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The year is 1896, and Elizabeth ("Lisi") von Schwabacher, the gifted daughter of a Jewish banker, returns home to Berlin from three years of piano study in Vienna. Though her thoughts are far from matrimony, she is pursued by two noblemen impressed as much by her stunning wealth as by her prodigious intellect and musical talent. Awakened to sudden improvements in the opportunities open to women, Lisi balks at her mother's expectation that she will contract a brilliant marriage and settle down to a life as a wife and mother.

Must a woman always be blamed for the mistake she made as an innocent sixteen-year-old girl? Maria Wyndham is the older, more vivacious twin sister of Harriet. After their parents’ deaths, she and her sister move to the grand estate of Eastease and become wards of its owner, Alexander Harker, and their cousin, Nathaniel Ackley. Just in time for a ball for the twins’ sixteenth Birthday, their guardians’ friend, Robert Davenport, arrives to dance and lavish them with gifts. Captivated, Maria vies for his attention, despite Harriet’s interest in the man.

Mrs. Bennet is desperate for her five daughters to marry in order to secure their future. But with no romance on the horizon for her eldest, Jane, things are looking bleak. Practical Mary shows no interest in anything other than her studies and music. Her youngest two, Kitty and Lydia, have a frivolous approach to their quest for romance, which is unlikely to end in marriage… Meet Elizabeth Bennet, the second-eldest daughter. Sensible, witty, headstrong, and an excellent judge of character—or so she thinks…