Author Rachel Dacus has authored a series of books tied together by time travelers who are committed to “fixing” errors in history and combating a group called the Optimalists who are equally committed to changing history to further their own agenda. Jane Austen, Time Traveler is the fourth in this series but can be read as a standalone.
In the future in 2087, George, a time traveler, notices a blip on the Golden Net, a futuristic version of the worldwide web, and traces it to Jane Austen, two centuries earlier, whose novel has been rejected by a top British publisher. This causes her acute distress plus the realization that, without the income from a book, she is doomed to a loveless marriage. George fears that the Optimalists are wiping out Jane Austen to quell the feminist movement at its onset. To combat her feelings of despair, he takes her to Pasadena, California in 2024 in , to show her the effect her works have had on readers. What he doesn’t count on is the feistiness of Ms. Austen who not only manages to deal with the changes from her time to the present but falls in love with her number one fan, Will. She arranges her own HEA in a manner befitting an enlightened woman.
Jane Austen, Time Traveler is a fun read, especially Jane’s reaction to all the changes as she shifts in time, such as cars, airplanes indoor plumbing, cell phones, and Uber. She’d consider all the changes magic, but “magic only exists to get wayward boy to eat their porridge.”
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Jane Austen, Time Traveler (Independently published, December 2, 2022) is available through Amazon.
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The remainder of the series is also available through Amazon.
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