Terri Meeker: Not quite Darcy

Terri Meekerin romaanissa matkustetaan nykyajasta 1870-luvun Englantiin, ja yritetään ymmärtää tuon ajan yhteiskunnan kummallisia sääntöjä ja ajatusmalleja: Not quite Darcy (Samhain Publishing, 2015; ISBN 978-1-61922-454-4).



Ajassa matkustamisella leikitteleviä historiallisia romaaneja on melkoinen pino, eikä tämä ole vakavasti otettavaa lajia. Toisaalta teoksessa on mukavasti arkipäivän kommelluksista kumpuavaa huumoria, vaikka aika ajoin tuntuukin siltä että ajassa matkustavan Eliza Pepperin tyhjäpäisyys on kertakaikkisen raivostuttavaa.

Romance novel junkie Eliza Pepper always thought she was born too late, but now she really is stuck in the wrong time. Tasked with mending a tear in the timeline, she's trying desperately to fit into 1873 London. But dang it, mucking out a fireplace while looking like the lunch lady from hell is hard.

If she can just keep from setting the floor on fire and somehow resist her growing attraction to the master of the house, she'll be fine. All she has to do is repeat her mantra: "He's nothing like Darcy. He's nothing like Darcy."

William Brown has always taken pride in his mastery of English decorum, but his new maid is a complete disaster, has thrown his household into chaos...and he finds her utterly captivating.

Though he's willing to endure extreme physical discomfort to keep their relationship in proper perspective, her arrival has brought out a side of him he never knew existed. And Eliza has an innocently erotic knack for coaxing that decidedly ungentlemanly facet of himself out to play.