Based on: Pride and Prejudice and Original Work
Era: Regency
Main Characters: Elizabeth Bennet, Fitzwilliam Darcy, David Baugham, Holly Tournier
By: Gail & Tina


Synopsis:

As, 'twixt two equal armies,
Fate Suspends uncertain victory,
Our souls—which to advance their state,
Were gone out—hung 'twixt her and me  

All is fair in love and war. When Mr Darcy hears that Miss Elizabeth Bennet has taken refuge from her family’s troubles and her own rebellious heart in Scotland , he quickly decides his good friend Lord Baugham is in urgent need of some solitary reflection, complemented by his own soothing company, at his Lordship’s country estate nearby. Mr Darcy’s well-laid plans and swift advance, however, have very unexpected consequences for his host and for Elizabeth Bennet’s cousin, Miss Holly Tournier.

Twixt Two Equal Armies is the first story in the Lord and Lady Baugham series and recounts how the two met, behaved most uncivilly and unexpectedly towards one another but ended up entrusting their life, love and happiness to the other’s keeping for the rest of their days.

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About Gail & Tina

G&T. Tit and tat. Odds and Ends. Old world and new. Two peas in a pod. H&B. Holly and David. Lord and Lady Baugham. One wants to put a dead body in every story. The other wants to make the reader cry in every chapter. One will take any crazy idea, swear not to stray and then have a chapter ready the next morning. The other will painstakingly comb through a story for any and every mistake, typo or missing comma (and there are a lot of those on account of the other one…) before she will even consider it being anywhere near finished. One insists on chapters of uniform length and the other spends hours prettifying headings and staring at the perfect picture for the cover.

They’ve never met face to face, yet each could tell you what the other is thinking most of the time.

That’s how it works. Because it does! And not only that, it gives pleasure, laughter, fun, excitement, tears, emotion and it keeps them both sane to boot. Our excuse is that it’s educational, too! It’s really a match made in heaven because each is as anal about details as the other and both love to create a good story, flawed protagonists, and colourful side characters.

We’re Gail and Tina and we love what we do.

What started out as a leisurely sideshow to Pride and Prejudice has taken over our lives and become our universe. It started with a story called Twixt Two Equal Armies where we created a detour in Pride and Prejudice to Scotland as well as gave Elizabeth Bennet an intriguing cousin called Holly Tournier and Mr Darcy a fascinating friend in Lord David Baugham. Then we made them meet, clash and fall in love. But the story doesn’t end there. In fact, that is only the beginning. Since then we have written seven full length stories that follow Lord and Lady Baugham through adventure and marriage (often the same thing). Little by little we have fleshed out their life together in more and more stories. And when our Regency universe seemed too small and some of those crazy ideas started to seem just a little too good to ignore, we have taken a sharp left and followed our muse and Holly and David down other paths as well.

The Seasons Series is the perfect antidote to intricate Regency writing and living. It is set in New York in 1948 and has definite pretensions to emulate something of the noir. PI Baugham and his doll wisecrack themselves through a series of mysteries and strange cases, battling their own demons as well as crooks and shysters.

Lately, we have used Holly and Baugham for our selfish self-educating purposes and thrown them out into the whirlwind of history. ‘Time it Was...And What a Time it Was’ is Holly and David in 1968. The soon-to-be-anally-combed-through-and-edited ‘The Valley of the Shadow’ is Holly and David in 1868. Right now we’re getting used to swampy, muddy, struggling New Orleans after having lingered Boston , for a little Holly and David in 1768. And as if that wasn’t enough, sometimes we each take on Holly and David for a little creative ménage-à-trois. Gail put them through World War One in ‘...To End All Wars’. Tina gave them a ‘Twelfth Night’ in 1826 and also transported them back to the time of the Arthurian legends (but is completely incapable of touching it in an editing way so it’s still “resting”) in ‘Deeds and Martial Feats’. There is, in fact, no end in sight!