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The Orchid Affair
Veteran governess Laura Grey joins the Selwick Spy School expecting to find elaborate disguises and thrilling adventures in service to the spy known as the Pink Carnation. She hardly expects her first assignment to be serving as governess for the children of Andr‚ Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police. At first the job is as lively as Latin, but Laura begins to notice Jaouen's increasingly strange behavior. As Laura edges closer to her employer, she is surprised to learn that she has much in common with him. And Jaouen finds he's hired more than he's bargained for...
Reviewer: Danya
Review: Feb 21, 2012
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense, Historical Romance, Mystery
This is the eighth book in the flower spy series by Lauren Willig, continuing the proud tradition of the Scarlet Pimpernal. Laura Grey is the newest spy, named the Silver Orchard, sent to France to serve as a governess in the household of Andre Jaouen, a highly placed government official. But she never expected that along with the danger and intrigue, she would have to deal with her feelings for Andre. Interw
The Mischief of the Mistletoe
Despite her dear friend Jane Austen's warning against teaching, Arabella Dempsey accepts a position at a girls' school in Bath, just before Christmas. She hardly imagines coming face-to-face with French aristocrats and international spies. Reginald "Turnip" Fitzhugh-often mistaken for the elusive spy known as the Pink Carnation-has blundered into danger before. When Turnip and Arabella find their Christmas pudding yielding a cryptic message, they are launched on a Yuletide adventure. Will they find poinsettias-or peril?
Reviewer: Danya
Review: Dec 22, 2011
Genre(s): Historical Romance, Romance, Seasonal / Holiday, Mystery
This is yet another fun and fabulous entry in the series of flower spy books that started with "The Secret of the Pink Carnation". This book was completely set in historical England and doesn't feature modern day London or Eloise at all, making it different from the other books. Addlepated and bumbling Turnip finally gets his love story. Arabella's expectations have been dashed by a elderly aunt so she is for
The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
Nothing ever goes right for Eloise. The day she wears her new suede boots, it rains. When the subway stops short, she's the one thrown into some stranger's lap. And she's had her share of misfortune in the way of love. So, after deciding that romantic heroes must be a thing of the past, Eloise is ready for a fresh start.
Setting off for England, Eloise is determined to finish her dissertation on two spies, the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. But what she discovers is something historians have missed: the secret history of the Pink Carnation-the most elusive spy of all time. As she works to unmask this obscure spy, Eloise has more and more questions. Like, how did the Pink Carnation save England from Napoleon? What became of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian? And will Eloise Kelly escape her bad luck and find a living, breathing hero of her own?
Reviewer: Danya
Review: Nov 9, 2010
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense, Historical Romance
Eloise Kelly is in England working on her dissertation on the gentleman spies such as Scarlet Pimpernal and the Purple Genetian, both of whom were unmasked. But one spy, the Pink Carnation, never had his identity revealed. Eloise is determined to find it out the identity of this most elusive spy. But during her research she runs afoul of Mr. Colin Selwick, current owner of Selwick Hall? Can Eloise find the an
The Temptation of the Night Jasmine
After 12 years in India, Robert, Duke of Dovedale, returns to his estates in England with a mission in mind-- to infiltrate the infamous Hellfire club to unmask the man who murdered his mentor at the Battle of Assaye. Intent on revenge, Robert never anticipates that an even more difficult challenge awaits him, in the person of one Lady Charlotte Lansdowne.
Throughout her secluded youth, Robert was Lady Charlotte’s favorite knight in shining armor, the focus of all her adolescent daydreams. The intervening years have only served to render him more dashing. But, unbeknownst to Charlotte, Robert has an ulterior motive of his own for returning to England, a motive that has nothing to do with taking up the ducal mantle. As Charlotte returns to London to take up her post as Maid of Honor to Queen Charlotte, echoes from Robert’s past endanger not only their relationship but the very throne itself.
Reviewer: Danya
Review: Feb 18, 2010
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense, Historical Romance
The Temptation of the Night Jasmine is fifth in Lauren Willig's flower spy series. Eloise has been researching the Pink Carnation's spy career and has found that the Colin's family has records relating to her research. After many misunderstandings, Eloise and Colin are now tiptoeing into a relationship. And Eloise is deep into her research, taking her into England's history of aristocratic spies.
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily
Everyone warned Miss Penelope Deveraux that her unruly behavior would land her in disgrace someday. She never imagined she'd be whisked off to India to give the scandal of her hasty marriage time to die down. As Lady Frederick Staines, Penelope plunges into the treacherous waters of the court of the Nizam of Hyderabad, where no one is quite what they seem—even her own husband. In a strange country where elaborate court dress masks even more elaborate intrigues and a spy called the Marigold leaves cobras as his calling card, there is only one person Penelope can trust....
Captain Alex Reid has better things to do than play nursemaid to a pair of aristocrats. He knows what their kind is like. Or so he thinks-- until Lady Frederick Staines out-shoots, out-rides, and out-swims every man in the camp. She also has an uncanny ability to draw out the deadly plans of the Marigold and put herself in harm's way. With danger looming from local warlords, treacherous court officials, and French spies, Alex realizes that an alliance with Lady Frederick just might be the only thing standing in the way of a plot designed to rock the very foundations of the British Empire.
Reviewer: Danya
Review: Feb 24, 2010
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense, Historical Romance
The Betrayal of the Blood Lily is the latest entry in the Pink Carnation series by Lauren Willig. Penelope Deveraux has been pushing the strictures of society for some time, knowing that someday she might push too far. But she never thought it would land her in India, wife to Lord Frederick Staines. Penelope may be married, but she still won't be limited by expectations of what a "lady" should and s
The Seduction of the Crimson Rose
Determined to secure another London season without assistance from her new brother-in-law, Mary Alsworthy accepts a secret assignment from Lord Vaughn on behalf of the Pink Carnation. She must infiltrate the ranks of the dreaded French spy, the Black Tulip, before he and his master can stage their planned invasion of England. Every spy has a weakness and for the Black Tulip that weakness is beautiful black-haired women-his "petals" of the Tulip. A natural at the art of seduction, Mary easily catches the attention of the French spy, but Lord Vaughn never anticipated that his own heart would be caught as well. Fighting their growing attraction, impediments from their past, and, of course, the French, Mary and Vaughn find themselves lost in a treacherous garden of lies.
And as our modern-day heroine, Eloise Kelly, digs deeper into England's Napoleonic-era espionage, she becomes even more entwined with Colin Selwick, the descendant of her spy subjects.
Reviewer: Roza
Review: Mar 18, 2009
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense, Historical Romance
WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS BOOK FIRST. This is the fourth book in the series, and they are very interconnected. Please, read them in order, preferably in quick succession. That said, DO READ THIS BOOK. It, and its predecessors, are amazing. I laughed, I groaned, I cried – wait, I didn’t cry. But it was truly wonderful, and I highly recommend it.
The seri
The Deception of the Emerald Ring
Eloise Kelly has gotten into quite a bit of trouble since she started spying on the Pink Carnation and the Black Tulip-two of the deadliest spies to saunter the streets of nineteenth-century England and France. Not only has she unearthed secrets that will rearrange history, she's dallied with Colin Selwick and sought out a romantic adventure all her own. Little does she know that she's about to uncover another fierce heroine running headlong into history.
Reviewer: Louise
Review: Feb 3, 2008
Genre(s): Romantic Suspense, Historical Romance
"The Deception of the Emerald Ring" begins with a modern American character by the name of Eloise Kelly-a Harvard grad student-who, while living her own romantic tale, is in England researching a female English spy of the 19th century for her Ph.D. thesis. As Eloise uncovers the spy's information, the book transports us back to 19th century England, where we meet 19-year-old Letty Alsworthy.
Along with Eloi
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