<p>Bront&euml; scholar Sara Frost&#39;s unsuccessful search for the lost love letters of Charlotte Bront&euml; hasn&#39;t won her any favor at her university particularly now that the glamorous and self-promoting Princess Diana scholar Claire Vigee has introduced her media-savvy exploits to the staid halls of academia.&nbsp; But it&#39;s not until Sara&#39;s fianc&eacute; suddenly leaves that she begins to question her life&rsquo;s vocation and is forced to reconcile the mythology of romance with the reality of modern love.</p><p>Sara&#39;s jolt brings her to an unusual new world one populated by a cheerfully amoral Frenchman a pair of New York eccentrics who live in the 19<sup>th</sup> century a born-again Christian experimental artist a lapsed methadone-addict of a screenwriter a Hollywood producer who mistakenly assumes that the short sad life of Charlotte Bront&euml; has the makings of an uplifting movie and ultimately a bed in Tuscany that may or may not foretell the destiny of its visitors.</p><p>Along the way Sara discovers that the life and writings of Charlotte Bront&euml; may have taught her more than she ever guessed about the virtues of being a romantic with the heart of a pragmatist - and she finds the surprising path of her own desire and true happiness.&nbsp; It&#39;s an irreverent and comic look at love loss literature pop culture Hollywood and the mysterious biographical similarities between Charlotte Bront&euml; and Princess Diana.</p>