Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict
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Jane Mansfield has long wished to escape the confines of life as a gentleman"s daughter in 181З England. But awakening in the urban madness of twenty-first-century L.A. - in the body of Courtney Stone - is not what she had in mind. With no knowledge of Courtney"s life, let alone her world, Jane is in over her head. What is Jane to make of carriages that run without horses, lights that glow without candles, and people who talk to the air while holding a small object against their ears? Granted, she does enjoy the shiny glass box in which tiny people act out her favorite book, Pride and Prejudice. And she savors her first taste of privacy, independence, even the chance to earn her own money. But when Courtney"s romantic entanglements become her own, Jane realizes that the machines of the twenty-first century are much easier to master than its rules of love. Can a girl from Regency England survive in a world in which flirting and kissing and even the sexual act raise no matrimonial...