NEVER BEFORE PUBLISHED!
Lauren Willig’s Pink Carnation novels have been hailed as “sheer fun”* and “charming.”** Now she takes readers on an adventure filled with hidden treasure and a devilishly handsome English colonel....
Colonel William Reid has returned home from India to retire near his children, who are safely stowed at an academy in Bath. Upon his return to the Isles, however, he finds that one of his daughters has vanished, along with one of her classmates.
Because she served as second-in-command to the Pink Carnation, one of England’s most intrepid spies, it would be impossible for Gwendolyn Meadows to give up the intrigue of Paris for a quiet life in the English countryside—especially when she’s just overheard news of an alliance forming between Napoleon and an Ottoman Sultan. But, when the Pink Carnation’s little sister goes missing from her English boarding school, Gwen reluctantly returns home to investigate the girl’s disappearance.
Thrown together by circumstance, Gwen and William must cooperate to track down the young ladies before others with nefarious intent get their hands on them. But Gwen’s partnership with quick-tongued, roguish William may prove to be even more of an adventure for her than finding the lost girls….
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*New York Times Bestselling Author Christina Dodd
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Romance Reviews Today on THE GARDEN INTRIGUE
[An] enchanting, exciting, and clever story.
Christina Dodd
Jane Austen for the modern girl…Sheer fun!
USA Today
Pride and Prejudice lives on in the pages of Lauren Willig’s Pink Carnation romance-spy series.”
Marie Claire
History textbook meets Bridget Jones.
Library Journal
In April 1805, Col. William Reid has retired from the East India Company and is anxious to reunite with the daughters he sent to London a decade ago for safety and schooling. He finds, however, that his youngest, Lizzie, is missing along with her roommate Agnes Wooliston, little sister of Jane, aka The Pink Carnation. Did the girls run off on a lark or is there something sinister behind their disappearance? Miss Gwendolyn Meadows, Jane's right-hand woman, steps up to the challenge of finding the girls despite having to work with the very handsome and charming Colonel Reid. And the sparks begin to fly. VERDICT This tenth bloom (and the first trade paperback original) to be added to Willig's popular series (The Garden Intrigue; The Secret History of the Pink Carnation) is just as fresh and satisfying as any of the other flowers in the best literary bouquet ever created! Fans can rejoice in finding the outstanding features they've come to count on: intriguing historical details, double-crossing deceptions, complex characters, and plenty of romance. Readers will be pleased to discover a more mature couple featured within the historical portion of the story, the wink-wink humor of Miss Gwen's gothic novel, and the continued progression of our beloved contemporary couple.—Stacey Hayman, Rocky River P.L., OH