Plenty of the old "Pride and Prejudice" standbys make appearances, albeit in updated forms. But all of that changes (or does it?) when she's called back home to Pemberley, Ohio, to be with her family and sick mom, and she runs into Luke Bennet, her now handsome - and seemingly ambitionless - childhood enemy. New York Times best-selling author Melissa de la Cruz ("Alex and Eliza") joins the ranks of authors who have reworked Jane Austen's beloved "Pride and Prejudice," this time swapping genders and making Darcy Fitzwilliam a 29-year-old woman with a bit of a pride problem. " Pride, Prejudice, and Mistletoe," by Melissa de la Cruz, St. Enter hunky, handy neighbor Ben Andrews and a little girl named Molly to possibly help Joy find the joy she's long been lacking in her working ways. But when her Aunt Ruby has an accident just before the holidays, Joy takes a leave of absence to run the family farm, even if it means she might not get the promotion she's been working toward for years. Martin's Griffin, 352 pagesÄon't be fooled by her name: Joy Holbrook is less joyful and more of a get-the-job-done kind of woman.
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