The first thing Barbara said when she saw my outfit was, “You’re not wearing that, are you?” Reluctantly, I threw on a tank top, cut-off shorts, and flip- flops and headed downstairs.

That voice inside my head began to call me, that invisible cord tugging at my chest, drawing me to the ocean. And now that the day was here, setting a record for heat and humidity that summer, the only thing I regretted was that we didn’t have central air- conditioning. I’d told Barbara at least a dozen times that I didn’t want a party, but she insisted, saying if I didn’t have one, I’d regret it later.

My stepmother had planned a sweet sixteen party, and the guests were about to arrive. There was no possibility of taking a swim that day. Her debut women’s fiction novel, Free to a Good Home, was published by Berkley Books in 2010. I fell into this book in the same way Emma falls into Jane Eyre and I didn’t want to fall back out again.” –Lesley Livingston, author of Once Every Never and the Wondrous Strange trilogyĮve Marie Mont lives with her husband, Ken, and her shelter dog, Maggie, in suburban Philadelphia, where she teaches high school English and creative writing. “A rich, wonderful, smart adventure, steeped in romance. “Captivating and heartrending… Definitely one for the favorites shelf.”” –Kelly Creagh, author of Nevermore Now, moving between her two realities and uncovering secrets in both, Emma must decide whether her destiny lies in the pages of Jane’s story, or in the unwritten chapters of her own… As governess at Thornfield, Emma has a sense of belonging she’s never known-and an attraction to the brooding Mr. Then fate takes things a leap further when a lightning storm catapults Emma right into Jane’s body and her nineteenth-century world. Reading of Jane’s isolation sparks a deep sense of kinship. But escape soon arrives in an old leather-bound copy of Jane Eyre… And her only romantic prospect-apart from a crush on her English teacher-is Gray Newman, a long-time friend who just adds to Emma’s confusion. Perhaps it’s because she feels like an outsider at her exclusive prep school, or because her stepmother doesn’t come close to filling the void left by her mother’s death. In this stunning, imaginative novel, Eve Marie Mont transports her modern-day heroine into the life of Jane Eyre to create a mesmerizing story of love, longing, and finding your place in the world…Įmma Townsend has always believed in stories-the ones she reads voraciously, and the ones she creates.

A Breath of Eyre by Eve Marie Mont