Lizzy and Darcy meet first in Meryton and rub each other the wrong way. If not for a series of thefts requiring someone to solve the mystery, they would likely never find an accord. Working together has the unexpected effect of bringing them a new understanding, and when they thwart a kidnapping, she thinks they might have a chance at friendship and perhaps more. Then Darcy and the Netherfield party depart without word or explanation, leaving Jane (and possibly Lizzy) heartbroken. When she sees Darcy again in Hunsford, she’s not sure she can forgive him even as they work together to apprehend a blackmailer. They part with animosity but are reunited in London, finding themselves at the center of a murder investigation. When that brings them closer again, Lizzy accepts an invitation to Pemberley for Darcy to properly court her. Things seem to be going well, even with Lizzy’s mother in attendance, but murder once again threatens to derail their burgeoning romance, and it also brings the return of an old Darcy nemesis. While Abbey sometimes writes sensual JAFF, this series is strictly SWEET.

"I brought my hands together as nerves and excitement filled me. This was it. Time to tell him the best news of my life. “I’m going to have a baby,” I squealed. He gasped, eyes turning to saucers, and brought his hands up to his mouth. “What! God, you’re pregnant?” he asked a little too loud, and the people at the nearby tables glanced over at us". I saved him. Well, maybe he saved me. Or perhaps we saved each other. All I knew was that one second, I was bickering with the man I pretended to despise—a man I secretly wanted more than my next meal—and the next the world was exploding around us. KTS, the secret military agency I worked for, was under attack by a former agent turned traitor and everything we thought we knew about being the good guys was getting more complicated by the minute. As was my relationship with Linc. I’d asked him out once, bared my feelings for him, and . . . he’d turned me down. Not gently, either. But now we were fighting for our lives, and I discovered that perhaps his rejection wasn’t quite so simple. Maybe he’d pushed me away because once I was in his heart, there was no letting me go. Ever.

"What is the meaning of this?" I questioned still in disbelief. Where had it all gone wrong? We were happy, he respected me and so did I...I even fell in love with him so how could he do this to me? "It's exactly what it says in the paper, Ciara" "And what is that?" I stubbornly inquired. Ryan had uttered those words I so desperately dreaded," I want a divorce, Ciara" *** Ciara is the heiress to her father's company but she left all of that to be in a contract marriage with Ryan. It was supposed to be a 'no-strings-attached' kind of feeling but, she couldn't help but fall in love with him. Just when she wanted to start a clean slate on their first anniversary, she was handed a divorce paper. Ryan is a billionaire and a man with a hardened heart. He never saw Ciara as something more than just a 'fake wife' who was willing to help him out with a case. Deciding that he had had enough, Ryan hands Ciara a divorce paper setting himself free from her but 5 years later, he seems to have a change on heart and wants to win Ciara back at all cost. But on his way to the office of the new investor of his company he is overcomed by a welling shock that the name of his new investor was Ciara. The same Ciara he'd known and once loved. What happens when this two dual meets for the first time since their rough divorce? Would they rekindle their feelings or would they leave it at that? Could second chance love prevail?