All These Promises: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

by Sophia Grey, A Lady

When Lydia Bennet is invited to Brighton to accompany the regiment as the especial guest of Colonel Forster's wife, Elizabeth cannot believe that her father would agree to such a thing. But his consent is only given with the caveat that Elizabeth act as chaperone to watch over her youngest sister while she is so far from home. Forced into a situation beyond her control, Elizabeth can only hope that her time away from Longbourn will help clear her mind of all the confusion and anger that has consumed her since Mr. Darcy offered his disastrous proposal at Hunsford. But that is not the only thing on her mind... Because of Mr. Darcy's letter, she has also come to distrust Mr. Wickham, a gentleman who so often seems to be in her sister's company. Can Elizabeth break through her own confusion and feelings of betrayal to keep Lydia out of harm, and scandal's, way? Or will one mistake lead to a disastrous outcome that could ruin the whole family? "All These Promises" is a sweet, clean, Pride and Prejudice variation that is suitable for all lovers of Jane Austen's classic novel.

134 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 31, 2020

Reviews

[Chelsea · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was my first book by Sophia Grey and I enjoyed the story and thought the characters were all really well written. I really did not like Mrs. Forster in this book and thought she was written really well as an ally to Lydia's trouble making schemes. Things came together really quickly at the end and the epilogue was more like just a final chapter that I would have liked more of as a follow up at the end. I plan to look into reading more of this author.

[Kimbelle Pease · Rating 4 out of 5]

A fun, if short tale! Unfortunately it is so much focused on correcting Lydia and then her disappearing with Wickham, so little of Darcy and Elizabeth felt good enough to counter the irritation. However, it was a cute tale of some fun turns and I was glad to have read it!