The Winter of Our Discontent (Pride and Prejudice Variations #1)

The Winter of Our Discontent (Pride and Prejudice Variations #1)

Author: Grace Gibson Listening Length: 7h 17m
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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 out...

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FITZWILLIAM DARCY, THE GREAT NORTH ROAD

Because I always strove to collect myself through the regularity of my habits before my life had been ruined, I sat down to make an entry in my journal, struggling even to recollect the date. My pen began to scratch, and I read what I could not seem to refrain from expressing.

I began, between Northampton and Nottingham, to understand how a man could put a pistol to his head and gleefully pull the trigger.

“Romney,” I said weakly, “toss this paper in the fire.”