Description:Fitzwilliam
Darcy, the scion of one of the wealthiest families in all of England,
was unhappy. He was twenty-seven, not very sociable, and lived with his
younger sister, living in town at Darcy House and in Derbyshire, at
Pemberley, his great estate.
He was a tired man, and was nearly
worn out by the effort to learn to manage the many properties that had
passed to him after his father's death four years earlier. Though he was
depicted by the London papers as one of the most sought after bachelors
in all the country, he rarely attended events during The Season,
including dances and soirees, and thus had never met a woman he was
attracted to. That all changed at a Christmas dance when he met a young
woman.
She was not like the young women who the suffering mamas
would push his way, but she was intelligent, clever, witty and pretty
and he was bewitched. He was not experienced in love, but neither was
the young woman he met that night.
Days later he came to help
her family during an influenza outbreak, but not long after that he
returned to town and soon faced his own crisis. His life and that of his
family and friends were on the line because of a diabolical plot by
others. How Darcy would react to this and other danger would soon test
his mettle and determine if he and the woman had a future together. All
he knew for certain was this woman had given him a reason to hope. Amid
the turmoil of the tragic events and lives loss, he continued to plan
for a future that included his new friend, but there was still great
danger ahead.