The Enemy Of My Friend: a jane austen retelling

England, 1812. The Bennet family of Longbourn, Hertfordshire, is turned upside down when the grand estate of Netherfield Park is let to Mr. Charles Bingley - charming, generous, and unmarried. He arrives with a large party, including his ambitious sister Miss Caroline Bingley, and his closest friend, the formidable Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy of Pemberley - a man of ten thousand a year, impeccable breeding, and insufferable pride. Elizabeth Bennet, the second and sharpest of five daughters, takes an immediate and thorough dislike to Darcy. He is arrogant. He is cold. He finds her merely tolerable. And when the devastatingly handsome Lieutenant George Wickham rides into Meryton with stories of Darcy's treachery and cruelty, Elizabeth believes every word - because she is already looking for reasons to. While her beloved elder sister Jane tumbles quietly and completely into love with Bingley, Elizabeth finds herself drawn into a web of secrets she does not yet understand. What she cannot see is that Caroline Bingley is running a far darker campaign beneath the glittering surface of Hertfordshire society - using Wickham as her instrument, and the Bennet family as her target. When Lydia, the youngest and most reckless of the sisters, vanishes to Brighton with Wickham and scandal engulfs the family, everything Elizabeth thought she knew is stripped away. >The Enemy of My Friend is a sweeping, emotionally devastating retelling of Jane Austen's beloved Pride and Prejudice - darker, spicier, and more raw than the original. It asks what happens when the story's villain turns out to be its hero, and when the heroine's greatest enemy is her own certainty. Told through Elizabeth's sharp, searching voice, this is a story of pride dismantled and prejudice unlearned; of two people who needed to wound each other before they could truly see each other; of loyalty, betrayal, passion, and the kind of love that does not arrive gently but arrives, undeniably, when you have stopped looking for it. Because sometimes the man who stands against everything you want is the only man who will fight for everything you need. >Tagline Options: - "She refused him once. She could not refuse the truth." - "Pride built the wall. Prejudice held it. Love brought it down." - "He was everything she despised. He was everything she needed." - "The enemy of her friend. The keeper of her heart."

Pagina's: 198, Paperback, Independently published