{"product_id":"9780451415608","title":"The Garden Intrigue (Pink Carnation Series #9)","description":"\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...\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013807554800,"sku":"9780451415608","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780451415608_p0.jpg?v=1763704409","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780451415608","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}