After an unfortunate stint as 'lady's companion' to the abusive Lady Eloisa Wickham, C.J.'s luck arrives in the form of Lady Dalrymple, a progressive thinker who opens her home and her purse to C.J., believing she is her long-lost niece.

Welles as she is mysteriously transported between present-day Manhattan and Bath of 1801.

Offering a picturesque dose of time travel, romance and the atmosphere of 19th-century England, Elyot follows actress C.J. discovers something even more startling-a secret from her own past that may explain how she wound up in Bath in the first place. And in the midst of this remarkable series of events, C.J. An attempt to return to her own era might mean forfeiting her blossoming romance with the irresistible Darlington and her growing friendship with Jane Austen, but it’s a risk she must take. When a crisis develops, C.J.-in a race against time-becomes torn between two centuries. into her home, introducing her as a poor relation to Georgian society-including the dashing Earl of Darlington and his cousin, Jane Austen! meets the delightfully eccentric Lady Dalrymple, a widowed countess who takes C.J. Just as she wishes she could click her heels together and return to Manhattan, C.J. And Georgian England, with its rigid and unforgiving social structure and limited hygienic facilities, is not quite the picturesque costume drama C.J. But during her final audition, she is mysteriously transported to Bath, England, in the year 1801. Welles, a die-hard Jane Austen fan, is on the verge of landing her dream role: portraying her idol in a Broadway play. A tale of time travel, true love, and Jane Austen

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