The Summer Season
About this ebook
When acid-tongued 1818 debutante Maria Marley slips on a strange gold ring, she wakes up in the body of Anna Timewell-Gladly: a failing luxury-travel reviewer, influencer nepo-baby and daughter of a billionaire media mogul.
In return, Anna lands in Maria’s place at a country-house marriage market, surrounded by scheming mothers, desperate heiresses and one infuriatingly handsome lord.
As each woman battles scandal, impossible expectations and enemies on both sides of history, they discover unexpected freedom in the other’s life. But with a hurricane raging in modern Ireland and a disastrous Regency wedding closing in, swapping back may cost them everything they’ve finally found: love, ambition and the chance to become the women they were always meant to be.
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About the author
Helen Gaskell is a freelance content designer who works primarily on GOV.UK projects. Recently, she led the content design for the government’s first public-facing AI project. Helen spent the first decade or so of her career at the BBC and in 2016 spearheaded an award-winning body positivity campaign that garnered millions of views across social media.
During the pandemic, Helen worked for Copenhagen-based Tactile Games as a writer for bestselling game Lily’s Garden (with over a million daily players) and penned the first sapphic romance storyline for a mobile phone game. She has spoken on narrative design for the Romantic Novelists’ Association and is the first games writer to be admitted as a full member.
Helen lives in Manchester with her daughter, cat, dog and husband (in order of precedence). When she’s not immersed in romantic novels, she’s usually halfway through one of many niche handicrafts.
