Mounted By Her Officers

Three officers who never once retreated have spent months withdrawing from Mrs. Wickham. She has ordered them to hold their positions.

The road out of Brighton is thick with coaching inns, and Lydia’s relations are waiting at every one of them. Mr. Bennet chooses a discussion of Tacitus over his own daughter. Mrs. Bennet recognizes her mourning bombazine on Auntie Mildred and would like it back.

Nobody asks what the only Bennet sister without a child is running from. Lydia knows, and so do her officers: any baby of hers belongs by law to George Wickham. Which is why three devoted men have been so careful to withdraw.

They are done being careful. At the Spread Eagle Inn, Major Carter, Captain Denny, and Captain Chamberlayne stage a rescue that never happened and tell Miss Bennet to lie back and take her saviors. In the barn at Little Horsted, Denny greases his weapon and mounts her while the stablemen hunt for rope a stall away. By Nutley, all three set about getting her in a delicate condition — one after another, then two at once.

Four years with George Wickham left Lydia empty. Five days of bad roads remain, and she has every intention of arriving properly filled.

Mounted by Her Officers is Book 4 in the Mrs. Wickham’s Upstanding Officers series — a spicy Pride & Prejudice MMFM why choose reimagining where Lydia finally gets the justice — and attention — she deserves.