Searching for Pemberly

Based on: Persuasion
Era: Regency
Main Characters: Anne Elliot, Frederick Wentworth
By: Mary Simonsen

synopsis:

On Anne Elliot’s 25th birthday, her family has declared her to be a spinster, but instead of being downcast by this change in status, she finds it to be liberating. As a result of her new-found freedom, Anne becomes a long-distance runner, and this activity greatly increases her confidence and sense of self-worth. It is this new Anne who Captain Frederick Wentworth meets when he sees the love of his life after eight years of separation. The Captain admires the changes in Anne, and he finds that he is falling in love with her all over again.

However, there is a complication. The heir to Kellynch, the Elliot estate, William Elliot, has also come back into the picture after being estranged from Anne’s father, Sir Walter Elliot, Baronet, and he has set his sights on Anne. Now living in Bath, Anne senses that something is not right, and with the help of a street urchin named Swoosh, she sets out to discover William Elliot’s true nature.


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About Mary Simonsen

I have been captivated by the novels of Jane Austen since I first read Pride & Prejudice in English class at Elmwood Park High School in northern New Jersey more than three decades ago. After retiring from a career as a legal secretary in Dallas and a second career as a special education assistant in school districts in Maryland and Arizona, I turned my attention to writing a novel that has been swirling around in my head for about ten years. That story is Searching for Pemberley which is available in book stores and on line. A second Austen re-imagining, The Perfect Bride for Mr. Darcy, will be published in December 2010 by Sourcebooks. I have also self-published a Persuasion re-imagining, Anne Elliot, A New Beginning, (available in May 2010) and a modern novel, The Second Date, a romance set in the heart of the Italian-American community of North Jersey in the 1990s. It is the story of one woman’s search for the perfect guy with some help from friends and family. Both novels are available exclusively on Amazon. After crisscrossing the country with my husband of thirty-plus years, Paul and I finally settled in Peoria, Arizona, a suburb of Phoenix, with our two grown daughters and granddaughter. We spend most of our time in the Valley of the Sun, but when the temperatures hit the triple digits, we head up to the High Country in Flagstaff—a cool retreat and a great place to write a book.