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Modern-day teen Miranda, daughter of famous Shakespearean actors, finds herself whisked back to Elizabethan England by a hottie named Stephen who can travel between his own era and the present. Miranda's mission: seduce young Will Shakespeare to prevent him from joining the Jesuits and giving up writing. The story's love triangle is a stretch, but Mingle's historical details are spot-on and intriguing.