Romance at Rosings... Persuaded to visit his aunt and cousins by his sister Georgiana, Fitzwilliam Darcy is surprised to run across the very person he has tried for months to, if not forget, avoid - Elizabeth Bennet. Colonel Fitzilliam and Anne de Bourgh have long nursed a secret attachment to one another, but realise that their chances of marriage will be greatly improved if they can successfully match Darcy first, and set forth a scheme with Georgiana and Charlotte Collins to manage what fate appears to have left undone...

This time of the year I always need Christmas fluff and this year more than ever. If you feel the same way, here is a modern day story about Charlotte and Sidney set around Christmas time.

Sanditon Alternative Universe Modern Story. Charlotte has been enlisted to take photos of some fireman for a fundraiser calendar. A certain fireman takes notice of her. Follow along as a relationship builds between Charlotte and Sidney. These calendar photos have been created by a very talented fan of the story. They can be found on Twitter (follow me @graffiti4) or in the Sanditon Survival Book Club group on Facebook. I also write many other stories on AO3. As I finish them there, I'll post them here.

And so a little about Sanditon the show, that occupied me from the moment I first watched.

Sidney and Charlotte find the time to finish a most important conversation.

¿Que valor puede tener la vida si no estamos juntos? -Jane Austen

Orgullo y prejuicio

Charlotte Heywood and Sidney Parker. AU but still in the Regency. Slow burn with lots of angst but there will be a Sidlotte HEA!

A second series inspired by the women in the Sanditon Sisterhood, in which the female characters find their voice, their strength, their power. Sidney Parker has disappeared. As torrential rain floods the streets of Sanditon, search parties are released to comb the town, the coves and beyond, and as Mary Parker awaits further news at home, she begins to reflect upon the events of the summer that led to this. Charlotte Heywood has returned home to Willingden and very nearly resigned herself to the daily toils of pastoral life, but when an unexpected letter arrives, she must decide whether she is ready to begin anew. Set both in Sanditon and London, this is a story of what might have happened next.

AU Regency Mr Darcy tired of being fawned at for being rich switches place with his amiable but not so rich cousin Colonel Fitzwilliam. What drama will unfold when Elizabeth and the others are greeted in the Merton assembly not by the proud disagreeable man but his cousin? Will Lizzy see through the switch?