Cuando encontrar el amor verdadero se convierte en una arriesgada aventura.
Los lectores que disfrutaron con las andanzas del Clavel Carmesí, el espía inglés que puso en jaque a la mismísima policía de Napoleón, tienen ahora la oportunidad de conocer al Tulipán Negro, el oponente francés del Clavel.
Y será la joven historiadora americana Eloisa Kelly la encargada de seguirle la pista. Para ello, tendrá que pedir ayuda de nuevo al atractivo y estirado Colin Selwick, descendiente de toda una saga de espías inaugurada por su antepasado Richard Selwick, la Genciana Púrpura.
En los archivos de la familia Selwick, Eloisa descubrirá que la hermana de Richard, Henrietta, y su amigo Miles Dorrington ayudaron al Clavel Carmesí en su lucha sin cuartel para desenmascarar al despiadado Tulipán Negro.
Y mientras se desarrolla la confrontación entre las dos potencias rivales, otras cosas no menos interesantes ocurrirán en las vidas y los corazones de los protagonistas... tanto en el pasado como en el presente.

Enjoyed this regency book. The whole thing was light hearted and left me with a happy feeling after I finished. I didn't think the solving of who the spy was was as in depth as it could have been. Henrietta and Miles were just not all that good as spies or as spy catchers. That is what kept the novel from rating higher. I wasn't 100 percent fond of the two time lines either. I think the modern time line which seems to be there to carry the story from book to book is unnecessary.

The narrator on this one did an excellent job differentiating the various characters. I was listening in the car on family vacation and there were a couple of racy parts that we skipped because I didn't want to listen to them with my young teenage sons. We were all red faced. I did go back and listen to them later alone though. ;-)

I think I will look up other in the series though and read them, so all in all a success. ( )

Eloise is writing a dissertation on the Pink Carnation, a little known English spy from the Napoleonic era. Her research has led to a cache of heretofore unavailable archives owned by the Selwick family, Eloise is invited to their estate for the weekend to research the old diaries, letters, and even an old spy codebook. Eloise immerses herself in the long forgotten story of the search for the Black Tulip, one of Napoleon's most dangerous spies. The Black Tulip is on the hunt for the Pink Carnation and in doing so the lives of Colin Selwick's ancestors are in jeopardy. The only thing I found off-putting about the story is that it is too much of a romance and not enough of an intriguing spy adventure. ( )

Amateur night in the Regency World of espionage continues as the French spy, the Black Tulip, is a target for British counter-espionage. ( )

well, there was no bodice ripping (though there was shift ripping =])!

I liked that Ms. Willig had a parallel story line going on with the researcher and her subject- though she's now sucked me into reading the next novel to see what happens with the researcher and her potential love interest...

It was fun, a nice flouncy romp (if those can be flouncy) through regency England and it's nest of spies and potential spyees..er, those spied upon. ( )