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Elite ballerina Allie Rousseau is no stranger to pressure. With her mother’s eyes always watching, perfection was expected, no matter the cost. But when an injury jeopardizes all she’s sacrificed for, Allie returns to her summer home to heal and recover. But the memories she’s tried to forget rush in and threaten to take her under. As a Coast Guard rescue swimmer, Hudson Ellis knows that hesitation can mean the difference between life and death. He’s always prided himself on being in the right place at the right time, especially when it came to Allie Rousseau…until the night he left for basic.

One distressing night in Ramsgate, Elizabeth Bennet impulsively offers Georgiana Darcy aid. Scandalous rumors soon surround the ladies and Fitzwilliam Darcy, forcing Elizabeth and Darcy, strangers to each other, to marry. Darcy despises everything about his marriage to the daughter of an insignificant country gentleman with vulgar relations. Georgiana, humiliated after a near-elopement with George Wickham and full of Darcy pride, hates her new sister. Their family look upon Elizabeth with suspicion and do little to hide their sentiments.

When Mr Darcy discovers Elizabeth Bennet's true feelings, he's grateful the ill-fated proposal he had planned to make in Kent was stopped. But as the London Season drags on, he realizes the truth: he cannot be happy without her. Determined to become the man worthy of her regard, he returns to Hertfordshire with a singular purpose—to win her heart. If only it were that simple. Darcy has indeed reformed himself, tempering his pride and learning humility, but Elizabeth's wounded feelings and lingering resentment cannot be overcome in a day.

Darcy's Own Double Game: A First-Person Pride & Prejudice Espionage Variation Fitzwilliam Darcy does not dance. Not because he is proud—because he is working. To the ton, he is the cold, unapproachable heir to Pemberley. In truth, he is the Crown's most lethal operative, three years deep undercover to destroy a conspiracy bleeding England's treasury dry. He has survived poison, pistol fire, and the treachery of men he once trusted. He has not survived anything like Elizabeth Bennet. She sees through him. Through the mask, the manners, the lies he has told so long they feel like truth. ...

When Elizabeth Bennet rescues a runt piglet from a farmer's bucket, she expects nothing more than a charming nuisance and a ruined pelisse. She does not expect the pig to develop an immediate, unshakeable attachment to the last man in the world she could ever be prevailed upon to marry. Truffles has opinions. She adores Mr. Bingley on sight. She follows Mr. Darcy through the corridors of Netherfield and sleeps beside his chair and sits on his boot with a devotion that Elizabeth finds baffling, given that the man is proud, impossible, and incapable of saying the right thing in company. She ...

Only imagine a summer by the sea. Perhaps you will meet the love of your life. When Elizabeth Bennet inherits a crumbling seaside mansion in Brighton, she expects renovation headaches but not romantic chaos. All plans for a peaceful restoration are shattered when the Viscount Saye rents the property before it's even remotely habitable and arrives to stay with his cousin Mr. Darcy in his party.

When Elizabeth Bennet returns home for the winter, she expects a peaceful Christmas at Longbourn. She does not expect Mr. Darcy. Snow has closed the roads, the household is in cheerful disarray, and the Bennet family is preparing for the season as best they can. Yet in the quiet moments between the bustle, Elizabeth begins to notice something curious. Fires are already lit in the morning. Small repairs appear mysteriously finished. Thoughtful kindnesses arrive without explanation. And in the sitting room stands a music box Elizabeth believed broken forever—now restored, its delicate ...

When Elizabeth Bennet is caught on the road during a violent August storm, she takes refuge at a small coaching inn, only to discover that Mr. Darcy has been forced there by the same tempest. With every chamber already taken, they have no choice but to share the last room available. Determined to protect her reputation, Darcy keeps a careful distance through the long night. But when George Wickham arrives at the inn and witnesses the arrangement, whispers begin before the storm has even passed. By morning, Meryton is already buzzing with speculation. Now Darcy must defend Elizabeth publicly...

This original Pride and Prejudice variation invites readers to experience the most transformative night and day in the lives of Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet—an influential moment when love, pride, and prejudice come to the forefront. During these decisive hours—his sleepless night filled with self-reproach and her day of newfound understanding—both Darcy and Elizabeth were compelled to ask themselves: How could they have so thoroughly misunderstood each other, and what if almost everything they thought they knew was mistaken? For Darcy, the night after his rejected proposal was ...

It is Christmas, 1811, and the Bennets of Longbourn are startled by the sudden arrival of Mr. Aaron Gardiner, Mrs. Bennet’s older brother who was banished to India more than two decades ago. Aaron, now rich from his business dealings, is a wise man with a deep understanding of human nature, and his insights into the characters of others prove invaluable to Elizabeth and Jane Bennet.

An unbelievable thing has just happened at Meryton’s Assembly Ball. A feather worked its way loose from Miss Bingley’s turban, swooping unerringly for Mr. Darcy’s unprotected eye! Instinctively, the gentleman in question raised his hand and stepped backward to avoid the object, tripping Miss Elizabeth Bennet and then falling upon her prone form. Scandalous! A marriage must occur, of course. But he does not want to marry an unknown country miss and she most certainly does not want to marry the proud, dour Mr. Darcy. Can they find their way to one another despite this inauspicious ...

The delicate situation that the future held for the Bennet daughters had led their mother to instruct them early on proper behaviour, refined language, and the grace they would need to cultivate to secure good marriages. If Jane Bennet had beauty and kindness on her side, Elizabeth Bennet compensated with intelligence and sharpness. Lizzy had carefully and patiently shaped the image of her ideal suitor—a young and sensible man, kind and courteous, someone with whom she could openly share her thoughts and dreams, who would love and cherish her wholeheartedly. He did not even need to be ...

WHEN MR. FITZWILLIAM DARCY RETURNS to Hertfordshire a year after last seeing Elizabeth Bennet, he is surprised to find that she has taken up careering around the countryside in a brand new curricle. Even more surprising is the manner in which their verbal sparring turns to good humor, banter, and flirtation. So much so that her neighbors begin to wonder if their attachment is more than just friendly.

He trusted you with his deepest secrets… I believe he still loves you. Elizabeth Bennet returns home from Kent with a burdened heart following Mr Darcy’s offer of marriage. She finds it hard to put aside the revelations of the gentleman’s letter—a letter that challenges everything she believed about pride, honour, and love. Reeling from the truths it contains, Elizabeth finds solace not in the bustling Bennet household at Longbourn, but in the quiet counsel of her godfather, Mr Goulding—a wise, kind-hearted neighbour whose own past is marked by tragedy and quiet heroism.

After an anonymous encounter at a Hertfordshire assembly, Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet conduct a secret courtship without knowing each other's identities—unaware that she is the paid companion to the cousin he jilted and that their families' intertwined fates will force them to choose between love and duty.

Something magical happens every time Miss Elizabeth Bennet paints or sketches an image. However, she cannot control how her talent is revealed in her art. Lizzy is determined to live as an independent lady and needs her talent to provide the income for her dream. But, she has to be so very, very careful that no one discovers her secret. Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy wants Miss Bennet, a notable artiste, to paint a portrait of his beloved sister, Georgiana, and he is willing to pay handsomely. She, however, refuses to paint adults. He does not understand her reluctance.

She was tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt him. Elizabeth Bennet knew exactly what Mr. Darcy thought of her. She heard him say it at the Meryton assembly, and she had no interest in changing his mind. But someone else noticed the way his eyes followed her across crowded rooms. Caroline Bingley had a plan to secure Mr. Darcy for herself, and it involved befriending Elizabeth with one goal in mind. She would highlight every unpolished, unsuitable quality that made Elizabeth Bennet all wrong for a man of Mr. Darcy’s standing. The only problem? Some men don't want perfection. Some ...

For the sake of a most beloved sister, and for their father’s dying wish, Elizabeth would make herself submit... When her dying father demands one daughter marry the heir to Longbourn and the other wed a wealthy elderly widower, Elizabeth makes the hardest choice of her life. She becomes the wife of sixty-year-old Mr. Ashwood—a marriage in name only that leaves her more a daughter than a bride. Four years later, Elizabeth is a widow at twenty, impoverished and estranged from the sister she once adored.

Dearly Beloved, A Pride and Prejudice Variation Elizabeth Bennet has never been one to sit idle while her family’s future hangs in the balance. With Lydia on the brink of ruin and Jane in danger of being sacrificed to a gentleman who is older than her father, Elizabeth resolves to take matters into her own hands. London offers an escape, and also temptation, and it is there, during an excursion to the Tower, that she meets two gentlemen who will alter the course of her life. Mr. Bingley is amiable and sincere. His friend, Mr. Darcy, is something far more dangerous. Drawn together by ...

What happens when an overheard insult leads to the match of the season? In this Pride and Prejudice variation, Elizabeth Bennet confronts Mr. Darcy about his cutting words at the Meryton assembly—but Mrs. Bennet overhears just enough of their heated argument to draw entirely the wrong conclusion. Before either can correct the misunderstanding, all of Hertfordshire believes they're engaged. To protect Elizabeth's reputation and her family's standing, they agree to maintain the charade temporarily. But as their pretend courtship gives way to genuine feelings, can two people who started with...