The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN meets POSSESSION. THE PINK CARNATION opens with the story of a modern-day heroine, but soon becomes a book within a book, shifting from London today to Paris in the wake of the French Revolution, when spies, intrigue and masked heroes like The Scarlet Pimpernel were the order of the day. Deciding that true romantic heroes are a thing of the past, Eloise Kelly, an intelligent young American university student who nonetheless always manages to wear her precious Jimmy Choo suede boots on the day it buckets down, abandons the hallowed halls of Harvard for England to complete her dissertation on a dashing pair of spies, The Scarlet Pimpernel and The Purple Gentian. But when Eloise discovers a trunk full of old diaries and letters, she stumbles across something the finest historians have missed- a secret history of the most elusive spy of all time, The Pink Carnation, said to have single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion - and a passionate romance that almost threw off the course of history. As she unveils a fabulous tale of espionage, swordplay, mistaken identity, passion and romance, Eloise begins to unmask a hero of her own. Adventurous, sexy, funny, thoroughly entertaining and shamelessly escapist, THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE PINK CARNATION is as irresistible as that block of chocolate you know you really shouldn't really eat...