num_pages: 12
description: "This genre-bending read a dash of chick-lit with a historical twist has it all: romance, mystery, and adventure." Meg Cabot, author of The Princess Diaries  Deciding that true romantic heroes are a thing of the past, Eloise Kelly, an intelligent American who always manages to wear her Jimmy Choo suede boots on the day it rains, leaves Harvard's Widener Library bound for England to finish her dissertation on the dashing pair of spies the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian. What she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: a secret history that begins with a letter dated 1803. Eloise has found the secret history of the Pink Carnation the most elusive spy of all time, the spy who single-handedly saved England from Napoleon's invasion.  The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, a wildly imaginative and highly adventurous debut, opens with the story of a modern-day heroine but soon becomes a book within a book. Eloise Kelly settles in to read the secret history hoping to unmask the Pink Carnation's identity, but before she can make this discovery, she uncovers a passionate romance within the pages of the secret history that almost threw off the course of world events. How did the Pink Carnation save England? What became of the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian? And will Eloise Kelly find a hero of her own?
language: English
title: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
titlecomplete: The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Pink Carnation, #1)
characters: Serena Selwick, Jane Wooliston, Lord Richard Selwick, Arabella Selwick-Alderly, Colin Selwick, Amy Balcourt, Lord Uppington, Geoffrey Pinchingdale-Snipe, Eloise Kelly, Miss Gwen Meadows, Percy Blakeney, Lady Uppington, Miles Dorrington, Lady Henrietta Selwick, Edouard de Balcourt
genres: Fiction, Historical, Mystery, British Literature, Romance, Adult, Chick Lit, Regency, Historical Fiction, Historical Romance
ratings_count: 22877
places: Paris, London, England
series: Pink Carnation
publisher: Penguin Audio