Title: What would Jane Austen do?
First published: 2009
Description: 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.
Subjects: Fiction, Americans, Women costume designers, Aristocracy (Social class), Ghosts, Time travel, Haunted places, Fantasy, Romance, Ghost stories, Fiction, romance, historical, regency, Austen, jane, 1775-1817, fiction, England, fiction, Fiction, romance, time travel, Fiction, ghost
Places: England
People: Jane Austen (1775-1817)
LC classification: PS3602.R72227 W47 2009