Lauren Willig’s sequel, The Masque of the Black Tulip to her smash debut The Secret History of the Pink Carnation revives its predecessor’s sense of fun, history, intrigue, romance and swashbuckling adventure. Modern day American graduate student Eloise Kelly is continuing her research into the Selwick archive, this time uncovering the story of Lady Henrietta Selwick who has her own adventure with Miles Dorrington in helping to protect her cousin Jane, England’s only hope against a Napoleonic invasion, the Pink Carnation, against the Black Tulip, France’s deadliest spy whose mission is to kill his (or her) English adversary.