Most Ardently Yours
A Novel
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- Pedido anticipado
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- Se espera: 7 jul 2026
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- $199.00
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- Pedido anticipado
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- $199.00
Descripción editorial
From USA Today Bestselling author Freya Sampson comes a swoon-worthy, laugh-out-loud romance inspired by Jane Austen’s beloved Pride and Prejudice that begs the question: what if your book boyfriend jumped from the pages of their story and into your life?
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single woman in possession of many romance novels, must be in want of a book boyfriend.”
Zoe Knight, a struggling romance writer, has sworn off men for good. At least…the ones in real life. Once a believer in a happily ever after, she now curbs her loneliness with the help of the best book boyfriends in literature – and there is no better man than Jane Austen’s Mr. Darcy. So when she stumbles into a classic London bookshop and argues with the annoyingly attractive store owner, Nick, who refuses to sell romance novels, she decides to liberate him of a dusty copy of Pride & Prejudice abandoned on a top shelf.
But this is no ordinary book.
After reading from the pages, Zoe finds herself in a remarkable situation: she has accidentally summoned the 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. Talks like he swallowed a thesaurus? Check and check. But even in all his regency perfection, can he ever be as good as in the novel? And if he’s here, in her London apartment trying to figure out how to work a shower , 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 the fictional Darcy back to his own story, Zoe will have to decide what she really wants from a happy ending, before it’s too late.
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.
