Lauren Willig

Eloise, a Harvard graduate student researching spies of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, begins a romance of her own as she uncovers the story of Lady Charlotte Landsdowne, a determined young woman who is not about to let go of her dreams of romance with Robert, Duke of Dovedale, even if it means becoming caught up in a world of espionage.

American graduate student Eloise Kelly, continuing her research on Napoleonic-era espionage, while fighting her attraction to Colin Selwick, the descendant of her spy subjects, uncovers the story of Mary Alsworthy, a raven-haired beauty who agrees to help Lord Vaughn infiltrate the ranks of the French spy, the Black Tulip, and finds she has captured not only the spy's attentions, but also that of her boss, Lord Vaughn.

Eloise Kelly, a Harvard scholar, travels to England to complete her dissertation, discovers the secret of the most elusive spy of all time, the Pink Carnation, his romance that nearly changed world events, and a romance of her own.