Four Days in April

By Maria Grace

Sweet, Austen-inspired treats, perfect with a cup of tea.

Full of hope and ripe with possibility, beginnings and new beginnings refresh the spirit with optimism and anticipation.

Four Days in April.

Two letters. Four Days.  Everything changes.

After offering a most disastrous proposal of marriage and receiving a rebuke he will never forget, Fitzwilliam Darcy writes Elizabeth Bennet an equally memorable letter.

What if she answers it with one of her own?

From the award winning author of Given Good Principles, Remember the Past and Mistaking Her Character, Sweet Tea short stories offer the perfect bite to transport readers back to the Regency era for the first days of new love.

• Language: English
• Publisher: White Soup Press
• Release date: Sep 8, 2015
• ISBN: 9780692530931

Maria Grace

Though Maria Grace has been writing fiction since she was ten years old, those early efforts happily reside in a file drawer and are unlikely to see the light of day again, for which many are grateful. After penning five file-drawer novels in high school, she took a break from writing to pursue college and earn her doctorate in Educational Psychology. After 16 years of university teaching, she returned to her first love, fiction writing.   She has one husband, two graduate degrees and two black belts, three sons, four undergraduate majors, five nieces, six more novels in draft form, waiting for editing, seven published novels, sewn eight Regency era costumes, shared her life with nine cats through the years and tries to run at least ten miles a week.    

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Published by: White Soup Press

Four Days in April

Copyright © 2015

Maria Grace

All rights reserved including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any format whatsoever.The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious or are used fictitiously. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental and not intended by the author.

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DEDICATION

For my husband and sons.

You have always believed in me.

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Contents

1. April 9, 1812

2. April 10, 1812

3. April 11, 1812

4. April 12, 1812

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Acknowledgments

April 9, 1812

Darcy stalked from the parsonage in such haste the housekeeper barely opened the front door in time.

The spleen of that woman! The unmitigated impertinence! She painted him a villain … a vulgar villain!

He mounted his horse and turned away from Rosings. He needed quiet and space to think. Neither were possible in the vicinity of Lady Catherine de Bourgh.

… you are the last man in the world I could be prevailed upon to marry …

His hands quivered and his whole body trembled. The sketch she had drawn of his character! In her eyes, he was no better than…than Wickham! Had anyone ever considered him so low?

Preposterous, utterly and completely preposterous!

Aunt Catherine might believe herself celebrated for her character, but that was her way of assuring herself of her own superiority. Ask any man in Derbyshire, and he would vouch for the Darcy name. Every tenant and farmer and servant on Pemberley would bear witness to him as a fair and generous master who cared more for his people than they had right to expect. He had no desire to be anything less than that.

Yes, that sharp-tongued slip of a woman would impugn the Darcy name? This was not to be borne.

He urged his horse to a trot. The pounding rhythm of its hooves commanded his attention as he matched his movements to his mount’s. The country side blurred around him, and he gave into the moving meditation of the ride. The angst, the anger, the raw burning in his soul yielded to the cadence filling his being, and faded to a dull emptiness that no longer threatened to overwhelm him.

Would that he might spend the rest of the day in such escape, but neither he, nor the horse, had the strength to continue indefinitely. He settled the beast back to a walk, and the fragile peace he had found ebbed away.

Neither speed nor distance had changed the specter that hung over his head. She was out there in the world, thinking very ill of him indeed.

That he could

Reviews for Four Days in April

[Kristin Stephens-Martinez · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

A cute, quick read :) If you want something to just make you happy this is great, but you do need to be in the mood for it and suspend disbelief.