And the Rest is History
Jackie Evans
History professor Tom Matuschek is an expert at the casual fling. He’s a great friend-with-benefits. But after his childhood love, Ellie, died twelve years ago, romance has been off the table.
So when he finds himself exchanging flirty emails with Allison Ambrose, a research librarian whose help he needs to solve a historical mystery, he expects nothing more than a friendly working relationship (and maybe a little no-strings-attached fun). He hopes she’ll be 40. Straightforward. Put together. The kind of woman who knows what she wants and isn’t afraid to ask for it – and who knows better than to expect him to fall in love.
Allison turns out to be none of that. She’s 25, outrageously funny, the kind of woman who changes clothes five times a day and has a living room full of wobbly bookcases and a kitchen stocked with nothing but snacks. She has no idea what she wants or how to ask for it, as her disastrous dating record proves. But she’s also gorgeous, gutsy, and deeply kind – and, for whatever reason, irresistibly drawn to Tom.
Whether they’re sorting through century-old letters, flirting in his native Hungarian (her accent is perfect; her grammar is atrocious), or torturing each other with their wildly divergent taste in movies, it quickly becomes clear that Tom and Allison can’t get enough of one another. For the first time since Ellie’s death, Tom wonders whether it’s time to move on.
But when he finds out that Allison and Ellie have even more in common than he thought, Tom has to decide whether he wants to burrow back into the past, or seize the opportunity to make a little history of his own.
And the Rest is History is loosely inspired by Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility . It’s a spicy, heartfelt, action-packed rom-com featuring a nine-year age gap, an immigrant hero, an impulsive heroine, a small Midwestern town, and more than one feisty old lady. If making the wrong choice has ever led you to the right one, this book’s for you.
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