Mr. Darcy’s Fiery Passion

Name: Mr. Darcy’s Fiery Passion
Author: Maria Dashwood

by Maria Dashwood

Genre: Romance Historical Adult

85 pages

Scorched by flame.
Bound by a private bargain.
Consumed by desire.

Bonfire Night at Longbourn was never meant to end in disaster.

But when a wayward rocket sets Elizabeth Bennet’s skirts ablaze, Mr. Darcy does not hesitate. He tears the burning fabric from her body, shields her with his own, and saves her before the flames can reach her skin.

Now his palms are badly burned, Elizabeth cannot walk on her injured ankle, and damage to Longbourn leaves them both recovering beneath the same roof at Netherfield.

He cannot turn a page.
She cannot cross a room.
So Elizabeth proposes a bargain.
She will be his hands.
He will be her feet.

By daylight, their help can pass for kindness between two injured houseguests. Elizabeth cuts the food Darcy cannot manage. Darcy lends her his arm when her crutch will not do.

But at night, their arrangement becomes far less proper.

Elizabeth slips secretly into the library, where she turns his pages, buttons his waistcoat, tends his burns, and gives him the help his pride will not let him ask for.

No chaperone sees how close they sit.
No one knows how late she stays.
And no one can know when necessity becomes desire.

Yet Darcy has spent years believing that needing another person is weakness. Elizabeth is equally determined never to become anyone’s burden.

When Wickham’s lies test her trust and Darcy’s own pride makes love sound dangerously like obligation, they may lose each other just as they finally understand what they have become.
Because Darcy must offer Elizabeth something far more frightening than his fortune or protection—
His need for her.

And Elizabeth must decide whether leaning on the man she loves means losing her independence…
Or finally trusting him enough to share the weight.

Mr. Darcy’s Fiery Passion is a steamy, novel-length Pride and Prejudice variation featuring forced proximity, a private caretaking bargain, forbidden midnight library meetings, hurt/comfort, an injured and vulnerable Darcy, a fiercely independent Elizabeth, Darcy falls first, escalating intimacy, and a deeply satisfying happily ever after.

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