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The Garden Intrigue
A Historical Fiction Novel by Lauren Willig
Book 9 of the Pink Carnation Series
Subgenres:
- Historical Romance,
- Napoleonic France,
- Spy Fiction
This book is for you if you're into...
- Spy capers with undercover poets hiding secrets in bad verse
- Historical intrigue set in Parisian salons and glittering house parties
- Enemies-to-allies romance with sharp banter and reluctant teamwork
Lauren Willig's Pink Carnation novels have been called "fun [and] fresh" and "clever and playful." Now she introduces readers to a mismatched pair who find passion in the most astonishing of places...
Secret agent Augustus Whittlesby has spent a decade undercover in France, posing as an insufferably bad poet. The French surveillance officers can't bear to read his work closely enough to recognize the information drowned in a sea of verbiage.
New York-born Emma Morris Delagardie is a thorn in Augustus's side. An old school friend of Napoleon's stepdaughter, she came to France with her uncle, eloped with a Frenchman, and has been rattling around the salons of Paris ever since. Now widowed, she entertains herself by holding a weekly salon, and loudly critiquing Augustus's poetry.
As Napoleon pursues his plans for the invasion of England, Whittlesby hears of a top-secret device to be demonstrated at a house party. The catch? The only way in is with Emma, who has been asked to write a masque for the weekend's entertainment. In this complicated masque within a masque, nothing goes quite as scripted—especially Augustus's unexpected feelings for Emma.
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