What Would Jane Austen Do?
Laurie BrownTime-travel romance
Available from Sourcebooks
ISBN: 978-1-4022-1831-6
May 2009
| Eleanor Pottinger is a costume designer who was recently dumped by her fiancé. She is going to start her own company and is now on a trip to England for a Jane Austen festival. At the country manor hotel where the festival and conference are being held, her reservation is lost and she is forced to stay in a little used haunted room where she meets Mina and Deirdre, ghosts of former inhabitants of the house. They sweep her back in time to prevent a duel that leads to their presence centuries after their deaths. There as the girls’ widowed cousin she meets Lord Shermont, Regency Rake and spy for the Crown. He is at the manor trying to ferret out a Napoleonic Spy and the American Eleanor sparks his interest.
I am not usually a fan of time travel stories, but this one really caught my interest. I have always loved the Regency era and the idea of an American woman going back to that era is fascinating. The author really does a great job of describing Eleanor’s trials and tribulations in trying to help her ghostly friends and the descriptions of a typical house party and the activities that are involved is really well done. Lord Shermont is a wonderful character and everything that a hero should be; tall, handsome, patriotic, clever, sexy, and mysterious, he’s quite a package. The plot twist at the end is genius! This is a great romance both contemporary and historical.
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Reviewer: Maura Frankman |
