Eclipse of the Heart

Power to control love itself… How seductive. What one wouldn’t give to control her own heart, to stop it from bleeding? Or what one wouldn’t pay to find love after her life was played with by Cupid, by fate, by bad luck? And, how exciting it is to find her own heart has been used as Cupid’s bullseye? Lovers in LOVE IN THREE ACTS collection are united, teased and challenged continuously while played by fate. Part of the fun lies on discovery that the stories are linked in a subversive whimsical way by peacocks, swans, liqueur, small books, slippers and carriages. Three different ways to play with common elements of 19th century life. And there is Venice; the meager power women had over their own lives back then; contraceptives … 2nd act is ‘Eclipse of the heart’: An alternative universe for P&P. Darcy and Elizabeth only meet several years after the Bingleys’ wedding. As life hasn’t been kind, they find in each other not only friendship or solace but also love and hope.