{"product_id":"2940171880309","title":"The Garden Intrigue","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e In the ninth installment of Lauren Willig's bestselling Pink Carnation series, an atrocious poet teams up with an American widow to prevent Napoleon's invasion of England.  \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Secret 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 New 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, the American envoy; eloped with a Frenchman; and has been rattling around the salons of Paris ever since. Widowed for four years, she entertains herself by drinking too much champagne, holding a weekly salon, and loudly critiquing Augustus's poetry. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e As Napoleon pursues his plans for the invasion of England, Whittlesby hears of a top-secret device to be demonstrated at a house party at Malmaison. The catch? The only way in is with Emma, who has been asked to write a masque for the weekend's entertainment. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e Emma is at a crossroads: Should she return to the States or remain in France? She'll do anything to postpone the decision -- even if it means teaming up with that silly poet Whittlesby to write a masque for Bonaparte's house party. But each soon learns that surface appearances are misleading. In this complicated masque within a masque, nothing goes quite as scripted -- especially Augustus's feelings for Emma. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47178324607216,"sku":"2940171880309","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940171880309_p0.jpg?v=1763747251","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940171880309","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}