Loving Lydia: A Pride and Prejudice Variation: Marrying Elizabeth, #3

By Leenie Brown

He never expected his heart to break over her sister's sorrow.  

 While his cousin is in Manchester dealing with some unrest, Fitzwilliam Darcy is in Hertfordshire, waiting to marry Elizabeth Bennet and hoping to keep his promise to his cousin by helping to see to Miss Lydia's continued improvement. What begins as a duty soon becomes something more when Darcy finds himself unwittingly slipping into the role of a protective elder brother.

However, when trouble arises, will he be able to both mitigate the damage done by his own family members and keep Elizabeth's sister, as well as his cousin, free from heartache? It may not be entirely possible, but he'll not shy away from the fight.

Loving Lydia is the third installment in Leenie Brown's Pride and Prejudice variation series Marrying Elizabeth.  If you like romantic family sagas where the hero and heroine not only grow in their love for each other but also in their understanding of and care for other family members, then you'll enjoy this story about our favourite couple working together to ensure the happiness of those they hold dear.

So, put the kettle on, grab your copy of Loving Lydia, and join Darcy and Elizabeth as two families become one.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Leenie B Books
• Release date: Jun 28, 2019
• ISBN: 9781989410325

Leenie Brown

Leenie Brown has always been a girl with an active imagination, which, while growing up, was a both an asset, providing many hours of fun as she played out stories, and a liability, when her older sister and aunt would tell her frightening tales.  At one time, they had her convinced Dracula lived in the trunk at the end of the bed she slept in when visiting her grandparents! Although it has been years since she cowered in her bed in her grandparents’ basement, she still has an imagination which occasionally runs away with her, and she feeds it now as she did then ─ by reading! Her heroes, when growing up, were authors, and the worlds they painted with words were (and still are) her favourite playgrounds!  She was that child, under the covers with the flashlight, reading until the wee hours of the morning…and pretending not to be tired the next day so her mother wouldn’t find out. In addition to feeding her imagination, she also exercises it ─ by writing. While writing has been an activity she has dabbled in over the years, it blossomed into a full-fledged obsession when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction.  Leenie had first fallen in love with Jane Austen's work in her early teens when she was captivated by the tale of a girl, who like her, was the second born of five daughters.  Now, as an adult, she spends much time in the regency world, playing with the characters from her favourite Jane Austen novels and a few that are of her own creation. When she is not traipsing down a trail in an attempt to keep up with her imagination, Leenie resides in the beautiful province of Nova Scotia with her two sons and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with a healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tilney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).