The Beginning of Prudence
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An overheard conversation, a chance to right a wrong, a trip to Rosings that will be like no other
Three and a half months in town has not been long enough for Fitzwilliam Darcy to clear his head or his heart of thought about the lady who charmed him in Hertfordshire. When he overhears part of Elizabeth Bennet's conversation with her aunt at the theatre, he is first surprised to know she is in town, and then, he's mortified to discover just what she thinks of him. Upon learning she is on her way to Kent, he puts together a plan to improve in her opinion. With the help of his sister, cousins, and a heart that likes to speak before it thinks, he just might find this year's trip to Rosings to be the most unusual and fulfilling of his life.
The Beginning of Prudence is a novelette of just over 18,000 words and is the fifth installment in Leenie Brown's Teatime Tales Collection of Austen-inspired quick reads. If you're looking for a romantic and entertaining escape from the everyday, then you'll enjoy this story where a swoon-worthy and determined Darcy pursues and secures a happy future with the lady who holds his heart.
So put the kettle on, download your copy of The Beginning of Prudence, and join Darcy for an Easter visit to Rosings that is filled with delightful surprises and happily ever after.
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Other titles in the Teatime Tales Collection:
From Tolerable to Lovely
Mr. Bingley Plans a Ball
Two Days in November
A Battle of Wills and Words
Also look for more Austen-inspired, as well as some original, sweet Regency novelettes in Leenie's Nature's Fury and Delights collection.
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Leenie Brown has always been a girl with an active imagination, which, while growing up, was a both an asset, providing many hours of fun as she played out stories, and a liability, when her older sister and aunt would tell her frightening tales. At one time, they had her convinced Dracula lived in the trunk at the end of the bed she slept in when visiting her grandparents!
Although it has been years since she cowered in her bed in her grandparents' basement, she still has an imagination which occasionally runs away with her, and she feeds it now as she did then ─ by reading!
Her heroes, when growing up, were authors, and the worlds they painted with words were (and still are) her favourite playgrounds! She was that child, under the covers with the flashlight, reading until the wee hours of the morning…and pretending not to be tired the next day so her mother wouldn't find out.
In addition to feeding her imagination, she also exercises it ─ by writing. While writing has been an activity she has dabbled in over the years, it blossomed into a full-fledged obsession when she stumbled upon the world of Jane Austen Fan Fiction. Leenie had first fallen in love with Jane Austen's work in her early teens when she was captivated by the tale of a girl, who like her, was the second born of five daughters. Now, as an adult, she spends much time in the regency world, playing with the characters from her favourite Jane Austen novels and a few that are of her own creation.
When she is not traipsing down a trail in an attempt to keep up with her imagination, Leenie resides in the beautiful province of Nova Scotia with her two sons and her very own Mr. Brown (a wonderful mix of all the best of Darcy, Bingley and Edmund with a healthy dose of the teasing Mr. Tilney and just a dash of the scolding Mr. Knightley).
