F*CK OFF Pride and Prejudice

Side characters aren't supposed to hijack the protagonist's spotlight and hold the main story hostage. They're supposed to stay confined to the background, like the good little human-shaped white noise makers they are.

Well, for whatever reason, it's middle-sister Mary Bennet's time to shine. In this version of the story, she has massive sway over the events within. Not that she's trying to influence the main plot (although she has had it with all the sitting), but when an accidental spill turns things on their head, she decides to go with the flow. After all, what kind of 21st century New Yorker would she be if she couldn't adapt and go with the punches?

Oh, that's right. Mary Bennet. She's not Mary Bennet, per say. She's Jessa Slyvane, twenty-five-year old self-proclaimed mess from modern day Brooklyn, and after experiencing the worst fall into a pothole, and coming out the other side in Austen's beloved classic, she's forced to play Mary, of all people.

And she was fine with it, so long as she could keep sneaking sips of Mr. Bennet's secret office brandy behind the house. But it's become clear this time is different. And that her choices have consequences. Jessa's rewriting the story, sans an editor breathing down her neck and emailing her pages of notes at two in the morning.