Nicole Clarkston

Nancy Klein

Don Jacobson

Amidst the turbulent backdrop of a manufacturing town in the grips of the Industrial Revolution, Elizabeth Gaskell penned the timeless passion of Mr. Thornton and Margaret Hale. A mixing of contemporary and Victorian, this short story anthology by twelve beloved authors considers familiar scenes from new points of view or re-imagined entirely. Capturing all the poignancy, heartbreak, and romance of the original tale, Falling for Mr. Thornton is a collection you will treasure again and again. Stories by: Trudy Brasure * Nicole Clarkston * Julia Daniels * Rose Fairbanks * Don Jacobson * Evy Journey * Nancy Klein * M. Liza Marte * Elaine Owen * Damaris Osborne * Melanie Stanford ** Foreword by Mimi Matthews **

Tales of North and South

Falling for Mr. Thornton

"My life has been very much like an unfinished painting. The artist comes to the portrait day-after-day to splash daubs of color onto bare canvas, filling in the blanks of my story. Thus grows the likeness, imperfect as it may be, which you see today." Lydia Fitzwilliam, Countess of Matlock, letter to her sister Elizabeth Bennet Darcy, March 14, 1831.Does it matter how a man fills out his regimentals? Miss Austen never considered that query. Yet, this question marks the beginning of an education...and the longest life...in the Bennet Wardrobe saga.Lydia Bennet, Longbourn's most wayward daughter, embarks on her quest in The Pilgrim: Lydia Bennet and a Soldier's Portion. This biography reveals how the Wardrobe helps young Mrs. Wickham learn that honor and bravery grow not from the color of the uniform-or the gender of its wearer-but rather from the contents of the heart.In the process, she realizes that she must be broken and repaired, as if by a kintsugi master potter, to become the most useful player in the Bennet Wardrobe's great drama. The Pilgrim explores questions of love, loss, pain, worry, and perseverance. All of these are brought to bear as one of the silliest girls in England grows into the Dowager Countess. This 151,000-word novel is the seventh, and next-to-last, volume in the Bennet Wardrobe Series. Each book along the way has revealed more about how the mysterious Wardrobe has led Miss Austen's Bennets to learn that which they need in order to take part in its ultimate mission. As Mirta Ines Trupp, author of The Meyersons of Meryton notes: "Multifaceted and nuanced, The Pilgrim: Lydia Bennet and a Soldier's Portion, speaks to the verities of life. Once again, Don Jacobson has combined the essence of Pride and Prejudice with an esoteric storyline and the universal themes of redemption and forgiveness in this well-crafted narrative."

Lydia Bennet and a Soldier's Portion: a Pride and Prejudice Variation

The Pilgrim

As Meryton burns, a new character is forged and refined. Love ignites in the fiery ashes and smolders until the couple can be reunited. Mary Bennet spent her life fighting to be herself. If only she knew what that was. For years, trying to be exceptional, she buried her nose in the fusty musings of Fordyce's Sermons to Young Women. With Jane and Elizabeth wed and gone, Mary must find her way as Longbourn's eldest daughter. A young woman of deep faith and inquisitive mind waits to unfurl her wings. Even as Miss Bennet overcomes her troubled adolescence, a mysterious man appears on the night of a great calamity. His secret-and her love-grows from a magical cabinet-the Bennet Wardrobe! About the Wardrobe Series: The Wardrobe sends Bennets on time travels where they can learn what they must. Explore how the Bennet sisters' love stories echo through time in all eight books. Some doors open to cloaks and bonnets, others to unknown futures.This full-length novel contains a few scenes of physical and sexual violence. Laraba Kendig, author of 'The Longbourn Inheritance' says of The Keeper: A delightful journey through time as Mary Bennet, the 'plain' sister from Jane Austen's immortal 'Pride and Prejudice, ' is made Keeper of a magical wardrobe. A powerful read. Readers rank The Keeper: Mary Bennet's Extraordinary Journey Five Stars Rita blogs in "From Pemberley to Milton" The Keeper: Mary Bennet's Extraordinary Journey is a captivating novel which is so different from anything ever written in the genre, that it occupied a place that was unexplored until this moment. I hope this is a trend that came to stay because it is indeed compelling, fresh and stimulating. I highly recommend this book to readers who want something a little different than usual and that will stimulate them as readers. This is not the average JAFF book, and the author was able to think outside of the box, so if you're looking for something that differs from the regular boring plot while following the entire Bennet family's story, this is the book for you. LisaMarie 137 writes of The Keeper: Mary was a character I felt had been mostly skipped over or mocked in P&P, so the idea of her getting her own story was intriguing. To have her get such an adventure was even better! Once the story got past the world establishment, it just keeps moving constantly. It was a story I just couldn't stop until I had finished it! Looking forward to more in the series! A Careful Reader comments about Volume One of the Wardrobe Series: I absolutely love all of Don Jacobson's books. He combines excellent narrative skills and description with interesting speculative fiction. As a historian, he adds wonderful historical detail. Also an exciting narrative. Looking forward to more titles.

Mary Bennet's Extraordinary Journey: A Time Travel Pride and Prejudice Variation

The Keeper

A. Lady

The universe was shaken once again on Midsummer's Day in 1801. The Bennet Wardrobe's door to the future was opened in the bookroom at Longbourn. This time the most impertinent Bennet of them all, Elizabeth, tumbled through the gateway. Except she left not as the grown women with whom readers have become so familiar, but rather as a ten-year-old girl who had been playing a simple game of hide-and-seek.Which Where/When was her destination? What needs could a young girl, only beginning to learn to make her way in the Regency, have that could be answered only by the Wardrobe? Or were the requirements of another Bennet, one who began as younger, but had aged into a beautiful, confident leader of Society, the prime movers behind Lizzy's journey? Is the enigmatic Lady Kate the force that shaped the destiny of Lizzy and her younger sisters left back in Hertfordshire? How do the visions of the future brought home by young Lizzy help shape her world?Answers to these and other questions raised in the Bennet Wardrobe Series can be found in "Lizzy Bennet Meets the Countess." This is a medium-length novella (41,000 words) that considers a slice of time between the end of "The Exile: Kitty Bennet and the Belle �poque" in 1892 (Volume 2 of the Bennet Wardrobe) and the beginning of "Henry Fitzwilliam's War" in 1915. And, after Lizzy is transported back to that bucolic summer day in 1801 proto-industrial Great Britain, "Lizzy Bennet Meets the Countess" will carry all readers forward to what may be considered the greatest writers' workshop in history. T'was at the legendary Villa Diodati on the shores of Lake Geneva that Lord Byron gathered Mary Godwin (Frankenstein), John Polidori (The Vampyre) and Percy Bysshe Shelley for a vacation during the Year Without Summer--1816. Oh, Fitzwilliam Darcy and his wife, Elizabeth, were there to act as catalysts that would transform vague ideas into timeless speculative

A Bennet Wardrobe Novella

Lizzy Bennet Meets the Countess

A Pride & Prejudice Variation

The Longbourn Quarantine

In When God Makes Lemonade, author Don Jacobson has collected real-life stories from around the world that show everyday folks discovering unexpected sweetness in the midst of sour circumstances. Some are funny, others are sobering, and more than a few will bring tears of amazement. But these true stories all have one thing in common: hope.

True Stories That Amaze & Encourage

When God Makes Lemonade

When Fitzwilliam Darcy's father slides into an early grave, his son is forced to take on Pemberley's mantle. Brandy numbs his pain, but Darcy's worst inclinations run wild. After tragedy rips everything away, he spends years finding his way back to a new life as a man redeemed by a woman's loving understanding. Elizabeth Bennet is afflicted with a common Regency ailment: observing the world about her but not seeing those beneath her notice. Then a clarifying act shatters the propriety that has denied her heart the transcendent love she craves. In Plain Sight explores Jane Austen's eternal love story by flipping social roles on their heads. From their first encounter, Elizabeth Bennet and the convict known as "Smith" must overcome their prejudices and break through their pride. Only then can they share the treasure hidden in plain sight.

Don Jacobson

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