Jane Austen Cannot Marry

A comically offbeat, fish-out-of-water, time travel novel set in Regency England and the

21st century Colorado Rockies. Nadine Finley is a Scribe Guardian from the future who

must play ‘un-matchmaker’ to Jane Austen, a British naval officer, and the romance that

A comically offbeat, fish-out-of-water, time travel novel set in Regency England and the

21st century Colorado Rockies. Nadine Finley is a Scribe Guardian from the future who

must play ‘un-matchmaker’ to Jane Austen, a British naval officer, and the romance that

jeopardizes literary history.  

 

Nadine has made the quantum commute to 1811 to stop Jane Austen from meeting and

marrying Captain Charles Gordon. The two of them share a romantic past, and if Nadine

fails in her mission, Jane will never get to London. The fledgling author will never get

her first book ready for publication. And if the novel is never readied for the presses,

Jane will never go back home and revise the manuscript that will eventually

become Pride and Prejudice. In short, disaster.

 

The mission instructions were plain and simple: Jane Austen cannot marry.

 

Except...matters become extremely complicated when the Scribe Guardian’s own

romantic interest unintentionally follows her across the centuries to 1811.

Xander Nouri is a tech millionaire who is cheerfully unfamiliar with both history and

literature. He has also forged a life where he is insulated from the non-quantifiable

uncertainties of feelings and romance. In fact, the only time he let his guard down was

for three wildly unexpected days in Las Vegas when he allowed his heart to be fondled

and then stomped on by an elusive woman named Nadine. Xander lives in a world of

reason, facts, and data…none of which explain her appearance, dressed in period

clothing, in a coffin a mile from his secluded mountain home.

 

And her claim of time traveling doesn’t exactly compute.

 

It’s not long before sparks once again begin to fly between the former lovers. But Nadine

needs to get back to her mission before literary history is permanently damaged.

By the time she’s able to make the quantum leap back in time, Jane Austen and the

captain have already met again...and romance is brewing. To complicate matters, Xander

has made the trip, as well. And Xander is the unlikeliest ‘nerd-out-of-water’ ever to land on Regency shores.

 

But that’s where the fun begins...

 

Nadine has made the quantum commute to 1811 to stop Jane Austen from meeting and

marrying Captain Charles Gordon. The two of them share a romantic past, and if Nadine

fails in her mission, Jane will never get to London. The fledgling author will never get

her first book ready for publication. And if the novel is never readied for the presses,

Jane will never go back home and revise the manuscript that will eventually

become Pride and Prejudice. In short, disaster.

 

The mission instructions were plain and simple: Jane Austen cannot marry.

 

Except...matters become extremely complicated when the Scribe Guardian’s own

romantic interest unintentionally follows her across the centuries to 1811.

Xander Nouri is a tech millionaire who is cheerfully unfamiliar with both history and

literature. He has also forged a life where he is insulated from the non-quantifiable

uncertainties of feelings and romance. In fact, the only time he let his guard down was

for three wildly unexpected days in Las Vegas when he allowed his heart to be fondled

and then stomped on by an elusive woman named Nadine. Xander lives in a world of

reason, facts, and data…none of which explain her appearance, dressed in period

clothing, in a coffin a mile from his secluded mountain home.

 

And her claim of time traveling doesn’t exactly compute.

 

It’s not long before sparks once again begin to fly between the former lovers. But Nadine

needs to get back to her mission before literary history is permanently damaged.

By the time she’s able to make the quantum leap back in time, Jane Austen and the

captain have already met again...and romance is brewing. To complicate matters, Xander

has made the trip, as well. And Xander is the unlikeliest ‘nerd-out-of-water’ ever to land on Regency shores.

 

But that’s where the fun begins...