If you like Jane Austen at all (books, movies, or bobbleheads) you’ll enjoy some of my variations and sequels! The Austen Ensemble is strictly Pride and Prejudice characters and it features Elizabeth Bennet, Georgiana Darcy, and Anne de Bourgh.
The Highbury Variation combines Pride & Prejudice with Emma and Mansfield Park.
The Sweet Regency Saga combines Pride & Prejudice with Persuasion. Scroll down for descriptions, or look for them on Amazon.
Starch and Strategy, Sweet Regency Saga Book 1
When the Elliot family of Persuasion joins the community of Pride and Prejudice fireworks will commence! Lizzy Bennet wants to see a happy ending for her best friend Charlotte and for her sister, Jane. And while she’s at it, she might try to save young Mary Elliot from a fortune-hunter!
Lizzy forms a strategy to help her friends without transgressing society’s rules, but there’s one gentleman visitor to Meryton who is NOT part of her plan: Mr. Darcy.
Mr. Darcy, falling head over heels, might just insert himself into the plan–if he can get over his starch and reserve.
Pride and Piquet, Sweet Regency Saga Book 2
He’s a con artist. She’s a brat.
George Wickham has few morals and even fewer scruples. He planned to seduce and marry the youngest Elliot sister, but somehow she has turned the tables on him. Will Mary entrap Wickham before he realizes how their family fortune has dwindled?
Meanwhile, Colonel Fitzwilliam is on the hunt for a thief and a traitor. He wouldn’t put any of it past Wickham, but it seems the trail is leading toward a more respectable suspect. Colonel Fitzwilliam and Caroline Bingley have only been casual friends, but she has a quickness for secrets. Soon she is right in the middle of his investigation, for better or worse.
From Highbury with Love, Book 1 of the Highbury Variation
Knightley never makes mistakes. Until he proposes to Elizabeth Bennet.
To be fair, he was fully convinced that Mr. Darcy of Pemberley, an excellent young man and his long-time friend, was going to marry Emma Woodhouse. The match was everything Knightley should want for Emma. It was everything he did want for Emma.
Lizzy rarely made mistakes. But she made two at Highbury, and one was accepting Mr. Knightley.
From London with Loyalty, Book 2 of the Highbury Variation
There’s a club. A bet. A governess in dire straits.
Jane Fairfax came to London to work. She was done with Frank Churchill, but he wasn’t done with her.
Frank didn’t intend harm, he was careless, not cruel, but sometimes loose lips sink ships. Soon Jane’s safety and reputation are at stake.
Follow along on the delicious and romantic journey of Jane Fairfax and Tom, as well as Mr. Darcy and Lizzy, as they navigate bets, duels, and proposals in Regency London.
From Pemberley with Luck, Book 3 of the Highbury Variation
She’s done with love. He’s not.
Mary Crawford is remaking her life without reference to that unfortunate chapter at Mansfield Park.
Putting practicality over heart, she has decided to marry Harold Fitzwilliam, the middle-aged Earl of Matlock. That would make her a countess, and it’s really the least she can do to console herself for both loving and losing a mere vicar.
Unfortunately, spending Christmas at Pemberley is no place to make mercenary decisions. The love between Lizzy and Mr. Darcy is impossible to miss, and it threatens to melt Mary’s hard heart.
To cap off this disaster of Christmas romance, she begins to fall for Colonel Fitzwilliam, Harold’s younger brother.
Mary’s identity has taken a beating this year; will she double-down on who she was, or admit that she wants to be someone different?
From Pemberley with Luck is a sweet variation on Mansfield Park and Pride and Prejudice.
A Lively Companion, Book 1 of An Austen Ensemble
A Pride and Prejudice Variation
Lizzy Bennet is more insulted than flattered when Lady Catherine asks her to be a temporary companion to Miss de Bourgh. Yes, a visit to Tunbridge Wells would be an interesting diversion, but at what cost?
When her father unexpectedly supports the plan, Lizzy reluctantly submits. Thus begins a springtime trip of misunderstandings, revelations, and unexpected proposals.
When Mr. Darcy realizes Lizzy is not going home as planned, he feels foolish for nearly proposing due to an arbitrary deadline. Determined to make up his mind one way or another, he accompanies the party to the Wells.
A True Likeness, Book 2
Book 2 of An Austen Ensemble
After Lizzy and Darcy’s unexpected engagement, Lady Catherine is both furious and inconvenienced. As a peace offering, Darcy asks Georgiana to stay with her and Anne for several weeks.
It is not an easy task, especially since Lady Catherine is soothing her wounded pride by arranging a match for Georgiana with an aristocratic neighbor. Worse, Georgiana finds herself far too attracted to Mr. John Turner, the painter staying at Rosings while he finishes a portrait of Anne.
Meanwhile, Wickham is securing his future with another underhanded stratagem, and Lydia is planning a surprise for her sister’s wedding day. Join Lizzy, Darcy, and Georgiana as they navigate the dangerous waters of identity, family, and compromise.
A Gentle Touch, Book 3
Anne de Bourgh is now Anne Sutherland, wife and mistress of Middlefinch, a large estate in the south of England.
She is satisfied with her choice, but finds living with her new husband, son, and family more alarming than she expected. James’s daft old uncle leads his own strange life on the third floor, emerging only to ask disconcerting questions. James’s mother cares only for horses, and seems to disdain sickly, quiet Anne.
And then there is her new husband himself, so informal and affectionate—not at all what Anne expected! Anne has learned friendship; can she learn love?
Join Lizzy, Darcy, Georgiana, and Anne as they enter their new lives, from christenings and Christmas parties to Anne’s first tempestuous season in London.
Pride and Prejudice and Passports
A Pride and Prejudice Modernization
During the tumultuous 2016 presidential election, three Latina sisters navigate life and love in Southern California.
Darcy certainly didn’t intend to fall for a smart, beautiful Latina on his short vacation to the mountains. Elisa would sooner turn off his hot-water heater than agree with him about anything. Why is debating with her more fun than agreeing with anyone else? But when Elisa’s little sister runs away, and her parents are scared to go to the police, Darcy realizes just how serious she was. And how serious his own feelings have become.
Elisa Benitez is happy to help her family clean cabins for the summer, but when her older sister falls hard for one of their rich guests, Elisa expects heartbreak. Her sister is a Dreamer, an undocumented immigrant, and this guy’s a state representative. Even worse is his infuriating friend Darcy! He’s arrogant, rude, and based on a comment Elisa overheard, probably racist. He’s one of those guys who get by on money and looks, and she wouldn’t mind poking a hole in his self-image.
You’ve seen Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter…
Now it’s Jane Eyre and the Selkies, an interweaving of selkie mythology and the timeless story of Jane Eyre.
Corrie Garrett 