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  1. Public Bookmark 90

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    When Mr Bennet dies suddenly, Longbourn passes to Mr Collins — and the Bennet ladies themselves with the new master arriving to take possession. Grief gives way to fear, and Mrs Bennet's hopes of remaining at Longbourn crumble under the quiet certainty that they can no longer call it home.

    With no son to inherit and no proposal forthcoming, the family faces disgrace, separation, and poverty—until an unexpected offer arrives from Mrs Gardiner: a modest cottage near Lambton in Derbyshire, where they might begin again.

    Uprooted from everything familiar, Elizabeth enters a new world of northern hills, new neighbours, and a certain gentleman she meets quite by chance—one who knows nothing of her circumstances, and whose reserve hides a heart she never expected to understand.

    This is a story of loss, resilience, and renewal—of sisters who refuse to be parted, a mother undone by fear, and a heroine who must rebuild her life before she can discover love.

    Sometimes, the future begins only after we let go of home.

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    02 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 5

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    Darcy’s marriage to Elizabeth Bennet shattered Caroline Bingley’s hopes—until her encounter with the Duke of Ravenswood, a notorious libertine, who decides to guide her through the sulphurous rules of the only world capable of satisfying her desires. Initiated by his son, the Earl of Blackthorne, Caroline learns the arts of pleasure and power in the most respectable salons of the aristocracy… and in places where propriety no longer rhymes with ecstasy.

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    31 Dec 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 42

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    The new residents of Netherfield Park are horrified when a young woman is viciously attacked less than a mile from their home. Discovered by Mr. Darcy, she is brought to Netherfield Park to recover. When Elizabeth Bennet wakes up in a strange house with jagged wounds marring her skin, all she can remember is wretched, screaming terror. The only thing she knows for sure is that it will happen again - and that nobody is safe. Horror/Mystery fic with lots of drama, finger-pointing, vicious comments and suspicious mobs, growing romance, and a happy ending.

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    17 Dec 2025

  4. Public Bookmark 28

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    Lily Evans and James Potter can't stand each other. Not during their school years and certainly not in the years since. Under no circumstance would they ever agree to fake a marriage... right? Right???

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    19 Nov 2025

  5. Public Bookmark 75

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    "Welcome home," she said, and heard the brittleness in her own voice, the mockery of the sentiment.

    "This has not been home for some time, madam. For either of us."

    Then he was gone, and Elizabeth was left in her carefully claimed sitting room, staring at a book she could not read, wondering how they had arrived at this--two people bound together by law and circumstance, which neither could escape, circling each other like wounded animals in a house too small for their shared misery.

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    Trapped in an unhappy marriage, Elizabeth learns how to love her husband.

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    16 Nov 2025