The Crown’s Gift

Name: The Crown’s Gift
Author: Amelia Grace Royce

by Amelia Grace Royce

Genre: Romance Historical

148 pages

A single sugar plum changes the fortunes of the Bennet family forever.

When King George begins choking during a visit to Meryton, the gathered company is frozen in horror. Mr. Thomas Bennet alone acts, risking the swords of the royal guards to save the King’s life.

His courage earns him a knighthood—and Netherfield Park.

Ten years later, the Bennets are no longer the uncertain family of Longbourn. Sir Thomas has become an attentive father, his daughters have received every advantage education and royal favor can provide, and Netherfield has become their cherished home. Longbourn, meanwhile, has been leased to an amiable young gentleman named Charles Bingley.

Bingley arrives in Hertfordshire ready to admire everything, especially the eldest Miss Bennet. His closest friend is far less easily pleased.

Fitzwilliam Darcy expects little from the local society—until he meets Miss Elizabeth, a clever, confident woman entirely unimpressed by his fortune or consequence. Their attraction grows through lively disagreements and reluctant admiration, but pride, mistaken judgments, and Darcy’s habit of deciding what is best for others threaten any possibility of understanding between them.

As Jane and Bingley face trials of their own and quiet Mary discovers that someone may value more than her music, an old enemy begins watching both families from the shadows.

One courageous act gave the Bennets a different future. Now they must decide what they will make of the Crown’s gift.

A warm, romantic, and suspenseful Pride and Prejudice variation featuring an involved Mr. Bennet, accomplished Bennet sisters, the reversal of Netherfield and Longbourn, slow-building romance, family transformation, royal favor, and a dangerous enemy determined to settle an old grievance.

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