This is a Regency variation of Pride and Prejudice with influences of the well-loved fairytale, Beauty and the Beast. This story DOES NOT contain paranormal elements. This is a novel of 56,171 words. Elizabeth Bennet has gone to Lambton with her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner for the summer after her sister Jane has married Mr. Bingley. Before many days have passed, she meets the elusive Mr. Darcy in the woods near Dunleavy, the estate of her Aunt Gardiner's ailing sister Lady Mary Grace. She is at once infuriated and intrigued by the handsome, arrogant man she has only known through tales of the Bingley family. Rumors whispered by the staff of Dunleavy leave her curious and confused by her feelings for the dark stranger who hides away with his sister in their grand estate. In a strange twist of events, Elizabeth's summer will see her brought closer to the gruff Mr. Darcy and his impertinent sister. She will come to understand she loves the beastly master of Pemberley.

Elizabeth Bennet has gone to Lambton with her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner for the summer after her sister Jane has married Mr. Bingley. Before many days have passed, she meets the elusive Mr. Darcy in the woods near Dunleavy, the estate of her Aunt Gardiner's ailing sister Lady Mary Grace. She is at once infuriated and intrigued by the handsome, arrogant man she has only known through tales of the Bingley family. Rumors whispered by the staff of Dunleavy leave her curious and confused by her feelings for the dark stranger who hides away with his sister in their grand estate. In a strange twist of events, Elizabeth's summer will see her brought closer to the gruff Mr. Darcy and his impertinent sister. She will come to understand she loves the beastly master of Pemberley.

With gentlemen scarce at the Meryton assembly, Elizabeth Bennet means to scold the man in the shadows who refuses to dance. But when he comes into the light, she sees his horribly scarred face and his limp. Fitzwilliam Darcy survived a tragic carriage accident that claimed the life of his sister, and by all accounts of those who knew him, he is much changed. Now, he is a beast of a man, often in a bad temper, owing the pain he still suffers from the injuries he incurred. Elizabeth pities the man until he kisses her in the middle of the dance floor at the Netherfield Ball with everyone looking on. He’s trapped her in a marriage that is not of her choosing, and now she must travel with him to the isolated estate of Pemberley. Mr. Darcy knows what he’s done is monstrous. But there are monstrous things within him now. He doesn’t know what has possessed him to trespass against this beauty that will now be his wife. He knows he is beyond any hope. And yet… she stirs things within him. He will not let her go. This first book in the Happily Ever Collection unites Beauty and the Beast and Pride and Prejudice. Though each story in the collection takes its cue from a fairy tale, there are neither magic nor otherworldly elements in the stories.

Picking up where Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice left off, The Bad Miss Bennet takes readers on a wild Regency romp with Lydia Wickham, née Bennet, who finds herself in dire need of a new husband. Lydia was never the most upstanding of the Bennet sisters, but who ever said that moral rectitude was fun? Mr Wickham turned out to be a disappointing husband in many aspects, the most notable of which being his early demise on the battlefields of Waterloo. And so Lydia Wickham, née Bennet, not yet twenty and full of enterprising spirit, is in urgent need of a wealthy replacement. A lesser woman, without Lydia’s natural ability to flirt uproariously on the dance floor and cheat seamlessly at the card table, would swoon in the wake of a dashing highwayman, a corrupt banker, and even an amorous Prince Regent. But on the hunt for a marriage that will make her rich, there’s nothing that Lydia won’t turn her hand to. While Mrs Wickham rattles around the continent from Paris to Venice and to the home of the disgraced Princess of Wales in Italy, you, dear reader, will be greatly diverted.

When Elizabeth Bennet makes a deal with a monster to save her father's life --she never expects to fall for the man who has been her captor. As inspired by the familiar story of Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy, familiar characters are placed into a magical retelling of the beloved classic.

An unforgettable fantasy retelling of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice that is romantic, funny, and more relevant than ever. Elizabeth Bennet is hiding a forbidden power. She can speak to draca, the fire-breathing creatures kept as status symbols by English gentry. If only Mr. Darcy would stop noticing... and hinting at his own dark secret. When Elizabeth's sister falls deathly ill, the cure lies in the mysteries of draca. Elizabeth, aided by her brilliant sister Mary, defies restrictive English society to hunt for lost draca lore. She must hurry. England's war with France has drawn other hunters, and they have darker goals. Elizabeth's search leads her to the fabulous Pemberley estate, home of the entitled and infuriating man whose proposal she scorned. There, Elizabeth's worlds smash together-protocol against passion, and exultation against the risk of love. But the stakes are greater than her sister's life. Elizabeth must test herself against a distant war. And her enemy is not who she thought.

Another wonderful regency from Ms. Solomon this time, in the tradition of Abigail Reynolds, a Pride and Prejudice variation that should have you both smiling and weeping. What would happen, one wonders, if Mr. Bennet were to die, leaving Lizzie evicted from Longbourn? What if this happens after she has so forcefully rejected Mr. Darcy? What if Mr. Collins proves insuff erable (no surprise!) and Lizzie is forced to earn her keep? Will her path cross with Darcys? Unlikely, but not impossible. Can Darcy ever be absolved of his wicked remark She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me? What of Anne De Bourgh? What luminously cunning scheme is contrived to thwart Lady Catherine? Does Wickhams insidious charm still have consequences? For whom? When does an astonished Lizzy discover that the last man on earth she could ever be prevailed upon to marry is actuallyquite sinfullytempting? ------------- A gifted new author -Melinder Helfer [Romantic Times] on Viscount Victorious A fast paced and entertaining read that will delight readers with its witty dialogue -Angela Keck [Romantic Times] on A Rag Mannered Rogue