Throughout their childhoods, it was understood that Darcy and Anne would marry and combine their vast estates of Pemberley and Rosings. Growing up sheltered and confined, removed from sunshine and fresh air, the pale and overly slender Anne grew up with few companions except her cousins, including Fitzwilliam Darcy.

In this gorgeously written and spellbinding historical novel based on Pride and Prejudice, the author of The Clergyman’s Wife combines the knowing eye of Jane Austen with the eroticism and Gothic intrigue of Sarah Waters to reimagine the life of the mysterious Anne de Bourgh.Īs a fussy baby, Anne de Bourgh’s doctor prescribed laudanum to quiet her, and now the young woman must take the opium-heavy tincture every day. The Heiress: The Revelations of Anne de Bourgh by Molly Greeley And to keep her safe and protect secrets of his own, Nico and Nina must convince prying eyes they are happily married and in love. Rather than risk a perilous escape across the mountains, Nina will pose as his new bride. A moral and just man, he could not stand by when the fascists and Nazis began taking innocent lives. Nico Gerardi was studying for the priesthood until circumstances forced him to leave the seminary to run his family’s farm. With Nazi Germany now occupying most of her beloved homeland, and the threat of imprisonment and deportation growing ever more certain, Antonina Mazin has but one hope to survive-to leave Venice and her beloved parents and hide in the countryside with a man she has only just met. It is the autumn of 1943, and life is becoming increasingly perilous for Italian Jews like the Mazin family. To survive the Holocaust, a young Jewish woman must pose as a Christian farmer’s wife in this unforgettable novel from USA Today bestselling author Jennifer Robson-a story of terror, hope, love, and sacrifice, inspired by true events, that vividly evokes the most perilous days of World War II.

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