Author: Beth Pattillo
Publisher: GuidepostsBooks
Keywords: life, ruined, austen, jane
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2009-02-03
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0824947711
ISBN-13: 9780824947712

English professor Emma Grant has always done everything just the way her minister father told her she should -- a respectable marriage, a teaching job at a good college, and plans for the requisite two children. Life was prodigiously good, as her favorite author Jane Austen might say, until the day Emma finds her husband in bed with another woman. Suddenly, all her romantic notions a la Austen are exposed for the foolish dreams they are. Denied tenure in the wake of the scandal and left penniless by the ensuing divorce, Emma packs up what few worldly possessions she has left and heads to Engla

Author: Beth Pattillo
Publisher: GuidepostsBooks
Keywords: novel, heart, broke, darcy
Number of Pages: 272
Published: 2010-02-01
List price: $14.99
ISBN-10: 0824947932
ISBN-13: 9780824947934

Claire Prescott is a sensible woman who believes in facts and figures, not fairy tales. But when she agrees to present a paper to a summer symposium at Oxford on her ailing sister’s behalf, Claire finds herself thrown into an adventure with a gaggle of Jane Austen-loving women all on the lookout for their Mr. Darcy. Claire isn’t looking for Mr. Anyone. She’s been dating Neil -- a nice if a bit negligent -- sports fanatic. But when a tall, dark and dashing stranger crosses her path, will the staid Claire suddenly discover her inner romantic heroine? Her chance meeting with a m