The Exile

Travel from 1932 to 1811

Can Kitty Bennet ever truly return home?

The Dowager Countess of Matlock is charged with keeping the Bennet Wardrobe's secrets. Untethered to her present and determined to intervene in her family's future, Lady Kate Fitzwilliam embraces the cabinet, returns to Longbourn, and finishes her interrupted meeting with Mr. Bennet. Now, though, she is a seasoned woman of sixty-three instead of a petulant seventeen-year-old. She knows that love's universal constant cannot be restored without her help.

Using her mastery of the ton's forms, the countess leads an exiled army lieutenant to discover the love of his life in an unexpected place: his wife's heart-and his.

About the Wardrobe Series:

The Wardrobe sends Bennets on time travels where they can discover what they must. Explore how the Bennet sisters' love stories echo through time across all eight books.

Some doors open to cloaks and bonnets, others to unknown futures.

Joana Starnes, author of The Falmouth Connection says of The Countess Visits Longbourn:

Who can resist the magic of time travel? Pages of history rustle back and forth between Regency grand salons, Napoleonic battlefields, and more recent conflicts. Guided by Don Jacobson's masterful pen, the Bennet sisters grow as people and come into their own. 'The Countess Visits Longbourn' is a wonderful new installment, and we cannot fail to revel in the excellent writing and the abundance of detail as the mysteries of the Wardrobe continue to unfold. This captivating series, which brings together real and much-loved fictional characters from all walks of life, is one to savour, and I will revisit it again and again.

Readers rate The Exile: The Countess Visits Longbourn 5-Stars on Goodreads!

Teresita calls The Countess Visits Longbourn "Interesting and Unexpected"

This time around the traveling is to the past and the future. Another side of very known characters is discovered, and some new ones are introduced to us. The continuation of the series does not disappoint. I can't wait for the next book to be released.

Nicole Clarkston finds answers in the fifth volume.

Another piece clicks into the puzzle as Don Jacobsen continues to unfold his saga. The reader should first be familiar with the "Kitty Bennet and the Belle Epoque" story to fully appreciate this installment. Our girl has grown to a wise woman of the world, and this is her swan song, the passing of the baton. Before she stands aside, she has something important to accomplish, and in doing so, she answers many mysteries for us.

Sophia-Elizabeth calls The Countess Visits Longbourn "Another masterpiece to the puzzle which is the Wardrobe series."

Much laughter and yet sadness was presented in this book, as many of the characters from earlier books had begun their next great adventure. A new sense of Lydia, as a grown-up and sensible woman started to emerge, which I find to my liking, as it would be another character who Don would make me like for the first time. I do suggest a handkerchief for the ending though, since I did cry a bit as it was tragic and yet sweet in its own way.