The Garden Intrigue: A Pink Carnation Novel

By Lauren Willig

Book Overview

Lauren Willig's Pink Carnation novels have been called "fun [and] fresh" ( Kirkus Reviews ) and "clever and playful " ( Detroit Free Press ). 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451415604
• ISBN13: 9780451415608
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.3" x 7.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher