From the Author of The Red Chrysanthemum. Only days after his disastrous proposal, the untimely death of Anne de Bourgh draws Fitzwilliam Darcy and his cousin Colonel Alexander Fitzwilliam back to Rosings Park before Elizabeth Bennet has left the neighborhood. Their return finds Rosings swathed in mourning. In death, Anne is revealed as having lived a rich life of the mind, and she plotted rather constantly to escape her loathsome mother, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Anne’s journal—spirited into the hands of Elizabeth and Charlotte Collins—holds her candid observations on life and her family. It also exposes her final, and sadly fatal, means of outwitting her mother. Anne’s Last Will and Testament, with its peculiar bequests, sends Lady Catherine into a tailspin and throws into turmoil every relationship amongst the Bennets, Darcys, Fitzwilliams, Collinses, and even the Bingleys! Was Anne de bourgh a shrewder judge of character than Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy combined? Includes mature content.
Author
Linda Beutler is the author of three titles of garden writing: Gardening With Clematis (2004), Garden to Vase (2007), and Plant Lovers Guide to Clematis (2016) all published by Timber Press. Although a long-time fan of Jane Austen, Linda did not fall down the rabbit-hole of Jane Austen Fan Fiction until 2011. By the end of 2012, she had written two full length novels of her own. The first, The Red Chrysanthemum, was published by Meryton Press in 2013 and won a silver "IPPY" medal in the romance category. Her second novel, Longbourn to London, also published by Meryton Press, debuted in August 2014. A Will of Iron was published in July 2015, and a fourth title is in the works.
