Elizabeth Bennet has always feared that Lydia would fall to ruin… but she never imagined that she would be the one to pull her from its clutches. Lydia’s marriage to Mr. George Wickham was not borne of a very deep love, but of necessity and desperation. Mr. Bennet paid far too much to secure the brazen officer’s promise to wed his youngest daughter. But in purchasing a bridegroom for Lydia, the Bennet family also inherited the trouble that came along with it. When Lydia stops writing, Elizabeth journeys to London to enquire after her sister’s well-being, but what she discovers will change her life forever. A Simple Thing is a clean (but darkly dramatic) Pride and Prejudice variation set in an alternate timeline from Jane Austen’s romantic classic.