After 16 year old Lorelai ran away leaving her baby in her parents care the now 18 year old Rory is on the verge of getting engaged with no ambitions for her life except to be a wife and a socialite until she goes to stay with Lorelai for a weekend and meets bad boy Jess who shows her a new way of life and changes how she sees the world forever...

This story picks up six years after A Year In The Life ended. Rory and Logan's son is five and starting kindergarten.

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.