Sketches an intimate portrait of a family and its emotional struggle to come to terms with the death of matriarch Louise Cooper.

When Elizabeth Bennet first knew Mr. Darcy, she despised him and was sure he felt the same. Angered by his pride and reserve, influenced by the lies of the charming Mr. Wickham, she never troubled herself to believe he was anything other than the worst of men—until, one day, he unexpectedly proposed. Mr. Darcy’s passionate avowal of love causes Elizabeth to reevaluate everything she thought she knew about him. What she knows is that he is rich, handsome, clever, and very much in love with her. She, on the other hand, is poor, and can expect a future of increasing poverty if she does not marry. The incentives for her to accept him are strong, but she is honest enough to tell him that she does not return his affections. He says he can accept that—but will either of them ever be truly happy in a relationship of unequal affection? Diverging from Jane Austen’s classic novel Pride and Prejudice at the proposal in the Hunsford parsonage, this story explores the kind of man Darcy is, even before his “proper humbling,” and how such a man, so full of pride, so much in love, might have behaved had Elizabeth chosen to accept his original proposal.

A tale of flawed individuals who find love together, in a destined marriage, unravels the deepest desires and the downtrodden fears of inane human instinct, which, when set afloat, broaches apocalyptic circumstances. Set amidst the heart-wrenching, emotional saga of misplaced endearment, Wretched Affections! pulls at your heartstrings with the palpably solemn and melancholic narration that traces the love story of Arnav Raizada and his undesirable wife, Khushi Arnav Raizada, who, by stroke of fate, find themselves bound to each other in holy matrimony.

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