Georgiana Darcy has gone missing. Lizzy Bennet knows just what to do to find her. ‘Tis no secret that Lizzy Bennet has dreams. The uniquely talented daughter of a woman with a dubious reputation, Lizzy knows she must make her own way in a world that shuns her. Fitzwilliam Darcy carries the stains of his family’s dishonour upon his soul and only by holding himself to the strictest standards has he reclaimed his place in society. If his fifteen-year-old sister cannot be found quickly, her scandal could destroy years of perfect behaviour. Lizzy is willing to join the pursuit to get what she wants but will Darcy be willing to trust her with his secrets? And what will they do when the search for Georgiana reveals what neither expected to find?

For the sake of a most beloved sister, and for their father’s dying wish, Elizabeth would make herself submit... When her dying father demands one daughter marry the heir to Longbourn and the other wed a wealthy elderly widower, Elizabeth makes the hardest choice of her life. She becomes the wife of sixty-year-old Mr. Ashwood—a marriage in name only that leaves her more a daughter than a bride. Four years later, Elizabeth is a widow at twenty, impoverished and estranged from the sister she once adored. Living in a crumbling dower cottage, surviving on pride and stubbornness alone, she has only one dream to save enough money to escape to Venice and forge a life that is finally, truly her own. Then she meets Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy. Wealthy, brooding, and bound by secrets as heavy as her own, Mr Darcy awakens feelings Elizabeth never knew she could possess. For the first time in her life, she experiences the intoxicating promise of real love but how can she risk her hard-won independence when every moment with him puts her fragile future in jeopardy? But Darcy too carries the weight of a promise made to a dying father—one that forbids him from pursuing any woman until he's ready to marry, lest he wound his fragile cousin Anne, who believes herself destined to be his bride. As Anne de Bourgh's obsession spirals into something far more sinister, the lovers must face a threat that could destroy not only their future together—but Elizabeth herself. As Elizabeth and Darcy fight against the forces determined to keep them apart—meddling family, financial ruin, and a dangerous obsession that threatens everything—they must Will they surrender to duty and expectation once more, or risk everything for the love neither dared believe possible?