Author: wendysoliman
Wickham has been dead for over a year but Lydia remains subdued, consumed by delayed guilt for the selfish behaviour that almost cost her family its respectability. At a loss to know how to restore her sister’s spirits, Lizzy Darcy encourages Lydia to start a journal and record her earliest memories of life in Hertfordshire. But Lydia can only recall acts of rebellion on her part and falls into … into an even deeper depression. Patrick Shannon returns to Derbyshire after a ten year absence, determined to discover what caused the demise of his late father’s thriving silk manufacturing business.…
Lizzy Darcy’s spring house party is becoming a Pemberley tradition. This year her family and friends will meet four-month-old Marcus Darcy, as well as celebrating Georgiana’s engagement to Dominic Sanford. Lizzy will have the pleasure of all her sisters’ company but is apprehensive at the thought of her mother and Lady Catherine being at Pemberley at the same time. Richard Turner, recently … promoted to the rank of major, plans to propose to Kitty Bennet during the course of the party. His father makes the long journey to Derbyshire with disquieting news about their family’s future prospects, putting Richard under…
When Dominic Sanford’s parents die in a carriage accident, he is packed off to Scotland to be brought up in his uncle’s household. Twelve years later, a member of the London Company of Surgeons, he returns to his dilapidated estate that borders Pemberley. He plans to settle in Derbyshire and continue with his medical research, but has other pressing reasons for his return. His father’s journals … journals have recently come into his possession and throw up questions about the accident that killed his parents. Perhaps it wasn’t an accident at all, and they were murdered. Dominic will not rest…
Aware that some people consider her an unworthy wife, Lizzy Darcy is determined to prove her detractors wrong by throwing a magnificent house party at Pemberley. The smallest details have been worried over for weeks; nothing can possibly go wrong, can it? Lizzy starts to wonder about that when a distraught Lydia descends upon Pemberley on the eve of the party. Wickham has quit the army and gone … gone to London to resurrect his career in the law.Miss Bingley is determined to rescue Darcy from his reckless marriage, convinced he must now regret it. She finds an unlikely ally…
When investigative journalist, Alexi Ellis, falls victim to the Sunday Sentinel’s cutbacks, she packs up her car, grabs Marvin, her anti-social feral cat, and hot-foots it out of London, intent upon licking her wounds in private. She heads for Lambourn, the valley of the racehorse, where an old college friend runs a hotel and Alexi is assured a shoulder to cry on. But this idyllic country … country paradise is not all it appears to be. A woman has gone missing under mysterious circumstances and no one seems to be doing anything about it. Unemployed she might be, but Alexi…