Dance & Disdain: Sensual Intimate Pride & Prejudice Variation

By Anna Imlee

From a dance of disdain to a quadrille of love, can Lizzy and Darcy overcome their pride and prejudice to find happiness at the ball?

Lizzy and Darcy first met at the Meryton assembly ball, where their initial impressions of each other were less than favorable. However, as they navigate their way through social conventions and familial expectations, they find themselves drawn to each other in ways they never thought possible, but their path to happiness is not without its obstacles. Darcy's interference with Jane's happiness threatens to tear them apart, and the scheming Lady Catherine de Bourgh is determined to force an engagement between Darcy and her daughter Anne at the Rosings Park ball.

 

Will Lizzy and Darcy be able to overcome these challenges and find love? Or will their differences prove to be too much to overcome? The answer lies in the next ball they attend, where their fate will be decided once and for all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Anna Imlee
• Release date: Feb 27, 2023
• ISBN: 9798215920909

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From a dance of disdain to a quadrille of love, can Lizzy and Darcy overcome their pride and prejudice to find happiness at the ball?

Lizzy and Darcy first met at the Meryton assembly ball, where their initial impressions of each other were less than favorable. However, as they navigate their way through social conventions and familial expectations, they find themselves drawn to each other in ways they never thought possible, but their path to happiness is not without its obstacles. Darcy’s interference with Jane’s happiness threatens to tear them apart, and the scheming Lady Catherine de Bourgh is determined to force an engagement between Darcy and her daughter Anne at the Rosings Park ball.

Will Lizzy and Darcy be able to overcome these challenges and find love? Or will their differences prove to be too much to overcome? The answer lies in the next ball they attend, where their fate will be decided once and for all.

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Lizzy Bennet wasn’t certain she could endure yet another meal at Rosings Park, having been summoned there twice per week in the last three weeks of her visit to see Charlotte, who was now married to the rector of Hunsford—her cousin, Mr. Collins, who had wanted to marry Lizzy first. Fortunately, Charlotte had caught his attention at the penultimate moment. With enduring the condescension of Lady Catherine and the obsequious blathering of Mr. Collins, it was no surprise she ended each meal with indigestion.

When they arrived at the grand estate, she discovered she had another reason for indigestion now in residence—Fitzwilliam Darcy. How she disliked that man. He had ruined her dear friend George Wickham’s life, and she suspected he’d been instrumental in the Netherfield party departing after their ball, which had ruined her sister’s life as well. Poor Jane was still in London and still distraught after learning Mr. Bingley’s sisters weren’t truly her friends, and she couldn’t find a way to speak with him.

She feared her reaction reflected in her expression as she wrinkled her nose when he greeted her. He looked askance but seemed to want to hide that behind his usual aloof manner. Miss Bennet, I did not expect to see you here.

Nor I you, Mr. Darcy. Had I recalled Lady Catherine is your aunt, I might have arranged a different time to visit.

Maria Lucas gasped beside her, looking scandalized. Charlotte was clearly biting her lip to hold in a scolding. Fortunately, Mr. Collins was too busy bowing and scraping to his patroness to notice her blunt manner.