The Garden Intrigue: A Pink Carnation Novel

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 …

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.

Praise for the Novels of Lauren Willig
‘Full of history … plenty of romance.'New York Daily News
'Jane Austen for the modern girl.'New York Times Bestselling Author Christina Dodd