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A Lie Universally Hidden

By: Anngela Schroeder
Narrated by: Elizabeth Grace
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Summary

“The engagement between them is of a peculiar kind. From their infancy, they have been intended for each other. It was the favorite wish of his mother.…” (Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice)

Fitzwilliam Darcy was raised to never stray from the path set before him: Ensure the continued prosperity of his estate, Pemberley, protect and educate his sister to become an accomplished woman, and marry the woman his mother chose for him — his cousin Anne de Bourgh. With a letter bearing his late mother’s signature, Darcy presumes his fate is sealed and prepares to wed one he does not love. However, his destiny begins to unravel when he glimpses a pair of fine eyes on a quiet, country road. 

Elizabeth Bennet is the second daughter of a respectable, though insignificant gentleman. She is flattered to have captured the attention of a local squire, a childhood friend, and everyone believes her path is secure — until a handsome, rich gentleman arrives at a neighboring estate. Happenstance begets the unlikely pair together, bridging a forbidden love long past a mere friendship.  

In A Lie Universally Hidden, two of literature’s most beloved romance characters are destined to marry for fortune and obligation rather than love. How will Darcy and Elizabeth fulfill their true destiny under such circumstances? Shall honor, decorum, prudence — nay, a signed letter from the grave — forbid it? 

A Lie Universally Hidden is a Regency Romance suitable for most audiences, teen and up. 

©2016 Anngela Schroeder (P)2020 Anngela Schroeder
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I really enjoyed this take on a story I know well and love. Although I’m not so sure that Miss Bennet would behave with quite this level of impropriety, it was interesting to hear how the story may have unfolded had Mr Darcy been a little less Proud, and Elizabeth a whole lot less Prejudiced. The story was beautifully read, and great fun to listen to.

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Nauseating

The writing style is just too clichéd and sacchinery for my taste. I felt a bit nauseated by the third chapter and couldn't continue. The narrator makes it worse.

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