num_pages: 528
description: In the final Pink Carnation novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla Napoleon has occupied Lisbon and Jane Wooliston aka the Pink Carnation teams up with a rogue agent to protect the escaped Queen of Portugal. Portugal December 1807. Jack Reid the British agent known as the Moonflower (formerly the French agent known as the Moonflower) has been stationed in Portugal and is awaiting his new contact. He does not expect to be paired with a womanespecially not the legendary Pink Carnation. All of Portugal believes that the royal family departed for Brazil just before the French troops marched into Lisbon. Only the English government knows that mad seventy-three-year-old Queen Maria was spirited away by a group of loyalists determined to rally a resistance. But as the French garrison scours the countryside its only a matter of time before shes found and taken. Its up to Jane to find her first and ensure her safety. But she has no knowledge of Portugal or the language. Though she is loath to admit it she needs the Moonflower. Operating alone has taught her to respect her own limitations. But she knows better than to show weakness around the Moonfloweran agent with a reputation for brilliance a tendency toward insubordination and a history of going rogue. READERS GUIDE INCLUDED
language: English
title: The Lure of the Moonflower
publisher: Berkley