It is the Darcys' first Christmas together as a couple, but Elizabeth feels a wedge already forming between them. She hopes the coming holiday season will bring them back to where they had started before everything became awkward. Between her husband's professional duties and a bitterly cold winter, she's found herself quite alone in Pemberley and intends to do whatever is necessary to amend that.

Mr. Darcy is fraught with worry as he makes to return to Pemberley and his waiting wife. He fears that he may be the cause of their marital strife, and while he's not wrong, he is mistaken about the origin. But when a horrible accident befalls Elizabeth, Mr. Darcy is forced to take a closer look at his marriage, his wife, and himself.

An intimate and sensual Pride & Prejudice Variation that takes place after the end of the novel and pertains to the married life of Fitzwilliam and Elizabeth Darcy.