Pride and Protest

A woman goes head-to-head with the CEO of a corporation threatening to destroy her neighbourhood in this fresh and modern retelling of Pride and Prejudice by debut author Nikki Payne.

A Phenomenal Book Club pick for November 2022!

Liza B.—the only DJ who gives a jam—wants to take her neighbourhood back from the soulless property developer dropping unaffordable condos on every street corner in DC. But her planned protest at a corporate event takes a turn after she mistakes the smouldering-hot CEO for the waitstaff. When they go toe-to-toe, the sparks fly—but her impossible-to-ignore family thwarts her every move. Liza wants Dorsey Fitzgerald out of her hood, but she'll settle for getting him out of her head.

At first, Dorsey writes off Liza Bennett as more interested in performing outrage than acting on it. As the adopted Filipino son of a wealthy white family, he's always felt a bit out of place and knows a fraud when he sees one. But when Liza's protest results in a viral meme, their lives are turned upside down, and Dorsey comes to realise this irresistible revolutionary is the most real woman he's ever met.