“I have not the pleasure of understanding you.” Jane Austen Josh Fairfax is studious by nature. He’s also single. Again. And he’s starting to think those two things might be . . . related. That maybe his life does need more . . . balance. And maybe this gender-bent Austen retreat is the place to get it. Except his narcissistic ex is there too, and when he scorns Josh’s bookish ways and social failings in front of their professor, a little lie escapes: he has a boyfriend. Look, isn’t he gorgeous? Only, that random picture? Not so random after all. Josh is going to die of embarrassment. Unless . . . This story is a prequel to the "Love, Austen" series and set a few years before the others. It can be read as a standalone.