Pride and Prejudice and Pittsburgh (Hardcover)
Staff Reviews
"Audrey is going nowhere, stuck in the end of high school loop of applying for and deferring art college, stuck in artist's block, stuck in her parents' convenience store. Lucy is also stuck, but stuck in the cleft stick of a (barely) arranged marriage, and a callous father who controls her life. The difference here is Audrey is in the present, and Lucy is in 1812, but serendipity throws them together in the past, where one may provide a muse, and the other a glimpse of a brighter future. Escaping controlling men, being true to yourself, and honoring the right kind of legacy form the backdrop of romantic idiots trying (and failing) to recognise their own romantic faults, and to move past them to find what you need. Quite satisfying time travel romantic romp."--Reviewed by Andrew
What if you found a once-in-a-lifetime love…just not in your lifetime?
Audrey Cameron has lost her spark. But after getting dumped by her first love and waitlisted at her dream art school all in one week, she has no intention of putting her heart on the line again to get it back. So when local curmudgeon Mr. Montgomery walks into her family’s Pittsburgh convenience store saying he can help her, Audrey doesn’t know what she’s expecting…but it’s definitely not that she’ll be transported back to 1812 to become a Regency romance heroine.
Lucy Sinclair isn’t expecting to find an oddly dressed girl claiming to be from two hundred years in the future on her family’s estate. But she has to admit it’s a welcome distraction from being courted by a man her father expects her to marry—who offers a future she couldn’t be less interested in. Not that anyone has cared about what or who she’s interested in since her mother died, taking Lucy’s spark with her.
While the two girls try to understand what’s happening and how to send Audrey home, their sparks make a comeback in a most unexpected way. Because as they both try over and over to fall for their suitors and the happily-ever-afters everyone expects of them, they find instead they don’t have to try at all to fall for each other.
But can a most unexpected love story survive even more impossible circumstances?
— Shelf Awareness, starred review
* "The relationship between Lucy and Audrey could not be sweeter....The cast of colorful supporting characters are so much fun, especially master matchmaker Mr. Montgomery. A gem of a book."
— Booklist, starred review
"A delicious will-they, won’t-they romance across time and space....Perfect for fans of Outlander and Bridgerton."
— Kirkus Reviews