Excerpt: Chapter 1

Mr. Darcy’s plane landed forty-fi ve minutes late. Vanessa, with coffee in hand and an earbud in one ear, steered her aunt in the airport wheelchair toward the throng of people gathered at the international arrivals area of Chicago’s O’Hare.

She leaned over her aunt’s shoulder. “How are we doing, Dowager Countess of the local Jane Austen Society?”

Aunt Ella turned and smiled. She eagerly awaited Mr. Darcy, a.k.a. Julian Chancellor, from England. He was her honored guest and a keynote speaker for the Jane Austen Society of North America’s annual conference.

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