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What if the road to Scotland led Elizabeth Bennet away from one impossible marriage… and straight into another? When Elizabeth Bennet flees Longbourn to escape an arranged marriage to Mr. Collins, she boards a northbound coach with three pounds, a stolen ham, and the grief of a woman whose father has betrayed her. On the road, she befriends a desperate young girl running toward a forbidden love—never suspecting the girl is Georgiana Darcy on the way to eloping with George Wickham. They assume names, swap dresses, and exchange stories. But when Darcy’s men intercept the coach, they ...

His nightmares built the career. Her devotion kept them clean. Every morning, Nadia Segrave descends to her husband’s study and reads what his sleeping mind has written: dark, violent, brilliant. She gathers the pages. She decides what the world gets to see. Dean is the genius. Nadia is the editor of his darkest secrets. For twelve years, the arrangement has been flawless. The Mendocino house is a cathedral. The routines are a religion. And the truth buried in the redwood grove stays exactly where she left it. Then Dean’s agent sends a ghostwriter. And the midnight drafts begin to ...

Sometimes love doesn’t arrive on schedule. Sometimes it waits—until you’re ready to try again. From small-town Texas to Alaska’s endless summer, from crumbling Victorians to wild Atlantic shores, these unforgettable stories explore what happens when love gets a second chance. Each romance brings together wounded hearts, unexpected connections, and the courage it takes to risk loving again after loss, betrayal, or time itself has pulled people apart. Written by New York Times and USA Today Bestselling Authors, this collection delivers heartfelt contemporary romance filled with warmth...

Elizabeth makes fun of Darcy's terrible Hunsford proposal to Wickham, and Darcy denies it ever happened. When Darcy is shot in a duel, Elizabeth becomes his nurse. A “bad Lizzy” and “bad Darcy” Pride and Prejudice variation. Fresh from refusing Darcy’s proposal at Hunsford, Elizabeth Bennet cannot resist confiding every humiliating detail to charming Lieutenant Wickham. Darcy chooses pride over truth and denies the proposal ever happened, branding Elizabeth a lying fortune hunter. Wickham escalates their conflict for his own gain with a devastating lie that threatens Elizabeth’s...

What if Mrs. Bennet were the sharpest mind in Hertfordshire—and Darcy never saw her coming? At the Meryton Assembly, Darcy insults Elizabeth Bennet. Not once, but twice. First, as a common sharp-tongued harpy. Then, more cuttingly, as an intelligence suitable for a companion to his sister. While Elizabeth is still smarting, her mother goes to work. A contract appears within two days, binding Darcy to his hasty words heard by the entire assembly. He suggested her daughter was suitable? Excellent. He can pay for the privilege. Elizabeth goes to Netherfield, seething with resentment but ...

Elizabeth believes Darcy compromised her sister and is forced to protect Georgiana as her companion. What if Georgiana isn’t the innocent victim? When Fitzwilliam Darcy burst into a coaching inn searching for his missing sister, he found George Wickham compromising fifteen-year-old Lydia Bennet. But Wickham had set a trap—and Georgiana Darcy was hiding in her brother's carriage, waiting to elope. Wickham escaped. Darcy stayed. And society assumed the worst. Mr. Collins, the sanctimonious clergyman spurned by Elizabeth Bennet, married Lydia and demanded his revenge: Elizabeth must become...

Darcy came to Hertfordshire to find Bingley a wife. He found Elizabeth instead— Fitzwilliam Darcy has a plan. His friend Bingley needs a wife, and the eldest Bennet daughter is perfect: beautiful, amiable, and appropriately situated in the Hertfordshire countryside. All Darcy needs to do is engineer their attachment while keeping his own attention firmly fixed on business rather than a certain impertinent second daughter with muddy petticoats and devastating wit. Elizabeth Bennet has a plan too. Get Jane married, stay comfortably redundant, and avoid the matrimonial market forever. She ...

Anne de Bourgh is dead, and Lady Catherine devises her most audacious scheme yet. Welcome to the Summer Selection—a glittering, ruthless competition where eight eligible women battle for the ultimate prize: Fitzwilliam Darcy and his magnificent estate. Through sunlit archery tournaments, heart-stopping carriage races, and champagne-soaked garden parties, only one woman will emerge victorious. Elizabeth Bennet wants absolutely nothing to do with it. Relegated to scorekeeper rather than contestant, Elizabeth watches her sisters, her friends, and two noblewomen navigate the treacherous ...

She’s the anonymous Angel of Meryton. He’s falling for her words without knowing they’re hers. As the anonymous advice columnist “Mr. Solomon,” Elizabeth Bennet has guided the lovelorn, warned the naive, and earned the title “Angel of Meryton.” Her words have changed lives, and her identity remains a closely guarded secret. To the world, Elizabeth is merely the second-prettiest Bennet daughter — too sharp, too opinionated, barely tolerable. Then Mr. Darcy writes to the Angel. Under the name “Concerned Observer,” he warns about a charming officer with dangerous intentions...

What if Elizabeth’s precious pug hates Darcy at first sight? Empress growls at Fitzwilliam Darcy the moment they meet. But Elizabeth Bennet’s imperious little guardian isn’t the only one he must win over. With her father dying and the entail looming, Elizabeth agrees to court Mr. Collins—the clergyman who brings her medicine, security, and one very opinionated pug. Then Darcy begins proving himself. Arguing philosophy. Sending physicians. Rescuing dogs on hillsides. Looking at Elizabeth as though she’s the only woman in England worth knowing. Empress notices. And slowly—very ...

Elizabeth as a single mum? Darcy’s secret baby? They spend one night at an inn before Darcy is viciously attacked, leaving him without memory. Will the heart remember what the mind has forgotten? Cast out by her family for refusing Mr. Collins, Elizabeth Bennet finds herself alone and penniless at a coaching inn. There she encounters Mr. Darcy, whose gallantry in the face of her compromised situation leads to a hasty marriage. When Darcy seeks transportation for his bride, he falls victim to a vicious attack that robs him of his memory and their marriage documents. While Darcy recovers in...

What if Mr. Darcy’s dog recognized Elizabeth Bennet’s worth… before his master could admit his own heart? When Elizabeth Bennet arrives at Hunsford Parsonage, she expects three tedious weeks of Mr. Collins’s pomposity and Lady Catherine’s condescension. She does not expect to be claimed—immediately, dramatically, and in front of everyone—by an enormous Irish wolfhound who belongs to the last man in England she wishes to see. Caractacus has never shown interest in any woman. Until Elizabeth. Now the great grey beast follows her everywhere: pressing against her skirts at dinner,...

Two identical faces. Two entirely different hearts. One impossible choice. When Elizabeth Bennet meets the handsome but reserved Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy at a local assembly, she’s prepared to dismiss him as merely another proud member of the gentry. But the arrival of his identical twin brother—the charming, vivacious Lieutenant James Darcy—throws everything into delightful confusion. While the brothers share the same striking features, their personalities couldn’t be more different. Lieutenant James pursues Elizabeth with open admiration and easy charm, drawing her into a whirlwind ...

Blackmail makes strange bedfellows when Mrs. Bennet makes Elizabeth an offer Mr. Darcy cannot refuse. When Georgiana Darcy is spotted at a tea establishment known for attracting military officers, accompanied by the infamous Bennet sisters, gossip spreads like wildfire. Enter Mrs. Bennet, social opportunist extraordinaire, who offers a simple bargain: her testimony that Georgiana remained properly chaperoned throughout in exchange for Mr. Darcy courting her daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth Bennet is horrified. Darcy is appalled. The deal is struck anyway. What begins as the season’s most ...

Darcy’s father gambled away Georgiana’s dowry. Mr. Bennet won it. Now Darcy must win a Bennet daughter’s heart—or lose everything. Fitzwilliam Darcy is desperate. His late father—grief-stricken after the death of his mother—gambled away Georgiana’s entire £30,000 dowry to the wily Mr. Bennet. The price of its return? Win the heart of one of Bennet’s five daughters, or the money stays lost forever. When Darcy begins courting all five Bennet sisters with perfect equality, the sisters make a pact—united resistance. None of them will be manipulated into loving a man who’s ...

Elizabeth Bennet impersonates an heiress for one night. Fitzwilliam Darcy claims responsibility for a compromise he didn’t cause. Their forced marriage was their first mistake—will falling in love be their last? When Elizabeth agrees to help her friend escape an unwanted betrothal by switching places at a grand estate party, she never imagines the night will end with her own hasty marriage. Discovered in a compromising position, she is immediately wed to the formidable Mr. Darcy, who stepped forward to protect her reputation. Elizabeth begins her marriage determined to resist Darcy’s ...

Elizabeth Bennet is not a Bennet. She’s the lost Darcy heiress—and falling in love with her could cost Fitzwilliam Darcy everything. Twenty years ago, baby Elizabeth Rose Darcy vanished the night her parents died in a suspicious fire. Hidden at Longbourn for her protection, she grew up as Elizabeth Bennet, never knowing her true identity. An anonymous letter reveals the shocking truth: she’s the rightful heir to one of England’s greatest estates. Fitzwilliam Darcy believes his father’s deathbed warning: “Never trust a Bennet.” When Elizabeth arrives at Pemberley claiming to be...

Elizabeth dazzles London society with Caroline Bingley’s help, as long as she avoids Darcy. But behind tea and books, she finds a Darcy impossible to resist. The barely tolerable country lass, Elizabeth Bennet, strikes a deal with none other than Caroline Bingley. Introduction to the London Season in exchange for avoiding Caroline’s prize prospect, Mr. Darcy. Needing an escape from her nerves and the exhausting social scene, Elizabeth retreats to a quiet lending library for books over steaming cups of tea. Instead, she finds Mr. Darcy at The Tea Book each morning, matching her wit, ...

Elizabeth's matchmaking for Anne de Bourgh backfires when she falls for Anne's secret fiancé, Mr. Darcy. When Elizabeth Bennet arrives in London for the social season, she never expects to befriend the pale, sheltered Anne de Bourgh. Beneath Anne’s quiet exterior burns a brilliant mind yearning for freedom, and Elizabeth cannot resist drawing her into London’s glittering literary scene. Determined to find Anne true love, Elizabeth introduces her to charming playwright Julian Gardiner. She doesn’t expect to keep running into the insufferably proud Mr. Darcy—Anne’s stern guardian, ...

Pemberley is lost! Darcy must work for his sworn enemy, the infuriating Elizabeth Bennet while keeping any inconvenient feelings at bay. When a legal loophole robs Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley, he never imagines his ancestral estate will end up in the hands of the Bennet family. While Mr. Bennet contentedly settles into his new acquisition, appointing his second daughter as estate manager, Darcy is left with nothing but his wounded pride and a desperate plan to reclaim his birthright. Swallowing his considerable dignity, Darcy accepts a position as steward at Pemberley, determined to ...