Smart and confident, Elizabeth Bennet thrives in her single life as VP of Longbourn Rehabilitation Services. Busy with work, she's more concerned with her sister Jane's romantic pursuits than her own. When Jane lands a date with an attractive doctor, Liz accompanies her to the club as wingwoman. While there, she overhears Bingley’s friend insult her, calling her “tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt,” prompting him to reluctantly "swipe left" on her Tinder profile. Liz hopes to avoid encountering the rude guy again, but fate has other plans. To her dismay, he turns out to be none other than Fitzwilliam Darcy, the president of Pemberley Medical Group, the hospital corporation her company is trying to woo. As their professional and personal worlds collide, Liz is forced to confront her disdain for Darcy, aggravated by his treatment of his childhood friend George Wickham, a handsome physical therapy assistant employed by Longbourn Rehab. Despite her initial impressions, Liz begins to see a different side of Darcy. But can she overcome her pride and prejudice to embrace the possibility of love? Set in the fictional town of Meryton, Iowa, this clean modern retelling of Jane Austen’s classic enemies-to-lovers tale will reignite your love for Pride and Prejudice.

Get ready to laugh with this collection of April Fool’s themed Pride and Prejudice stories. Each one delivers a comic tale in Amanda Kai’s style of sparkling wit and humor featuring your favorite characters from Pride and Prejudice, including Elizabeth and Darcy, Mr. and Mrs. Collins, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Colonel Fitzwilliam, Anne de Bourgh, Lydia Bennet, Caroline Bingley, and others. A Good Joke Lydia Bennet, Longbourn’s chief resident prankster, travels to Brighton with Mrs. Forster, where she gets up to numerous hijinks including a covert visit to the men’s swimming cove, pranking Mr. Wickham, and sneaking out to a ball. Her pranks earn her the attention of Mr. Wickham, whose schemes for her are anything but a good joke. Two Fools in April When Mr. Darcy’s proposal goes awry, Mrs. Collins conjures a plan to force Elizabeth and Darcy to reconcile. With the help of Mr. Collins and Colonel Fitzwilliam, they lock the pair in Mr. Collins’ garden shed. A forced proximity story sure to make you laugh. Unconventional Mr. Darcy is in love with Elizabeth Bennet, but she teases and berates him. Then, Darcy finds himself unwittingly trapped into a marriage with Caroline Bingley. Will Darcy ever be free to pursue the woman he truly loves? Or will he be shackled forever in an unconventional marriage to a woman he detests? This story was originally published as a standalone. An Unexpected Party Lady Catherine longs to enjoy an afternoon repose, but her attempt to nap is rudely interrupted by a variety of uninvited guests. Who is responsible for this unexpected party? Originally published on the Austen Authors blog. April Fish Colonel Fitzwilliam’s visit to Rosings is punctuated by a series of fish-related pranks. To make matters worse, Lady Catherine has invited important guests to dine, compounding the colonel’s embarrassment. Who is behind this nautical nonsense?

Courtship in Georgian England was a decisive moment in the life cycle, imagined as a tactical game, an invigorating sport, and a perilous journey across a turbulent sea. This volume brings to life the emotional experience of courtship using the words and objects selected by men and women to navigate this potentially fraught process. It provides new insights into the making and breaking of relationships, beginning with the formation of courtships using the language of love, the development of intimacy through the exchange of love letters, and sensory engagement with love tokens such as flowers, portrait miniatures, and locks of hair. It also charts the increasing modernization of romantic customs over the Georgian era - most notably with the arrival of the printed valentine's card - revealing how love developed into a commercial industry. The book concludes with the rituals of disintegration when engagements went awry, and pursuit of damages for breach of promise in the civil courts. The Game of Love in Georgian England brings together love letters, diaries, valentines, and proposals of marriage from sixty courtships sourced from thirty archives and museum collections, alongside an extensive range of sources including ballads, conduct literature, court cases, material objects, newspaper reports, novels, periodicals, philosophical discourses, plays, poems, and prints, to create a vivid social and cultural history of romantic emotions. The book demonstrates the importance of courtship to studies of marriage, relationships, and emotions in history, and how we write histories of emotions using objects. Love emerges as something that we do in practice, enacted by couples through particular socially and historically determined rituals.

"Like a modern-day Agatha Christie bestowed with a hefty dollop of Jane Austen."—Laura Childs, #1 New York Times bestselling author Jane Austen meets reality TV and murder in this quirky cozy mystery—the first in a new series! Phaedra Brighton is perfectly content with her life of lecturing college students, gossiping with her best friends, and dreaming of Mr. Darcy. As a young, respected (if somewhat peculiar) English professor, her expertise lies in all things Jane Austen—but she knows that the closest she'll ever get to being a real-life Elizabeth Bennet is in her dreams. When Who Wants to Marry Mr. Darcy, a new reality TV show, starts filming at her best friend Charlene's estate, Phaedra is intrigued. And when the producer asks her to lend her Austenian knowledge as a consultant on the show, she's over the moon. But on the first day of filming, when Charlene's new husband is found electrocuted and Charlene herself is accused of the crime, Phaedra comes crashing back to reality. With murder on the syllabus and her best friend in dire straits, there's no Mr. Darcy around to help Phaedra—she'll have to get to the bottom of this mystery herself.

Like half the women in the known universe, Emma Roberts is in love with Mr. Darcy. When the opportunity to live in London presents itself, she jumps at the chance determined to find her own Mr. Darcy. Alas, the road to true love isn’t quite as smooth as one might hope. Nik Archer is no Mr. Darcy. Sure, he’s sexy as all get out, but he doesn’t quite fit the bill. Still, Emma can’t help but be drawn to him even though she knows it will never work. ----- Keywords: Sweet romance, Small town romance, Chick lit, Funny romance, Feel-good romance, Romantic comedy books, Romcom, Small town romance series, second chance romance, chick lit, contemporary romance, funny romance, funny romance series, funny beach reads, humorous romance, humorous fiction, women's fiction, heartwarming romance, Funny romance, Chick Lit, Sweet romance, Small town romance series, funny romance, funny romance, funny books comedy books, rom com, hilarious, romance series, romance series, romance books, beach reads, romcom, romance books, romantic comedy books, funny romance

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Snuggling Up with Mr Darcy A Pride and Prejudice Christmas Holiday Variation Christmas is a time for forgiving…except for where George Wickham is concerned. When Fitzwilliam Darcy finds himself in the French Alps fighting to keep his family business out of the hands of the man he despises, the last person he expects to see is Elizabeth Bennet, the woman who rejected his proposal three years earlier, the woman who broke his heart. Elizabeth is lonely living in the alps, single and working nights she has no one to come home to, no one to cherish, no one to snuggle up with. But in Darcy she finds a changed man, his warmth and ease around her giving her a glimpse behind his stoic reserve, a glimpse into the real man behind the mask. As old feelings are reawakened and the snow and the mistletoe start to weave their spell, our dear couple begin to wonder if this holiday romance might just be developing into something deeper than before. But when Darcy’s pride and prejudice mistakenly overrule his heart, he risks losing Elizabeth Bennet’s love forever. This Christmas, will the magic of love and forgiveness give Darcy a second chance to win back the only thing he wants this holiday season, or will it take a Christmas miracle to win back Elizabeth Bennet’s heart? Snuggling Up with Mr Darcy is a contemporary set Pride and Prejudice Christmas Holiday Variation.