Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. Morrow, $26.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-264245-5
Williams, Willig, and White (The Forgotten Room) form a spectacularly winning team for this action- and romance-packed historical novel. The story is seamlessly narrated in alternating chapters by two American women aboard the British luxury liner...
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Lauren Willig, Author . Dutton $19.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-525-94860-5
The French eventually unmasked the Scarlet Pimpernel and the Purple Gentian, famed spies in the Napoleonic wars, but as Harvard graduate student Eloise Kelly discovers at the start of this breezy historical romance, the identity of the Pink...
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Lauren Willig, Author . Dutton $24.95 (406p) ISBN 978-0-525-94920-6
Willig picks up where she left readers breathlessly hanging with 2005's The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
. After discovering the identity of the Pink Carnation, one of England's most successful spies during the Napoleonic wars,...
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Lauren Willig, Author . Dutton $21.95 (387p) ISBN 978-0-525-94977-0
Harvard Ph.D. candidate Eloise Kelly continues her research of early 19th-century spies in the smart third book of the Pink Carnation series, following the well-received The Secret History of the Pink Carnation
and The Masque of the Black Tulip
....
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Lauren Willig, Author . Dutton $24.95 (385p) ISBN 978-0-525-95033-2
In the fourth installment of the Pink Carnation series, Mary Alsworthy suddenly finds herself on the outside of polite society after her younger sister, Letty, marries Mary’s intended. Partly from boredom, partly from fascination, Mary accepts
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Lauren Willig, Author . Dutton $25.95 (388p) ISBN 978-0-525-95096-7
Willig spins another sultry spy tale in her fifth installment of the Pink Carnation series. When Robert, duke of Dovedale, returns after more than a decade abroad, Lady Charlotte Lansdowne hopes the romantic world of her novels will soon come to...
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Lauren Willig, Author . Dutton $25.95 (401p) ISBN 978-0-525-95150-6
The latest sure-to-please installment to the popular Pink Carnation series transports the action to colonial India. Lady Frederick Staines, née Penelope Deveraux, averts a scandal in early 19th-century London with a hasty marriage and a...
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Lauren Willig, Dutton, $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-525-95187-2
The delightful latest entry in the Pink Carnation series finds bumbling Turnip Fitzhugh in over his head when he visits sister Sally at boarding school, where a chance encounter with school mistress Arabella Dempsey lures the siblings into a complex
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Lauren Willig. Dutton, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95254-1
The latest entry in Willig’s Pink Carnation series (after The Secret History of the Pink Carnation) finds Napoleon-era secret agent Augustus Whittlesby hiding his communiqués to the English in his insipid poetry. The young American widow Emma...
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Lauren Willig. St. Martin’s Press, $24.99 (352p) ISBN 978-1-250-01449-8
Willig takes us from the twilight of the British aristocracy to colonial Kenya to modern-day New York City in her first historical romance outside of the Pink Carnation Series. In 1906, five-year-old Addie Gillecote leaves Kenya after her parents’...
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Lauren Willig. St. Martin’s, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-250-05627-6
Fans of romantic suspense will best appreciate this whodunit set in 1899 from bestseller Willig (The Ashford Affair). Janie Van Duyvil feels insignificant and out-of-place at a fancy Twelfth Night dinner party that her brother, Bay, and his wife,...
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Lauren Willig, read by Kate Reading, Penguin Audio, unabridged, 12 CDs, 15 hrs., $39.95 ISBN 978-0-1431-4533-2
Harvard grad student Eloise Kelly continues her dissertation research on 18th-century British spies among the treasure trove of Colin Selwick’s family archives and finds an unexpected offshoot of the Pink Carnation’s spy network foiling French...
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Lauren Willig, Author, Kate Reading, Read by Penguin Audiobooks $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-305802-1
With its shifts between past and present, and between a British protagonist and an American one, this larger-than-life romantic caper demands a narrator with extreme versatility and a strong handle on dialects. Reading is such a narrator. Since the...
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Lauren Willig, Author, Kate Reading, Read by Penguin Audiobooks $34.95 (0p) ISBN 978-5-559-08370-4
It's difficult to narrate one book, much less a story within a story that spans two different time periods, but Reading meets this challenge with a bravado befitting Willig's swashbuckling tale. American academic Eloise Kelly has come to London to...
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Beatriz Williams, Lauren Willig, and Karen White. Morrow, $28.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-304074-8
Three stories elegantly intertwine in this clever and stylish tale of murder and family lies from Williams, Willig, and White (All the Ways We Said Goodbye). In 2019, Andie Figuero arrives at Sprague Hall, a crumbling Newport, R.I., summer home, to...
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Lauren Willig. Morrow, $26.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-283902-2
Rich settings, romantic intrigue, and engaging characters will draw readers into this dramatic epic of estate owners and slavery in 19th-century colonial Barbados from Willig (The English Wife). Emily Dawson has arrived in Barbados from England, and
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Lauren Willig. Morrow, $27.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-06-298615-3
Willig (The Summer Country) draws on the Smith College Relief Unit’s experiences in France during WWI for this immersive novel. In 1917, Smith graduate Kate Moran joins fellow alumnus Emmie Van Alden to travel to France and help villagers whose...
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Lauren Willig. Morrow, $27.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-06-298618-4
Willig (Band of Sisters) delivers a winning epic of war and friendship in the late 19th century. The nonlinear timeline begins with Betsy Hayes, a Smith College graduate and aspiring archaeologist, boarding a boat for Cuba in 1898, determined to...
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Beatriz Williams. Lauren Willig, and Karen White. Morrow, $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-06-325986-7
Williams, Willig, and White, who most recently collaborated on The Lost Summers of Newport, fictionalize the origins of their partnership in this delightful send-up of the book industry. The faux-friendship between authors Cassie Parsons, who writes
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