Slow to develop a plot...halfway through the book before anything happened except everyone getting married and producing children. There was a fair amount of anachronistic language...they did not use the phrase "laid back" in the 18th century, I am pretty sure. Also, while the cover promised a li...
I saw this book and was drawn to it. I am really glad that I read it. Jane Austen is one of my all-time favorite authors and anytime I see that someone has decided to continue one of her stories or write in that style I am immediately interested. Marsha Altman's work thoroughly impressed me. One ...
A campy, madcap adventure story, Mr. Darcy's Great Escape is Marsha Altman's third book, in her Pride and Prejudice Continues series. The year is 1812, seven years after Elizabeth Bennet and her devoted sister Jane married Mr. Darcy and Mr. Bingley respectively, and the families are all returning...
“I think I like it here,” Darcy said. “I must be going insane. We must make it official.” “We must,” Dr. Maddox said from his cell, not bothering to turn over to face him. What did it matter to him, anyway? He was blind. Well, not blind, or so Dr. M...
He had been perusing a note about an offer on an estate holding when he noticed the letter from Longbourn, sorted accidentally into his pile. “From your father,” he said to her. The missive, he was sure, was not urgent, or it would have come by an express courier. Mr. Bennet rarely wrote; he had ...
He had joined her in bed very late when she was nearly asleep, kissed her, and immediately fallen asleep. So, she was reluctant to wake him. Grégoire had apparently gone to Mass, and the fact that, despite the years of anti-clerical tyranny and destruction, Notre Dame was perhaps the most splendi...
Eventually, her interest led her to write two sequels to the novel: A Woman Worthy and Regard and Regulation, both with Lulu Press. Needless to say, she was thrilled to have her short story, an alternative viewpoint of Mr. Darcy’s role, be included in this anthology. Mackey and her husband live i...