Jane Austen Cannot Marry, May McGoldrick
Jane Austen Cannot Marry, May McGoldrick
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Jane Austen Cannot Marry

Author: May McGoldrick

Narrator: Sonja Field

Unabridged: 9 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/20/2023


Synopsis

JANE AUSTEN CANNOT MARRY!
A FISH-OUT-OF-WATER TIME TRAVEL NOVEL
SET IN REGENCY ENGLAND
AND THE 21ST CENTURY COLORADO ROCKIES.
Nadine Finley has made the quantum commute to 1811 to stop Jane Austen from meeting and marrying Captain Charles Gordon. The two of them share a romantic past, and if Nadine fails in her mission, Jane will never get to London. The fledgling author will never get her first book ready for publication. And if the novel is never readied for the presses, Jane will never go back home and revise the manuscript that will eventually become Pride and Prejudice. In short, disaster.
The mission instructions were plain and simple: Jane Austen cannot marry.
Except...matters become extremely complicated when the Scribe Guardian’s own romantic interest unintentionally follows her across the centuries to 1811.
Xander Nouri is a tech billionaire who is cheerfully unfamiliar with both history and literature. He has also forged a life where he is insulated from the non-quantifiable uncertainties of feelings and romance. In fact, the only time he let his guard down was for three wildly unexpected days in Las Vegas when he allowed his heart to be fondled and then stomped on by an elusive woman named Nadine. Xander lives in a world of reason, facts, and data…none of which explain her appearance, dressed in period clothing, in a coffin a mile from his secluded mountain home.
And her claim of time traveling doesn’t exactly compute.
It’s not long before sparks once again begin to fly between the former lovers. But Nadine needs to get back to her mission before literary history is permanently damaged. By the time she’s able to make the quantum leap back in time, Jane Austen and the captain have already met again...and romance is brewing.
To complicate matters, Xander has made the trip, as well. And Xander is the unlikeliest ‘nerd-out-of-water’ ever to land on Regency shores.
“POWERFUL AND POIGNANT…I LOVED THIS BOOK.”
- Jane Porter, NYT Bestselling Author

About May McGoldrick

May McGoldrick is a pseudonym of USA Today bestselling authors Nikoo and Jim McGoldrick. Together, they have written over forty fast-paced, conflict-filled historical and contemporary novels and two works of nonfiction. Nikoo and Jim are three-time Rita finalists and the winners of numerous awards for their writing, including Romantic Times magazine's Reviewers' Choice Award, the Daphne DeMaurier Award, three NJRW Golden Leaf Awards, two Holt Medallions, and the Connecticut Press Club Award for Best Fiction. Their work is included in the Popular Culture Library collection of the National Museum of Scotland.

Nikoo and Jim currently live in a lakeside community in the northwest corner of Connecticut.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on December 12, 2022

Mix together a modicum of SciFi, a dose of historical fiction, and a sweet love story that's not overdone, and what do you get? This delightful novel! I didn't read the description before I started reading which was to my advantage--it was fun to just sink into the story without any expectations. Hig......more

Goodreads review by Space Cowgirl on November 04, 2022

Life as a Wrong Way Scribe Guardian💃💋 Time Travel Regency Era Historical Romance💕. Nadine💃💋 starts out in an English Coastal town during the Regency period in 1811. As a time traveling scribe guardian, she is somehow transported via coffin to a mountain Road in Colorado to be found by Xander🐺, a restl......more

Goodreads review by Amanda on December 30, 2022

I've been a fan of May McGoldrick (re: Nikoo & Jim McGoldrick) for years and have read all their older historic romance novels. Once I discovered Christian historic fiction, I switched to reading (and writing) that genre. I was drawn to this book because it is on the less-"spicy" side (but too many......more

Goodreads review by Diane on December 02, 2022

4.5 Stars Jane Austen Cannot Marry is a time travel romance with strong historical elements. Nadine Finley is a time traveler from the future whose job as a Scribe Guardian is to ensure that great works of literature actually are written. Her current assignment is to prevent Jane Austen from forming......more

Goodreads review by Cathy on November 03, 2022

Jane Austen Cannot Marry! by May McGoldrick Witty wonderful second chance romance filled with life, love, and hope that had me thinking, caring, and hoping Nadine and Xander would find a way to be together through time. What I liked: * Xander Nouri: genuine, concrete thinker, good friend, charismatic,......more