Kissing Shakespeare Author:Pamela Mingle Miranda has Shakespeare in her blood; she hopes one day to become a Shakespearean actor like her famous parents. At least, she does until her disastrous performance in her school's staging of The Taming of the Shrew. Humiliated, Miranda skips the opening-night party. All she wants to do is hide. — Fellow cast member Stephen Langford has other pla... more »ns for Miranda. When he steps out of the backstage shadows and asks if she'd like to meet Shakespeare, Miranda thinks he's a total nutcase. But before she can object, Stephen whisks her back to 16th-century England?the world Stephen is really from. He wants Miranda to use her acting talents and modern-day charms on the young Will Shakespeare. Without her help, Stephen claims, the world will lose its greatest playwright.
Miranda isn't convinved she's the right girl for the job. Why would Shakespeare be interested in her? And just who is this infuriating time traveler, Stephen Langford? Still, she reluctantly agrees to help. After all, Stephen promises that once Miranda's part is played, he will return her to the present and she can get on with her "real" life. What Miranda doesn't bargain for is finding true love . . . with no acting required.« less