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Lizzy's Christmas Wish: Pride & Prejudice Variation. Book 3. (Regency Romance Series).
A Christmas novella, full of love, hope and forgiveness. A clean romance for the holidays! Ideal for all ages.
*(A non-canon variation: 22,000 words approx.)
A surprise invitation to the Netherfield Christmas Ball!
Elizabeth Bennet makes a romantic wish - to marry for love, not money. However, Mrs. Bennet has other ideas when they are invited to a Christmas ball weekend by the Bingley sisters. The match making Mama is determined to advance her fortunes by bringing all of her daughters to the ball.
A second chance romance, But for who?
Jane Bennet hopes to renew her budding romance with Mr. Charles Bingley. However, Elizabeth Bennet is relieved to hear that Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy (who slighted her at the last ball) is away in London on business. She secretly pines for George Wickham and wishes he was at her side, but he is away fighting the Napoleonic wars. Lydia and Kitty are just happy to dance the evening away with all the officers.
Will Lizzy's Christmas wish come true?
When the merry punch is flowing the ball descends into chaos. Jane is in tears by Mr. Bingley's new guest. Mrs. Bennet's brash behavior is the gossip of all the ladies. However, a few surprise guests set Elizabeth's heart racing. Will her Christmas wish come true to marry for love? Or will she be forced to marry for Money?
*(A non-canon variation: 22,000 words approx.)
A surprise invitation to the Netherfield Christmas Ball!
Elizabeth Bennet makes a romantic wish - to marry for love, not money. However, Mrs. Bennet has other ideas when they are invited to a Christmas ball weekend by the Bingley sisters. The match making Mama is determined to advance her fortunes by bringing all of her daughters to the ball.
A second chance romance, But for who?
Jane Bennet hopes to renew her budding romance with Mr. Charles Bingley. However, Elizabeth Bennet is relieved to hear that Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy (who slighted her at the last ball) is away in London on business. She secretly pines for George Wickham and wishes he was at her side, but he is away fighting the Napoleonic wars. Lydia and Kitty are just happy to dance the evening away with all the officers.
Will Lizzy's Christmas wish come true?
When the merry punch is flowing the ball descends into chaos. Jane is in tears by Mr. Bingley's new guest. Mrs. Bennet's brash behavior is the gossip of all the ladies. However, a few surprise guests set Elizabeth's heart racing. Will her Christmas wish come true to marry for love? Or will she be forced to marry for Money?
149 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 11, 2022
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About the author
Sarah Gray
24 books24 followersSarah Gray has been storytelling all of her professional life. As a writer and filmmaker she is delighted by what she fears and loves to explore the darkly comic side of the human psyche. In a scary and illogical world there is plenty to allow her imagination free reign.
Master of the short story, her three collections - Surface Tension, Half Life and Urban Creatures - are a resplendent trilogy with curious stories that cause disquiet and heartache with a chilling sting of pleasure.
Stories enable us to face the worst that can happen and then get back to everyday life pretending the terrible stuff only happens to other people. Most of the time…
"Half Life is quite something. I just loved Sarah's idea of what it means to be a ghost." - Tracy Chevalier
"Sarah writes beautifully and the sense of foreboding or unease is brilliantly conveyed. I've never read anything quite like it, although I'd suggest echoes of Mary Shelley or Edgar Allan Poe." - Clare Balding
Master of the short story, her three collections - Surface Tension, Half Life and Urban Creatures - are a resplendent trilogy with curious stories that cause disquiet and heartache with a chilling sting of pleasure.
Stories enable us to face the worst that can happen and then get back to everyday life pretending the terrible stuff only happens to other people. Most of the time…
"Half Life is quite something. I just loved Sarah's idea of what it means to be a ghost." - Tracy Chevalier
"Sarah writes beautifully and the sense of foreboding or unease is brilliantly conveyed. I've never read anything quite like it, although I'd suggest echoes of Mary Shelley or Edgar Allan Poe." - Clare Balding
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December 27, 2022
I stopped reading at 40% into the book.
The story made no sense at all. No continuity, people fighting on the continent coming home for short leaves. I could not finish and really I didn’t want to.
The story made no sense at all. No continuity, people fighting on the continent coming home for short leaves. I could not finish and really I didn’t want to.
January 2, 2023
I finished it but…
I always admire how a person can put words together and weave a good story.. bit Lizzy’s Christmas Wish was a work of one author but I do sincerely hope her other works are not like this one.. the HEA left so much to be desired to the point I was horrified.. the I am not one to leave a less than stellar review but in this case I cannot help it.. Darcy left me wishing he were a gentleman rather than a pompous fool.. Lizzy was spiteful and so foolish, Jane was a simpering water pot, Caroline was truly classless.. Bingley was truly borderline spineless.. I will read another story of hers with hopes they are not like this one.. my apologies, Ms Gray.
I always admire how a person can put words together and weave a good story.. bit Lizzy’s Christmas Wish was a work of one author but I do sincerely hope her other works are not like this one.. the HEA left so much to be desired to the point I was horrified.. the I am not one to leave a less than stellar review but in this case I cannot help it.. Darcy left me wishing he were a gentleman rather than a pompous fool.. Lizzy was spiteful and so foolish, Jane was a simpering water pot, Caroline was truly classless.. Bingley was truly borderline spineless.. I will read another story of hers with hopes they are not like this one.. my apologies, Ms Gray.
October 13, 2022
A short story
I was reading and surprised the end had come I suppose that this idea was fun and entertaining. It did not go far enough however. I am left with too much left undone
I was reading and surprised the end had come I suppose that this idea was fun and entertaining. It did not go far enough however. I am left with too much left undone
December 17, 2022
I wish I had looked at reviews before purchasing this book. The characters were all wrong and annoyingly bratty, but I probably could have ignored that if the second epilogue didn't completely ruin the satisfying ending set up in the first epilogue.
December 23, 2022
A bonus chapter?????????
156 pages more like 56 pages with no ending must read next book. This one was full of all the Bennets acting ,especially you know who , like brats all full of hate and arguments. with half inch margins between one line conversations vand three line paragraphs. Well written and otherwise a nice story
156 pages more like 56 pages with no ending must read next book. This one was full of all the Bennets acting ,especially you know who , like brats all full of hate and arguments. with half inch margins between one line conversations vand three line paragraphs. Well written and otherwise a nice story
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