Slow Burn
3 books
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
US public-domain classicFive sisters, no fortune, and a mother determined to marry them off before the money runs out. When a rich stranger takes the house next door, Elizabeth Bennet decides within one evening that she despises his friend Darcy — and spends the rest of the year discovering how wrong she was about almost everything.
Enemies to LoversRegency
Jane Eyre
Charlotte Bronte
US public-domain classicAn orphaned girl grows up unwanted, trains as a governess, and takes a post at a remote manor whose owner is as difficult as he is magnetic. The house has been keeping something on the third floor, and it will cost her everything to find out what.
Slow BurnGoverness
Persuasion
Jane Austen
US public-domain classicEight years ago Anne Elliot let herself be talked out of marrying a naval officer with no money and no name. He comes back rich, decorated, and seated at her family table, and neither of them will say the first word.
RegencySlow Burn