What if Mary's life had taken a different path than Jane Austen had planned for her? What if the disillusioned intellectual of the Bennet family, an ordinary girl who seeks salvation in books, ends up finding what her prettier, more confident sisters have found? Mary's journey is the same as every Austen heroine's, but her fate is different from other sisters. She will have to get rid of false expectations and hopes that obscure her true nature and prevent her from doing what brings happiness. By coming to understand and accept herself, she has the chance to find peace and clarity of vision. As in all Austen novels, she must decide whether the person she loves is truly the one for her. In The Other Bennet Sister, Mary is a full-fledged character - complex, contradictory and often insecure; but also vulnerable, supremely sympathetic and ultimately the protagonist of the story.