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She wants to be undeniable. He wants to be substantial. Neither expects to find it in the other. Mary Bennet is witnessing the marital bliss of her two eldest sisters to excellent men who adore them. She has no hopes on that front. She knows she is plain, studious, and invisible to the eyes of, well, everyone. She cannot become a great beauty. That is certain. What she can do, though, is become undeniable. Charles Bingley is painfully aware that he has no purpose. Everything feels vacuous, hollow. Caroline has married and lives blissfully in Kent. Louisa has produced a child.

It is the year 1803, and George Wickham the Scoundrel, has done it again. This time, however, he has not just lost his allowance. He has gambled away the Darcy family's Emerald Snuffbox to a Covent Garden crime lord known only as The Butcher. Fitzwilliam Darcy is twenty years of age, honourable...