Lydia and the Colonel: A Pride & Prejudice Variation
Catherine Bilson
When Wickham's scheming nearly destroys her reputation in a single night, it is Fitzwilliam who intervenes, and Fitzwilliam who finds himself honour-bound to offer her the protection of his name. But the consequences of one reckless evening reach further than Brighton. Lydia's choices threaten to cast a shadow over her sister Elizabeth's chances at happiness with Darcy, and only a hasty marriage to a man she barely knows stands between the Bennet family and ruin.
It is not the marriage either of them imagined. He is a soldier with orders to sail for Canada. She is sixteen years old and has a great deal of growing up still to do. Three years and an ocean apart is a long time to wonder whether a hasty bargain can become something real.
A Pride and Prejudice variation for anyone who ever thought Lydia Bennet deserved better than Wickham.
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