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Liz Bennet is clever enough to know better than to fall for Fitzwilliam Darcy. He is a surgeon and the best friend of her brother Chip, and he has made snide remarks about her for years.

When her father has a heart attack, Liz comes home to Cincinnati to help run the family's crumbling house and its shakier finances. A disastrous night at a local bar then leaves her bound to Fitz in an arrangement neither of them would have chosen.

This is a contemporary retelling of Pride and Prejudice. Regency ballrooms give way to happy hours and hospital wards, and the plot draws in reality TV scandal, social media obsession and a high-stakes medical storyline alongside the romance.

The tone is witty and modern, with the comedy of manners kept from Austen's original. It reads as a romantic comedy about family pressure, money worries and a dislike that may not hold.