In the summer of 1814, Anne Elliot feels she had nothing else to lose, while Frederick Wentworth has achieved a lot of fortune and success but not happiness. What if: -Anne and Frederick are both trying to spare themselves the pain of a meeting and both avoid going to Uppercross. -However, fate plots for them to meet and prevent them from avoiding each other. -The company around them are not that of the distracted and selfish Musgroves but of their respective closest friends, who do not miss noting their strange behaviour and immediately begin to make assumptions about their bond. -Their friends are plotting to get them back together. May Frederick feel resentful any longer, and hide his feelings from himself and the others? "Complementary" is the 1st book (in 2 volumes) of a longer series inspired by classic Jane Austen's "Persuasion".