Move over, Elizabeth Bennet. The most infamous Bennet sister is here to tell her story.
Join Lola Barnes, a.k.a. a modern Lydia Bennet, at the beginning of a summer gone truly wrong: where a boat party-turned-fiery-fiasco ends with the ship, Lolaâs summer plans, and her reputation truly sunk.
(The boat was barely on fire, for the recordâand all the partygoers were just fine.)
Luckily, this disaster of a summer has another thing in store for her: a path of self-discovery she never saw coming.
Given an ultimatumâjail time, or spending the summer with the nonprofit Hike Like a Girlâshe laces up her hiking boots and takes to the wilderness. Along the way, sheâll encounter unexpected friends, a sweet romance, strength she didnât know she hadâand herself, Lola, at last.
This Pride and Prejudiceâinspired tale, a companion to J. C. Petersonâs Being Mary Bennet, spins a modern Lydia Bennetâs life into a tumultuous and hilarious coming-of-age journey, complete with misadventures, misunderstandings, mayhem, and a romance worthy of Darcy and Elizabeth themselves.