She’s level-headed and ordered. He talks to imaginary characters. She keeps to the plan. He never has one. Will true love find a way to color outside the lines but inside God’s love to create a story they can write together? Four years ago, Jane Warwick escaped the shame of being jilted at the altar by becoming a housekeeper at the secluded Inn at Simeon Ridge. Predictable and quiet, the inn and large Simeon family help Jane find a place to heal but also cultivate her natural strengths for order and planning. But an unexpected visit to Bath, England, upsets Jane’s peaceful monotony and sends her out of her comfort zone, directly into the harrowing path of historical detective author, Titus Stewart. The only plans Titus sticks to are family holidays and the ones that send him careening into his story worlds, but when an uptight innkeeper stumbles into his life – and his latest novel – nonfiction begins to take on a much more interesting gleam. With the help of a mysterious journal, will they both uncover a romance that stands the test of time?
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Summary
From: Rebecca Maney
Book Title: Jane By the Book
Book Author: Pepper Basham
What do you like about this book:
"Why did women have to be like a Chinese finger puzzle?"
Titus Stewart is in a constant state of imagination; scrutinizing everyone in sight as a potential character muse. His main character, Detective Jack Miracle, needs a heroine and if Titus is not mistaken the lovely blond with the tight ponytail and the black framed glasses at the front of the train would be a perfect "Lydia Ramsey". If only his own relationships could be so easily scripted; it seemed that he always turned out to be "the best friend and never the boyfriend".
"Predictability and order cultivate peace."
Jane Warlick is rather annoyed when the odd-author-man on the train bumps into her, scattering the pages of her great grandmother's journal all over the street. Traveling with her best friend from the mountains of North Carolina to Bath, England had already been a stretch in her orderly existence; albeit the possibility of solving a family mystery had tipped the scales, and here she was . . . . but she really needed every page of that journal. Wait a minute, he was getting into their car? He knew Nora's fiance? It was bad enough that "pale blue eyes had stared at her as if trying to read all the way to her childhood", now he wants to know her middle name? It's Cecily, Jane Cecily Warlick.
There is everything to love about this warm, fuzzy, funny, and inspiring romantic comedy of sorts, between a wound-up Jane and a wide-open Titus, especially when they realize that the story they are writing is actually their own.
I received a copy of this story from the author. The opinions stated are entirely my own.
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