THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE PINK CARNATION 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?