The sudden and shocking ability to read minds gives Mr Darcy some much needed insight into Elizabeth Bennet’s heart, and into his own faults and behaviour. The Pleasure of Understanding Her is a short story previously published as part of the An Inducement Into Matrimony collection. It is a clean Pride and Prejudice variation which is low angst.
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.
