Lilly Thorpe is in a rut and at a crossroads in her life. She works as a copywriter at a Boston ad agency, a job she doesn't much like; her dream is to finish the novel she stopped working on long ago. The president of the Jane Society, Jane Austen, she has been informed by Mr. Whitcomb, the owner of the English pub where they hold their meetings for free, that he is retiring and thus selling, meaning that she must find somewhere else appropriate to hold their meetings at an affordable price. She has long talked about going to England to do a Jane tour, but one thing or another has always stopped her. And while she would like to find her proverbial "Mr. Darcy", she doesn't want him to be her savior; she turns down her boyfriend Martin's proposal of marriage and life in Chicago. Her friend and coworker Alisha, whose family is pressuring her to find a man and get married, believes that their co-worker Brennan is interested in Lilly, but she's not interested; the latest man to enter her l