
Sometime This Century
A Regency Rom-Com
Samantha Silva(Author)
HarperPerennial (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 27. August 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-0-06-345235-0 (ISBN)
Description
A riotous rom-com meets a swoon-worthy Regency comedy of manners in this heartfelt time-travel story about sisters, love, identity-and how Jane Austen just might change your life.
Annabel Blake was born in the wrong century. An Austen-loving book nerd, she dreams of being a writer herself, with a just-penned Regency novel to prove it. Her hopes sink when her hot author crush rejects her: The novel reads like she's never been in love. Ouch.
Annabel sees a chance to rewrite it when her ex-pat boss sends her to England to sort out her family's "crumbling old pile" of a country house. Tempted by an invitation tucked in an antique writing desk and a "period" coachman at her door, Annabel's whisked away to a local Regency Society ball-cue candlelight, costumes, dancing-that might be just the inspiration she needs. There's even the achingly perfect-and wildly out of her league-Henry Leighton D'Evercy.
When Annabel's audacious influencer sister crashes the party with her super-chill ex-boyfriend, the unlikely trio wake to find themselves trapped in the actual Regency era. No Wi-Fi, lattes, cellphones-just a world where manners, money, and marriage rule.
As Annabel falls deeply for D'Evercy, she must decide: write her perfect love story...or live it.
Annabel Blake was born in the wrong century. An Austen-loving book nerd, she dreams of being a writer herself, with a just-penned Regency novel to prove it. Her hopes sink when her hot author crush rejects her: The novel reads like she's never been in love. Ouch.
Annabel sees a chance to rewrite it when her ex-pat boss sends her to England to sort out her family's "crumbling old pile" of a country house. Tempted by an invitation tucked in an antique writing desk and a "period" coachman at her door, Annabel's whisked away to a local Regency Society ball-cue candlelight, costumes, dancing-that might be just the inspiration she needs. There's even the achingly perfect-and wildly out of her league-Henry Leighton D'Evercy.
When Annabel's audacious influencer sister crashes the party with her super-chill ex-boyfriend, the unlikely trio wake to find themselves trapped in the actual Regency era. No Wi-Fi, lattes, cellphones-just a world where manners, money, and marriage rule.
As Annabel falls deeply for D'Evercy, she must decide: write her perfect love story...or live it.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 195 mm
Width: 135 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
244 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-06-345235-0 (9780063452350)
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06/2026
HarperCollins
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Samantha Silva is the author of the novels Love and Fury and Mr. Dickens and His Carol, and a screenwriter who has sold projects to Paramount, Universal, and New Line Cinema. She is based in Idaho.