Eloise Kelly longs for the romance of years gone by; for a dashing hero like The Scarlet Pimpernel to come and sweep her off her Jimmy Choo-clad feetbut instead shes sloshing around London in the rain and finally realising that romantic heroes are a thing of the past.To distract herself from such thoughts, Eloise concentrates on her History dissertation, and its while rummaging through a pile of old letters and diaries that she discovers something amazing, something that historians have missed: the secret history of the most elusive spy of all time, The Pink Carnation. But why is the very modern Colin Selwick so determined to interfere with Eloises research? And why does he have to be quite so charming?