The Witness & the Ledger

A Thomas Bennet and George Wickham Pride and Prejudice Variation

By: Grandy Eden

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Every night, Thomas Bennet watches a man die.

It is always the same man: a handsome, smiling lieutenant named George Wickham. And it is always a different tragedy: a cold grave in Edinburgh, a searing fire in a military camp, a deadly stampede..

Fifteen nights. Fifteen deaths. One chance to save a soul.

For the Master of Longbourn, these nightly visions are more than mere madness... they are a supernatural alarm. Armed with a written ledger of Wickham’s future crimes, Thomas is no longer the man who hides behind his books. He forms an unlikely alliance with Fitzwilliam Darcy and Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam to do the impossible: confront a predator with the truth of his own soul and see if a ghost can be called back to the living.

When the arrrogant Mr. Wickham walks into Longbourn in the flesh, he expects easy prey. Instead, he finds the Witness. Forced to face the Ledger… the record of the fifteen deaths he has yet to die… Wickham is offered a final choice: follow his own greed to the grave, or embrace a grueling, honest path to atonement in the rugged North.

In this dark yet deeply redemptive Pride and Prejudice variation, the drawing rooms of Meryton meet the windswept fells of Westmorland. It is a story of a father who finally learns to lead, a sisterhood that guards the truth, and the quiet triumph of second chances.

The Witness is watching. The Ledger is open. George Wickham has one final chance to live.

Content Warning: Contains intense thematic elements and descriptions of death suited for a PG-13 audience.