Pink Carnation #9
Dutton
February 2012
On Sale: February 16, 2012
Featuring: Augustus Whittlesby; Emma Morris Delagardie
400 pages ISBN: 0525952543 EAN: 9780525952541 Kindle: B005GSZZ2O Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
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.