My Plain Jane (The Lady Janies, #2)

by Cynthia Hand

Even when she was committing murder, she was thinking of others.

Women at this time were taught that the best thing that could ever possibly happen to a girl was to be married. To a wealthy man, preferably. And it was really good luck if you could snag someone attractive, or with some kind of amusing talent, or who owned a nice dog.

Jane pressed a hand to her forehead as if she was suddenly feeling faint. Which didn’t alarm Charlotte, as young women of this time period felt faint regularly. Because corsets.

“I think it might be haunted by the living.” “If that were the case, every house would be haunted.” “Every house is haunted.”

“Mr. Rochester is an eligible and, if I might add, financially solvent bachelor, which makes him extremely attractive.”