Mary Bennet: At Last: Beyond the Shadows of Pride and Prejudice (Unchartered Underdogs)

Mary Bennet has always been the plain one — the overlooked middle sister left behind when Pride and Prejudice ended its business with the others. Now quietly managing the Longbourn estate with more capability than anyone has bothered to notice, she is in the process of becoming, with great deliberateness and no fanfare, entirely herself. What she does not expect is Julian Dominic Cavendish, Earl of Westhaven: a man of considerable intelligence who has decided, after losing someone in Florence, that the particular capacity he lost there is not repeatable. He is wrong. It takes him the better part of a year to discover this. A slow-burning, wry, and precisely observed love story — for readers who have always suspected there was rather more to Mary Bennet than they gave her credit for. Read more