Margaret Dashwood's Diary Sense and Sensibility Mysteries, Book 1 (a clean Regency romance novel)

Margaret Dashwood learned from her older sisters—sensible Elinor and romantic Marianne—that the path of true love is rarely easy or smooth. And yet Margaret grew up dreaming of one day finding love and romance of her own. Now, smarting from the pain of a broken engagement, Margaret has traveled to stay with her now-married sisters in order to heal. But life is still far from smooth: John Willoughby, Marianne’s first love, has unexpectedly returned to once again complicate the Dashwood sisters’ lives. Colonel Brandon, Marianne’s husband, has been commissioned to apprehend a ruthless ring of smugglers operating in the neighborhood. And when a mysterious figure from Margaret’s past returns, Margaret realizes that she herself may hold the key to uncovering the smuggling gang. Worse, she comes to suspect that she faces an impossible choice of her own: not between sense and sensibility, but between duty and her own heart. Margaret Dashwood’s Diary is Book 1 of the Sense and Sensibility Mysteries and is appropriate for all ages. It is approximately 85,000 words long. keywords: Jane Austen sequel, Sense and Sensibility sequel, continuation, variation, clean Regency romance, cozy historical mystery, British mystery, Jane Austen fan fiction, fanfiction, jaff, Colonel Brandon, Col. Brandon, Marrianne Dashwod, Elinor Dashwood, John Willoughby, amateur sleuth, women sleuths