'When rising out of the darkness, and one eye opens, then the other...that is the happiest of moments.'

Elizabeth Bennet wakes up, happy to be alive after the riot. But she is not the only invalid. For Kitty, Raspberry, and Margaret Hale also suffered infliction and injury from the fray.

In their efforts to recover, there is Mr. Darcy, Colonel Fitzwilliam, and Mr. Thornton who oversees their ladies. They are now fully confronting their desires, and there is no going back. While all this occurs, tragedy still looms in the distance from both the North and the South, in ways that were unforeseen.

Here comes Book III of the Austen Gaskell series!