Mr. Darcy’s Accidental Engagement

She needed a fiancé in front of half of Hertfordshire. He said two words that changed everything: "To me."

When Mr. Collins drops to one knee at Sir William Lucas's party, Elizabeth Bennet has no good way out. Accepting would bind her to the most tiresome man in England. Refusing in front of the whole county would humiliate the heir to her family's home. So she panics and announces she is already engaged.

There's just one problem: she has no idea to whom.

Then Fitzwilliam Darcy, the proud, silent gentleman who once called her "far too handsome to waste a dance on a man as dull as I am," steps forward and claims her.

It was meant to be a quiet arrangement, ended in the spring. Then Lady Catherine de Bourgh arrives, threatening to ruin every Bennet sister, and a pretend engagement becomes a very real marriage.

Elizabeth is sure Darcy married her out of honor. Darcy is sure she married him out of gratitude. Each is secretly, hopelessly in love, and each is far too careful to say so.

From a locked door at Pemberley to a waltz on Christmas Eve, a London Season full of gossip, and a desperate ride to Brighton, two co-conspirators must learn that the bravest thing they can do is tell the truth.

Mr. Darcy's Accidental Engagement is a sweet, clean, low-angst Pride and Prejudice variation, full of warmth, humor, a found family, and one very indecisive spaniel.