Steampunk Darcy: A Pride and Prejudice Novel Set in the Future

When Seraphene Grant is offered a job by Longbourn Laboratories' William Darcy, she is both intrigued and suspicious. Seraphene is trying to stay on the right side of legal, and she can’t think of a single legitimate reason he would want to hire her. She’s determined to put her checkered past behind her and she won’t compromise that for an arrogant descendant of the Darcy family who wants to reproduce his ancestral home. But Darcy has something more risky in mind, and he knows Seraphene is the perfect match for the job. The problem is, he can't tell her what the job involves. The only way he can gain her trust is to lie about what he is doing! Meanwhile, all Seraphene's instincts are telling her to run. But in a post-apocalyptic world where well-paid jobs are scarce and charming, wealthy gentlemen in cravats are even scarcer, how can she resist? Perhaps she should have, because being around William Darcy soon becomes more and more dangerous –– in more ways than one. Buckle your seats and get ready for a romantic adventure involving swashbuckling pirates, automatons and parasols in this Pride and Prejudice spin-off. About the Author Monica Fairview is an ex-literature professor who has abandoned teaching criticism about long gone authors who can’t defend themselves in order to write novels of her own. Monica can be described as a wanderer, having opened her eyes to the world in London and started travelling since. She spent many years in the USA before coming back full circle to London. Monica’s first novel, An Improper Suitor, a humorous Regency, was short-listed for the Romantic Novelists’ Association’s Joan Hassayan prize. Since then, she has written two traditional Jane Austen sequels: The Other Mr. Darcy and The Darcy Cousins (both published by Sourcebooks) and contributed a short sequel to Emma in Laurel Ann Nattress’s anthology Jane Austen Made Me Do It (Ballantine). Originally a lover of everything Regency, Monica has since discovered that the Victorian period can be jolly good fun, too, if seen with retro-vision and rose-colored goggles. She adores Jane Austen, Steampunk and cats, though at the moment she shares her living space with a husband and a daughter instead.