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Ever since Emma read Pride and Prejudice, she's been in love with Mr. Darcy and has regarded Jane Austen as the expert on all things romantic. So naturally when Emma falls for Blake Hampton and he invites her home to meet his parents, she is positive an engagement is in her future. But when it turns out that what Blake actually wants is more of a hook-up than a honeymoon, Emma is hurt, betrayed, and furious. "A fan of Jane Austen's novels, Emma Pierce...

Divorced American Charlotte Kinder takes a trip to Regency staged Pembrook Park in Kent where she plays parlor games, learns country dances, and even lets herself be courted by her assigned suitor, the brooding, magnetic Mr. Mallery. But her vacation becomes more Northanger Abbey when she catches a fleeting glimpse of a dead body in a secret room.

For everyone who loves Jane Austen...a marvelously entertaining new series that turns the incomparable author into an extraordinary sleuth! On a visit to the estate of her friend, the young and beautiful Isobel Payne, Countess of Scargrave, Jane bears witness to a tragedy. Isobel's husband--a gentleman of mature years--is felled by a mysterious and agonizing ailment. The Earl's death seems a cruel blow of fate for the newly married Isobel. Yet the...

Christmas, 1804. Jane Austen finds herself in Bath and bored to death. Thus, she welcomes an assignment from a titled friend.

Writer Jane Austen's family goes for a holiday by the sea. The carriage overturns and they find shelter in a manor whose owner, Geoffrey Sidmouth, is suspected of being a smuggler. The Napoleonic Wars are on, so smuggling is a big business. The local customs man asks Jane to carry out an undercover investigation. A sequel to Jane and the Unpleasantness of Scargave Manor.

Initially believing (mistakenly) that her sister Elizabeth married well only in order to provide for her sisters, Mary is happy to be relieved of the obligation to marry at all so that she can continue her faithful works. But she begins to have second thoughts after further studying marriage through her sisters' experiences as well as spending time with two young men. One is a splendid young buck whose determined courtship must have ulterior motives;...

""Fans of The Chilbury Ladies' Choir and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society will adore The Jane Austen Society... A charming and memorable debut, which reminds us of the universal language of literature and the power of books to unite and heal." -Pam Jenoff, New York Times bestselling author of The Lost Girls of Paris Just after the Second World War, in the small English village of Chawton, an unusual but like-minded group of people...

A Jane Austen scholar reveals how the life lessons hidden within Austen's novels, including her belief in the value of ordinary lives, transformed his own life.

"Step into the world of Georgian England and learn more about the genteel life of this beloved author. Although Jane Austen's works were first published anonymously and brought her little personal recognition, today they are rarely out of print and have inspired movies, television shows and mini-series, literary anthologies, and many other adaptations all around the world. Her writing--principally her five novels--is a critique of the British landed...

"Visiting her brother in Kent to celebrate his engagement, fifteen-year-old Jane Austen meets wealthy, handsome Edward Taylor. Unsure of her budding relationship, Jane seeks distraction by attempting to correct the pairings of other prospective couples. But when her matchmaking aspirations go awry, Jane discovers the danger of relying on first impressions"--