What If the Bennets Had a Son?

Duels of Every Sort: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Sarah Brown

What if the Bennets did have a son? That’s the premise of Duels of Every Sort: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Sarah Brown.

How would the addition of another one of those witty Bennets alter Darcy’s point of view?

Arguments, adventure, romance, and duels of every sort are sure to follow in this “Pride and Prejudice” meets “The Three Musketeers” adaptation.

A Proper Form of Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Jaeza Rayleigh

In a timeline where Wickham’s misdeeds start earlier and Fitzwilliam Darcy’s father holds his godson over his heir in all things, young Darcy must learn from different role models to find his own path in A Proper Form of Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Jaeza Rayleigh.

With the support of his Fitzwilliam relatives and his friend, Charles Bingley, he resists the temptation to give in to emotional blackmail or behave less honorably to gain his father’s praise. Instead, he plans and prepares for a future without Pemberley.

When the crisis comes, he takes an unusual path that eventually leads him to Meryton and Elizabeth Bennet. Despite his changed circumstances, his honorable behavior shows young Darcy to have a proper form of pride.

Remember the Past: …only as it gives you pleasure by Maria Grace

Elizabeth Bennet’s father, Admiral Thomas Bennet, assures his daughters that his retirement from His Majesty’s Navy will be the start of a new life for them all. Little does he know his family’s battles have only just begun in Remember the Past: …only as it gives you pleasure by Maria Grace. 

Well-connected and in possession of a good fortune, their entry into society should have been a triumph. However, their long-awaited first season in London proves a disaster, and the resulting scandal sends the Bennets fleeing to the wilds of Derbyshire.

Widower Fitzwilliam Darcy, the master of Pemberley, wants for nothing, most especially not a wife. From the moment the Bennets arrive in Derbyshire, Darcy’s neatly ordered life turns upside down. His sons beg to keep company with their new playmates, the young Bennet twins. His mother-in-law sets her cap for Admiral Bennet. Worst of all, Darcy cannot get his mind off a certain bewitching Miss Elizabeth Bennet, but she has sworn never to let another gentleman near her heart. 

Darcy’s best efforts to befriend and assist the Bennet family go horribly awry, alienating first Miss Elizabeth, then her father, and finally endangering what both men hold most dear. Can the two men Elizabeth loves most set aside their pride to prevent catastrophe for their families and win the love they seek?

Pledged: A Pride and Prejudice Variation (Book 1 of the Loving Elizabeth Novella Series) by Rose Fairbanks

As any honourable gentleman knows, a friend’s sister is untouchable. It is a code that Fitzwilliam Darcy has never had an issue with until now in Pledged: A Pride and Prejudice Variation (Book 1 of the Loving Elizabeth Novella Series) by Rose Fairbanks.

However, Elizabeth Bennet might be enticing enough to risk not only disinheritance from his father and the displeasure of his entire family but also the loss of his best friend’s trust.

To Elizabeth, her brother’s friend, Will, is as pompous as the day is long. However, he is also enigmatic, and soon, she finds herself drawn to his complexities. Unexpectedly, she falls hard and fast for this young heir of a vast estate, but at sixteen, she has never been in London society before and is new to all its deceptions and games. Will she be able to decipher who to trust or will her heart pay the ultimate price?

Assessing Mr. Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Novel by Leenie Brown

The Bennet ladies are all eager anticipation in Assessing Mr. Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Novel by Leenie Brown. Netherfield has been let at last! And joy of all joys, it has been leased to a single young gentleman of good fortune!

To Elizabeth’s delight, the new neighbor has not come alone but has brought with him a handsome friend. With any luck, if this gentleman proves to be more than just handsome, it will not only be Jane who finds a husband.

Fitzwilliam Darcy has heard many times over the past weeks about the fabled beauties of Longbourn from his friend who is leasing the estate next door. However, he is not prepared for just how unexaggerated those claims are when he meets two of the ladies from Longbourn and their brother while on a ride.

While Darcy and Elizabeth would like to get to know more about each other, Elizabeth’s brother is not as favourably inclined to the match. He knows a secret, and, unless he can learn to trust that anyone could ever be worthy of his beloved sister, his censure may just be the thing that keeps them apart forever.

If Only In His Dreams by Melanie Schertz

Mr. Darcy has had a dream for several years about the woman he would one day marry in If Only In His Dreams by Melanie Schertz. When he finds Elizabeth Bennet at the Meryton Assembly, he instantly makes plans to secure his future. Will Elizabeth accept her future willingly or will she refuse to become the future Mrs Darcy.

In this tale, we have the pleasure of meeting Lady Anne Darcy who is still alive and a Lady Catherine de Bourgh who is a survivor of an abusive husband who is deceased. Also present in the tale is the heir of Longbourn who is Jane and Elizabeth’s elder brother.

The True Wealth is Inside: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Melanie Schertz

After losing his wife during the birth of his second daughter in The True Wealth is Inside: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Melanie Schertz, Thomas Bennet was distraught. While visiting his aunt’s home, he meets and falls in love with Margaret O’Brien.

They married and had more children, including three sons, thus breaking the entail that had been in place by Thomas’ grandfather. But Thomas’ cousin is convinced that the sons cannot inherit.

You see, the second Mrs Bennet came from Antigua, the child of an English born land owner and a freed slave. Mr Collins, the Bennet cousin believes that the sons are not worthy of inheriting an estate, and plans to eliminate the entire Bennet family, thus he could claim Longbourn.

How will Darcy, who is visiting the community with his friend who had leased the neighboring estate of Netherfield Park, accept such knowledge? Will he follow his heart or will he bow to society’s view of such a family?

Will Elizabeth and Darcy have a happily ever after or is their relationship doomed?

Oh Brother: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Iris Lim

Some men go to great lengths to win their bets. Can true love convince them to lose instead? Explore the world in Oh Brother: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Iris Lim, where Elizabeth has a brother, who happens to have just the right friends.

This is a fresh take on the lives and loves of four Cambridge friends: Fitzwilliam Darcy, Charles Bingley, Richard Fitzwilliam, and Edward Bennet. Each young gentleman takes his turn in narrating his part of the story and growing into his own role in their tight social circle. In an angst-free re-imagination, our beloved characters lead entirely different lives as they discover new friends, new hopes, new heartbreaks, and new redemption in their joint coming-of-age.

This book is a heart-warming story of four love stories in one. And if any of our silly boys happen to make some money off of an intelligent bet or two, who can really blame them for their manly pride?