Publisher's Synopsis
This is a Jane Austen Fan Fiction work.
Imagine Pride and Prejudice with Elizabeth marrying Darcy and Jane marrying Bingley in late 1814. Think of Colonel Fitzwilliam in this. Our story begins on the morning after he and Darcy arrive at Rosings Park. Where they run into Miss Elizabeth Bennet. And the Colonel has his famous walk with Miss Bennet. And Darcy's proposal is rejected.Time passes and imagine the colonel's surprise when Darcy writes him to say he is to marry Elizabeth Bennet! He attends the wedding but storm clouds soon appear and he is soon on the continent and then injured grievously in the Battle of Waterloo on June 18, 1815.
This is the story of his slow, partial recovery and his evolving attachment to Miss Catherine Bennet. And Georgiana Darcy attachment to one of the Colonel's colleagues, a new character named Michael Groeper.
What's a disabled, former soldier to do in peacetime?
