Kirjahaku

Fat girls aren't supposed to have fun. Oh yeah, says who? Maxine is done being invisible in a crowded room. It's time to fight back.

You can take the man away from the violence but can you take the violence away from the man ...

Lizzy Darcy prepares to throw her first house party at Pemberley. Everything is in readiness when a distraught Lydia descends upon Pemberley, causing chaos. Wickham has quit the army and 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 in George Wickham, both of whom wish to avenge themselves on Lizzy, albeit for very different reasons. If Darcy were to find his 'fine-eyed' wife in a compromising position with Wickham of all people, he would never forgive her. Lizzy embarks upon a desperate fight to save her marriage, but can only do so by exposing Miss Bingley's evil machinations. What damage will that do to Jane's happiness with her Mr. Bingley? And what of Lydia? Even if Lizzy can prove to Darcy that she has been manipulated, how can she protect her sister in the face of Wickham's desperate and despicable actions...

Lady Catherine de Bourgh requires the Darcys help to persuade Colonel Fitzwilliam to marry her daughter. But Anne de Bourgh has other ideas. So too does the colonel.

After an absence of twelve years, Dominic Sanford returns to his dilapidated estate on the borders of Pemberley. Journals have recently come into his possession that bring into question the accident that killed his parents. Could they have been murdered? Georgiana Darcy feels an immediate attraction towards her brother's engaging friend. Determined to be of service to her neighbour, Georgiana scours her own father's diaries and discovers disquieting information about illegal activities at the time of the Sanfords' demise. As Dominic and Georgiana delve deeper, they uncover a fiendish web of organised criminality fuelled by thirst for revenge against Dominic. Georgiana unwittingly plays a major role in the miscreants' plans and by involving her, Dominic has placed her directly in danger's path. Can he save the woman whom he has come to admire, and find justice for his parents...

Major Richard Turner plans to propose to Kitty Bennet during the course of Mrs. Darcy's annual house party. When his father accompanies him to Pemberley, Richard knows he will be forced to choose between his family and his heart's desire. The prospect of fatherhood terrifies Wickham, who follows his wife to Derbyshire, determined to settle matters between himself and Darcy once and for all. Tensions permeate the gathering as Lizzy struggles to keep the warring factions apart. When Georgiana's engagement ball goes off without a hitch, she thinks she might just have managed it, until Kitty disappears under mysterious circumstances. Who could have taken her and can she be found before her reputation is compromised beyond recall...

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. Lizzy Darcy encourages Lydia to record her earliest memories of life in Hertfordshire. But Lydia can only recall acts of rebellion and falls 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. Offering to help Lizzy's enigmatic new neighbour, Lydia finds herself drawn into a web of secrecy and lies that threatens the safety of them both. Meanwhile, Caroline Bingley has set her heart on winning Patrick's affections and this time no member of the Bennet family will stand in her way...