In this variation, seventeen-year-old Elizabeth is on holiday at the seaside with the Gardiners. She intervenes when she sees a young lady being forced into a carriage by a man and an older woman. The young lady’s handsome older brother, Mr. Darcy, expresses his gratitude to her for saving his sister, and they part. Elizabeth expects never to see him again. Imagine her surprise, then, when some two years later, he appears in Meryton as the friend of Netherfield’s new tenant, Mr. Bingley. And imagine her fury when Mr. Darcy, the man she has dreamed about for the past three years, scarcely affords her a glance before insulting her looks! Then the man who had tried to force Georgiana Darcy into a carriage comes to Meryton with the militia. Will he recognise her as the young lady who cost him thirty thousand pounds?
This is a full-length novel of over 90,000 words.