The Deception of the Emerald Ring

THE DECEPTION OF THE EMERALD RING; Lauren Willig: Dutton: Fiction: 387 pgs.

This is the third in a series of books following the escapades of the Pink Carnation, an English Spy and contemporary of the Scarlet Pimpernel. In this volume the League of the Pink Carnation are off to Ireland to stop a revolt and hopefully to capture their enemy the Black Tulip. Little Letty is swept up in the intrigue moments after her shotgun wedding to a man she barely knows and doesn't trust.

I know what you are thinking...a little melo-dramatic...well it is. I keep expecting the back of one of Willig's books to contain something along the lines of "Although the sight of his piercing eyes constantly enraged her temper, the thought of never seeing them drove her mad with dreading. How was she to know that this tall mysterious man she had been forced to marry, would be the one man she couldn't force from her mind...or her heart?" But the Pink Carnation books are written as literature, so the backs are not nearly as entertaining as it's near cousins in the Romance collection.

I would class this book as super fluff...but super fun. It's a little guilty pleasure I wouldn't recommend to my mother because it does include a little amorous adventure that I'm sure she wouldn't appreciate.

CZ