How It Would Be: A Short, Sweet Pride and Prejudice Birthday Story in Celebration of Jane Austen's 250th

Written in honor of Jane Austen's 250th Birthday, "How It Would Be" is a short story of 11,000 words. As Mrs. Bennet's forty-sixth birthday approaches, her one birthday wish is simple...or so she claims. To see her last unmarried daughter finally wed. With Elizabeth Darcy hosting a splendid garden party in Ramsgate in her mother’s honor, Mrs. Bennet declares it the perfect occasion to double as a wedding breakfast for Mary...if only a suitable groom can be found in time. Unfortunately for Mary, her mother’s idea of “suitable” is the most intolerable man visiting Ramsgate. Mortified by her mother’s schemes, Mary finds herself retreating into unexpectedly easy conversation with the one gentleman she has always found interesting, though she would never admit it aloud. As the summer unfolds, with Mrs. Bennet plotting schemes at a dizzying pace, Mary must decide whether to open her heart. Will the visit end with the sound of wedding bells or another of Mrs. Bennet’s melodramatic sighs? A witty, romantic short story of mistaken intentions, meddling mothers, and a quiet young woman’s discovery that the best love stories are sometimes the ones that bloom under everyone’s nose. View Less