The Longbourn Quarantine: A Pride & Prejudice Variation

For all their riches, the Darcys and Bingleys could not escape epidemic’s dark hand. Netherfield is reduced to rubble. Refugees flood the roads. A feared illness sickens and kills. Anyone who could flee did. The only sanctuary is Longbourn, where, once there, all were barred from leaving by a fortnight’s quarantine.
Forced into each other’s company, Darcy and Elizabeth set aside pride and abandoned old prejudices to face their grief. Together, they forge ahead, knowing that love unexplored is love that words must be said lest they remain unspoken in the time of smallpox.