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'It's a truth, universally acknowledged, that a tale like mine should never be told.' Lauren Bennet (Lydia Bennet) is the youngest of five daughters and is the one who was thought to be destined for great things... only she wasn't. Wild, reckless, and careless, Lauren Bennet has lost her job, has been kicked out of school and has nowhere to turn. In an act of desperation, and to simply escape her past, she decides to join a unit of young adults who sign up to clean up and paint houses in destitute areas in America. Upon going, she immediately gets into trouble. Yet she meets two men who refuse to allow her to fall through the cracks. On one hand she meets Dorian Darcy, Mr. Darcy's enigmatic cousin who provokes her at every turn, and then she meets a man named Whistler, a stern old man who pushes Lauren into realizing her frivolous nature. He then shows her the journals of two historical individuals from two different time periods that he was researching in America: Byron Clymber a young man who falls in love with one of his father's slaves in the 1770s, and Harriet Price, an English woman who travels to America with her family before the War of 1812. Through reading the history and inner feelings of both those characters, Lauren Bennet begins to see her own life differently. Will Whistler help her patch up her soul and discover who the real Lauren Bennet is? And will Dorian Darcy teach her self-discovery, and help her to the path of true love in the end? Or will Lauren Bennet fall along a downward spiral that she has created for herself? Will Lauren Bennet be able to escape being... Lauren Bennet? Here comes a tale of Lydia Bennet, but in our modern world and with a whole new tale behind her history.
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