The Runaway Elizabeth: A Pride and Prejudice Variation (The Runaway Series)

THE RUNAWAY ELIZABETH
A Pride and Prejudice Variation

On the morning after the Netherfield ball, Elizabeth Bennet does the unthinkable. She leaves.

With Mr. Collins's intentions plain and her mother's expectations plainer still, Elizabeth knows no one in her family will stop this marriage but her. So before dawn, with two books, her own hard-won savings, and no plan beyond the next twelve hours, she walks out the gate.

In London, a chance meeting in a haberdashery leads to an unlikely friendship with a shy girl named Georgie, who turns out to be Miss Georgiana Darcy. As the days draw Elizabeth into her brother's company, she begins to see a side of Fitzwilliam Darcy that Hertfordshire never showed her.

When her mother and Mr. Collins follow her to London, and Lady Catherine's fury follows close behind, Darcy makes a decision that changes everything. He takes Elizabeth and Georgiana home to Pemberley for Christmas.

Snowbound on the road north, Elizabeth finds herself falling for a man she once dismissed entirely, in a house and a family that feel more like home than Longbourn ever did. But it will take a Christmas in the snow, a dangerous fever, and one long night's vigil before either of them says aloud what has been true for weeks.

A slow-burn variation for readers who love a heroine who takes her fate into her own hands, a Darcy redeemed through quiet acts rather than grand speeches, and a Pemberley Christmas worth running toward.