A Fortuitous Wager
A Pride and Prejudice Vagary
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Benjamin Fife
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Kimbelle Pease
“Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.”—Pride and Prejudice, Chapter VI
After another disappointing Season fending off matchmaking mamas and grasping debutantes, Fitzwilliam Darcy has given up hope of finding a wife. His business partner, Edward Gardiner, suggests a sojourn into Hertfordshire to escape the machinations of Town—and meddlesome aunts who take every opportunity to help him on the marriage mart.
Although asserting his nieces would never be a match for Darcy, Gardiner suggests Jane and Elizabeth Bennet might make pleasant acquaintances while in the neighborhood. Privately, Darcy’s aunt, declares this sly approach to matchmaking as “inventive,” but wagers with Gardiner that nothing will come of it.
When Darcy meets Gardiner’s nieces, it comes as a terrific shock to find them poised, intelligent, and beautiful. Elizabeth Bennet intrigues Darcy like no other. With only his heart as a guide and keenly aware that his future is at stake, Darcy must decide if Elizabeth is a woman worthy or simply another husband-seeking miss.
Will Gardiner win the wager by manipulating a love match for his beloved niece? Or will Darcy’s doubtful aunt take the prize?
©2024 Kimbelle Pease (P)2024 Kimbelle PeaseGood expressed! I especially liked the younger sisters and their secrets.
What stopped me from listening again is, that the story is very melodramatic, especially in the dialogues between the couples in the last 1/3, it’s to much for my taste.
If you have no problem with that, it is a story worth reading.
A little choppily read and the female voices are not so nice, but it could be far worth.
Good Story, but very melodramatic
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