"Mr. Darcy: Controlling, arrogant, enraging… unfairly handsome.
Fitzwilliam Darcy had grown unused to female society during his five years of seclusion since Georgiana had her illegitimate child. That was why he accidentally insulted Mrs. Bingley’s sister. And why he kept thinking about her. When Georgiana became pregnant with Wickham’s child, Darcy had not made her marry the man Colonel Fitzwilliam found to preserve her reputation. She had begged him not to, and Darcy would do anything for his sister. He would even attend the Hertfordshire assembly with Mr. Bingley, because Georgiana wanted him to enjoy society. Bingley’s neighbors had refused to let a fallen woman like Georgiana amongst them. Darcy would not pretend to be pleased to meet them.
Elizabeth thought Mr. Darcy was a grand philanthropist: His rudeness provided everyone with a handsome and rich man to hate. But why, if he was actively determined to sneer at all the company, had he bothered to attend their assembly? Still, he was a very handsome man.
Darcy needed to overcome his bad first impression if he wanted Elizabeth. But he was rich, handsome and clever. It would be easy."
"Mr. Darcy had a general air of command that made it impossible for Elizabeth to consider him as an unfortunate cripple, no matter how much he met the plain definition of the word.
When Fitzwilliam Darcy visited his friend Bingley at Netherfield, he was delighted to meet Elizabeth Bennet. However, he would not marry beneath himself. The lost use of his legs changed nothing in that regard. But… Darcy loved to speak with Elizabeth.
Elizabeth enjoyed her verbal sparring with Mr. Darcy. He deserved none of the pity others thought he did. He was too determined and too capable. When tragedy strikes, Elizabeth finds herself depending upon the gentleman who had become her dearest friend.
As Elizabeth came to love Mr. Darcy, his pride, arrogance, and disdain for the feelings of others may tear them apart. Can he learn how to treat a woman well worth admiring before it is too late?
A touching variation that will bring both laughter and tears. From the author of Escaping Shadows, The Cost of a Kiss, and Colonel Darcy
No character deaths but a character (besides Darcy, whose illness is a year past at the start of the novel) will become severely ill and suffer a permanent disability"
"In this Pride and Prejudice Variation, can Elizabeth accept her love for the man who her dearest friend cherishes?
When her beloved friend Caroline Bingley confessed that she was in love, Elizabeth decided to do everything she could to forward the match between Caroline and Charlie’s friend, the elusive Mr. Darcy. After all, Elizabeth and Caroline Bingley had always been the dearest of friends since they were tiny children, and whenever they were apart they wrote reams and reams of paper in correspondence.
Fitzwilliam Darcy, haunted by thoughts of Wickham and his sister Georgiana's troubles, retreats to his friend Bingley's serene Hertfordshire estate. His sole difficulty would be deflecting Miss Bingley's matrimonial aspirations, which he would never permit to succeed.
Once he arrived, Darcy was irresistibly drawn to Elizabeth Bennet, a girl who the Bingleys treated like another sister. And despite her intentions, Elizabeth became entranced by his serious dark eyes, his penetrating gaze, and his earnest scrutiny of her.
But if she were to marry Darcy, would Caroline ever forgive her?
Note: There are several scenes with violence. Wickham’s mind is a disturbing realm to explore."
"Elizabeth and Darcy need to marry each other, but they can pretend they don’t want to…
During the Netherfield Ball, Elizabeth Bennet tripped and Fitzwilliam Darcy caught her in his strong, manly arms, and as he set her back on her feet, they looked deep into each other’s eyes. Naturally they kissed.
Unfortunately, they were seen kissing before they returned to their senses. Mr. Darcy needed to marry Elizabeth to protect her reputation and his own. The only good thing was that Mrs. Bennet was a very lax chaperone who gave them ample time to continue kissing. Alas the course of a true compromise never did run smooth.
Darcy’s letter about his marriage brought Colonel Fitzwilliam to Hertfordshire to save his cousin from the scheming fortune huntress and to chastise Mr. Wickham for his sins. What will happen when Elizabeth realizes she has fallen in love with Mr. Darcy, but he still says he doesn’t want to marry her?"
"What if Mr. Bingley ignored Darcy and married Jane immediately?
Elizabeth knew the real reason Mr. Darcy tried to stop Bingley from marrying Jane: He was selfish, cruel, and unfeeling. Jane and Bingley thought he had counselled against their marriage because he really believed Jane to be indifferent. The adorable pair was hopelessly naive.
Elizabeth wasn’t naïve.
At the wedding, Darcy said that he was happy for the couple, and he even might follow Bingley's example and marry for love. Elizabeth wasn’t going to let him lie to her. Not after he tried to hurt Jane. She told him what she truly thought of him.
But when she meets him again at Rosings Park, Elizabeth realizes she was mistaken about Darcy’s character...."
"Elizabeth had thanked God when her husband died...
After Papa died, Elizabeth Bennet married her father's heir, Mr. Collins, so that her beloved sister Jane would not be forced to marry him to save the family from poverty. She had been only fifteen years old.
Mr. Collins was an awful, ugly man who mistreated the servants. And Elizabeth's marriage was an unending nightmare. Elizabeth felt joy when he died. Afterwards she dedicated herself to managing the estate she now had inherited, and making sure her family would never fear poverty again. After such a first experience of having a husband, she planned to never marry again.
Years later man a wealthy man leased the nearby estate of Netherfield, and Elizabeth met her new neighbor's haughty and handsome friend, Fitzwilliam Darcy. Even though Mr. Darcy saw himself as superior to most of the local gentry, Elizabeth and he quickly became fast friends. But when Elizabeth imagined a happy future with Mr. Darcy, her terrifying memories of Mr. Collins returned to torment her..."
"Childhood friends torn apart by war…
Elizabeth Bennet thought Fitzwilliam Darcy, her friend Georgiana’s brother, was the most wonderful, handsomest man in the entire world. When he went to India to fight Britain’s enemies, she made him promise to write her along with Georgie regularly. There wasn’t anything improper, since Georgiana and she had sworn to be sisters. When Elizabeth and Georgiana learned that Fitzwilliam was captured, they kept writing letters to him, so that when he was released, he would know that he had not been forgotten by those who loved him.
During the years of his imprisonment, Darcy never forgot his promise to write to little Lizzy Bennet, though he was sure she had long since forgotten about him. Before setting sail to England with the survivors of his regiment, he received the stack of letters written by Lizzy and Georgiana. Lizzy’s letters were chatty, friendly and confiding. He read and reread her words during the long voyage to England, and during those months he fell in love with the kind, wonderful woman she had grown into.
But in England, Elizabeth’s family decided to force her to marry a wealthy man who terrified her..."
