Reluctant maid-of-honor Elizabeth Parker struggles to prove the innocence of her cousin when the bride's despised aunt is murdered, a case that is complicated by Elizabeth's boyfriend's infatuation with a wedding planner.

"A dedicated Anglophile and Janeite, Elizabeth Parker is hoping the trip to the Jane Austen Festival in Bath will distract her from her lack of a job and her uncertain future with her boyfriend. On the plane ride, she and Aunt Winnie meet Professor Zackary Baines, a self-proclaimed expert on all things Austen. He claims that within each Austen novel there is another darker secondary story, usually involving sordid behavior. He claims to know the true...