The Worst Proposal in England (Austen Ever After #1)

A single overheard proposal. A reputation unraveling by the hour. And two proud hearts forced to answer for it in front of all of London.

When Mr. Darcy’s private declaration to Elizabeth Bennet goes disastrously wrong, no one expects the story to travel far beyond the room where it happened.

But gossip has a way of outrunning the truth, and within weeks, a humiliating refusal has become the season’s favorite scandal, one that threatens far more than a single wounded ego.

For Elizabeth, refusing an unworthy offer should have ended the matter.

Instead, she finds her name traded across drawing rooms by strangers who were never meant to hear it, her sister Jane’s prospects quietly imperiled, and her dear friend Charlotte’s security hanging by a thread.

For Darcy, whose pride sparked it all, there is no correcting the record without risking the very person he is trying to protect, and no way forward except becoming, in full view of a merciless society, the better man his worst moment revealed he was capable of being.

Set against the glittering, gossip-hungry backdrop of a London season, this is a story of reputation and redemption, of two sharp minds learning to trust each other honestly after every reason to stop trusting, and of a proposal so badly given that only a far braver,

far more public one could ever make it right.

For anyone who has ever wondered what happens after the worst moment of your life becomes everyone else’s favorite story to tell.