Willig continues the exciting series with her fourth novel featuring Lord Vaughn, the delightfully devilish spy from The Masque of the Black Tulip, and Mary Alsworthy, the raven-haired beauty whose sister accidentally steals her suitor in The Deception of the Emerald Ring.

Going undercover to catch johns soliciting prostitutes, Office Sasha Cole is walking through an alley with her first when he takes things into his own hands and take here then and there – tossing a few bills in her pretty face before leaving. But her troubles were only getting started. When she saw a well-dressed black man enter from the other end, she knew things were about to go south.

A drop of crimson blood on a tattered black rose was all she has left of him--the guy that she loved.Rayne remembers her days with the boy that stole her heart. Jay was the love of her young life. Future plans arose, love bloomed, time spent made their connect unique. Until the day it all came crashing down.What happened to the love that they had?Take a trip of wrath and remembrance with Rayne.A drop of crimson blood on a tattered black rose was all she has left of him--the guy that she loved.Rayne remembers her days with the boy that stole her heart. Jay was the love of her young life. Future plans arose, love bloomed, time spent made their connect unique. Until the day it all came crashing down.What happened to the love that they had?Take a trip of wrath and remembrance with Rayne.A short story by C. Desert Rose of All Authors Publishing House.To connect with C. Desert Rose visit her website at: https://cdesertrose.comOr on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/cdesertroseOr on Twitter at: @CDesertRose

March, 1587. Christopher Marlowe?s play Tamburlaine, with the incomparable Ned Alleyn in the title role, has opened at the Rose Theatre, and a new era on the London stage is born.Yet the play is almost shut down on its opening night. For a member of the audience, Eleanor Merchant, lies dead, hit by a musket ball fired from the stage. The man with his finger on the trigger? A bit-part player named Will Shakespeare.Convinced of Shakespeare?s innocence, Marlowe determines to find out what really happened. When a second body is found floating in the River Thames, it becomes clear that Eleanor Merchant?s death was no accident, and that something deeper and darker is afoot. And why is the Queen?s spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham, taking a close personal interest in the case?

The fourth installment in Willig’s Pink Carnation series finds beautiful, ambitious Mary Allsworthy still smarting from her sister Letty’s inadvertent theft of her suitor in The Deception of the Emerald Ring (2007). At the suggestion of the Pink Carnation, the imperious Lord Vaughn recruits Mary to help him uncover the identity of the Black Tulip, a French spy who threatens England’s interests. As determined as Mary is to find a husband, Lord Vaughn, a widower, is equally determined not to succumb to her charms, creating a palpable friction between the two. The closer they get to their goal of finding the Black Tulip, the more their adversarial feelings dissolve into attraction, even love, just as a secret from Vaughn’s past threatens to keep them apart forever. In the present, graduate student Eloise Kelly delves deeper into the archival papers to discover the Black Tulip’s identity. Willig’s series gets better with each addition, and her latest is filled with swashbuckling fun, romance, and intrigue.

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