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Meg Osborne
Three Retellings of Jane Austen's Persuasion.
A Second Chance in Somerset
When Anne Elliot goes to stay with her sister and brother-in-law at Uppercross, little does she realise that she's…
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Mrs Bennet is devastated when Elizabeth refuses Mr Collins - and makes sure her daughter knows it. When the Gardiners offer Lizzy an escape from Longbourn she jumps at the…
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Anne Elliot is miserable in Bath and counts her cousin, Mr William Elliot, as one of the few acquaintances she truly values. When he suggests a visit to Lyme Regis…
A Second Chance for Romance
Captain Frederick Wentworth is home on leave, two years after his failed engagement. The last place he wants to return to is Somerset, but fortunately…
Three Christmassy Pride and Prejudice Variations
Christmas in Kent
An impromptu decision to spend Christmas with their cousin at Hunsford Parsonage puts the Bennet family into Lady Catherine de Bourgh's…
When a misguided proposal from Mr Collins prompts Elizabeth Bennet out of doors she stumbles across George Wickham who has reasons of his own to lie low in Meryton for…
Intent on avoiding both Elizabeth Bennet and her manipulative sister, Fitzwilliam Darcy whisks Charles Bingley back to London, abandoning Elizabeth to her own obstinacy, convincing himself he cares nothing for…
If connections alone could not be enough to guarantee a suitable match, nor beauty, was it really so dreadful to turn one’s focus to any other opportunity to tip the…
Elizabeth Bennet is bound for London - to stay with her Aunt and Uncle Gardiner and escape a sisterly feud dividing Longbourn. She knows only one thing will restore Jane’s…
Three Christmassy Pride and Prejudice Variations.
Christmas at Pemberley
Newly-married Elizabeth Darcy is determined that her first Christmas at Pemberley with Mr Darcy will be a happy one, and if…
Three Books in One!
A Trip to Pemberley
Mary Bennet is used to being overlooked, and with three sisters married and a fourth intent on becoming so, she resigns herself…
All three books in the Strangers and Second Chances series - a Pride and Prejudice variation.
An Unlikely Acquaintance
Poised to take control of the Meryton Barracks, Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam…
Kitty Bennet has broken free of Longbourn and her sisters, and is enjoying all that London, and now Bath, have to offer in the company of her aunt and uncle…
When Anne Elliot removes directly to Bath with her family to satisfy Sir Walter’s need to retrench but desire for society, she does so reluctantly. She intends to make the…
Both Books in the Fate and Fortune Series A Persuasion Variation
Too Fond of Stars
When Anne Elliot removes directly to Bath with her family to satisfy Sir Walter’s need…
All five books in the Season of Misunderstanding series collected into one volume.
A Sister’s Fault Jane Bennet has been gifted an opportunity and she is not afraid to use…
All three books in the Romance and Reconciliation series of Pride and Prejudice variations:
An End to Estrangement
When Fitzwilliam Darcy travels to Hertfordshire with his friend, the last person…
Elizabeth Bennet cares too much about her sister, Jane's, future happiness to give much consideration to her own. She certainly does not mean to lose her heart to Fitzwilliam Darcy…
Captain Frederick Wentworth has learnt to his cost that he loves Anne Elliot and always has: though it took the threat of losing her to illness and then to another…
Caroline Bingley has successfully returned her brother and his friends to London - but will she be as successful in finally securing Mr Darcy's heart?
Finally realising how wrong she…
Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet have finally confessed their true feelings for one another and decided to marry - and not even Mr Bennet's opposition will prevent their future happiness…
Elizabeth engineers a happily-ever-after...
When Sir Walter Elliot dies, his two unmarried daughters are swiftly and unceremoniously evicted from Kellynch by their cousin. Taking refuge in London they settle the…
** Previously published under the title A Quiet Reunion**
A second chance in Bath
Anne Elliot reunites with her family eager to put her past behind her, where it belongs…
George Wickham is drowning in debts, until his friends propose an amusing wager: can he win Elizabeth Bennet's heart? Money and challenge is reason enough for him to take on…
Anne de Bourgh's future has been decided for her since she was a child - to marry Fitzwilliam Darcy and follow the plans her mother, Lady Catherine, has set out…
A Very Merry Masquerade
Elizabeth Bennet is furious when she discovers Mr. Darcy has removed, with Charles Bingley in tow, to London for Christmas…
Fitzwilliam Darcy is willing to accommodate the couple at Pemberley for Anne’s sake if not for her husband’s, for he puts little faith in Wickham’s promised intentions to change.
With…
Jane Bennet has been swept up in a courtship nobody expected with a new arrival to Hertfordshire. Elizabeth Darcy can do nothing but witness this surprising turn of events from…
A marriage of convenience - with Mr Darcy?
Her family is convinced Elizabeth Bennet has leapt from one mishap to another, and when news of his surprise wedding spreads, Mr…
Fate finds a way…
Mr Bennet is dead, and with Mr Collins eager to take possession of his inheritance, the grieving Bennet family are forced to leave Longbourn and life…
News that his cousin, Anne de Bourgh, has eloped to Scotland puts Mr Darcy in hot pursuit, leaving behind his wife in London and determined, at last, to confront George…
Longbourn’s resident songbird finds her happily ever after, and determines to help her sister, Elizabeth, find hers.
Mary Bennet is used to being the overlooked Bennet sister, but when Colonel…
Married - but at odds with Mr Darcy.
With his family fractured, Mr Darcy does not know where to turn. Can he learn to trust his heart, even if it…
Reunited at Rosings…
Fitzwilliam Darcy can avoid calling on his aunt, Lady Catherine de Bourgh, no loner, but he can certainly avoid doing so alone. He convinces his cousin, Colonel…
Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance…
When Charlotte Lucas married William Collins she knew it was a marriage of convenience rather than true love, but did she…
Misfortune has struck Fitzwilliam Darcy - an altercation ended with him in the care of an innkeeper without his memory. Rescued by his friend Charles Bingley, he slowly begins the…
A case of mistaken identity...
Rarely poised to listen to gossip, Fitzwilliam Darcy can't help but be concerned when he learns that his friend is entangled with a "Miss Bennet"…
Omnibus edition containing all three books of the Love Remains series, a variation on Jane Austen’s Persuasion.
Reacquainted: Returning to stay with his sister in Somerset, Captain Frederick Wentworth is…
Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet have decided to marry for the most pragmatic of reasons: so that they might each avoid being forced into less amiable matches. In Elizabeth’s case…
In the wake of his brother’s sudden death, Colonel Fitzwilliam’s life is thrown into turmoil but he is left to weather the gathering storms alone as his key confidante, his…
Three weeks at Rosings will test the patience of any person, and illuminate the true nature of their affections…
If her sister can marry well, and she can avoid Mr…
** All three books of the Pathway to Pemberley series - Collected into one volume! **
The Collins Conundrum - Elizabeth returns home one day to find her sister engaged…
Rushing North with Charles Bingley, Colonel Fitzwilliam can’t help but acknowledge the absence of such reckless love in his own life. Poised to make a change, how will this new…
When Fitzwilliam Darcy travels to Hertfordshire with his friend, the last person he expects to see is Elizabeth Bennet, the young woman who broke his heart in London four years…
Thrust into society once more, neither Fitzwilliam Darcy nor Elizabeth Bennet can even contemplate renewing the affection they once shared: they can barely look at one another!
When an old…
En route to London, Elizabeth Bennet has matrimony in mind - for not one but two of her sisters. She scarcely dares to dream of revisiting her own past romance.
…
A festive Pride and Prejudice variation novella.
Elizabeth Bennet is furious when she discovers Mr. Darcy has removed, with Charles Bingley in tow, to London for Christmas, seeing in it…
A festive reunion in London…
Absence makes the heart grow fonder as London-bound Fitzwilliam Darcy realises all he left behind him in Hertfordshire. What providence, then, that Elizabeth Bennet and…
