Emma Tarrow is a muggle born witch. When she goes to Hogwarts she befriends the son of the famous Harry Potter. All is well until rumors start to rise about a son of Voldemort coming to finish his father's deeds. What happens when his first target is Hogwarts?

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.