On the Threshold of Pemberley (Around Jane Austen #1)

The whole world thinks it knows Mr. Darcy.

The proudest man in England. The one who dances little, rarely smiles, and moves through ballrooms with the coldness of a man who would rather be anywhere else.

They call him haughty, unapproachable, incapable of tenderness. He lets them talk, because he has never learned to show what he feels.

Elizabeth Bennet, however, knows the man others don’t see.

The one who slows his pace to stay beside her. Who fills his library with books she loves before she even arrives. The one who can blush at a joke, whose laughter is as rare as it is precious, and whose silences conceal a passion he still struggles to express.

Now engaged, Elizabeth and Darcy no longer have to wonder if they love each other.

They must wait.

Wait for the wedding, for Pemberley, for doors finally closed around them. Wait to be able to touch without fearing watchful eyes, to speak each other’s first names without formality, and to discover what it truly means to become husband and wife.

But between the preparations, the families, the proprieties, and the desire that grows with each meeting, the final weeks of their engagement severely test their restraint.

Darcy counts the hours until he can bring Elizabeth home.

Elizabeth gradually discovers what it means to be loved by a man who never does anything by halves.

Because their vows will not be the culmination of their story.

They will be its true beginning.

A romantic and sensual sequel to Pride and Prejudice, devoted to the engagement, wedding, and first steps of Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy in their married life.

Sensual historical romance for adult readers.