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...