In the Eyes of Lord Lingley

For Mary Bennet, life after the wedding of her eldest sisters stretched on like a bleak expanse of endless gray. Mrs. Bennet, her mother, was quite vocal about her own future expectations and none of them took Mary’s silent wishes and unspoken desires into account. She was the plain one; the unremarkable middle daughter, ignored and forgotten, unless her mother needed someone to fetch her salts or a shawl. Even the neighbors held her in little esteem when they thought of her at all; she was that unremarkable. And then her world is turned upside down by the most stunningly remarkable man she had ever imagined.
Meryton had never seen a true aristocrat. After all, Sir William could hardly be counted as such, having been raised from trade. When Viscount Lingley arrived to attend the wedding of his friend, Darcy, he was not looking for a wife of his own, but one glance became two and suddenly, he found himself championing the girl he had once thought had been the product of his youthful imagination.
Can two such disparate people ever truly fit? Can a spinster-in-the-making find the strength to step into the spotlight and when she discovers who he truly is, will Mary be pleased or will she continue to hold him apart as she does the rest of the world?

This is 40,000+ word Novella