What Would Jane Austen Do? (eBook)
352 Seiten
Sourcebooks (Verlag)
978-1-4022-2737-0 (ISBN)
From the author of Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake, a new time travel romance featuring a modern day career woman swept back in time to Regency England, where she thwarts a Napoleonic spy, chats with Jane Austen, and falls in love with a notorious rake. Surely Jane Austen would know how to handle such a rake...
From the author of Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake, a new time travel romance featuring a modern day career woman swept back in time to Regency England, where she thwarts a Napoleonic spy, chats with Jane Austen, and falls in love with a notorious rake.
Eleanor is a costume designer in England for the Jane Austen festival, where her room at the inn is haunted. In the middle of the night she encounters two ghost sisters whose brother was killed in a duel over 200 years ago. They persuade her to travel back in time with them to prevent the duel. Eleanor is swept into a country house party, presided over by the charming Lord Shermont, where she encounters and befriends Jane Austen. But there's much more to Lord Shermont than the ghosts knew, and as Eleanor dances and flirts with him, she begins to lose her heart.
When a modern woman goes back to Jane Austen's time, she needs to know...everything!When Eleanor agrees to travel back in time to prevent a deadly duel, but she doesn't know how to behave, what to say, and most importantly...how to tell a villain from a rake.The captivating, infuriating, and mysterious Lord Shermont is a renowned rake and womanizer-but is he also a dangerous cutthroat and spy? Eleanor has to get up close and personal to find out, otherwise, she could fall into a most shocking scandal.Thankfully, Miss Jane Austen herself arrives on the scene, with sage guidance and a twinkle in her eye, to help Eleanor navigate countryhouse society and the dangerous terrain of her own heart.Celebrate the 80th birthday of Regency Romance with great books from Sourcebooks Casablanca!PRAISE FOR LAURIE BROWN: "e;Highly original. If you're in the market for a different kind of historical romance, or you enjoy stories filled with period detail, Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake is a solid bet."e;- wordcandybooks.blogspot.com "e;Brown's ending was clever and I never suspected Josie would choose the path she takes. I would recommend Hundreds of Years to Reform a Rake to anyone who enjoys paranormals, and even Regency fans who don't usually read them. Brown did an excellent job of combining the two genres."e;- aladysdiversions.blogspot.com "e;A very enjoyable read with Josie a feisty and independent character, and Deverell the ghost and Deverell the man both also very appealing."e; -curledup.com "e;Humor, mystery, ghosts, history, and... pure fun."e;-blogcritics.org"e;A fresh tale that is as charming as it is hot!"e;-zeekspage.blogspot.com"e;You'll be transported to another time and won't want to return until the very last page is digested."e;- fantasybookspot.com
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.5.2009 |
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Sprache | englisch |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Fantasy / Science Fiction ► Science Fiction |
Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
ISBN-10 | 1-4022-2737-X / 140222737X |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-4022-2737-0 / 9781402227370 |
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