Unintended Consequences
Jann Rowland
- During
- Fitzwilliam
- Darcy's
- visit
- to
- Rosings
- Park,
- Lady
- Catherine
- de
- Bourgh
- suddenly
- betrays
- her
- knowledge
- of
- Georgiana
- Darcy's
- misadventure
- with
- George
- Wickham
- the
- previous
- summer,
- while
- giving
- Darcy
- a
- devastating
- demand:
- marry
- her
- daughter,
- or
- she
- will
- reveal
- the
- details
- to
- society.Appalled
- by
- his
- aunt's
- depravity,
- Darcy
- quits
- Rosings
- Park
- at
- once,
- returning
- to
- London.
- There,
- Darcy
- conceives
- a
- desperate
- gamble;
- if
- he
- was
- already
- married,
- Lady
- Catherine
- would
- have
- no
- claim
- on
- him.After
- a
- welcome
- visit
- to
- her
- dear
- friend
- in
- Kent,
- Elizabeth
- Bennet
- returns
- to
- her
- home,
- finding
- everything
- curiously
- altered.
- Not
- only
- has
- Charles
- Bingley
- returned,
- his
- attentions
- to
- Jane
- seemingly
- unabated
- from
- the
- previous
- year,
- but
- her
- family,
- who
- had
- nothing
- good
- to
- say
- of
- Darcy,
- is
- now
- singing
- his
- praises.In
- time,
- Elizabeth
- grows
- suspicious,
- determined
- to
- discover
- why
- this
- profound
- change
- has
- come
- over
- the
- gentleman
- she
- previously
- detested.
- But
- Darcy,
- as
- he
- races
- against
- time
- to
- convince
- Elizabeth
- to
- marry
- him,
- worries
- about
- the
- threat
- of
- his
- aunt's
- jealousy
- and
- spite.
- For
- a
- woman
- willing
- to
- ruin
- her
- own
- niece
- in
- her
- all-consuming
- desire
- to
- have
- her
- way
- will
- surely
- have
- no
- scruples
- if
- he
- defies her.
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