The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

When Hazel's beloved boyfriend (Augustus Waters) dies, she thinks life as she knows it is over. But when she goes to the hospital and discovers that she is pregnant, it is the best thing that ever happened to her...or the worst.