Book excerpt: 3 Jane Austen Inspired Novellas Miss Darcy’s New Companion Just as Alex, the Earl of Fane, decides to court the heiress Miss Darcy to save his estate, he unwittingly falls in love with her companion, beautiful but shabbily dressed Miss Wetherspoon. A mix-up involving Mr. Collins compels Alex to offer for Miss Darcy despite that his heart belongs to another. Miss Darcy’s Secret Love Thinking to please her brother, Miss Darcy plans to accept one of the fortune hunters courting her—even though she’s been in love with Captain Robert Farrington her whole life. When Robert returns to seek permission to marry another, Miss Darcy shows him she’s no longer the tag-along tomboy he remembers her as. The Liberation of Miss de Bourgh Lady Catherine de Bourgh desires her dying daughter to wed a nobleman. Though he’s not in love with the invalid, Lord Seaton agrees to marry her for the much-needed fortune it will bring. And it will only be for a short while . . . His tender ministrations to his bride aid her recovery. Now can she capture his heart?