Captain Wentworth went away to sea and didn't return...until now.

Anne Elliot had had almost ten years to come to terms with the loss of her first love, but when a mysterious stranger arrives in Bath and charms the season's high society (including her father and sister) she cannot subdue her curiosity. Investigation leads her to discover this newcomer may not be new at all, but someone she first met many years before...

A Matter of Means is a variation novel based on Jane Austen's Persuasion.