Brighton & Betrayal: A Pride & Prejudice Regency Romance Retelling

Brighton, 1813. Elizabeth Bennet expected seashells and sunshine, not a brooding stranger who knows every hidden cove. Fitzwilliam Darcy is rumored a reclusive gentleman, yet Elizabeth spies him guiding moonlit boats through smuggler tunnels. When Crown agents recruit her to expose a seaside smuggling ring, she must choose: betray the man she loathes, or trust him with her life and her heart. Together they navigate ballroom gossip, treacherous tides, and a tension that sparks hotter than midsummer sand-yet one false step could drown them both in scandal.

Assigned a covert mission by His Majesty's Customs, Elizabeth poses as a curious holiday guest, cataloguing every suspicious shipment along the chalk cliffs. She doesn't expect Mr. Darcy's blunt warning to leave Brighton before nightfall-or the spark that flares when they are forced to share a storm-tossed cave. Darcy has spent months infiltrating the pirate syndicate that ruined his family's good name; a single mistake will see him hanged. But Elizabeth's sharp questions threaten to unravel his cover even faster than the Crown's spies. When an encrypted manifest points to a traitor inside the Prince Regent's household, the pair must forge an uneasy alliance and race the spring tide to stop a lethal shipment bound for London.

Love is the riskiest contraband of all.