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Mr. Darcy and the Governess: A Pride and Prejudice Romantic Comedy Kindle Edition

by Alix James (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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**Elizabeth Bennet**

My life is in tatters: a scandalous elopement, the possible loss of my beloved Longbourn, and the mortifying memory of a rejected proposal. As if that's not enough, I now have the delightful job of handling the unruly Holt children as their governess. Little did I know, this role would pull me into the world of international intrigue. Italy, Napoleon, and danger? Not exactly what I signed up for.

**Things going terribly wrong:**

1. Longbourn's impending doom. (Just perfect.)
2. Becoming a governess. (Desperation calls.)
3. Discovering the Holt's suspicious interest in Napoleon. (Because, of course.)
4. Running into the last person I'd ever want to see. (Why, universe, why?)
5. Realizing that the only man who can help me navigate this mess is the one whose heart I broke. (Oh, irony.)

**Fitzwilliam Darcy**

Getting over Elizabeth Bennet? Harder than I imagined. Being called upon for a crucial mission? Just my luck. Finding out Elizabeth is tangled in the very web I'm trying to unravel? Absolutely unbelievable.

**Things I didn’t expect this year:**

1. Elizabeth becoming ensnared in an international incident. (Coincidence? I think not.)
2. Having to balance my mission with my feelings. (I’m not prepared.)
3. The burning need to protect Elizabeth from looming danger while she still despises me. (Old habits.)
4. Europe on the brink of war... again. (Timing is everything.)
5. Realizing the only way forward is to confront our past. (I could use a sign.)

In a world teetering on war, can a gentleman set on deciphering international secrets and a governess wrapped up in her own tumultuous saga find their way back to each other?

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0BRR21RQR
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Winsome Wit Publishing (September 26, 2023)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 26, 2023
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1458 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 299 pages

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- #77 in British Humor & Satire Literature
- #129 in British & Irish Humor & Satire
- #235 in Adaptations & Pastiche Fiction

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Alix James is a best-selling Austenesque author with nearly 30 books in print.

Always on the go as a wife, mom, and small business owner, she rarely has time to read a whole novel... but somehow she manages to write them! She loves coffee with the sunrise and being outdoors with kids and horses. When she does get free time, she likes to read, camp, dream up romantic adventures, and tries to avoid housework.

Each Alix James Story is a clean Regency Variation with a guaranteed happy ending, no infidelity, and heroes you can fall in love with.

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mustang

Loved it

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2024

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I got the ebook and audiobook and Alix James and Stevie Zimmerman have done it again on their partnership for an excellent adventure/mystery story. Is this story far fetched- yes but it’s a fun and enjoyable ride! The girls are a perfect fit and love how everything turned out. Will I read or listen again- absolutely!

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Gratia

Off to meet the tyrant

Reviewed in the United States on April 19, 2024

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This was a fun story, despite the original situation of the Bennets after Lydia's elopement. A different search and rescuer leads Elizabeth into service and into a boat to the Continent. This adventure brings her meetings with spies, mistresses, and society of the high and low, along with different kinds of intoxication. Darcy is dazzled, charming and devoted. The audiobook, performed by Stevie Zimmerman is excellent.

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S. L. Majczan

ODC meet as both sail to Elba, where many seek an audience with Napoleon.

Reviewed in the United States on October 2, 2023

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This author writes under two names and I have enjoyed all of her books. This story does have a bit of angst. I received a copy of this story from BookFunnel and am voluntarily leaving a review. All opinions are my own.

Elizabeth becomes a governess to three girls, whose parents really show little affection for them. It seems the whole Lydia/Wickham debacle has occurred with only Mr. Gardner to help pay off Wickham to do the "right" thing. The only way Bennet can repay his brother-in-law is by leasing out Longbourn for a few years. The Bennets then move into the dower house. Elizabeth feels the need to help out financially and sees little choice for her future due to the disgrace into which the family has fallen.

Ironically, Elizabeth finds herself on the same ship sailing to the isle of Elba as Mr. Darcy. Her employers and Darcy (and others) have reasons to want to meet Napoleon.

Elizabeth finds her youngest charge, Poppy, a great challenge as the child continually wanders off. The other two girls have their own unique behaviors, which add interest to the story.

Elba turns out to be a very dangerous place to be as Napoleon succeeds in "escaping" his imprisonment. Of course there are political threads to this story in that event. We read Darcy cursing his cousin, the Colonel, many times as Darcy finds himself in tight and awkward situations. (Some background here: Darcy is a second son and for a short time served in the armed forces until the death of his father and brother change his status. The Hunsford Proposal has already occurred and Elizabeth carries Darcy's letter with her as a reminder of how wrong she was in her words to him.)

As Darcy's feelings for Elizabeth remain unabated and she finds herself falling in love with him, he serves as protector of not only Elizabeth but also three young girls whose parents have their own political agenda and make no time for their children.

This was a story with not only angst but also one which was hard to put down. I highly recommend it.

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Spies and Romance and Escape! Oh My!

Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2023

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Two people coerced into a change of living arrangements, meet aboard a ship bound for Italy. Two people who have met previously. Two people who may or may not be in love.

Are you intrigued yet? What if you knew that the two people were Fitzwilliam Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet?

The story opens with Darcy’s cousin, the Colonel, visiting him with the intention of pushing him into serving King and Country by traveling to Elba where a particular former troublemaker is currently confined. (The usual timeline has been adjusted several years to coincide with Napoleon’s career.) Darcy boards a ship to Italy.

In Hertfordshire, Elizabeth Bennet is leaving to take a position as a governess. We learn that Lydia has disgraced herself and the family, but the details are sketchy.

Elizabeth meets her charges:

Quote from the book: Emily, the eldest … sleek black hair, eyes that were flat and dark as jet, and a scowl that pierced like daggers. I am certain that was the intent.
Beatrice ... milky blue eyes and a wild mop of blonde hair that looked as if she had just tumbled down a hill, despite the pins and ribbons her maid had stuck into place with more optimism than success. Beatrice’s eyes widened, and her mouth worked, but no sound came out.
Penelope … equally untamed locks of fiery auburn and the most impertinent rash of freckles over her nose. “… everyone calls me Poppy.”

Too late, Elizabeth learns that the Holt family intends to travel to Elba to spend time with the defeated Emperor. Elizabeth has no choice; she must also set sail.

Neither parent is involved with their children and all the girls misbehave. Emily sends caretakers packing; Bea stutters; and Poppy wanders away. What a situation for a first-time governess! Elizabeth has her work cut out for her. Then she discovers a rejected suitor among her fellow passengers. And the seasickness begins.

When the ship finally clears the stormy waters and arrives in Italy, the situation worsens. Darcy and Elizabeth are confronted with Napoleon’s escape from Elba. Drugged nearly senseless, they must save themselves and three children.

The plot develops and escalates, right along with the romance. Loved it!

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Marie

Quite the Adventure!

Reviewed in Canada on September 29, 2023

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Darcy never knew about Lydia’s elopement with Wickham, so he is unaware of her folly’s repercussions upon the Bennet family. Imagine his surprise when he encounters Elizabeth in service as a governess to three young girls aboard a ship on the way to Italy. He has embarked on this journey at Colonel Fitzwilliam’s behest to attempt to discover what is happening on Elba where Napoleon is exiled. Elizabeth’s Lord and Lady employers are fixed on meeting the Emperor and for the most part, neglect their daughters.

So begins their voyage, providing some romance and a good measure of comedy by a swoon-worthy and sometimes tipsy Darcy, and an Elizabeth desperately trying to avoid him and keep her charges safely corralled. When she is deliberately drugged (not by Darcy), she finally makes her true feelings known. Mix in some spies and treasonous acts, and a teenie touch of angst topped off with diverting dialogue, and you have the makings of a perfectly light-hearted Regency rom-com.

Loving this series. Highly recommend.

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Marg

Action packed

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 18, 2023

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Loved the adventure and Lizzy's sassiness. Our heroine is more than a match for three recalcitrant children, a few traitors, Napoleon and of course, 'Fizzy'. Loved his nickname.

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Mel

Mr Darcy and the governess

Reviewed in Germany on September 29, 2023

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After Lydia's elopement everything changes for Elizabeth. Longbourn is to be let because her father can't afford to keep it, she cannot go to her aunt Gardiener and now her mother wants her to marry the local butcher. To not be a burden to her family Elizabeth decides to become a governess and some days later she is with Lord and Lady Hold and their children on her way to Italy.
Darcy is about to leave for Scotland to forget Elizabeth when his cousin asks to see him on urgent business. On behalf of the Colonel's commanding officer Darcy is to go to Elba to discover if Napoleon has plans to disturb the fragile peace in Europe. Arriving on the ship to Italy he encounters none other than Elizabeth ... now a governess. He is determined not to let her go again but, in Elizabeth's opinion, she is now even more unsuitable than ever for the rich gentleman, even when she is more and more drawn to him.
When they finally arrive at Elba and meet the Emperor Darcy discovers that it is not only Europe that is in danger of another war but also Elizabeth who soon finds herself in the middle of an international incident. Can Darcy find a way to protect her and the fragile peace? Is Elizabeth at all willing to see the charged man he is and will she give him a second chance?

The book of the author Alix James is a delightful and very well written story. It is both thrilling and funny at the same time, I was not able to put it down and I laughed out loud so many times. I enjoyed it very much, definitely one of the best books I read this year so far.

The book is set in 1815 with the events around Napoleon being exiled to Elba and his return to France. For the heroes of pride and prejudice everything is as it was, except that Darcy and Elizabeth had not met again at Pemberley and he thus was not able to help locating Lydia. The events now enfold in a different manner. Alix James described everything very comprehensible, events could have occurred in the described way had Elizabeth and Darcy not met again at Pemberley.

I like that Darcy is more in love with Elizabeth and more determined than ever to make her his wife even with her circumstances now more reduced because she is in service. His love is sincere and deep. And I really like the way he cares for her, has her in every thought and is not willing to give up even when she is not able to admit her feelings. I also like very much that Elizabeth is slowly but unstoppably more and more falling in love with Darcy until she finally accepts that she does not want to live without him. Like Darcy she is more and more able to read his every mood and every feeling, even from some distance. It was so heartwarming to read it ❤️.
And do not forget Elizabeth's children (the ones she is governess for), they are unique and quite lovable in their own way. I really liked them and was so glad that even they had their happy ending.

There is one big villain in this book, a really unusual one - Napoleon. I enjoy stories in which Darcy and Elizabeth need to work together to solve a problem or come up with a villain. Napoleon was a difficult opponent for them, especially for Darcy who needs to protect Elizabeth and the children and at the same time observe everything for his cousin's commanding officer. But fortunately all is resolved in the end and all the villains get what they deserve - even Napoleon 😉

I enjoyed the humour in the book very much. Darcy and Elizabeth had to endure so many witty and incredible situations (you will discover a new side of Elizabeth 😉) it was soooo delightful ❤️❤️.

If you enjoy a witty book with Darcy and Elizabeth finding themselves in unusual situations in their fight against Napoleon you should definitely read this great story.

I highly recommend the book. Definitely one of my favourites this year so far. I will read it again soon.

I received a free copy of the book from the author and am voluntarily leaving a review.

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loved it

Reviewed in Australia on November 19, 2023

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Best I have read by this author yet
No boring exposition, straight into the new scenario, lively characters, remains character-driven around complicated historical events which are only the backdrop for the brilliant characters

Michael Laun

Different than expected

Reviewed in Germany on October 1, 2023

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This is not really a variation of Austen‘s P&P. But it is well written. And an intriguing insight into why Napoleon managed to escape from Elba. I really liked the description of the interaction of Napoleon and his guest and the ramifications for modern European history.

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