In 1975, Caroline Heath is taken to Bath with no thought of gothic thrills, Jane Austen’s secret teenage journal, or the chance of living in someone else’s body.
Those discoveries arrive anyway, drawing her into travel through time, more than one love story, and a sinister murder she cannot be sure is real.
Jane’s pages recount a coming-of-age set against the scandalous backdrop of Knole Park in Kent and the history of an enigmatic portrait.
A Georgian townhouse becomes a portal, and Caroline finds herself as Cassandra Austen, a young woman making her debut while pulled between family obligation and the man she loves.
As the centuries overlap and riddles come into view, she must weigh the happiness she wants against an imagination vivid enough to put her future at risk.
