“I want you beside me. I want to wake up next to you. Every morning. I want… damn it, I want peace.
And you are the only place I have ever felt it.” “Your peace comes at the price of my freedom, Mr Darcy.”
A love match turned sour left Elizabeth Morley (née Bennet) trapped in a troubled marriage, surviving only through fantasies of the very man she rejected fifteen years ago.
Now a widow and the owner of a thriving apothecary business, she guards her hard-won independence fiercely. She has a plan: sell her shop, move to France, and never answer to a man again.
Fitzwilliam Darcy has lived a half-life since the day Elizabeth refused him at Hunsford.
He has done almost everything expected of him: married off his sister, managed his estates, but he has never married.
When he writes to offer his apologies and protection, Elizabeth responds with something far more dangerous: a box of carefully crafted aphrodisiacs he disastrously mistakes for mockery.
Humiliation turns to anger… and then to a kiss that shatters every defence.
What follows is a reckless, blisteringly intimate affair neither can control. Darcy offers her everything he has; Elizabeth demands her freedom.
But as desire deepens into something far more dangerous, she must decide: flee to France and protect the life she built alone, or surrender to the one man who threatens everything she fears… and everything she secretly craves.
A scorching Pride and Prejudice variation that explores what happens when desire collides with duty, and when two proud souls must decide if passion is enough to build a future on.
