A Bride for Fitzwilliam Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

By Anna Lockhart

He never expected to be alone with a child that was not his own…

Following an unexpected turn of events, Fitzwilliam Darcy married a young widow named Theodosia West. Upon their marriage, he also became father to her precocious two-year-old son, Rowley. But when Theodosia is killed in a tragic riding accident, Mr. Darcy finds himself the only parent to a little boy he hardly knows. He does not wish to give his heart away, but he also worries that he can not care for the boy on his own. He is left quite alone and wondering what to do…

She does not care to be married, but she feels trapped in her life as it…

Elizabeth Bennet has resisted marriage longer than half her sisters. Still, since Jane and Mary left Longbourn to be with their husbands, Elizabeth has begun to feel lost and very much alone. It is because of loneliness that she accepts an offer of marriage from Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, a gentleman who has vexed her greatly since his visit to Meryton. She believes Mr. Darcy can provide her with a life of adventure, even if there is no chance their relationship could ever lead to love.

Could it?

A Bride for Fitzwilliam Darcy is a wholesome and clean Pride and Prejudice variation featuring a guaranteed happy ending and a lot of love!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Daisy Chain Publishing
• Release date: Mar 15, 2021
• ISBN: 9781393923442

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A Bride for Fitzwilliam Darcy

A BRIDE FOR FITZWILLIAM DARCY

A PRIDE AND PREJUDICE VARIATION

ANNA LOCKHART

Daisy Chain Publishing

Copyright © 2021 by Anna Lockhart

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CONTENTS

Prologue

Chapter 1

Elizabeth

Chapter 2

Darcy

Chapter 3

Elizabeth

Chapter 4

Darcy

Chapter 5

Elizabeth

Chapter 6

Darcy

Chapter 7

Elizabeth

Chapter 8

Darcy

Chapter 9

Elizabeth

Chapter 10

Elizabeth

Chapter 11

Darcy

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PROLOGUE

DARCY

It was a lovely day in Lambton as Fitzwilliam Darcy sat in his office and wrote a letter to his sister, who was visiting their cousins in Scotland. As he wrote, Darcy’s stepson Rowley played at his feet with a small wooden ark and animals. Since the day that Darcy married Theodosia West a year ago, the boy had become his new father’s shadow. As soon as he learned to walk, his every step was spent chasing after Darcy, to the point the gentleman resigned himself to the little boy’s constant presence. Therefore, it was not unusual for Rowley to spend his afternoon in Darcy’s office as he completed his correspondence and dealt with necessary estate business.

What was unusual was the sound of boots crashing against the entryway floor as they ran in the direction of the office.

Mr. Darcy! James, one of the stablehands, shouted as he rounded the corner into the room. Mr. Darcy, you must come quickly!

Darcy stood with such haste, he knocked over his chair, startling Rowley, who began to cry.

What is the matter, James? Is it one of the horses?

The stablehand shook his head with an air of sadness that made Darcy feel ill down to his very core.

I am sorry, sir, but no harm has come to the animals. It is Mrs. Darcy… she is injured, sir.

Darcy quickly picked up Rowley off the floor and hurried out into the foyer, where his housekeeper Reynolds had already been summoned by the commotion. The little boy collapsed into her arms in tears as Darcy turned back to James.

What has happened, James? Do we need to move her to the house? he asked as he followed the stablehand out the door. But the expression on James’s face made it clear that something worse had occurred on Theodosia’s daily ride.

Crenshaw went to town to fetch the doctor, sir. But we must get to her right away. I do not believe she can be moved from where she fell, James said, his face pale with worry. The concern on the stablehand’s face was enough to increase Darcy’s pace so that soon, he left James far behind him. Theodosia was an excellent rider, and she had never once fallen from her