'I cannot imagine any recompense you might offer that would be of
any interest to me.' Basking in self-satisfaction, Mary swished
regally down the long corridor, giving Vaughn an excellent view of
her elegant back and graceful carriage. Vaughn's amused voice
snaked after her. 'Can't you? I can....'
England 1803. Mary Alsworthy accepts a secret assignment from Lord
Vaughn: to infiltrate the ranks of the dreaded French spy, the Black
Tulip, before he and his master Napoleon Bonaparte can stage their
planned invasion of England
Every spy has a weakness, and for the Black Tulip that weakness is
beautiful black-haired women. Mary easily catches his attention, but
Lord Vaughn never anticipates that his own heart will be caught as
well, and it won't be long before Mary and Vaughn find themselves
lost in the shadows of a treacherous garden of lies.
A native of New York City, Lauren Willig has been writing romances
ever since she got her hands on her first romance novel at the age of
six. Like Eloise Kelly, Lauren is the proud possessor of an unfinished
Harvard History department dissertation, and spent a year poring over
old documents at the British Library before abandoning the academic
life for the more lucrative world of law. Once Lauren received her JD
magna cum laude from Harvard Law School, she practised as a litigation
associate at a large New York firm, but decided that book deadlines
and doc review didn't mix and departed the law for a new adventure in
full-time writerdom.
www. laurenwillig. com
