Brilliant, sensitive, and private, Fitzwilliam Darcy finds himself at the Meryton Assembly, consciously troubled by recent events in Ramsgate and unconsciously troubled by himself. He insults Elizabeth Bennet, at whom he has only glanced.

It is not until she appears at Netherfield, full of life, skirted in mud, and eager to attend to her sick sister, that Darcy truly looks at her. When he does, he knows she is the woman he has been searching for, the elusive her of his heart. He falls for her completely…despite her apparent unsuitability to be the Mistress of Pemberley and his half-hearted efforts to convince himself he can live without her.

Shortly before Elizabeth leaves Netherfield, Darcy apologizes for what he said at the Assembly. Will that apology—and the depth of his sudden, durable feelings—give him hope with Elizabeth? How will George Wickham’s arrival frustrate Darcy’s hopes, especially after he blunders into a marriage proposal that surprises both him and Elizabeth?

Romantic, reflective, and ironic, this is a story told entirely from Darcy’s point of view, a story of the struggle from intellect to heart—a deliberate character study and a delicate love story.