“Half the sum of attraction, on either side, might have been enough…”Eight years and a bit before being reunited, Anne Elliot meets Captain Frederick Wentworth for the first time. Immediately struck by the handsome Commander’s easy manner an...
Returning to stay with his sister in Somerset, Captain Frederick Wentworth is doing his best to forget his last visit to that country eight years previously, which resulted in a broken engagement, and a broken heart. When he and Anne Elliot meet by c...
“When any two young people take it into their minds to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point…” Yet Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot’s happiness had already once been derailed by the interference of friends and fami...
A festive Pride and Prejudice variation novella.Elizabeth Bennet is furious when she discovers Mr. Darcy has removed, with Charles Bingley in tow, to London for Christmas, seeing in it a blatant attempt to undermine the relationship that had begun to...
The course of true love never did run smooth…All seems well, as far as Elizabeth Bennet can tell. Jane is in love with Bingley, and he with her. Surely marriage is only a short time away. But for Mrs Bennet, securing the eligible bachelor under her...
Surprisingly reacquainted after many years apart, Captain Frederick Wentworth and Anne Elliot have managed to salvage something resembling friendship out of their previous closeness, and Anne tries to content herself with that. She knows that Frederi...
George Wickham is drowning in debts, until his friends propose an amusing wager: can he win Elizabeth Bennet’s heart? Money and challenge is reason enough for him to take on the bet, but when he realises that in securing Elizabeth’s affections, h...
Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet have finally confessed their true feelings for one another and decided to marry - and not even Mr Bennet's opposition will prevent their future happiness. Their friends support the match, even if Elizabeth's father remai...
When Anne Elliot removes directly to Bath with her family to satisfy Sir Walter’s need to retrench but desire for society, she does so reluctantly. She intends to make the best of her situation, finding friends and occupations enough in the town to...
A case of mistaken identity threatens to keep Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet apart.Fitzwilliam Darcy generally pays little attention to London gossip, but when he hears his friend Charles Bingley is poised to make a match with the sister of the Elizab...
Reunited after many years apart, Captain Frederick Wentworth and Anne Elliot are determined nothing will stop them marrying and embarking on their future together. Eager to escape Bath, and the members of Anne’s family who are less than thrilled ab...
Mary Bennet is used to being the overlooked Bennet sister, but when Colonel Fitzwilliam accidentally enters her life, everything changes. As cousin to Mr Darcy, Colonel Fitzwilliam knows what it’s like to feel invisible. His experiences at war have...
Three weeks at Rosings will test the patience of any person, and illuminate the true nature of their affections... If her sister can marry well, and she can avoid Mr Collins, that is all the happiness Elizabeth Bennet can ask for. The first seems cer...
Does marrying for convenience mean that love is ever out of the question? Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet have decided to marry for the most pragmatic of reasons: so that they might each avoid being forced into less amiable matches. In Elizabeth’s ca...
A novella and selection of short stories inspired by the works of Jane Austen…In Netherfield Library - Pride and Prejudice - Brought to Netherfield to care for her ailing sister and kept there by an ongoing rain-storm, Elizabeth B...
“Men's courses will foreshadow certain ends, to which, if persevered in, they must lead, but if the courses be departed from, the ends will change…” ~ Charles Dickens Fitzwilliam Darcy is in London, and resigns himself to the social whirl of Ch...
The worst has happened " Anne de Bourgh and George Wickham are married.Fitzwilliam Darcy is willing to accommodate the couple at Pemberley for Anne’s sake if not for her husband’s, for he puts little faith in Wickham’s promised intentions to ...
A surprise elopement " and an anxious journey north. News that his cousin, Anne de Bourgh, has eloped to Scotland puts Mr Darcy in hot pursuit, leaving behind his wife in London and determined, at last, to confront George Wickham for his selfish ac...
Sometimes romance appears out of nowhere…Jane Bennet has been swept up in a courtship nobody expected with a new arrival to Hertfordshire. Elizabeth Darcy can do nothing but witness this surprising turn of events from a distance, and quiz her other...
Fate finds a way...Mr Bennet is dead, and with Mr Collins eager to take possession of his inheritance, the grieving Bennet family are forced to leave Longbourn and life as they knew it behind. Staying in London can only ever be temporary, but after m...
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance…When Charlotte Lucas married William Collins she knew it was a marriage of convenience rather than true love, but did she overestimate how happy she would be with such an arrangement? When Elizab...
Mary Bennet is used to being overlooked, and with three sisters married and a fourth intent on becoming so, she resigns herself to life as the stay-at-home spinster daughter to her increasingly needy parents. When she receives a letter from her siste...
Kitty Bennet has broken free of Longbourn and her sisters, and is enjoying all that London, and now Bath, have to offer in the company of her aunt and uncle. Catching the eye of a handsome captain, and with encouragement from a new friend, she feels ...
Caroline Bingley is trapped in London with her newly-married brother and his wife, watching, miserably, as her future prospects for marriage and happiness shrink. When her brother invites a new acquaintance into their home she is immediately on her g...
Reunited at Rosings...Fitzwilliam Darcy can avoid calling on his aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, no loner, but he can certainly avoid doing so alone. He convinces his cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam, into accompanying him in an effort to deflect from his...
If wishes had potency at any time of the year, he might believe it to be now, when all the world seemed poised on the very edge of celebration…Anne Elliot is glad to remain at Uppercross for Christmas, delaying the inevitable removal to Bath and em...
Snow has separated one dear couple, but might it be the very thing to reunite another?Elizabeth Bennet's Christmas is a quiet one, with heavy snowfall preventing anybody coming and going from Longbourn. She is puzzling over how to reunite her sister ...
If connections alone could not be enough to guarantee a suitable match, nor beauty, was it really so dreadful to turn one’s focus to any other opportunity to tip the scales in one’s favour?Jane Bennet has been gifted an opportunity and she is not...
Even when I had lost all knowledge of myself, your face was still there..Misfortune has struck Fitzwilliam Darcy " an altercation ended with him in the car of an innkeeper without his memory. Rescued by his friend Charles Bingley, he slowly begins ...
Intent on avoiding both Elizabeth Bennet and her manipulative sister, Fitzwilliam Darcy whisks Charles Bingley back to London, abandoning Elizabeth to her own obstinacy, convincing himself he cares nothing for her. Eager to support her sister, Elizab...
The Other Elizabeth BennetA case of mistaken identity threatens to keep Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet apart.Fitzwilliam Darcy generally pays little attention to London gossip, but when he hears his friend Charles Bingley is poised to make a match wit...
Elizabeth Bennet is bound for London " to stay with her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner and escape a sisterly feud dividing Longbourn. She knows only one thing will restore Jane’s friendship to her, and is determined to use her time in London to reunite ...
Rushing North with Charles Bingley, Colonel Fitzwilliam can't help but acknowledge the absence of such reckless love in his own life. Poised to make a change, how will this new love survive a trial nobody expected? Left in London, Elizabeth Bennet's ...
In the wake of his brother's sudden death, Colonel Fitzwilliam's life is thrown into turmoil but he is left to weather the gathering storms alone as his key confidante, his cousin, is distracted from helping by his own rapidly changing circumstanc...
Newly-married Elizabeth Darcy is determined that her first Christmas at Pemberley with Mr Darcy will be a happy one, and if that means scheming for her new sister to find happiness then that's what she will do!Georgiana Darcy is delighted to see h...
A Very Merry Masquerade
Elizabeth Bennet is furious when she discovers Mr. Darcy has removed, with Charles Bingley in tow, to London for Christmas, seeing in it a blatant attempt to undermine the relationship that had begun to flourish betwe...
A festive runion in London...
Absence makes the heart grow fonder as London-bount Fitzwilliam Darcy realises all he left behind him in Hertfordshire.
What providence, then, that Elizabeth Bennet and her whole family have been invited t...
When Fitzwilliam Darcy travels to Hertfordshire with his friend, the last person he expects to see is the young woman who broke his heart in London four years previously... Unexpectedly reunited and eager to downplay their former associatio...
** All three books of the Pathway to Pemberley series - Collected into one volume! **The Collins Conundrum - Elizabeth returns home one day to find her sister engaged, not to Mr Bingley, but to the rather more dreadful prospect of their cousin, Mr Co...
Thrust into society once more, neither Fitzwilliam Darcy nor Elizabeth Bennet can even contemplate renewing the affection they once shared: they can barely look at one another! When an old antagonist tips his hand, secrets are revealed and Elizabeth ...
Romance at Rosings...Persuaded to visit his aunt and cousins by his sister Georgiana, Fitzwilliam Darcy is surprised to run across the very person he has tried for months to, if not forget, avoid - Elizabeth Bennet.Colonel Fitzilliam and Anne de Bour...
En route to London, Elizabeth Bennet has matrimony in mind - for not one but two of her sisters. She scarcely dares to dream of revisiting her own past romance. Ftizwilliam Darcy once vowed never to revisit history, but time has changed him and now h...
Captain Wentworth went away to sea and didn't return...until now.Anne Elliot had had almost ten years to come to terms with the loss of her first love, but when a mysterious stranger arrives in Bath and charms the season's high society (including her...
Five Sisters, One Season... Kept at Netherfield by an un-persuadable Charles Bingley, and surprised by an impromptu visit from his cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Mr. Darcy looks set for a Christmas that is anything but restful. Throw in an uncanny...
Poised to take control of the Meryton Barracks, Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam anticipates exchanging a lonely Christmas for an even lonelier year, made worse by his cousin's sudden and surprising exodus from Hertfordshire. He could never dream tha...
A second chance in Bath Anne Elliot reunites with her family eager to put her past behind her, where it belongs. Her future may not be happy but at least it is predictable, and her present is vastly improved by a growing friendship with her fath...
Colonel Fitzwilliam is only too pleased to share the good news of his engagement with his cousin until a surprising source suggests that the true reason for Mr Darcy's sudden return to Hertfordshire might be to stop, rather than celebrate, the match....
Devastated by his cousin's betrayal and watching all his hopes of future happiness slip away, Colonel Fitzwilliam calls on assistance from surprising quarters, but involving George Wickham in anything is a recipe for disaster. Fitzwilliam Darcy ...
When an engagement is announced between Charles Bingley and Jane Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy is keen to visit and takes Georgiana with him, eager to partake in the happiness of the household. The very last thing he expects is to fall in love ...
An impromptu decision to spend Christmas with their cousin at Hunsford Parsonage puts the Bennet family into Lady Catherine de Bourgh's orbit - and reunites two people who thought they'd said their last farewell: Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. W...
A Very Bennet ChristmasKept at Netherfield by an un-persuadable Charles Bingley, and surprised by an impromptu visit from his cousin, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Mr. Darcy looks set for a Christmas that is anything but restful. Throw in an uncanny ability t...
Forced to miss the Meryton Assembly due to illness, Elizabeth Bennet's first meeting with Mr Darcy is more successful than it might have been, although she is cautious to guard her heart against too much feeling for a man she scarcely knows, and who ...
When Fitzwilliam Darcy asks Elizabeth to marry him it is a logical proposal - one he thinks might benefit them both. Even if they are the only ones who can see it!Her family is convinced Elizabeth Bennet has leapt from one mishap to another, and when...
A Match Made by the Musgroves...When Anne Elliot goes to stay with her sister and brother-in-law at Uppercross, little does she realise that she's been the subject of discussion between Charles and Mary, who have both decided to spend the winter find...
With his family fractured, Fitzwilliam Darcy does not know where to turn. Can he learn to trust his heart, even if it means overcoming his own stubborn opinions?If Elizabeth Bennet's happiness is ruined - perhaps forever - she is determined to ...
Happiness in Hertfordshire... When Fitzwilliam Darcy persuades Charles Bingley to quit London for Hertfordshire he certainly does not expect his flirtatious friend to immediately lose his heart to the first young lady he meets. Elizabe...
Samuel Rowe, Duke of Edgmont, wearies under the burden of his title and decides to take a holiday from it by assuming the name of his mischievous friend Edward Nicholl. Both men arrive in Bath, eager for adventure or anonymity. Neither expects to fin...
Happily married and settled at Pemberley, Elizabeth Darcy's mind inevitably turns to securing a similar happiness for those around her - namely, for her sister-in-law and friend, Georgiana Darcy.When word reaches them of their cousin Colonel Fitzwill...
All three books in A Long Road Home A Pride and Prejudice Variation SeriesAnneAnne de Bourgh's future has been decided for her since she was a child - to marry Fitzwilliam Darcy and follow the plans her mother, Lady Catherine, has set out for her. Bu...
Elizabeth engineers a happily-ever-after… When Sir Walter Elliot dies, his two unmarried daughters are swiftly and unceremoniously evicted from Kellynch by their cousin. Taking refuge in London they settle the last of their father's affai...
** Previously published under the title A Quiet Reunion** A second chance in BathAnne Elliot reunites with her family eager to put her past behind her, where it belongs. Her future may not be happy but at least it is predictable, and her pr...
Their hopes of a truly happy Christmas dashed by the absence of their new friends at Netherfield, Lizzy Bennet is still determined to enjoy a quiet Christmas at home with her family - until a very heavy snowfall crashes through the roof of Longbourn ...
A Second Chance for RomanceCaptain Frederick Wentworth is home on leave, two years after his failed engagement. The last place he wants to return to is Somerset, but fortunately his curate brother is now happily settled in Shropshire - a place that h...
Anne Elliot is miserable in Bath and counts her cousin, Mr William Elliot, as one of the few acquaintances she truly values. When he suggests a visit to Lyme Regis with Lady Russell, Anne agrees, seeing this as a gesture of friendship and a much-need...
When a misguided proposal from Mr Collins prompts Elizabeth Bennet out of doors she stumbles across George Wickham who has reasons of his own to lie low in Meryton for a few hours. Neither of them can imagine the long-reaching consequences of this br...