This variation is extremely unusual, with the variation being that Mr Darcy is cursed, as are all Darcy men. Most of them are driven to madness by the curse and end up killing their wives and hence Darcy has decided never to marry and to let the curse die out with him. However, a faulty lock on the Netherfield Library door means that Darcy is forced to marry a woman he finds more than tolerable, though she is less than fond of him...
Here's the blurb (from Amazon):
Fitzwilliam Darcy is a man Cursed ...
Cursed to shoulder the burden of a dark insanity that has swallowed his ancestors whole...
Cursed to lose himself to a madness that will destroy everyone and everything he holds dear...
In this original retelling of Jane Austen's timeless classic Pride and Prejudice discover what happens when the Darcy family is afflicted with a dark, terrible secret that leads him to utter those fateful words ... 'Not handsome enough to tempt me,' and how an unforeseen twist causes his determination to avoid marriage at all costs to be unexpectedly thwarted by the compromise of a lady's reputation.
Can Darcy and Elizabeth resolve their differences to fall in love and live happily ever after, or will the Darcy Curse strike again...
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Thank you to author S. J. Nixon for joining me at Babblings of a Bookworm today! I'll get straight to the questions:
