Fitzwilliam Darcy has 33 days to find a wife-or lose his sister forever.A codicil in his father's will leaves Darcy with an impossible deadline: marry before Georgiana turns sixteen or watch his cantankerous aunt Lady Catherine de Bourgh claim guardianship. His desperate search through London society yields nothing, so he turns to the countryside with determination in his mind and hope in his heart.Elizabeth Bennet is running out of options. Her father's neglect of Longbourn has left her family's future uncertain, and circumstances are growing more precarious by the day. When the last man she ever expected proposes marriage, Elizabeth faces an agonizing choice: refuse and watch her family suffer or accept and bind herself to Mr. Darcy forever.Neither expects their marriage of mutual desperation to become something more. But as they face scheming relatives, dangerous enemies, and the weight of their own misconceptions, Darcy and Elizabeth discover that sometimes the most binding obligations lead to the deepest freedom-and that a marriage born of necessity can transform into a love worth any sacrifice.A suspenseful Pride & Prejudice variation where the letter of the law becomes the language of love.
