Summer of Second Chances

A Pride & Prejudice Summer Novella

By: Mary Ashbourne

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

A summer by the sea was the last place Elizabeth Bennet Ashbourne expected to encounter the past she had long set aside.
Widowed after a sensible but loveless marriage, Elizabeth accepts her aunt and uncle Gardiner’s invitation to Brighton in hopes that sea air and cheerful company might restore her spirits. Yet the lively promenades and glittering Channel hold an unexpected surprise: a chance meeting with Fitzwilliam Darcy, the gentleman whose proposal she once refused and whose memory she believed safely confined to another chapter of her life. As warm July days unfold along Brighton’s fashionable shore, their renewed acquaintance awakens old wit, quiet admiration, and the possibility that some affections are not so easily forgotten.
But Elizabeth soon discovers that Darcy’s presence in Brighton is not entirely accidental. A shadow from her late husband’s affairs threatens her reputation, and Darcy has been working in secret to protect her from a scandal she never knew existed. Misunderstandings, whispered suspicions, and a determined adversary place them once more at odds, until the truth reveals a devotion deeper than Elizabeth ever imagined.
The sea carries whispers of second chances, and Elizabeth must decide whether the future she once refused might yet become the happiness she never expected. For sometimes the tides of summer return us to the very place where love first began.