Set in a secret academy nestled in the Regency era English countryside holds the key to finding love in the most unconventional way.“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a reader with a passion for the Regency novels of Jane Austen must be in want of similar fare ... A witty young-adult comedy of manners ... It merits the most fulsome praise.”-The Washington PostThey're being groomed for their future grooms.The Winthrop Hopkins Female Academy has one purpose: to train its students in the feminine arts, with an eye toward getting them married off. There are two problems, however. The academy is in a Yorkshire backwater, far from anywhere ... and there are virtually no eligible men. How can eight Winthrop Hopkins girls manage to get around those constraints and snare the man (or future) of their dreams?