The Price of Refusal

A Dark Pride and Prejudice Variation

She refused him once. He will not give her the chance again.

Elizabeth Bennet thought she knew the cost of pride—until her refusal at Hunsford left her family on the brink of ruin. Now, Fitzwilliam Darcy offers her salvation... at a price.

At Pemberley, she will be kept—not as wife, not as guest, but as something in between. A woman hidden from society, cloaked in his name but not his affection.

He is cold. Possessive. Bound by guilt and something darker. And yet, behind his walls of control lies a man undone by longing.

As passion simmers beneath their silences, Elizabeth must choose: will she become what he expects, or find a way to reclaim her name—and his heart?

The Price of Refusal is a sensual, emotionally charged Pride and Prejudice variation featuring forced proximity, moral conflict, and a brooding hero’s slow surrender to the only woman who ever said no.