The Auction
(2026)(A book in the Steamy Pride and Prejudice Variations series)
An omnibus of novels by Demi Monde
Lot Seven. One thousand pounds. Sold to the man she despises most in England.
Elizabeth Bennet wakes on an auction block in a white muslin gown with no memory of how she arrived. Her mother drugged her. A trafficking society took her. And the man who purchases her — for a sum that silences the room — is Fitzwilliam Darcy, the proud, cold gentleman she has spent months learning to hate. He takes her to his townhouse, gives her a key that locks from the inside, and tells her she is free to leave. She is not free to leave. The society is watching, and if she steps outside his protection, they will take her again.
Now she is trapped in his house with a man she does not trust, unravelling every lie she has believed — about the charming Mr. Wickham, about her own mother, and about the man whose careful, stubborn honour is nothing like the coldness she mistook it for. Darcy does not press. He does not explain himself. He simply stays, night after night, one floor below her, not sleeping. And Elizabeth is terrified — not of him, but of what it means that she no longer wants to leave.
Elizabeth Bennet wakes on an auction block in a white muslin gown with no memory of how she arrived. Her mother drugged her. A trafficking society took her. And the man who purchases her — for a sum that silences the room — is Fitzwilliam Darcy, the proud, cold gentleman she has spent months learning to hate. He takes her to his townhouse, gives her a key that locks from the inside, and tells her she is free to leave. She is not free to leave. The society is watching, and if she steps outside his protection, they will take her again.
Now she is trapped in his house with a man she does not trust, unravelling every lie she has believed — about the charming Mr. Wickham, about her own mother, and about the man whose careful, stubborn honour is nothing like the coldness she mistook it for. Darcy does not press. He does not explain himself. He simply stays, night after night, one floor below her, not sleeping. And Elizabeth is terrified — not of him, but of what it means that she no longer wants to leave.
- Pride & Prejudice Variation
Forced Proximity — Captive/Protector
Enemies to Lovers
He Bought Her to Save Her
Slow Burn with One Devastating Scene
Strong Female Lead
Dark Premise, Earned HEA
Genre: Historical Romance
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