Emma, by Jane Austen, is a novel about youthful hubris and the perils of misconstrued romance. The story takes place in the fictional village of Highbury and the surrounding estates of Hartfield, Randalls, and Donwell Abbey and involves the relationships among individuals in those locations consisting of "3 or 4 families in a country village".

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

Theodore O'Callaghan, at just twenty four, was this close to achieving his dream, when a car crash change his life forever. However, Death himself resurrected him. As it turns out, Theodore had apparently killed innumerable innocent lives whom he has no memory of. But instead of killing him and bringing back his soul, Jarvis offered him a deal...