Today in paperback – a novel that ‘handily fulfills its promise of intrigue and love.’

(Publishers Weekly)

Determined to secure another London time of year without the help of her new brother-in-law, Mary Alsworthy accepts a secret assignment from Lord Vaughn on behalf of the Pink Carnation. She must infiltrate the rates from the dreaded French spy, the Black Tulip, before he and his professional can stage their prepared invasion of England. Every spy has a weakness as well as for the Dark Tulip that weakness is beautiful black-haired females?his ?petals? of the Tulip. A natural on the artwork of seduction, Mary quickly catches the attention from the French spy, but Lord Vaughn hardly ever expected that his own heart will be caught aswell. Fighting their developing attraction, impediments from their past, and, obviously, the French, Mary and Vaughn end up lost within a treacherous garden of lies.

And as our modern-day heroine, Eloise Kelly, digs deeper into England?s Napoleonic-era espionage, she turns into a lot more entwined with Colin Selwick, the descendant of her spy topics.