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You need not be afraid, Elizabeth. Nothing will harm you while I am here.When Elizabeth Bennet visits Pemberley on a summer holiday tour with her aunt and uncle Gardiner, her greatest fear is encountering Mr Darcy. She has been haunted by guilt for her past misjudgment of Mr Darcy, and regrets refusing his proposal. She can only imagine how he might act were he to see her on the grounds of his estate. When Fitzwilliam Darcy unexpectedly meets Elizabeth Bennet at Pemberley, his second impression shows little improvement over his first—but surely all is not lost? Her mystifying appearance cannot be mere happenstance. Certainly, the hand of Fate must be guiding their reunion and Darcy believes he has been granted another opportunity to woo her properly. But is it the hand of fate, or perhaps something more supernatural, which aims to bring them together and protect them from the forces which seek to tear them apart? Darcy and Elizabeth find themselves subject to the whims of powers beyond the natural world in this second chance romance. Pemberley is a regency romance inspired by Pride and Prejudice as well as the gothic novels popular in the time of Jane Austen.
Author
Mary Smythe is a homemaker living in South Carolina with a rather useless BA in English collecting dust in a closet somewhere. She discovered the works of Jane Austen as a teenager, thanks to the 1995 BBC Pride and Prejudice miniseries featuring Colin Firth and Jennifer Ehle, and has since gone on to read everything written by Ms Austen at least once yearly, always wishing that there were more. She has been writing since 2001, but only discovered Jane Austen Fanfiction in the summer of 2018. Dare to Refuse Such a Man is the first full-length novel she has ever completed, though she can boast a few shorter works in her library, as well.
