The Austen Escape Author:Katherine Reay Mary Davies finds safety in her ordered and productive life. Working as an engineer, she genuinely enjoys her job and her colleagues ? particularly a certain good-looking and intelligent consultant. But something is missing. When Mary?s estranged childhood friend, Isabel Dwyer, offers her a two-week stay in a gorgeous manor house in England, she... more » reluctantly agrees in hopes that the holiday will shake up her quiet life in just the right ways.« less