By Consequence of Marriage: A Pride & Prejudice Novel Variation

✍ Scribed by Elizabeth Ann West

• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 89 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1944345205

✦ Synopsis

This is the first novel in the Moralities of Marriage series, a Pride and Prejudice Variation series.

When his horse throws a shoe, Fitzwilliam Darcy misses rescuing his sister, Georgiana Darcy, from the clutches of George Wickham by only one day. Now on the hunt to find them both, the gossip beginning to swirl in London forces him to abdicate the search to his cousin, Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam, while he plays the wayward gentleman in Hertfordshire with his friend Charles Bingley. After a collision with his future, Darcy struggles to satisfy his attraction to a pair of fine eyes and keep his family's scandal hidden.

Elizabeth Bennet dreams of nothing more than remaining close to her sister, Jane. When the rich gentleman, Charles Bingley, enters the neighborhood, it seems certain that Jane will make a match with him. After all, Jane Bennet is the sweetest and most beautiful woman in the county! But Elizabeth's efforts to find her own local match go awry and she feels abandoned by the first man to cause stirrings in her heart. Her parents attempt to marry Elizabeth off to her cousin, William Collins, who is set to inherit the estate. But when she refuses, she soon finds herself In London with relatives, forced to find her own happiness.

By Consequence of Marriage is a sweet, romantic novel starring our favorite dear couple from Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice, wondering how the story might have changed if Georgiana was lost. It's a great storyline for Jane Austen Book Clubs wanting to compare and contrast how our favorite characters might have changed fundamentally if Mr. Darcy never attended the Meryton Assembly.
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Review

"The unique take on the P&P variation held my attention through each page--I forgot I was reading at times. The author's take on the Regency period shows a lot of research and her character development was refreshingly noteworthy...not just a retelling but a reinvention! This might be the first book that I have read by the author but it will not be the last."

• Sarah Price, author of The Plain Fame series.

From the Author

Adversity. That's the nice word for when bad things happen out of your control and you make the best of it. :)

I think the reason I loved writing this story so much through the three different versions the trilogy went through (in one, I married Elizabeth to Mr. Collins, honestly, and there's a reason that version will never be finished, lol), was that in this version, Darcy and Elizabeth were not victims. Yes, many things conspire around them to make life miserable, but at the end of the day, both characters stand up and work towards their own destiny.

And that's what we all have to do. The holiday season is especially good at making the adverse situations that much more painful. But picking ourselves up and moving forward is our courage. It is our bravery. It is our strength.

Here's to a wonderful New Year to all of my readers and fans. Your emails and notes this week have been such a blessing. May we all enjoy less adversity and more love and friendship in 2015. :)

Always Smiling,
Elizabeth Ann West