A Lady of Large Fortune (Pride & Prejudice variation)

When Elizabeth Bennet discovers a fortune in Roman treasure beneath her uncle’s ruined London home, it changes her life in ways she would never imagine.

But is it enough to be able to marry an impoverished Colonel Fitzwilliam Darcy, whose reckless father left crippling debts and a nearly bankrupt Pemberley?

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman of large fortune may fall in love at her leisure and choose her own fate.

Elizabeth Bennet has spent years quietly holding her family together.

With Longbourn entailed away and her father content to leave its management in her hands, Elizabeth has learned to be practical, capable, and useful.

Then a flood in London takes the lives of her aunt and uncle Gardiner, leaving three young children in need of protection—and Elizabeth with more responsibility than ever.

But beneath the damaged house in Gracechurch Street lies a secret no one could have imagined: a Roman treasure, hidden for centuries, that changes the course of her life—in more ways than one.

Rewarded by the Crown for her discovery, Elizabeth becomes exactly what society values most: a lady of large fortune.

But she chooses to keeps her good fortune a secret from everyone, determined to keep her family safe from gossip, greed, and imprudent schemes.

Retired militia colonel Fitzwilliam Darcy knows too well what a fortune can cost.

His father’s extravagance left Pemberley wounded, his sister vulnerable, and Darcy sacrifices everything, including his hopes for a love match, to prudence and rebuilding.

Yet when he comes to Hertfordshire, he does not expect to meet again the muddy, courageous young woman who once rose from a hidden cellar with a Roman coin in her hand.

But wealth does not solve every difficulty, and the past has a way of reaching for what it was never owed.

Darcy and Elizabeth must work together to restore their happiness and protect the future of those they love.

“A Lady of Large Fortune” is a sweet and clean Pride & Prejudice variation (aka JAFF) Regency romance of about 125,000 words.

There are no trigger warnings, other than one mention of death in childbirth and death of parents (not any Bennets, and both occurs off-screen).