read I definitely recommend! Enjoy it, fellow readers. I’m off to adjust my 2020 top ten Austen variations. Bravo Abigail Reynolds!

Ohhh, I almost forgot. I must say— this book screams for (at a minimum) a novella-type sequel of the voyage, beginning with the wedding night!

My least favorite variation

The story veers so wildly, so very differently from the original that the only similarities are the characters names.