Elizabeth Is Not Really a Bennet?

Taken: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Mary Anne Mushatt

Taken from her home as a young child, Elizabeth Bennet’s sense of self is shaken when the mystery behind her true identity is unraveled in Taken: A Pride & Prejudice Variation by Mary Anne Mushatt.

Discovering her place as the daughter of a duke, she confronts reclaimed memories of her brutal abduction while making her way in the alien world of Regency England’s high society.

Facing the ton is the least of her concerns as her kidnappers remain determined to keep her from Fitzwilliam Darcy–the man who first professed his love by proposing she become his mistress.

Humbled by her refusal, he returns to win her love and respect. Together with her reunited family, Elizabeth faces her greatest challenges to both her life and her heart–reclaiming herself and finding her happiness.

A Royal Disposition: A Pride and Prejudice Novel by Amy Cecil

Elizabeth and Darcy are in love and plan to marry, until Elizabeth comes face to face with Lady Catherine De Bourgh in A Royal Disposition: A Pride and Prejudice Novel by Amy Cecil.

Although standing strong during the worst confrontation of Miss Elizabeth’s life, she soon realizes that she cannot marry Mr. Darcy and refuses him.

Futile attempts by Mr. Darcy to win her back fail, until he finds out the most astonishing information about Elizabeth Bennet.

A Peculiar Connection: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Jan Hahn

Bent on preventing the engagement of her nephew to Elizabeth Bennet, Lady Catherine de Bourgh declares in A Peculiar Connection: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Jan Hahn that any union between Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth would be “a sin against Heaven itself!” Her shocking revelation, along with a cryptic message written over twenty years earlier, thrusts the couple into a whirlwind of heartbreak and disbelief.

Could a deserted mansion in Derbyshire or a small church hidden in the wood hold the key to solving the puzzle? And why is Elizabeth inexplicably drawn to the portrait of three young boys in Pemberley’s gallery?

Determined to confirm or refute Lady Catherine’s accusation, Darcy and Elizabeth are forced to embark upon a twisted trail into bygone days and family secrets. All the while, they must endure the exquisite torture of denying the indisputable desire that still hovers between them.

Passages – A Pemberley Tale by Brenda J. Webb

Years after her ruin at the hands of George Wickham, Georgiana Darcy is a virtual prisoner at Pemberley as a result of her brother’s good intentions in Passages – A Pemberley Tale by Brenda J. Webb.

Drastic changes have taken their toll, leaving brother and sister adrift from polite society. Faithful to his vow to prevent further harm to his sister, Fitzwilliam Darcy has retreated from the few friends and acquaintances who still acknowledge him. Lonelier than ever, Darcy’s life is swallowed up by darkness until the day a young woman is discovered close to death on the estate grounds.

Unaware of her identity, Elizabeth Bennet finds herself the recipient of Fitzwilliam Darcy’s benevolence whilst she recovers from her own encounter with Wickham. Elizabeth’s presence breathes life back into Pemberley and its occupants, until Wickham returns with a nefarious plan to regain control of both Elizabeth and Georgiana.

Will Elizabeth fulfil her destiny and rescue Darcy from a desolate life or will the mystery of her parentage take her in another direction, leaving him alone once more?

Alias Thomas Bennet: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Suzan Lauder

When Fitzwilliam Darcy attends the Meryton assembly, he befriends a quiet, intelligent gentleman in Alias Thomas Bennet: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Suzan Lauder. In frequent visits to his friend’s home, he becomes acquainted with the Bennet family of Longbourn. Yet Mr. Darcy is distracted by a strange feeling of having met some of them before.

This is a different Bennet family from the cleverly crafted one in Jane Austen’s Pride & Prejudice. This Mr. Bennet is a responsible gentleman who takes an active role in the education and upbringing of all five of his daughters, manages Longbourn to be prosperous, and displays loving guidance toward Mrs. Bennet—a gentle, caring mother and wife.

There is a mystery lurking at Longbourn—a secret unknown even to Elizabeth Bennet—and Mr. Darcy is entangled in its extraordinary revelations.
Who is Thomas Bennet?

Compromise & Consequence: a Pride & Prejudice Variation by Sue Barr

During the ball at Netherfield Park, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are irretrievably compromised and forced to marry in Compromise & Consequence: a Pride & Prejudice Variation by Sue Barr.

Angered beyond reason, Mr. Darcy prepares the vilest marriage settlement known to man, forcing Mr. Bennet to accept his terms or suffer the consequences of ruined reputations and unwed daughters.

The repercussions that follow show a determined young lady with keen intelligence and a prideful man who comes to realize that the consequences of their compromise are the best things that ever happened in his life.

Far From The Tree: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Jeannie Peneaux

For twenty years Elizabeth Bennet had lived, quite contentedly, as the second daughter of a country squire in Far From The Tree: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Jeannie Peneaux. During her Easter visit to her newly married friend, Lizzy has the dubious pleasure of being introduced to Lady Catherine de Bourgh and her cosseted daughter.

To Elizabeth’s surprise, the pair take a keen interest in a mere adopted daughter of the Bennet family, and when Mr. Darcy dutifully pays his annual visit to Rosings Park, her life takes a wholly unexpected turn.

Lady Catherine de Bourgh, it would seem, is intent upon setting right old injustices, and she is a woman who is very much used to getting her own way.

I Never Knew Myself: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Melanie Rachel

Elizabeth Bennet is living a lie in I Never Knew Myself: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Melanie Rachel.

She’s known since she was fifteen that she isn’t truly a Bennet, but who is she? Are the people and places that appear in her dreams just a sign of her active imagination, or are they memories of her true family? Could the stories she’d told Jane when they were children not be stories at all?

Fitzwilliam Darcy is reliving a nightmare.

He hasn’t dreamed of “Ellie” Windham in years, but after meeting Elizabeth Bennet, he is reminded of the day little Ellie was kidnapped. And now he is left to wonder whether he is drawn to more than her fine eyes. When Darcy realizes that Elizabeth and Ellie might be one and the same, he is anxious to return her to the Windhams, and Elizabeth is no less eager to meet her family. But when the idyllic reunion she longed for goes awry, both Darcy and Elizabeth wonder whether it’s really possible to put a broken family back together again.

Can Darcy help Elizabeth find her place in her first family so she can one day join him in his?

The Mystery Bennet by Melanie Schertz

Elizabeth has lived at the estate of her uncle all of her life in The Mystery Bennet by Melanie Schertz. Her mother died at her birth and her father died before her first birthday.

As she meets and begins to fall in love with Fitzwilliam Darcy, secrets from her past come to the surface, secrets that were kept to protect her from someone who wishes her dead.

Will Darcy stand beside her when he learns the truth? What will happen when the one man who desires her death, learns of her location?

Out of Obscurity by Jann Rowland

At a dinner party in London during the season, Fitzwilliam Darcy meets an enchanting young woman in Out of Obscurity by Jann Rowland. Though he recognizes her beauty and poise, he is struck by a sense of familiarity and realizes she is someone connected to him.

What follows is a whirlwind of events​ ​in which the woman’s lineage is discovered and her true identity is established. Darcy quickly realizes she is a woman estimable in her own right,​ ​and he finds himself​ ​besotted.

But amid the miraculous events of a lost soul returning home, dark forces​ ​conspire against the young woman, for her loss was not an accident.​ ​And so it is that a man​ ​is moved t​o action​ ​by a boon long denied, determined to avoid being cheated by Miss Elizabeth Bennet again.