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...racing, racy historical narrative is driven by plucky characters with dual lives like 20-year-old Amy Balcourt, a.k.a. The Pink Carnation, who abandons a peaceful life in the British countryside to avenge her guillotined aristocrat father. Witty, rapier-wielding Lord Richard Selwick, a foppish Egyptologist at home in England, ventures into Bonaparte’s sanctum and dons the dashing mask of The Purple Gentian to save fair Brittania—and win Balcourt’s quivering Regency-era heart...

Author: By Simon W. Vozick-levinson, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: BOOK ENDS: Grad Student Grabs Readers With Bodice-Ripper | 3/23/2005 | See Source »

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