Elizabeth Bennet has spent years running her family's thriving estate, set on choosing her future wisely, even though an old betrothal still binds her to Fitzwilliam Darcy, a man she has never met.
A forged signature now puts that security at risk, and the arranged match she has always resented may be all that stands between her family and ruin.
Darcy left England ten years ago rather than force a stranger into the marriage, making a new fortune under a new name, until a summons brought him home and showed him the betrothal had never been broken.
Offering his help as a humble secretary with no title and no expectations, he ends up living under her roof, while Elizabeth never suspects she has taken in the very man she was bound to marry.
He could give her Pemberley, yet he wants her to choose the man rather than the master, and every day he stays makes that truth harder to confess.
