{"product_id":"the-garden-intrigue-a-pink-carnation-novel-9780451415608","title":"The Garden Intrigue: A Pink Carnation Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Lauren Willig\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Romance - Historical - General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLauren Willig's Pink Carnation novels have been called \"fun [and] fresh\" (\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e) and \"clever and playful \" (\u003ci\u003eDetroit Free Press\u003c\/i\u003e). Now she introduces readers to a mismatched pair who find passion in the most astonishing of places...\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eSecret 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eNew 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, eloped with a Frenchman, and has been rattling around the salons of Paris ever since. Now widowed, she entertains herself by holding a weekly salon, and loudly critiquing Augustus's poetry. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Napoleon pursues his plans for the invasion of England, Whittlesby hears of a top-secret device to be demonstrated at a house party. The catch? The only way in is with Emma, who has been asked to write a masque for the weekend's entertainment. In this complicated masque within a masque, nothing goes quite as scripted--especially Augustus's unexpected feelings for Emma.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45408947339415,"sku":"9780451415608","price":1935.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780451415608.webp?v=1767310846","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-garden-intrigue-a-pink-carnation-novel-9780451415608","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}