The Adventures of Charlotte Collins: A Carlotte Lucas Pride and Prejudice Variation
Grandy Eden
The "forgotten" women of Meryton are about to change the rules of the game.
Charlotte Lucas, Mary Bennet and Maria Lucas were women the world overlooked. Now, they are the ones in command.
Charlotte Lucas Collins has spent her life being "useful." After years of duty and a decade of nursing her invalid husband, William Collins, she finally claims her own life when after William’s death she marries General Richard Fitzwilliam and becomes the Lady General of Windhaven where she helps transform a ruined estate into a sanctuary for broken veterans.
But the peace of the High Peaks is under siege.
Mary Bennet, the ignored middle sister of Longbourn is no longer a girl hiding behind religious books. Armed with a fifteen-thousand-pound fortune and a mind for numbers, she becomes the “Lady of the Ledger.”.When Arthur Lucas, a distant relative of the Lucas family of Meryton, attempts to extort money from Mary by showing he can ruin her friend, the spinster Maria Lucas, he expects to find a defenseless woman.
He is dead wrong.
Mary takes charge and brings Maria to Charlotte. Together,these women who have survived the summers of their lives are prepared to fight back. Backed by the power of Pemberley, a reformed George Wickham, and a legendary Spirit of Justice who knows a villain when one comes into his domain, the women of Meryton and Windhaven are about to prove that women can overcome anything. Will charlotte find true love or just a mature friendship with Richard Fitzwilliam? Will Maria Lucas overcome ruination? Will Mary Bennet be a spinster for the rest of her life? Come and see.
The Adventures of Charlotte Collins is a story of second chances, later-life romance, and the fierce strength of sisterhood.
