Friday Memes: The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig

Happy Friday everybody!

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Beginning:

London, England, 2003

I bit my lip on an "Are we there yet?"

Friday 56:

"Ah, the sister of our gallant adventurer." On Lord Vaughn's lips the word "gallant" sounded more insult than praise. 

I am spotlighting The Masque of the Black Tulip by Lauren Willig. This one has been on my TBR mountain forever. I bought it after reading The Secret of the Pink Carnation. Here is the description from Amazon:

...But now she has a million questions about the Pink Carnation's deadly French nemesis, the Black Tulip. And she's pretty sure that her handsome onagain, off-again crush, Colin Selwick, has the answers somewhere in his archives. But what she discovers in an old codebook is something juicier than she ever imagined.