Lady Georgina Takes Charge: a pride and prejudice novella

Georgiana Darcy has always been the afterthought - the shy, accomplished younger sister kept safely behind Pemberley's grand walls, protected from a world she was never trusted to navigate. But at sixteen, nearly ruined by the charming and calculating George Wickham, Georgiana refuses to remain the girl she was designed to be.Told entirely from Georgiana's own voice across 50 chapters spanning 1811-1834, this memoir-style retelling follows her extraordinary transformation. As her brother Fitzwilliam falls reluctantly and devastatingly in love with the sharp-tongued Elizabeth Bennet, Georgiana watches, learns, and quietly begins to build a life of her own. She forges an unlikely alliance with Charlotte Collins, confronts Wickham face-to-face on Bond Street, fights to protect Lydia Bennet from the same trap she nearly fell into, and uncovers truths her brother never intended her to know.When she meets Edward Ashford - a man who argues with her, respects her, and never once mentions her thirty thousand pounds - she must decide whether to trust her own heart after everything that nearly broke it.Filled with war, betrayal, scandal, forbidden letters, drawing-room battles, and a love story built on honesty rather than flattery, Lady Georgina Takes Charge gives voice to the woman Austen left in the margins - and she has a great deal to say.

Pagina's: 167, Paperback, Independently published