Harriet Knowles

Fitzwilliam Darcy is maddened by the insupportable position where he finds himself ensnared. But the law is the law - he must comply or risk losing everything he holds most dear, and the person closest to his heart. He must marry, and soon. A delicate watercolor portrait captures his imagination. A young lady on the far side of the country. He must have her - and solve his problem as well. But how to win her through the written word? Then, once she arrives, the spoken word seems just as vexing. Elizabeth Bennet navigates thousands of miles of coastal ocean. Why should she believe what she hears from the brooding, darkly handsome man, whose portrait she keeps sealed within her purse? Confusion, lies, and secrets. Caroline Bingley and George Wickham. Can Elizabeth and Darcy ever disentangle the situation and find a path through to their own happy ending?

Better the devil you know than the devil you don't. But not when Miss Bingley is involved. Darcy knows he must marry, and very soon. But what sort of lady would agree to marry a man at first meeting? Elizabeth Bennet is struggling to support her family at a time when governess situations are hard to keep and harder to find. A way out is offered. But what sort of man is willing to make an offer of marriage to a lady chosen by his family - especially to a lady whose sister has ruined them all? And can love ever bloom from mere expediency? Forever, Darcy is a sweet and clean quick read Regency novella of around 32,000 words.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged," the bustling lady guardian told her young charges, over the clatter of the stagecoach and the thunder of the horses' hooves, "that a young man in possession of a good parcel of land must be in want of a fresh young bride." As the weekly stagecoach heads into Pemberdale, Wyoming, it carries on board the hopes of the men of Meryton. All the way from Saint Louis, shaken and weary from many days of travel, the five Bennet sisters are about to embark on a tumultuous sequence of adventure and mishap that will take their reputations and their futures into perils that no-one would have predicted. From a ridge, high on his gray Arabian, Fitzwilliam Darcy watches the arrival of the stage with mixed feelings. He wishes the best for the fortunes of the townsfolk, and for his friend Charles Bingley, but he holds no such optimistic hope of the stage bringing a suitable bride for himself. But as a tall and slender, dark-haired young woman descends from the coach and glances up, Mr. Darcy's heart pounds and he feels the hand of fate touch his shoulder. Romance and love beckon, and in many guises, but who will answer the call? Lovingly crafted as a clean and wholesome novella-length re-imaginging of the Pride ands Prejudice story Georgina lPeel loves so well, this thirty-six thousand word variation is a western mail-order bride romantic adventure to delight fans and newcomers alike.