A life-long fan of Jane Austen's timeless classics, Ms. Combe used to wonder how anybody could write a sequel or variation without getting into trouble. It was not until years after reading the first of many that she finally took it upon herself to find out, and she has since discovering that Austen's books are in the public domain been occupied with writing her own contribution to the growing number of Jane Austen Fan Fiction novels. It is her great hope that readers of the imaginative stories written by others will find her own alternative tale just as creative and entertaining.