Follows on from Longbourn's Songbird. Col Fitzwilliam and Mary Bennet are to be married, and both Mr Darcy and Elizabeth are desperate to escape marriages their families are determined to arrange. Might they be able to offer one another a way out of their respective predicaments?

Mr. Darcy's world turns on its head as he discovers at the Netherfield ball that he has misjudged everyone's motives: Mr. Wickham is more honorable, Miss Bingley more conniving, and Miss Elizabeth more resentful than he'd given any of them credit for.