Mr. Darcy - Bitten - A Novella — Mary Lydon Simonsen

Mr. Darcy - Bitten, A Novella - While touring the Black Forest with his father, fourteen-year-old Master Darcy is bitten by a wolf. When the wound does not heal, Old Mr. Darcy consults a doctor and learns that his son has actually been bitten by a werewolf. As the years pass, Fitzwilliam has come to accept that for two nights of the lunar calendar, he is a creature of the night, prowling the grounds of Pemberley with a small pack of werewolves. He understands that for reasons of safety, it is in his best interest to marry a she-wolf. But that decision was made before he met Elizabeth Bennet. Mr. Darcy - Bitten is the story of Fitzwilliam Darcy's pursuit of a woman who is fully human, but whom he cannot live without.

IMPORTANT NOTICE: Mr. Darcy â€" Bitten is the prequel to Mr. Darcy's Bite, published by Sourcebooks Landmark in 2011. Several of the chapters in this prequel previously appeared on the blog, Austen Variations, but are no longer available on the Internet. After the serialization of Mr. Darcy â€" Bitten on Austen Variations, I was asked by many of my readers to expand the story and to put it in book form so that it could be purchased as an e-book. I have done that and have published the novella independently. About a third of it is entirely new content. Original content has been revised and edited. 25,000+ words