English society has turned Gwendolyn Reid’s gothic story into a sensation and a new arrival has them whispering behind their fans that there is a vampire haunting the aristocracy. When a dead body is found with puncture wounds in the neck, the latest Pink Carnation heroine finds herself solving a murder mystery next to the […]
The Pink Carnation series edges ever nearer to the final book and in this latest, we get to see the Pink Carnation’s own second in command stepping reluctantly into the limelight for this latest spying adventure slash treasure hunt from Paris to Bath and into the English countryside. Full of frolicksome humor, a pinch of […]
Since the first book, the series has turned the focus from classic Scarlet Pimpernel territory of France for other locales, but after the brief and light distraction of the Mischief of the Mistletoe, The Orchid Affair plunges into a caper set right under the nose of Napoleon himself with the suspense taking up even more […]
The holidays and a missing list make a girls’ boarding school the latest hotbed of intrigue. At last, the whimsical and bumbling Turnip Fitzhugh gets his turn at romance. Naturally, I was all kinds of curious about his romance match and his part in the espionage antics of The Pink Carnation series. The Mischief of […]
Enchanting and mysterious India is the setting for this latest in The Pink Carnation series and we have a bad girl paired with a squeaky clean heroic guy to track down the latest of Napoleon’s spies, The Marigold. Full of light banter, frivolity, and a good dose of romantic espionage, The Betrayal of the Blood […]
After the last book with a hunt for the Black Tulip and two darker characters as protagonists, what comes next? I was curious about the next pair and what particular espionage challenge they would face. I tried to keep my expectations open since the author delightfully changes things up with each new book. The Temptation […]
Advancing into the next spy venture of the Pink Carnation and her associates, I was more than ready to get the enigmatic Lord’s Vaughn’s story and a little wary of the social climbing Mary Alsworthy starring beside him. However, stranger pairings have happened in this lively romp of a series so I plunged right back […]
At the end of the previous book, the Black Tulip escaped and the secret order of spies are organized for what comes next away from volatile Napoleonic France and England, but the powder keg that is Ireland. The French are rousing the Irish to rebellion and have sent in their best spy, the Black Tulip […]
After recently reading the first in the series, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, The Masque of the Black Tulip dove right back into the contemporary plot line and then introduced the historical plot line shortly after. Like any good series worth its salt, the second book can tell a lot about how it […]
In a time of revolution and then war, daring-do was called for and sometimes the heroes and heroines had to wear a mask to accomplish what was needed. In the spirit of The Scarlet Pimpernel and Pride & Prejudice comes a series to tantalize historical romantic suspense fans. I eagerly took up this first book […]