Tea & Tenderness: Three Colonial Love Stories Inspired by Jane Austen

By Doria Cowan and Rose Angel Publishing

Tea & Tenderness is a lush, intimate collection of three reimagined classics by Jane Austen, each set in a different jewel of the colonial world-Mauritius, India, and Ceylon.

In The Sisters of Mauritius (inspired by Sense and Sensibility), two French-Indian sisters navigate love, loss, and the legacy of empire while sipping tea on their plantation verandas. One is passionate and impulsive, the other reserved and rational-but both must find their way through a world where emotion and duty collide.

In Pride and Prejudice of India, British-educated heiress Lila Bennet defies expectations in 19th-century Bombay. She is outspoken, sharp, and increasingly entangled with a quiet landowner whose own pride hides a deeper story. Class, culture, and colonialism simmer beneath every exchange.

And in The Pearl Coast Affair (inspired by Persuasion), a gentle Sinhalese woman raised between European schooling and native tradition reconnects with a former suitor-now a naval officer scarred by war and memory. Their second chance at love must overcome past regrets and social resistance.

With lyrical prose, cultural texture, and emotional richness, Tea & Tenderness brings fresh life to Austen's beloved themes of romance, resilience, and moral courage-rooted this time in the sunlit complexities of the colonial world.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G2XLVC9F
• ISBN13: 9798275091250
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"