A Storm Over Pemberley: A Pride and Prejudice Variation

What if Mr. Bennet became the master of Pemberley?

In a strange twist of fate, the Bennet family has come into possession of the grand estate of Pemberley. Overwhelmed by the work that is required, Mr. Bennet enlists the help of his eldest daughters to better manage the tenant farmers and bring some semblance of agreement back to their relationship with the estate. After years of mismanagement under Mr. Bennet's cousin, the tenants are reluctant to trust the new caretakers of the estate, especially a tenant farmer named William Darcy.

Thrust together in an uneasy relationship, Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy must work together to repair the farms and bring the estate back to its former glory, but is the distance between them too great to allow them to be anything more than acquaintances? Or will they be pulled apart by the expectations of the new society that Elizabeth finds herself in...