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Authors Write for the Love of Jane Austen
by Deirdre Donohue, USA Today

After discovering that her fiancé betrayed her with the woman designing their wedding cake, a devastated Courtney Stone wakes up not in Los Angeles but in a four-poster bed in 1813 England. A devotee of all things Austen, she now discovers the reality of life in Regency England: rampant body odor, sexual and class repression and a style of medical care involving bloodletting. With a plot in two different centuries, Addict is a bit disjointed, but Rigler does a perceptive job in contrasting the different eras. Despite the smells, little in Courtney's current lifestyle — including most of the men — can compete with the erotic charge of dancing in a candlelit ballroom.

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