title: Mr. Darcy's Refuge: A Pride & Prejudice Variation
author:  Abigail Reynolds 
description: Abigail Reynolds is a lifelong Jane Austen enthusiast and a physician. Originally from upstate New York, she studied Russian, theater, and marine biology before deciding to attend medical school. She began writing variations on Pride and Prejudice in 2001 to spend more time with her favorite Jane Austen characters. Encouragement from fellow Austen fans persuaded her to continue asking What if...?, which led to seven novels in The Pemberley Variations series. She has also written two contemporary novels set on Cape Cod, The Man Who Loved Pride and Prejudice and Morning Light. In 2012 she retired from medical practice to focus exclusively on writing. She is currently at work on a new Pemberley Variation as well as the next novel in her Cape Cod series. She lives in Wisconsin with her husband, two teenage children, and a menagerie of pets. Her hobby is trying to find time to sleep.
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  THE RATIONAL FACULTY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  HAZARD AND SOMERSET: A UNION OF SWORDS
  
  
  BOOK 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  GREGORY ASHE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents
  either are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any
  resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is
  entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright 2019 Gregory Ashe
  
  
  All Rights Reserved
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Still, a Union that can only be maintained by swords and bayonets, and in
  which strife and civil war are to take the place of brotherly love and
  kindness, has no charm for me.
  
  
  
  
  
  -Robert E. Lee
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # CHAPTER ONE
  
  
  OCTOBER 30
  
  
  TUESDAY
  
  
  6:00 AM
  
  
  
  
  
  EMERY HAZARD LIKED MORNINGS the best. In the morning, the world still made
  sense.
  
  
  Like this morning.
  
  
  He was up at six, rolling out of bed while his boyfriend, John-Henry Somerset,
  smacked the alarm and limped toward the shower. Somers’s leg had almost fully
  healed from the gunshot, but it was