Mr. Darcy's Christmas Errand
(2026)(A book in the Pride and Prejudice Variation series)
A novel by Rachelle Ayala
What if delivering Christmas charity baskets meant spending every snowy mile with the man who called you barely tolerable?
Every St. Thomas’s Day, Elizabeth’s grandfather delivers baskets to the poor of Lambton—each one filled with provisions and a secret, unsigned letter of encouragement. This year, his granddaughter has come to help.
So has Fitzwilliam Darcy, who has spent weeks by Grandpa Gardiner’s fire, insisting that a certain Hertfordshire lady means absolutely nothing to him. Her family is vulgar. Her fine eyes are irrelevant. He is entirely indifferent.
Then Elizabeth arrives, and Darcy realizes he has been insulting her to her own grandfather, a former tenant farmer who treats him like a son.
When Grandpa falls ill, he asks Darcy to help Elizabeth deliver the baskets—and the Christmas notes inside. And somewhere, over icy roads and through cozy tenant cottages, a helping hand over a stile and her name breathed like a secret, Elizabeth discovers a Darcy she had never considered—warmer, attentive, and sweet in that earnest way that has her laughing.
And then, she finds her grandfather’s letter in her basket—the one meant for Darcy—and her foolish happiness shatters.
A duchess offers Elizabeth the escape of a lifetime: elevation to her social circles, adventures abroad, and a future far from the man whose eyes keep finding hers across every crowded room.
The snow is falling. Christmas is coming. And Elizabeth has to decide what matters more: the man he was, or the man he is becoming.
Features:Original character: Grandpa Gardiner • Darcy falls first • Misplaced insults • Christmas charity baskets • Switched letters • Snowy forced proximity • A duchess offers escape • Found family warmth • No Wickham • Guaranteed HEA
Clean Regency romance, 71,000 words
Genre: Romance
Every St. Thomas’s Day, Elizabeth’s grandfather delivers baskets to the poor of Lambton—each one filled with provisions and a secret, unsigned letter of encouragement. This year, his granddaughter has come to help.
So has Fitzwilliam Darcy, who has spent weeks by Grandpa Gardiner’s fire, insisting that a certain Hertfordshire lady means absolutely nothing to him. Her family is vulgar. Her fine eyes are irrelevant. He is entirely indifferent.
Then Elizabeth arrives, and Darcy realizes he has been insulting her to her own grandfather, a former tenant farmer who treats him like a son.
When Grandpa falls ill, he asks Darcy to help Elizabeth deliver the baskets—and the Christmas notes inside. And somewhere, over icy roads and through cozy tenant cottages, a helping hand over a stile and her name breathed like a secret, Elizabeth discovers a Darcy she had never considered—warmer, attentive, and sweet in that earnest way that has her laughing.
And then, she finds her grandfather’s letter in her basket—the one meant for Darcy—and her foolish happiness shatters.
A duchess offers Elizabeth the escape of a lifetime: elevation to her social circles, adventures abroad, and a future far from the man whose eyes keep finding hers across every crowded room.
The snow is falling. Christmas is coming. And Elizabeth has to decide what matters more: the man he was, or the man he is becoming.
Features:Original character: Grandpa Gardiner • Darcy falls first • Misplaced insults • Christmas charity baskets • Switched letters • Snowy forced proximity • A duchess offers escape • Found family warmth • No Wickham • Guaranteed HEA
Clean Regency romance, 71,000 words
Genre: Romance
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