“...if I endeavor to undeceive people as to the rest of his conduct, who will believe me?”-Pride & Prejudice/, Chapter 40 Elizabeth Bennet, a rookie counterintelligence officer, lands an exciting first assignment—investigating the CIA's legendary William Darcy, who is suspected of being a double agent.Darcy’s charmed existence is seemingly at an end as he fights for his career and struggles against his feelings for the young woman he doesn’t know is watching his every move.At first, Elizabeth was confident in her mission's outcome, but the more she discovers about Darcy, the more she finds herself in an ever-tightening web of danger.Unexpected twists and turns abound in this Cold War era variation on Austen’s classic tale.

    Principles and feelings must now be forgotten: Elizabeth knows what she must do in order to save her family. As unpalatable as it is, she prepares to swallow her pride and travel to Kent. There is one factor Elizabeth did not anticipate: Fitzwilliam Darcy. Is he really as hard as he seems or is a kinder nature lurking just below the surface? Elizabeth does not dare allow herself to hope. Darcy may be the only one who can save her from a life of unhappiness.

    Colonel Fitzwilliam and Georgiana join Darcy at Netherfield and everything changes. Darcy does not insult Elizabeth and their acquaintance turns onto a different path from the classic Jane Austen story. Majority of characters canon in beginning. Rated T for minor violence and sexual situations.

    Matters go from bad to worse when his opponent dies and Darcy is prosecuted for murder. Although warned to keep her distance, Elizabeth feels honour-bound to investigate on his behalf, and before long she too is in danger ...

    Their return finds Rosings swathed in mourning. In death, Anne is revealed as having lived a rich life of the mind, and she plotted rather constantly to escape her loathsome mother, Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Anne’s journal—spirited into the hands of Elizabeth and Charlotte Collins—holds her candid observations on life and her family. It also exposes her final, and sadly fatal, means of outwitting her mother. Anne’s Last Will and Testament, with its peculiar bequests, sends Lady Catherine into a tailspin and throws into turmoil every relationship amongst the Bennets, Darcys, Fitzwilliams, Collinses, and even the Bingleys! Was Anne de bourgh a shrewder judge of character than Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy combined?Includes mature content.

    Darcy’s rude dismissal of her shocks and mortifies Elizabeth Bennet to the core. She is living her worst fear, and it galvanizes her into action. Soon, the gentleman cannot keep his eyes from her, but can she forgive his thoughtless judgment of her appearance and character? Especially since he faces a worthy competitor for her attention?Who will win the lady's hand, along with the right to love her through thick or thin?