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The Winter Of Our Discontent,
by Grace Gibson
I signed my maiden name first before memorialising my new name. Elizabeth Madeline Darcy. Elizabeth Bennet lay dead on the altar of matrimony.
Having signed the register as Elizabeth Darcy, the former Miss Elizabeth Bennet must somehow survive a crushing scandal as a stranger to herself. Her unwilling husband is so outraged to find himself tied to a person he thinks no better than a fortune hunter that she is forbidden to speak of the circumstances behind their union. Indeed, Mr Darcy seems to loathe even the sound of her voice, and often, her only recourse is to be silent.
When the couple arrives at Pemberley, Elizabeth—Mrs Darcy—is forced to draw upon stores of courage and resourcefulness she did not know she possessed in order to build, if not a happy life, a purposeful one. Facing obstacles and detractors, she carefully cultivates a friendship with Georgiana Darcy.
Trapped in an unwanted marriage, Darcy must walk the long road of bitter resentment, forcing him into increasing isolation during a very long winter. Increasingly confused by his new wife’s poise and determination to be useful, Darcy’s struggles multiply until a moment of reckoning shocks him out of his rage and into the strong light of truth: that even in the harshest of winters, the roots of tender feelings can quietly grow deep.
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An Offer Of Marriage, by Amy D'Orazio
A finer punishment does not exist than if I were to accept him.
Elizabeth Bennet—shocked, dismayed, and emotional following Mr Darcy’s offensive proposal in Hunsford parsonage—makes a flippant remark to her friend Charlotte Collins. She observes that, given Mr Darcy’s disdain for her family, accepting him would be the worst punishment imaginable for him, for then he would be forever connected to the very people he so despised. She speaks in jest…but Mrs Collins fears she might be serious.
Mr Darcy leaves Hunsford parsonage following his proposal feeling a measure of joy at his beloved’s acceptance of his proposal. Alas, his news is received less than joyously at Rosings Park and he fears Elizabeth might be in some danger. With the help of his cousin, he hurries her out of Kent and to the safety of her relations in London.
Caught in a grave misunderstanding, whereby Mr Darcy thinks she has accepted him, Elizabeth soon finds that Mr Darcy is a vastly different man than she had previously understood him to be. A man that she likes…a man that she might perhaps come to love.
As the days of happy courtship pass in London, the secret of how she really felt the night of his proposal lingers. When the truth comes out, Mr Darcy feels he has been made an object of ridicule, and Elizabeth fears she might have lost him for good.
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Expectations, by Julie Cooper
On the day her beloved sister marries, Elizabeth Bennet receives devastating news: Mr. Darcy, the man who once sought her hand, has committed a betrayal so scandalous it eclipses even George Wickham’s infamous deceit. Heartbroken and furious, Elizabeth vows never to cross paths with the arrogant Mr. Darcy again.
Fitzwilliam Darcy was on the verge of proposing when a cruel revelation tore his world apart. Without explanation or farewell, he abandoned Hertfordshire—and the captivating Miss Bennet—determined never to return. Years later, tragedy strikes. Darcy is named guardian to the Bingley children… and Elizabeth is determined to stop him. She will not surrender her cherished niece and nephew to the man who so thoroughly destroyed her peace of mind.
But as old secrets unravel and bitter truths come to light, Elizabeth and Darcy are forced into one another’s company—and perhaps, into one another’s hearts. Can love triumph over pride, pain, and the years lost to misunderstanding?
