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Pink Carnation #4
Dutton
February 2008
On Sale: January 31, 2008
Featuring: Lord Vaughn; Mary Alsworthy
400 pages
ISBN: 0525950338
EAN: 9780525950332
Kindle: B000UZJR8G
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Lauren Willig continues the exciting Pink Carnation series with her fourth novel, The Seduction of the Crimson Rose, featuring Lord Vaughn, the delightfully devilish spy from The Masque of the Black Tulip, and Mary Alsworthy, the raven-haired beauty whose sister accidentally stole her suitor in The Deception of the Emerald Ring.

Determined to secure another London
season without assistance from her new brother-in-law,
Mary accepts a secret assignment from Lord Vaughn on
behalf of the Pink Carnation: to infiltrate the ranks of
the dreaded French spy, the Black Tulip, before he and his
master can stage their planned invasion of England. Every
spy has a weakness, and for the Black Tulip that weakness
is black-haired women--his "petals" of the Tulip.

A natural
at the art of seduction, Mary easily catches the attention
of the French spy, but Lord Vaughn never anticipates that
his own heart will be caught as well. Fighting their
growing attraction, impediments from their past, and, of
course, the French, Mary and Vaughn find themselves lost
in the shadows of a treacherous garden of lies.

As our modern-day heroine, Eloise Kelly, digs deeper into
England's Napoleonic-era espionage, she becomes even more
entwined with Colin Selwick, the descendant of her spy
subjects.

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Pink Carnation

The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE PINK CARNATION
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The Masque of the Black Tulip
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The Deception of the Emerald Ring
THE DECEPTION OF THE EMERALD RING
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The Seduction of the Crimson Rose
THE SEDUCTION OF THE CRIMSON ROSE
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The Temptation Of The Night Jasmine
THE TEMPTATION OF THE NIGHT JASMINE
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The Betrayal Of The Blood Lily
THE BETRAYAL OF THE BLOOD LILY
#6.0 • January 2010
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The Mischief of Mistletoe
THE MISCHIEF OF MISTLETOE
#7.0 • November 2010
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The Orchid Affair
THE ORCHID AFFAIR
#8.0 • January 2011
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The Garden Intrigue
THE GARDEN INTRIGUE
#9.0 • February 2012
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The Passion Of The Purple Plumeria
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