PUBLICATION
DATE: 28 June 2021
About The Book
It is a truth
universally acknowledged that on escaping an unhappy marriage, a young widow
will be delighted to remove to the dower house and lease the marital abode to a
single man in possession of a good fortune, provided he looks elsewhere to
fulfil his want of a wife.
Five years
after being forced into an unwanted marriage at the age of sixteen, and freed
six months later by the death of her abusive husband, Elizabeth Grayson (née
Bennet) has finally found a measure of peace. The inheritor of her husband’s
estate, Netherfield Park, Elizabeth is now a wealthy young widow, independent
and self-reliant. With an eye always on improving her four sisters’ woefully
small dowries and providing for her mother, who will be homeless when her
father dies, Elizabeth is pleased to lease out Netherfield to the Bingley
family, making her home in the dower house in Meryton and vowing that she will
never remarry.
