One the eve of the annual Lady Anne ball at their magnificent Pemberley estate, the happily married Elizabeth and Darcy’s pre-ball festivities are brought to an abrupt halt when Lydia Wickham arrives uninvited, hysterically wailing of a murder in Pemberley woods. The brutal crime puts not only its main suspect in dire jeopardy, but the future of the vulnerable Georgiana Darcy, the hard-won romance of Elizabeth and Darcy, and the very foundation of Pemberley itself.