Wickham's Wife — C.J. Hill

George Wickham: Meryton's man of mystery.
Every girl in, or near, Meryton is out of her senses about him for the first two months of his arrival.
Who is he and what has he been doing since he left Pemberley with his three thousand pounds?

When he walks into a room, George Wickham is the happy man towards whom almost every female eye is turned, and, for a while, Elizabeth Bennet is delighted to be singled out as the object of his attention. Disappointingly for those anticipative ladies, George Wickham has had a complicated past; a past which prevents him from marrying any of them as he has neither the means nor the talent to support a gentleman's lifestyle.

And he already loves another.

Unfortunately for him, the independent lady he has fallen in love with is sensible. She knows and loves him for what he is, not what he pretends to be and until he has some security of his own, she will never risk hers by marrying him.

Step back inside the delightful world of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice and accompany Wickham along the twists and turns of his travels from Cambridge, through London and Ramsgate, to the seemingly safe and insignificant side-turning into Meryton. Unbeknownst to him, this is a detour which will forever alter his journey.