An excerpt from The Best Part of Love focusing on Growth in Adversity

This month’s theme at Austen Variations is Growth in Adversity  (shout out to Joana Starnes who keeps us all well supplied with thought provoking themes!)  I happen to really enjoy thinking of new forms of adversity/torment for Darcy and Elizabeth!

The following is a scene from The Best Part of Love, the first book I ever published.  If you’ve never read it, or its been awhile, Elizabeth is a girl with a hidden past, the widow of an earl who would be in grave danger if her status was known. So s...