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How would spending a few extra days in each other’s company affect the relationship between Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy? While her sister Jane is ill at Netherfield, Elizabeth overhears the proud Mr Darcy express his admiration of her and her fine eyes. Not sure what to think of his praise after all of their previous disagreements (and more flattered than she wants to admit) Elizabeth responds by teasing him, forcing Darcy to reconsider his opinion of a woman who has truly bewitched him.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that the disastrous first meeting of Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet at the Meryton Assembly provided each with a ready-made set of prejudices to apply to the other. But when a horrific rural accident reveals Darcy to be a man of active, intelligent benevolence, and Elizabeth, in the absence of her appalling family, to be an extraordinary lady of courage and decision - then, surely, the course of true love will run smoothly. But alas, the lovers' meeting is not the end, but a new beginning.

Elizabeth Bennet could scarcely credit the news when a letter sent to her father, from relations she did not know existed, informed them that untimely and unfortunate events would result in Mr. Bennet inheriting the dukedom of Everard. In the blink of an eye, the Bennets' lives are transformed - Elizabeth and her four sisters are wealthy, titled, and the talk of the ton.

Elizabeth Bennet travels to Kent to escape her mother’s histrionics, hopeful to find respite in visiting her oldest friend, Charlotte Collins. Instead of the reprieve she desired, she finds herself trapped and miserable. Elizabeth’s only relief is derived from her morning rambles, where she finds great solace in the strangest of places—walking with Mr. Darcy. His steadiness, kindness, and dependability greatly oppose her previous perceptions of the man, and yet she cannot help but continue to compare his character in Kent with the man she had supposed him to be in Hertfordshire.

As a renowned wizard, Fitzwilliam Darcy thinks he is familiar with most of the spells, enchantments, and magic practiced in the wizarding world. When he reluctantly joins his friend Bingley in Meryton, a small town not known for its magic, he is startled to stumble upon the rare gift possessed by Miss Elizabeth Bennet. The daughter of a poor country squire, she possesses a singular talent: She is not only immune to magic, but she can counter enchantments as well.

Viscount Saye, eldest cousin of Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley, is startled one wintry day by the news that his beloved, Lillian Goddard, is to become engaged to another. Unwilling to lose her, he quickly plans a party at his ancestral estate to woo her away from her suitor. Twenty ladies and gentlemen respond to his invitation, eager for a fortnight of revelry in Saye’s inimitable style.

Mr. Darcy is tired of being alone for the holidays, and he is determined to do something about it. Miss Elizabeth Bennet has never desired Mr. Darcy’s good opinion, and yet she arrives in London for the Twelfth Night ball and soon learns he is bestowing it, most ardently. Elizabeth was not looking for love, but what happens when love comes looking for her? Is the proud gentleman from Derbyshire someone with whom she can trust her heart?

So much in life depends on chance and sheer luck. How much do we often owe to being in the right place at the right time? In Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet plans to visit the Lake District with her uncle and aunt, yet ends up at Pemberley instead, just as, by coincidence, Mr Darcy also arrives home. They meet, understand one another better and all eventually ends well. But what if they did not have such luck? What if Elizabeth actually went to the Lake District and was nowhere near Pemberley, and she and Mr Darcy never met again until another four years had gone by? Now...

Elizabeth Bennet has led a quiet life in Hertfordshire. Longbourn, her home since birth, hardly feels welcoming given the less-than-loving treatment bestowed by her stepmother, half-sisters, and more recently, her most beloved stepsister, Jane. With plans to partake in the season with their mother’s family, Elizabeth and Mary anticipate the moment when they can go where they are wanted. When three handsome gentlemen arrive, Elizabeth discovers that appearances are not everything, and a handsome face does not readily reveal the qualities—good or bad—that lie within.

When an emergency summons Mr. Darcy back to London during the Netherfield ball, he discovers a newborn in his study along with a note. Now, he must guard a secret that could shatter his family and put the child in danger. But that isn’t his biggest challenge. He must find a wife—a woman he can trust with his charge and with his heart. Elizabeth Bennet’s prospects for a marriage based on love are taken away from her when her father makes a deal with Mr. Darcy, a man she despises.

Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy seem determined to misunderstand one another, and after his disastrous proposal, both are eagerly wishing to forget their acquaintance. But fate, with assistance from Darcy’s scheming cousins, contrives to keep them together. When Miss Darcy is summoned to Kent, the couple has a chance to begin anew, and their budding friendship carries them to London and Hertfordshire.

On being alerted of Jane Bennet's persistent melancholy by her sister Madeline Gardiner, Mrs Bennet travels to London in order to bring some cheer to her daughter. Once there, she overhears a conversation between her two elder daughters and becomes aware of Caroline Bingley's perfidy in keeping the truth of Jane's visit to their home from her brother.

To Wake The Sleeping Dragon WARNING: There are no actual Dragons in this Book Napoleon crowned himself Emperor of France in December of the year 1804, he said to a room of his closest advisors and supporters, ‘China is a sleeping dragon, let her sleep for when she awakens, she will shake up the world!’ Those words set a chain of events that would change the destiny of several of England’s most prominent families. And the lives of a country squire and his small family of daughters, in ways they could have never dreamed possible. Thomas Bennett is a man whose entire life had fallen ...

What if Elizabeth wasn't a Bennett? What if Elizabeth was an American? What if Elizabeth sailed to England to find her Bennett family? What if Miss Darcy met Elizabeth at Ramsgate before she could get into trouble? What if there are a dozen new characters who were not in the original Pride and Prejudice? (but of course we'll see many of our old favorites) What if Mr. Darcy doesn't like Americans? Come visit this new Jane Austen Fan Fiction series and see what other "what if's" there are as Elizabeth learns what it is to be English. What it is to be an orphan. What it is to be a wealthy ...

In this Pride and Prejudice variation, Elizabeth Bennet unexpectedly inherits a large fortune as the story begins. The effects of this surprising situation are, at first, delightful. Elizabeth is able to provide her sisters with suitable dowries as well as a delightful shopping trip in London. As the realities of her situation set in, however, her male friends and neighbors turn into fortune hunters, swamping her with unwanted attention. After a few dangerous scrapes, Elizabeth decides to try her luck in London, hoping that by keeping her good fortune a secret, she can find a suitable ...

Orgullo y Prejuicio pinta la vida de una sociedad victoriana en Inglaterra, y presenta a la familia Bennet de Longbourn. A pesar de pudieran decir los rumores, el Señor y la Señora Bennett estaban en la búsqueda de esposos ricos para sus cinco hijas.

El barón Frederick Wharton leía una carta de su buen amigo Thomas Crawford, en la que le narraba las preocupaciones que le provocaba su hijo James, capitán del ejército de su majestad. Mientras, sus cinco hijas, su hermanastra y su esposa debatían intensamente sobre si era mejor ir a Londres el sábado o esperar hasta el martes siguiente para asegurarse de que no eran las primeras en llegar a la ciudad».

A lo largo de una trama que discurre con la precisión de un mecanismo de relojería, Jane Austen perfila una galería de personajes que conforman un perfecto y sutil retrato de la época: las peripecias de una dama empeñada en casar a sus hijas con el mejor partido de la región, los vaivenes sentimentales de las hermanas, el oportunismo de un clérigo adulador...

En esta sensual historia encontrarás, relación de amantes y enemigos, segundas oportunidades y una última misión que cumplir... Del odio al amor solo hay un paso, Stephen Maurice Ashton, vizconde Lonsdale, no le perdona a Eleonor Bradley la ofensa sufrida dos años atrás. La pareja se conoció en Francia y vivió un apasionado romance mientras desempeñaba su labor en medio de la guerra, hasta que una conspiración los llevó por caminos separados. Dos años después, en Londres y por extrañas circunstancias, sus caminos vuelven a encontrarse, y por culpa de un matrimonio inevitable, ...

El plan despiadado de un hombre desalmado... Por culpa del testamento de su padre, Lord Vernon debe casarse en breve o lo perderá todo. El problema es que no desea una mujer que lo controle y lo aleje de su vida de libertinaje y escándalo. La solución perfecta sería una esposa al borde de la muerte para quedar pronto viudo y, para conseguirla, busca a una moribunda en un hospicio de pobres. De esa forma una completa desconocida se convertirá en su esposa, en una extraña ceremonia que deja a sus amigos horrorizados y a su amante enloquecida de furia. Todo parecía salir según sus ...

Ella solo quería encontrar a su amor verdadero, pero lo único que consiguió fue enamorarse de un hombre que estaba fuera de su alcance. Como casamentera, Jane Braxton cree en el amor y en las almas gemelas, si bien como bastarda sabe que nunca podrá aspirar a un matrimonio con alguien de alta cuna. Pero tras años de ver como sus amigas se casan y de esperar al hombre perfecto, una noche sucumbe a la pasión y se entrega a un desconocido. Solo que, a la mañana siguiente descubre que él es marqués, y ella desaparece sin dejar rastro. Como Marqués de Bedford, Mark no sabe nada del ...

Un libertino rebelde. Un duque solemne. Para escapar de un compromiso arreglado, compra una esposa a la que jamás quiso amar… y acaba perdiendo el corazón. Cuando el vil marido de lady Emma Bardsley la vende en una subasta, es el libertino duque de Loxchester quien la compra. A pesar del escándalo que podría significar para Sebastian, comprar a la esposa de un porquero es la manera perfecta de evitar un compromiso arreglado. Con la esperanza de huir, Emma oculta su identidad. Sin embargo, no puede ocultar los sentimientos que comienza a experimentar por el libertino de ojos ambarinos que le muestra cuánto placer le puede hacer sentir.

Caroline sabía que necesitaba tiempo para recuperarse del golpe que le supuso la traición de Nathan y Edwina. Pero cuando le dijeron que necesitaría tiempo para ello no se imaginaba que iba a ser arrinconada como una silla rota que ya no sirve para nada. Porque ella no tenía nada roto. Bueno, sí, el corazón, pero eso no afectaría en nada a su capacidad para sonreír, fingir interés o danzar cuando un caballero tuviese a bien proponérselo. El problema es que no se lo proponía ninguno.

Vendería su virtud a cambio de salvar la vida de su padre. Pero no contaba con enamorarse del mayor libertino de Londres. Cuando por culpa de una deuda la vida de su padre está en peligro, a Madelaine solo le queda una opción. Pedir clemencia a Lord Bastardo. Un hombre conocido por su frialdad y sus oscuros deseos. A cambio, él le pide unas noches de pasión donde Madelaine tendrá que someterse a sus deseos. Pero algo surge entre ellos que la tienta y hace que desee algo más, hasta que el plazo termina y él desaparece. Una eternidad de deseo Dante Tremont, también conocido como Lord...

Cuando Meredith aceptó ayudar a su pupila, Belinda, dejando una nota para Ryan Crawford en su dormitorio, lo último que esperaba era que Frederick Wharton la pillase in fraganti. Un barón intransigente e insensible, un relojero escocés, una joven soñadora, dos hermanas muy locuaces, una madre soltera, un acérrimo enemigo de las institutrices y una joven de pelo rojo con mucho carácter e institutriz, para más señas…

Nada podría cambiarlo para bien. Excepto, quizás, ella. Seductor como un pecado mortal, Lucien Wrenn, el duque de Luhst, puede tentar a cualquier mujer para que acuda a su cama. Pero la hermana pequeña de su mejor amigo, la marisabidilla y científica lady Chastity Perrin, es el fruto prohibido. Y Lucien se ha pasado la vida entera anhelando probarla. Chastity siempre ha amado a Lucien, pero el niño atento que siempre quiso creció para convertirse en un canalla descuidado.

La traicionó una vez. No cometerá el error de perdonarlo. Lady Marianne Marchmont siempre fue la más alegre, impulsiva y soñadora de su familia… hasta que confió en el hombre equivocado. El escándalo fue discreto, pero el daño, profundo. Cuando su hermana se casa con uno de los duques más poderosos de Inglaterra, Marianne decide recomponer lo que queda de su vida. Sin ayuda. Sin amor. Y sin esperar redención. Pero el destino vuelve a colocar en su camino a Lucien Grantham, conde de Ravenscroft. El mismo libertino que la engañó años atrás. El mismo que parece decidido a ...