Most Ardently Yours
A swoon-worthy, laugh-out-loud romance
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
💕🦚💙 It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of many romance novels, must be in want of a book boyfriend . . . 💕🦚💙
'Fans of Pride and Prejudice will adore this' INDIA HOLTON, USA Today bestselling author
'Most Ardently Yours is the book equivalent of a warm mug of tea, a soft blanket and a purring cat on your lap (even if he's named after one of literature's greatest cads)' AMY COOMBE, Sunday Times bestselling author of Stay for a Spell
Zoe Knight has sworn off men for good . . . at least the ones in real life. Once a believer in the 'happily ever after', she now curbs her loneliness with the help of her favorite book boyfriends - and there's no better man than Mr. Darcy.
So, when she comes head-to-head with the annoyingly attractive bookseller Nick, who refuses to sell romance novels, she decides to liberate him of an abandoned, dusty copy of Pride and Prejudice.
But this is no ordinary book. After reading from the pages, Zoe accidentally summons Mr. Darcy to the real world. Now, she's face-to-face with the man she's loved forever, and he's everything she dreamed he would be. Handsome? Check. Brooding? Check. But if he's here in all his Regency perfection, what will happen to the literary world he came from?
With Nick - the last man she could ever be prevailed upon to work with - urging her to send Darcy back to his own story, Zoe will have to decide what she really wants from a happy ending, before it's too late.
Perfect for fans of Kirsty Greenwood and Ashley Poston, Most Ardently Yours is a delightfully bookish and swoony romance with a lightly speculative flair from the USA Today bestselling author Freya Sampson that brings to life one of Jane Austen's most universally beloved love interests.
'Charming, witty, and an absolute delight' SOPHIE COUSENS, New York Times bestselling author of Is She Really Going Out with Him?
'A magical cross between Kate & Leopold and Notting Hill and I loved it so so much!' LYNN PAINTER, NYT bestselling author of Better Than the Movies
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Readers are already falling ardently in love . . .
'A real love letter to love stories' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
'Will sweep you away and make you swoon in the best kind of way' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
'Wow this book was soo good- I am obsessed!' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
'Easily one of my favorite reads of the year so far' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
'I LOVED every page of this book!!!' ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Zoe Knight, the heroine of this cute time travel romance from Sampson (The Last Chance Library), bemoans the fact that, at 28, she is still working at Cake Expectations, "London's premier literary-themed café," and has yet to publish the romance novel of her dreams. Meanwhile, her ex, Crispin Carter, just celebrated a book launch for the "dick lit" book she helped him write while he belittled her talent. So she's primed to pick a fight with Baskerville Books owner Nick Baskerville when he explains that he has no interest in the romance genre. This meet-ugly ends with Zoe stealing a copy of Pride and Prejudice from the store—which magically summons Fitzwilliam Darcy to contemporary London. He shows up at the café, bewildered, formal, and dashing. After determining that he's the real deal and not a prankster, Zoe's torn when Nick, whom she turns to for answers, urges her to send Darcy, her ideal man, back to his own time—until she learns that letting him stay might change the plot of her favorite book. Zoe's race to return Darcy to the Regency period is complicated by her growing attraction to Nick and the realization that it's best not to meet one's (literary) heroes. The magical time travel mechanics are hand waved away in favor of romantic angst and humor (Sampson gets a lot of laughs out of Darcy's culture shock). It's a charmer.
