Filled with angst, but it is a beautiful and perfect love story. The sadness at Pemberley is suffocating to its inhabitants. Due to Wickham's treachery, Georgiana is severely injured in a carriage accident as well as with child. Contrary to his family's desires, Darcy keeps her at Pemberley rather than send her away to Scotland. Together with few of their loyal staff since he is forsaken by friends and family, with the exception of Colonel Fitzwilliam, is confined to Pemberley as a recluse.
Wickham's involvement with the sex slave industry is a new low for him. Capturing young, virgin gentle women has him hidden in Derbyshire while he collects enough to send to London for shipment to the middle east for purchase into servitude. Hidden in a dilapidated cottage on Pemberley's property, one young woman is beaten and bones broken, but manages to escape her captors. Running barefoot in the pouring rain, she stumbles near the side of a back trail through Pemberley's woods. Her moan is heard by Darcy during his evening ride. Returning home, he insists that Mrs Reynolds care for her. Because of her numerous wounds, the doctor is not certain when or if she'll regain consciousness and if she does she may not remember anything about herself. Visiting each night, Mrs Reynolds hides in the shadows crying as Darcy pours out his sad and lonely life. Eventually as she begins to wake, he no longer visits and she becomes despaired. Locked in her room at night, as she heals she soon seeks to leave her room. Realizing her two maids leave through a hidden door in her dressing room, she bravely transverse the narrow passages coming to the music room where her handsome rescuer plays mournful songs on the pianoforte. She does this each night, but finally speaks out to him wondering why he won't talk to her. As they each share their misery: he shunned by society, and she not knowing who she is but knowing that she's illegitimate, night time talks draw them closer together.
While out for a walk, she saves a small child, Bella, from running horses with Darcy's help. When the child calls him Papa, she becomes melancholy and decides that she will meet Mrs. Darcy by searching the forbidden east wing. What she finds is Miss Georgiana Darcy and her illegitimate child, Bella. The two become fast friends and begin to call each other by their first names. By this time she remembers that her first name is Elizabeth. She encourages Georgiana to walk with her braces so that she can run after her very energetic daughter.
Enter wicked Wickham again in Lambton. Wooing Georgiana's companion, Miss March, he discovers that the girl he lost earlier from the cabin has been recovering at Pemberley, but today she is at the fair with Bella. He and his flunkies capture her and Bella, tire her up, and shove them in one of Darcy's carriages. Taking another carriage to Pemberley, the companion is subdued and Georgiana rejected because she is crippled. Wickham laughs when she pleads for her daughter's life. His mind working to gain more money, he plans to ransom Bella even though he's her father. The group is taken to London and placed in Mrs. Younge's boarding house. There is another young lady, Julie, present when they arrive. As Wickham tries to collect the ransom money from Darcy, he is captured by the Bow Street Runners, but when questioned pleads not guilty until Colonel Fitzwilliam is left alone with him. Darcy recognizes Elizabeth in the rapidly moving carriage leaving the boarding house and gives chase. When the carriage flips and slides along the road, he fears the worst. Dismounting his horse, Elizabeth appears, but so does the ring leader, Maurice. A tussle starts and Maurice is shot between the eyes and Darcy is shot in the shoulder.
There is a whole other story concerning Elizabeth that begins during her recuperating time at Pemberley and ends in Scotland. Fascinating story that gives proof that Elizabeth is not illegitimate. This becomes the icing on the cake.
She returns to Pemberley and Darcy. After apologies from the Fitzwilliams, Darcy decides that he wants nothing but Elizabeth, and they marry in the middle of the night waking the vicar and his wife.
Two other hateful beings in this story are Mrs Bennet and Caroline Bingley. Both nasty shrews find that they have severed ties with the Darcys and the Bingleys, and no help will be coming from the Darcys when Mr. Bennet passes.
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