I had never heard of this book until a member in our Jane Austen book club mentioned it to me. I am not normally a Science-Fiction person, but I thought I'd give it a try because it did sound like an interesting concept. We follow our main character Rachel Katzman as she and a colleague named Liam Finucane take part in a time traveling project that sends them back to 1815 Regency England with the goal of befriending Jane Austen and her close circle so they can I uncover missing letters and thr manuscript for her never published story "The Watsons". They have one year to accomplish this task and make it back to the right site and time to be brought back to their time, or they are left in the past forever. Rachel is maybe a little bland at times, but she does give a good view into the story and the Regency world. The descriptions of the times and the way these people lived was well done, and the way the author describes getting to know the Austens, Jane, in particular, is really engaging and feel so real. I do think that the mechanics of the time travel and how it worked as well as how the delicate balance of affecting history could have been expanded upon more instead of just having the reader assume it all works just the right way since the characters in charge of it all seem unworried. Overall, it was an interesting and fun read, especially for anyone who is already a big Austen fan. I am glad I took the recommendation to read it and try something I otherwise likely would never.