Unlike Jane, Emma rejects the passive role of obedient good girl - being good is fine, but keep your brain in the game and fight back when your independence is under siege. Emma admires Jane’s ability to stick to her principles. The book time travels between 19th- century Thornfield and contemporary Massachusetts. Life continues lonely at her prep school, although reading Jane Eyre provides interest, especially when Emma is hit by lightning and wakes up in Jane Eyre’s body. Her debut women's fiction novel, Free to a Good Home, was published by Berkley Books in 2010.A Breath of Eyre, a young adult novel, opens with a sad sweet-sixteen party showing us Emma Townsend’s lack of friends and uneasy relationship with her parents. 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. 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. Read the Change You Wish to See in the World.That Sent Me: YA Titles to Make You Laugh.An Audiobook a Day Keeps the Doctor Away.

A Breath of Eyre by Eve Marie Mont