The second Mrs. Darcy

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Aston, Elizabeth, 1948-2016, author

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a husband. Well, that's what her friends and relations say. But recently widowed Octavi...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single woman in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a husband. Well, that's what her friends and relations say. But recently widowed Octavia Darcy disagrees. She hasn't forgotten her impoverished girlhood. Now, when she unexpectedly finds herself an heiress, her ambition is to lead an independent life - not to marry again. So she sets off on her travels, during which she meets and crosses swords with Sholto Rutherford, a man as strong-willed and disinclined to matrimony as herself. Then the shadow of George Warren, the old enemy of the Darcy family, falls over her - and she is threatened with the loss of her inheritance and her reputation.

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