‘Tis the growing season to get Pink! Lauren Willig’s beloved Pink Carnation series gets into the holiday heart with this irresistible Regency Xmas caper.

Arabella Dempsey’s dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson’s Select Seminary for TEENAGERS seems an ideal place for Arabella to state her independence while keeping an eye on her younger sisters nearby. Just before Xmas, she accepts a posture at the peaceful girls’ college in Bath, expecting to encounter about The Mischief from the Mistletoe: A Pink Carnation Christmas nothing more interesting than conducting the annual Christmas recital. She hardly imagines coming in person with French aristocrats and worldwide spies…

Reginald ‘Turnip’Fitzhugh-often mistaken for the elusive spy known as the Red Carnation- provides blundered into danger before. However when he blunders into Miss Arabella Dempsey, it by no means takes place to him that she may be difficulty. When Turnip and Arabella come across a beautifully wrapped Xmas pudding using a cryptic message created in French, ‘Meet me at Farley Castle,’ the unlikely automobile for intrigue launches the set on the Yuletide adventure that ranges through the Austens’modest drawing room towards the awe-inspiring estate from the Dukes of Dovedale, where the Dowager Duchess can be hosting the most anticipated event of the year: an elaborate twelve-day Xmas celebration. Will they find poinsettias or peril, dancing or danger? Is it feasible that the destiny of the British Empire rests in Arabella’s and Turnip’s hands, by means of a festive Xmas pudding?