The Garden Intrigue (Hardcover)

In the ninth installment of Lauren Willig`s bestselling Pink Carnation series, an atrocious poet teams up with an American widow to prevent Napoleon`s invasion of England.

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, the American envoy; eloped with a Frenchman; and has been rattling around the salons of Paris ever since. Widowed for four years, she entertains herself by drinking too much champagne, 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 at Malmaison. The catch? The only way in is with Emma, who has been asked to write a masque for the weekend`s entertainment.

Emma is at a crossroads: Should she return to the States or remain in France? She`ll do anything to postpone the decision-even if it means teaming up with that silly poet Whittlesby to write a masque for Bonaparte`s house party. But each soon learns that surface appearances are misleading. In this complicated masque within a masque, nothing goes quite as scripted- especially Augustus`s feelings for Emma.

Author:

Willig, Lauren

ISBN:

9780525952541

Format:

Hardcover

Pages:

388

Publish Date:

02/16/2012

Publisher:

E.P. Dutton

Language:

English

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