Finding Jane
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
For fans of Outlander, The Time Traveler's Wife, and The Rose Garden, this tale of love, honor, and scandal will test the course of destiny for two souls in search of each other, if only time wasn't between them.
She wasn't supposed to be there.
He wasn't supposed to fall in love.
Reeling from loss and disillusioned with her life in Los Angeles, Jane Reynolds flees to the English countryside in search of peace. But a London bookstore, a mysterious woman, and a single, impossible moment send her spiraling-out of time.
She wakes in 19th-century England: naked, alone, disoriented, and entirely unprepared. Taken in by Henry Eaton, a guarded landowner nursing wounds of his own, Jane finds unlikely shelter-and unexpected connections. Caught in the past, Jane becomes an interloper in the lives of the people she meets. What begins as friendships soon stirs into something deeper and far more dangerous for everyone she meets.
But history has rules. And Jane's presence is a breach.
As Henry's world shifts around her, Jane faces an impossible choice: return to the life she ran from, or remain, and risk unraveling everything.
For nothing good can come from disrupting a time and place you don't belong.
Finding Jane is a haunting exploration of time, memory, and the brief moments where love and history collide.
Winner of Pencraft Awards for Literary Excellence in Historical Fiction, Silver Medal Winner for Historical Fiction/Time Travel by The Coffee Pot Book Club, Reader Reviews Grand Prize Winner in Fiction, Reader Review Gold Medal in Romance, Book of the Year Awards, and "Highly Recommended" five-stars award and Honorable Mention in Historical Time Travel , 2022 Book of the Year by The Historical Fiction Company.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Conte debuts with a lavish time-travel story involving a modern woman confronting 19th-century sensibilities. In 2013, Jane Reynolds is reeling from the sudden breakup with her boyfriend of seven years. She struggles to concentrate on her job as exhibit director for the Los Angeles County Museum, and is grateful for a trip to London to collaborate with the British Museum, hoping it will take her mind off her failed love life. In London, she stops at a vintage bookstore, where a psychic tells her she will go on a journey to revitalize her soul, but warns that if she stays too long, she will never return. While walking through the woods around Eaton Manor, where she is meant to identify a collection of historical clothing, Jane falls from a dizzy spell, then wakes up naked and in the care of Henry Eaton, master of Eaton Estate, in 1833. She remembers what a friend once told her: "Don't lose yourself because of love. Find yourself because of it." Luckily, the handsome Henry Eaton makes following that advice easy. With Jane, Conte has crafted an intelligent if sometimes emotionally needy heroine, and she does a good job showing how Jane learns to live and love in a strange new world. Women's fiction fans will enjoy this. (Self-published)
