Love Hurts - Love In Three Acts, First Act

Power to control love itself… How seductive.

What one wouldn't give to control her own heart, to stop it from bleeding?

Or what one wouldn't pay to find love after her life was played with by Cupid, by fate, by bad luck?

And, how exciting it is to find her own heart has been used as Cupid's bullseye?

Lovers, in the three stories in this collection, are united, teased and challenged continuously.

Part of the fun lies on the discover that the stories are linked in a subversive whimsical way by peacocks, swans, liqueur, small books, slippers and carriages. Three different ways to play with common elements of 19th century life.

And there is Venice; the meager power women had over their own lives back then; contraceptives …

1st Act - LOVE HURTS is a continuation of P&P depicting the first blissful months of Mrs. Darcy's new life when Elizabeth learns what is expected of her and Darcy discovers he is the one in need of adjustment.