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Possession and Prejudice: A Magical Pride and Prejudice Variation
How far would you go to save yourself?
Anne de Bourgh is dying, her body weak, ruined by her father's and her own alchemical experiments. She has just one chance to save herself and get everything she ever wanted.
All she has to do is steal someone else's life.
Elizabeth Bennet doesn't know how lucky she is. She's strong, beautiful, clever... and oblivious to the fact that Fitzwilliam Darcy is hopelessly in love with her.
Such a waste.
Or it would be, if Anne didn't have a plan.
What would you do if someone stole your life?
Elizabeth Bennet wakes in a strange bed unable to breathe. Her body won't obey. Her reflection shows another woman’s dying face. Anne de Bourgh has used forbidden alchemy to switch their bodies, and she's already using Elizabeth's stolen form to claim everything Elizabeth never knew she wanted.
When Darcy proposes, Anne says yes and demands they marry immediately.
Now Elizabeth is trapped in Anne's failing body, kept sedated and guarded, while Anne plans a wedding that's only days away. Once Anne marries and leaves for Pemberley as Mrs. Darcy, she'll be forever beyond Elizabeth's reach, and Elizabeth will be left at Rosings to die.
Elizabeth contacts her sister Jane, the only person who will believe the impossible. Together, they race to brew a reversal potion. But Anne has been planning this theft for years. She has Mrs. Jenkinson keeping Elizabeth drugged and guarded. She knows Elizabeth will never obtain the rare, expensive ingredients needed for reversal. She has Darcy's love, or at least, she has him loving Elizabeth's stolen face.
Elizabeth has only days, one sister, and a body that's failing with every breath.
But she's still Elizabeth Bennet. And she's never surrendered in her life.
Two women. One life. And only days to determine who gets to keep it.
A spellbinding Pride and Prejudice variation about desperation and identity. What makes you yourself when everything that defines you can be stolen?
Anne de Bourgh is dying, her body weak, ruined by her father's and her own alchemical experiments. She has just one chance to save herself and get everything she ever wanted.
All she has to do is steal someone else's life.
Elizabeth Bennet doesn't know how lucky she is. She's strong, beautiful, clever... and oblivious to the fact that Fitzwilliam Darcy is hopelessly in love with her.
Such a waste.
Or it would be, if Anne didn't have a plan.
What would you do if someone stole your life?
Elizabeth Bennet wakes in a strange bed unable to breathe. Her body won't obey. Her reflection shows another woman’s dying face. Anne de Bourgh has used forbidden alchemy to switch their bodies, and she's already using Elizabeth's stolen form to claim everything Elizabeth never knew she wanted.
When Darcy proposes, Anne says yes and demands they marry immediately.
Now Elizabeth is trapped in Anne's failing body, kept sedated and guarded, while Anne plans a wedding that's only days away. Once Anne marries and leaves for Pemberley as Mrs. Darcy, she'll be forever beyond Elizabeth's reach, and Elizabeth will be left at Rosings to die.
Elizabeth contacts her sister Jane, the only person who will believe the impossible. Together, they race to brew a reversal potion. But Anne has been planning this theft for years. She has Mrs. Jenkinson keeping Elizabeth drugged and guarded. She knows Elizabeth will never obtain the rare, expensive ingredients needed for reversal. She has Darcy's love, or at least, she has him loving Elizabeth's stolen face.
Elizabeth has only days, one sister, and a body that's failing with every breath.
But she's still Elizabeth Bennet. And she's never surrendered in her life.
Two women. One life. And only days to determine who gets to keep it.
A spellbinding Pride and Prejudice variation about desperation and identity. What makes you yourself when everything that defines you can be stolen?
443 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 15, 2025
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About the author
Catherine Bilson
277 books78 followersI've been writing since I was 5 years old. I've always had to set it aside and try to concentrate on so-called 'real life' though. I've had a number of interesting careers - engineer, real estate sales agent, owner of an electrical goods store, silversmith - but finally the time has come for me to return to my first love. Writing.
I've always loved the works of Jane Austen, so perhaps it's fitting that my first published work should be a variation on the much beloved Pride And Prejudice.
Visit my website, www.catherinebilson.com, to read several free short fics in the Pride and Prejudice fandom, and to leave me comments on my work!
I also write not-for-profit fanfiction set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and if you'd like to read those free works please go to the Archive Of Our Own and search for the user handle ozhawk.
I've always loved the works of Jane Austen, so perhaps it's fitting that my first published work should be a variation on the much beloved Pride And Prejudice.
Visit my website, www.catherinebilson.com, to read several free short fics in the Pride and Prejudice fandom, and to leave me comments on my work!
I also write not-for-profit fanfiction set in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and if you'd like to read those free works please go to the Archive Of Our Own and search for the user handle ozhawk.
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December 29, 2025
The idea is interesting. I liked Elizabeth’s determination, Jane’s role, and Anne’s attempts to fit in. However the book probably should have been a short story. There is a lot of repetition.
The plot is disjointed and seems like two different stories. The book starts with everyone including Darcy knowing something is up and with Anne is a bad actor, then pushes to end in a wedding. No one intervenes and Darcy looks like he’s set on having Elizabeth regardless of her feelings. There are a number of places where the context changes midway, such as the conversation with Colonel Forster that begins and ends with a shock reveal of Darcy’s engagement. Sometimes two different storyline options are placed beside each other, such as one chapter discussing an annulment with Colonel Fitzwilliam where Elizabeth decides she wants to stay married and feels hopeful, followed by a chapter discussing options for annulment with the Earl of Matlock and Elizabeth deciding she has to stay married and feels coercive. Needs a good editor.
The end stretched believability IMO. Skimmed last chapters otherwise it would be 2 stars.
The plot is disjointed and seems like two different stories. The book starts with everyone including Darcy knowing something is up and with Anne is a bad actor, then pushes to end in a wedding. No one intervenes and Darcy looks like he’s set on having Elizabeth regardless of her feelings. There are a number of places where the context changes midway, such as the conversation with Colonel Forster that begins and ends with a shock reveal of Darcy’s engagement. Sometimes two different storyline options are placed beside each other, such as one chapter discussing an annulment with Colonel Fitzwilliam where Elizabeth decides she wants to stay married and feels hopeful, followed by a chapter discussing options for annulment with the Earl of Matlock and Elizabeth deciding she has to stay married and feels coercive. Needs a good editor.
The end stretched believability IMO. Skimmed last chapters otherwise it would be 2 stars.
December 23, 2025
I found this book very hard to read.
So I admit I skipped the really sinister bits.
But I do like this author just not chatmed by this book.
So I admit I skipped the really sinister bits.
But I do like this author just not chatmed by this book.
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