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Mr. Darcy, Downstairs

Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:30:22 +0300

Mr. Darcy is the steward of a grand estate. Elizabeth Bennet is a lowly housemaid.
It's P&P, but all the characters are servants below stairs

All Elizabeth Bennet wants is to escape. The housemaid position in the refuge of Donwell Abbey seems to be the answer to all her prayers.

She finds an immediate friend in fellow housemaid Jane Langley, and she respects the housekeeper, Mrs. Charlotte Lucas.

Certainly, the steward, Mr. Darcy, is haughty and proper and thinks she's not handsome enough to tempt anyone, but he's easily avoided.

Soon, however, Elizabeth must dodge the advances of the butler, Mr. Collins, who has determined making her his wife will greatly increase his happiness, and the jealousy of fellow housemaid Caroline Bingley. And if that weren't bad enough, a dark man from her past lurks outside on the grounds, ready to destroy her new life.
Mr. Wickham knows all her secrets, and he can crush her if...

One Night with Mr. Darcy

Tue, 14 Nov 2023 08:55:15 +0200

The secret baby JAFF you didn't know you wanted!

The night of the Netherfield Ball, Fitzwilliam Darcy watches Elizabeth Bennet dance twice with Mr. William Collins and knows what the man intends. When Mr. Darcy's own dance with the lady in question goes disastrously, he despairs of ever wooing her from the man who duty demands she wed.

He takes solace in absinthe, as one does.

Elizabeth is not the least bit pleased at the prospect of marrying Mr. Collins and begins drinking heavily, too. When a very inebriated Mr. Darcy appears and takes her off to his room, she doesn't resist.

She doesn't resist anything at all.

Morning dawns, and all his drunken promises of marriage have evaporated. He doesn't remember bedding her.

She has no choice but to marry Mr. Collins.

Especially when she realizes that Mr. Darcy's seed has taken root in her, and she will now bear his child.

Passing...

Mr Darcy, the Dance, and Desire

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 05:50:14 +0200

Mr. Darcy's Courtesan

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:26:22 +0200

The Scandalous Mr Darcy

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:26:23 +0200

Mr. Darcy, the Beast

Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:10:36 +0300

Mr. Darcy and the Lost Slipper

Sun, 01 Nov 2020 20:48:53 +0200

The Most Honorable Terms: a Pride and Prejudice variation (Desperately Seeking Elizabeth Book 2)

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 08:27:10 +0200

Elizabeth is spending the summer at Barralds, a country estate owned by a rich upstart from trade named Houseman. She arrives with no knowledge that her husband, Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam, has met his demise in France, or that Mr. Darcy will be there.

She is only concerned with the proximity to the estate of the family of the man who may have been her father by blood, the late Duke of Neithern. Elizabeth desperately wishes to untangle the secrets of her past. Who is she? Where did she come from?

She does not care about an inheritance or an acknowledgment, even though, as the legitimate daughter of a duke, she would be entitled to something.

What happens, however, is that Mr. Darcy is distracting.

They spend too much time together.

He is as devoted to her as ever, though he is far too honorable to renew any of his romantic intentions, not if she is his cousin’s wife. Maddeningly, however, he is everywhere, and he is handsome, and she is drawn to him.

It is a summer of secrets, of repressed longing, of the schemes and matchmaking of others, all hurtling towards the midsummer masque at Neithern Hall, when all the secrets will be laid bare.

Dear reader, this book is for readers who love our dear couple achingly near to each other but never quite touching. Tease and release is the name the game. Also, scandalous backstories, all manner of titled men behaving badly, and a guaranteed happily ever after.

The Dignity of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy: a Pride and Prejudice variation

Sat, 03 Aug 2024 12:41:29 +0300

The Unraveling of Mr Darcy

Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:26:23 +0200

Mr. Darcy's Indiscretions

Fri, 11 Jan 2019 05:50:13 +0200

Under Such Circumstances

Wed, 26 Nov 2025 17:18:57 +0200

When Mr. George Wickham gets wind of the fact that Miss Elizabeth Bennet has inherited a sum of money, he decides he should have the money himself. There's no easier way to do that than to marry her, and there's no easier way to marry a woman than to compromise her.

As it happens, Miss Bennet is visiting her friend Mrs. Collins in Kent, so Mr. Wickham will have to travel there and then contrive some way to get her alone.

This he manages handily, but he doesn't expect Mr. Darcy to set off in pursuit of them immediately. Through a set of unfortunate circumstances, all three of them end up trapped in a leaking shack during a thunderstorm.

Yesterday, Mr. Darcy asked Elizabeth to marry him.

She may have refused him, but that doesn't mean that Mr. Darcy won't do anything in his power to protect her from Mr. Wickham.

Even if Wickham has already compromised her.

Dear reader, I set out to write a forced marriage variation, and none...

Pledged to Mr Darcy

Tue, 19 Nov 2019 14:26:22 +0200

The Dread Mr. Darcy

Sat, 17 Nov 2018 01:12:47 +0200

A pirate Pride and Prejudice variationOn passage back to England from India, Miss Elizabeth Bennet's ship is boarded by pirates. She is shocked to find that she is acquainted with the pirate captain, who is none other than Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy.Elizabeth only met Darcy once, at a ball years ago in Meryton. Darcy left abruptly to hunt down some soldier named Wickham. The two met for a duel and Wickham fell. Rumors said that Wickham had something to do with the death of Darcy's sister, an event that devastated him and left him a drunkard and gambler who had lost much of his fortune.Apparently, Darcy turned to piracy to make back his fortune. But he is no longer the gentleman that Elizabeth knew. Now taken captive aboard his ship, she is entirely at his mercy...**For readers who will enjoy something different: a deliciously damaged and dashing Mr. Darcy in need of the redemptive power of love.**