What if Elizabeth and Darcy had never managed to overcome their pride and prejudice? Find out in this imaginative retelling of the greatest love story of all time. Convinced he is past his foolish infatuation with Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy returns from a year's travels with a plan: to protect the Pemberley estate and to ensure his sister's happiness. But with Charles Bingley and his mischievous twin sisters in residence, mysterious letters from an unknown source, a shadowy figure haunting Pemberley's grounds, and lingering questions about the Bennets of Longbourn, Darcy's life is quickly turned upside down. As the past collides with the present, Darcy feels the rigid defenses he has placed around his heart beginning to crumble...