Several years have passed since the wedding of Mr.
Fitzwilliam Darcy and the former Elizabeth Bennet, and Lady Catherine's prediction about polluting the shades of Pemberley have not come to pass.
Blessed with a son and the company of Miss Georgiana Darcy, the Darcys of Pemberley are settled into their quiet life when it is disrupted by the death of a local Rector.
The search for the new one begins, but the newly-hired Stephen Acworth proves of increasingly mysterious character.
Does he seek .