Jane Harris no doubt misses her life in Boston, but willy-nilly, she finds herself taking up the reins of a life in Netherfield. Time to meet new people, make new plans, maybe even make progress on that new diary, Jane (hint, hint). But you should take Miranda Milan’s book title as a warning, Jane, for you are about to encounter “Strange friends and strangers” in chapter three of Summer of the Netherfield Witch. (For those of you who missed the first two chapters of this weekly serial, you can start here.)

Jane ends up at a coffehouse, but even Netherfield doesn’t have coffeehouses as exotic as this one.
Painting by Amadeo Preziosi (1816 – 1882), who for many years made his living painting watercolors for tourists in the Near East and Balkans!