‘I cannot imagine any recompense you might offer that would be of any interest to me.’ Basking in self-satisfaction, Mary swished regally down the long corridor, giving Vaughn an excellent view of her elegant back and graceful carriage. Vaughn’s amused voice snaked after her. ‘Can’t you? I can....’ England 1803. Mary Alsworthy accepts a secret assignment from Lord Vaughn: to infiltrate the ranks of the dreaded French spy, the Black Tulip, before he and his master Napoleon Bonaparte can stage their planned invasion of England Every spy has a weakness, and for the Black Tulip that weakness is beautiful black-haired women. Mary easily catches his attention, but Lord Vaughn never anticipates that his own heart will be caught as well, and it won’t be long before Mary and Vaughn find themselves lost in the shadows of a treacherous garden of lies.
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Get your copy today and fall in love all over again!Loving Amelia is the third book in The Crimson Rose Series, but can easily be read as a stand-alone novel.
Leaving Harvard to complete her dissertation on the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian in England, Eloise Kelly discovers lost historical information that reveals the secret life of the most elusive spy of all time, a figure who ...
But now she has a million questions about the Pink Carnation's deadly French nemesis, the Black Tulip.
In this imaginative retelling of Pride and Prejudice, Amanda Grange now tells the classic story through the eyes of its compelling romantic hero, Fitzwilliam Darcy—in a series of revealing letters that casts a sparkling new reflection on ...
Despite her dear friend Jane Austen's warning against teaching, Arabella Dempsey accepts a position at a girls' school in Bath, just before Christmas.
For years, Rose Clancy dreamed of her brother's best friend, Lucas King, but touching him was off-limits.
Twenty years in its conception, research, and writing, "The Crimson Petal and the White" is teeming with life, rich in texture and incident, with characters breathtakingly real.
“Willig hasn't lost her touch; this outing has all the charm of the previous books in the series.” —Publishers Weekly “Willig injects a new energy in her already thriving, thrilling series, and presents the best entry to date.
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.