When Mr. Collins dies after just four years of marriage, Charlotte is lost. While not exactly heartbroken, she has once again landed in a precarious financial position as she will soon have to quit the parsonage that has become her home. When her best friend Lizzie is unable to leave Pemberly, she suggests that her sister Mary come stay with Charlotte instead.   To Charlotte’s surprise, Mary Bennet is nothing like she remembers. Once rather dour and pompous, Mary’s discovery of academia and her interest in botany (as well as getting out from under her mother’s thumb) has caused her to flourish. It isn’t long before Charlotte’s old crush on Lizzie resurfaces and refocuses on the middle Bennet sister. As they attend scientific salons, London balls, and exchange dozens of letters, it becomes apparent that Mary is a bit more experienced when it comes to this sort of attraction…and she wants Charlotte too.   But when her tim