“FAIR WARNING, MR. DARCY!”
She shouts it at the top of her lungs as his carriage races away. Whether he hears depends on a father’s split-second grab, a frightened boy, and the chaos of a coaching inn yard.
Elizabeth Bennet never wanted to marry Fitzwilliam Darcy. He’s certain she compromised him deliberately. She knows she didn’t. And both are spectacularly wrong about everything else.
A marriage neither wanted. A separation neither expected. And months of turmoil to determine if a marriage created through guile and necessity can become something more.
Elizabeth agreed to the bargain: six months to earn one kind word from Fitzwilliam Darcy. Then he left her at Pemberley with a list of restrictions and departed on mysterious family business, taking all her answers with him.
As she creates an unexpected life in her new home—confused servants, hostile relatives, forbidden books, and surprising allies—Darcy faces trials that force him to question everything he believed about honour, duty, and the wife he abandoned.
But their story might have changed at Hatfield, in the seconds between Elizabeth’s shout and the screaming chaos of a near-tragedy. Did he hear her? Did he turn back?
Your choice between two endings decides whether understanding comes early—or costs them both dearly.