Victoria Connelly’s second Jane Austen-themed novel The Perfect Hero will be released on 21st April 2011. It isn’t a direct sequel to A Weekend With Mr Darcy - more a companion novel, really. I can’t wait to read this novel as I loved A Weekend With Mr Darcy and I adore the beautiful cover. Here’s the synopsis:

The circus has come to town… Die-hard romantic, Kay Ashton, uses her inheritance to open a B&B in the seaside town of Lyme Regis and is dumbstruck when the cast and crew of a new production of Persuasion descend, needing a place to stay. Kay can’t believe her luck – especially when she realises that heart throb actor Oli Wade Owen will be sleeping under her very own roof!

Meanwhile, co-star Gemma Reilly is worried that her acting isn’t up to scratch, despite landing a plum role. She finds a sympathetic ear in shy producer, Adam Craig, who is as baffled by the film world as she is. Kay thinks the two are meant for each other and can’t resist a spot of matchmaking. Then, when Oli turns his trademark charm on Kay, it seems that she has found her real-life hero. But do heroes really exist?

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