Raised in Tennessee by her poor but genteel great grandmother, Jasmine Johnson is orphaned at eleven and moves in with her oh-so-modern cousins in California. Based on Jane Austen's Mansfi eld Park, Arden Park takes a 19th-century child and sets her down in a 21st-century world of wealth, opulence, and selfindulgence. A cautionary tale replete with scheming, romance, values, and the lack of them, Arden Park pits Jasmine against a crowd of fashionable, pampered teenagers, as she takes on school, career, and love.