Amish Pride and Prejudice

Summer in Unity, Maine brings Mr. Darcy, a newcomer who quickly becomes Elizabeth Beachy’s greatest enemy. Elizabeth has spent her whole life proving herself. After her father’s crippling fall, she and her sister Jane run their successful family business, Beachy Carpentry. At thirty-six, Elizabeth is known for being a stubborn spinster. After church one Sunday, weary of gossiping matchmakers, Elizabeth pours her frustrations into a letter to her closest friend, Juliet, and slips it into their secret wooden mailbox. But the letter never reaches Juliet. William Darcy, newly arrived in Unity with his best friend Charles, discovers the note. Moved by its humor and honesty, he writes back anonymously. Elizabeth soon confides in this mysterious correspondent who understands her in ways no one else does, unaware she is pouring her heart out to her greatest enemy. In person, however, Darcy is infuriating. When he and Charles start a competing company, offering lower prices and spreading rumors at the farmers’ market that the Beachy sisters cannot run a carpentry business, Elizabeth’s anger erupts. As their arguments and misunderstandings deepen, Elizabeth’s anger leads her to a reckless act of sabotage late one night in the woods, one she soon regrets and cannot undo. As Jane’s quiet romance with Charles begins to blossom, Elizabeth must face the consequences of not only wronging her new enemy, but her own sister. Will Elizabeth move past her pride and prejudice not only to forgive, but to ask forgiveness? A heartfelt and sometimes funny Amish retelling of Pride and Prejudice, filled with secret letters, spirited rivalry, sisterly devotion, and a love that grows stronger than stubbornness. Also in this series: Amish Gift of the Magi Amish Romeo and Juliet Amish Scarlet Letter Amish Little Women