She was promised to a lord she feared. He was the only man brave enough to stop the wedding. When Elizabeth Bennet is forced into a marriage of convenience to save her family, she resigns herself to a future without freedom-or love. Until Mr. Darcy storms the chapel and tears her fate apart. Now scandal brews, reputations tremble, and desire sparks where certainty once lived. But rescuing Elizabeth comes with consequences neither of them could predict. Is Darcy her salvation... or the beginning of an even greater ruin?