Fitzwilliam Darcy was at his home in London when his friend, Charles Bingley, told him the news that turned his world upside down and finally broke his heart. Elizabeth Bennet and George Wickham had married and were on a ship heading for Ireland when it was caught in a violent storm. No person survived the sinking. All these months since he and his friends left Netherfield to return to town he had thought of her and had just missed seeing her by a day both at Rosings and later at Pemberley and each time he felt her loss more than ever. He had often believed he had seen her in town but it was just wishful thinking, or perhaps a mirage. Recently he had seen a young woman riding in a carriage and thought it might be her, but he knew it could not be because the paper said she had died. He went into Hertfordshire to see for himself how the Bennet family was fairing and would soon have his answer, but he still did not know if he would ever be whole again, but he would try.