She's in England chasing the Pink Carnation by way of digging into the past of the Purple Gentian. Modern day Eloise is writing her dissertation. and there's another story going on while you read about Richard and Amy. You'll love her too when you read this book. Other characters are just as intriguing and well detailed. Strong and confident, but completely confounded by this unexpected woman. Not to be overshadowed by the heroine, the hero, Lord Richard Selwick, is quite the mixture himself. Willig's ability to give the reader such in-depth knowledge of Amy Balcourt is what draws you in. She's full of strength and weakness, courage and trepidation, purposefulness and utter distraction. The main heroine is absolutely delicious. Willig sets the scenes beautifully, but never lets the landscape overtake the plot. Okay, I can't imagine it either, but you won't need to. Imagine, if you will, England in the spring of 1803. This isn't the genre I generally reach for to quench my word-thirst, but if it's awesome I can't pass it up. I like a good (awesome is even better) historical romance, so I decided to read it myself. My teenaged daughter borrowed this historical romance from a friend and pronounced it awesome. Highly Recommend! Who Doesn't Love Spies? More critically, Eloise's appearances come to seem like awkward intrusions into Amy's and the Pink Carnation's more intriguing story. But when the Pink Carnation's identity is finally revealed after many obvious clues, the reader wonders why it took Eloise so long to get it. She also makes the sparks fly between Amy and the Purple Gentian, a dashing English nobleman in charge of Egyptian antiquities for Bonaparte. Willig, a Harvard graduate student herself, does a good job painting a picture of the tumultuous era. She hopes to be in league with the Scarlet Pimpernel, who heroically tried to save her father. Amy, exiled to rural England with her mother, now wants to avenge, with the help of her cousin Jane, her father's death at the hands of the French. She dives into this treasure trove, and suddenly the reader is plunged into a novel within a novel, told from the viewpoint of Amy Balcourt. Working in London on her history dissertation, Eloise gets access to a trunk of papers and documents from the early 19th century. The French eventually unmasked the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian, famed spies in the Napoleonic wars, but as Harvard graduate student Eloise Kelly discovers at the start of this breezy historical romance, the identity of the Pink Carnation remains a mystery.
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