The Summer Season

Helen Gaskell returns with another time-travel, body swap romance – The Holiday meets Lost in Austen, with a sprinkling of Bridgerton steam! Two women. Two centuries. Infinite trouble. When acid-tongued Regency debutante Maria Marley slips on a mysterious gold ring, she wakes up in 2025 as Anna Timewell-Gladly: failing travel writer, reluctant influencer, and daughter of a billionaire media mogul. Stranded in a luxury Irish spa hotel, Maria soon finds herself sparring with Jim Laney – a razor-sharp, maddeningly handsome journalist whose wit, charm and unexpected tenderness make him impossible to out-argue … or resist. Meanwhile, Anna is swept into Maria’s world of glittering balls, scheming mothers and a full-scale country-house marriage market. There she meets George Bramley: handsome lord, brilliant plant enthusiast, and sworn enemy of the woman he thinks she is. But as Anna’s warmth and creativity begin to break through Maria’s fearsome reputation, hostility gives way to something far more dangerous. As storms gather, scandals explode, and desire complicates everything, both women discover that the wrong life might just hold everything they’ve ever wanted. But swapping back could cost them love, ambition, and the future they never thought possible.