title: The Future Mrs. Darcy: Given Good Principles Volume 2
author:  Maria Grace 
description: Though Maria Grace has been writing fiction since she was ten years old, those early efforts happily reside in a file drawer and are unlikely to see the light of day again, for which many are grateful.  She has one husband, two graduate degrees and two black belts, three sons, four undergraduate majors, five nieces, six cats, seven Regency-era fiction projects and notes for eight more writing projects in progress. To round out the list, she cooks for nine in order to accommodate the growing boys and usually makes ten meals at a time so she only cooks twice a month.  She can be contacted at: author.MariaGrace@gmail.com. You can find her profile on Facebook: facebook.com/AuthorMariaGrace or visit her website at: AuthorMariaGrace.com
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  ## “Darcy has this crazy idea,” Jake said.
  
  
  
  
  
  At some point he had followed her into the kitchen and was leaning against the
  wall. Mariabella froze at the words. Darcy. That woman who had almost
  recognized her. Did she know? Had she figured it out after Mariabella left the
  restaurant?
  
  
    
  
  
  Impossible. Wasn’t it?
  
  
    
  
  
  “Oh…yeah?” She fiddled with the flowers.
  
  
    
  
  
  “She thinks you might be a princess.”
  
  
    
  
  
  Mariabella swallowed hard. She plucked out a daisy from the center and shoved
  it into a space on the side, then moved a rose from the right to the left.
  “Huh? Really?”
  
  
    
  
  
  “Are you?”
  
  
    
  
  
  The two words hung in her kitchen—heavy, fat with anticipation. Destructive.
  
  
    
  
  
  Are you her?
  
  
    
  
  
  It was over. Her life here. Her fantasy that she could be loved by a man like
  him as an ordinary woman. Once she told him who she was he would never look at
  her the same way again.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  Dear Reader,
  
  
    
  
  
  If you’re reading