Darcy's Beloved Cousin

By: Melanie Schertz, a Lady

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A Pride and Prejudice variation. Elizabeth Bennet Fitzwilliam was born and raised in Belgium, where she met and married Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam. When he is killed in battle, Elizabeth moves to England, to an estate near her uncle, Thomas Bennet, and his family. Meeting Elizabeth as her ship arrives on English shores, Fitzwilliam Darcy is determined to protect his cousin's widow from the rest of the Fitzwilliam family. Richard's family were not pleased when he married against their wishes, and they are determined to take out their fury on Elizabeth. When it is learned that Elizabeth is carrying Richard's child, what lengths will Darcy go to in protecting Richard's widow and child?

Heart warming story

When I read the book, I fixated on Darcy naming Richard’s son as his heir. I thought he should have named one of his own sons as the heir to Pemberley. I came away, as I often do, with a different perspective after listening to the story.
This is a story about love and forgiveness and what it means to be a family. I have read many of this author’s books and, in my opinion, this is her best book.
While I would have loved for a voice actor to have narrated this book, the virtual voice wasn’t awful.

Excellent Vagary!

This is a well done alternate universe P&P which is my favorite revisit form of P&P. The story is a page turner or equivalent on Audible. All of the crazies are here doing their worst. The Matlock’s, Wickham, Crazy Caroline, Lady Catherine, Ann DeBough. But Darcy is magnificent and a pretty nice Elizabeth keeps it from totally derailing the story with heavy villains opposed to good people. I have read many of this authors books and she definitely goes heavily into the horrible deeds of villains to the extent they should be either in prison or an asylum. Good story overall. VV is awful as usual but this one is a little better than other VVs.