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Jane’s been captured? Lady Henrietta surged forward like the statue on the prow of a ship.She’s gone in, Jack corrected shortly. Voluntarily.And you let her? Lady Henrietta’s eyes were as wide as they...

Lauren Willig

Jane’s been captured? Lady Henrietta surged forward like the statue on the prow of a ship.She’s gone in, Jack corrected shortly. Voluntarily.And you let her? Lady Henrietta’s eyes were as wide as they...

Tags: jack, miss gwen, purple

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.

Lauren Willig

Love doesn't attack; it infiltrates.

About Author
Lauren Willig is a New York Times bestselling author of historical novels. She is best known for her "Pink Carnation" series, which follows a collection of Napoleonic-Era British spies, similar to the Scarlet Pimpernel, as they fight for Britain and fall in love.

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

Lauren Willig

They were a strange and mercantile people, these Americans. One never knew what they might come up with next.

Tags: ingenuity, invention

There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

Lauren Willig

There's nothing so attractive as a blank slate. Take one attractive man, slap on a thick coat of daydream, and voila, the perfect man. With absolutely no resemblance to reality.

Mr. Alsworthy! exclaimed Letty’s mother. How can you laugh at such a matter! Although, I must say, I would have thought if a pirate were to kidnap anyone, he would kidnap Mary. She looks quite as I di...

Lauren Willig

Mr. Alsworthy! exclaimed Letty’s mother. How can you laugh at such a matter! Although, I must say, I would have thought if a pirate were to kidnap anyone, he would kidnap Mary. She looks quite as I di...

What a very odd thing,' said Janie, 'to live and leave no mark.

Lauren Willig

What a very odd thing,' said Janie, 'to live and leave no mark.

Tags: legacy, live life

Of course, they don't like him! Liking is for ninny-hammers. Real men elicit rancor. Pausing for a moment of deep consideration, she added, Loathing, even. But never liking. Hatred, perhaps? suggested...

Lauren Willig

Of course, they don't like him! Liking is for ninny-hammers. Real men elicit rancor. Pausing for a moment of deep consideration, she added, Loathing, even. But never liking. Hatred, perhaps? suggested...

Tags: geoffrey pinchingdale snipe, mary alsworthy, miss gwendolyn meadows

Only the silver head of his cane blazed with reflected fire, held aloft above the grave like a medieval necromancer summoning spirits from the vasty deep.

Lauren Willig

Only the silver head of his cane blazed with reflected fire, held aloft above the grave like a medieval necromancer summoning spirits from the vasty deep.

Ooof! Amy collided at high speed with someone entering the anteroom from the other direction. Her head was still spinning as a pair of capable hands righted her, and a warm chuckle sounded somewhere a...

Lauren Willig

Ooof! Amy collided at high speed with someone entering the anteroom from the other direction. Her head was still spinning as a pair of capable hands righted her, and a warm chuckle sounded somewhere a...

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Lauren Willig

Patience is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Tags: historical

Patience, she said in her best governess voice, is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Lauren Willig

Patience, she said in her best governess voice, is only a virtue when there is something worth waiting for.

Sensing another maternal oration coming on, one of those I-bore-you-and-thus-know-what’s-best-for-you lectures, Richard made a pointed move towards the door. ‘If that’s all for the moment, Mother, I r...

Lauren Willig

Sensing another maternal oration coming on, one of those I-bore-you-and-thus-know-what’s-best-for-you lectures, Richard made a pointed move towards the door. ‘If that’s all for the moment, Mother, I r...

Tags: mother and son

She could only hold on to her husband with both hands and promise herself that the best way to keep someone was to let him go.

Lauren Willig

She could only hold on to her husband with both hands and promise herself that the best way to keep someone was to let him go.

Tags: lost love, love, unrequited love

She responded to Letty's well-meaning suggestions with the unblinking disdain perfected by cats in their dealings with their humans.

Lauren Willig

She responded to Letty's well-meaning suggestions with the unblinking disdain perfected by cats in their dealings with their humans.

She won’t come that way.Jack’s stepmother stepped out beside him on the large terrace in front of the fortress. All around them, the setting sun painted the sky a brilliant red and purple that only ac...

Lauren Willig

She won’t come that way.Jack’s stepmother stepped out beside him on the large terrace in front of the fortress. All around them, the setting sun painted the sky a brilliant red and purple that only ac...

Sometimes Richard had the sinking suspicion that he had a far better chance of preventing Bonaparte from conquering Europe than he had of thwarting his mother’s plans to see him married off within the...

Lauren Willig

Sometimes Richard had the sinking suspicion that he had a far better chance of preventing Bonaparte from conquering Europe than he had of thwarting his mother’s plans to see him married off within the...

Sunset. He had promised her until sunset. If something goes wrong, we need to get her out.Miles Dorrington looked thoughtful. I say, we could raise the Jolly Roger and storm the fort as pirates. While...

Lauren Willig

Sunset. He had promised her until sunset. If something goes wrong, we need to get her out.Miles Dorrington looked thoughtful. I say, we could raise the Jolly Roger and storm the fort as pirates. While...

Swooning solves nothing.

Lauren Willig

Swooning solves nothing.

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

Lauren Willig

The French just said he was a damned nuisance. Or they would have had they the good fortune to speak English. Instead being French they were forced to say it in their own language.

The room was so still that Mary could hear the ticking of the clock on the mantel and the gentle whisper of Vaughn’s breathing, in and out, in and out. Outside, there was the rustle of the leaves in t...

Lauren Willig

The room was so still that Mary could hear the ticking of the clock on the mantel and the gentle whisper of Vaughn’s breathing, in and out, in and out. Outside, there was the rustle of the leaves in t...