Meetings and Misunderstandings. An Austen Variation, #11

Missing the Meryton Assembly means Elizabeth Bemnet's first meeting with Mr Darcy goes better than it might have done - and their tentative friendship threatens to become much more when he suggests a marriage of convenience. Fitzwilliam Darcy views their arrangement as one of mutual benefit - protecting Elizabeth from Mr Collins and extricating himself from Lady Catherine's plans. Friendship may not be love, but it does offer freedom and Lizzy jumps at the chance to win security for herself and a chance of future happiness for her sisters - vowing to make the best life she can for her new husband in the face of family criticism. Their future contentment seems guaranteed - provided they both remain safe from the risk of really falling in love.
But nothing in life is ever truly guaranteed where love is concerned. A fun retelling of Jane Austen's classic Pride and Prejudice featuring a slow burn friends-to-lovers romance, a marriage of convenience and much more. Meetings and Misunderstandings was originally published in three linked volumes.