Dear Prudent Elinor

"Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty.” - Sense and Sensibility

Nora Dashwood acts with her mind, not her heart. At least, that's what she wants everyone to think of her. But buried underneath all of her practical, color-coded life choices is a girl struggling with heartbreak...and burdened with secrets.

Nora tries not to let herself get carried away in her friendship with Charlie Bingley, even though her sister Marianne and her roommate Lizzy Bennet insist that Charlie is a smitten kitten. Then one day, Charlie disappears without so much as a text or a DM. Not long after, a new girl joins the Delta sorority - Lucy Steele, who seems just a little too keen to be Nora's friend, and who may be harboring secrets of her own...

Dear Prudent Elinor is a novella that is a companion to the Austen University Mysteries series, in which all of Jane Austen's characters are combined together into one modern-day setting. The novella can be read on its own or as a prequel to Book 2 - The Portraits of Pemberley, coming July 5th.

To catch up on the earlier works, read Book 1: What Happened on Box Hill and its companion novella, Sly Jane Fairfax.