E-audiobook
The orchid affair
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307878236 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0307878236 (electronic audio bk.)
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Physical Description:
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1 sound file : digital. - Edition: Library ed.
- Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2011.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 15:38:41. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kate Reading. |
| System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (WMA file size: 224823 KB; MP3 file size: 440112 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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| Subject: | Women spies -- Fiction Governesses -- Fiction |
| Genre: | Spy stories. Regency fiction. Audiobooks. Downloadable audio books. |
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Electronic resources
- Baker & Taylor
Joining the Selwick Spy School to pursue an adventurous life, governess Laura Grey is assigned to the home of Bonaparte police insider Andrâe Jaouen, who is investigating a suspected Royalist plot. - Findaway World Llc
âPride and Prejudice lives onâ (USA Today) in Lauren Willigâs Pink Carnation series, which has been hailed for its addictive blend of history, romance, and adventure. In The Orchid Affair, Willig introduces her strongest heroine yet. Laura Grey, a veteran governess, joins the Selwick Spy School expecting to find elaborate disguises and thrilling exploits in service to the spy known as the Pink Carnation. She hardly expects her first assignment to be serving as governess for the children of Andre Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparteâs minister of police. Jaouen and his arch rival, Gaston Delaroche, are investigating a suspected Royalist plot to unseat Bonaparte, and Lauraâs mission is to report any suspicious findings.
At first the job is as lively as Latin textbooks and knitting, but Laura begins to notice strange behavior from Jaouen-secret meetings and odd comings and goings. As Laura edges herself closer to her employer, she makes a shocking discovery and is surprised to learn that she has far more in common with Jaouen than she originally thoughtâ¦
As their plots begin to unravel, Laura and Jaouen are forced on the run with the children, and with the help of the Pink Carnation they escape to the countryside, traveling as husband and wife. But Delaroche will stop at nothing to take down his nemesis. With his men hot on their trail, can Laura and Jaouen seal the fate of Europe before itâs too late?
- Random House Digital
Romance, Intrigue. Adventure, and . . . textbooks?à Laura Grey has had enough of governessing. After sixteen grim years spent schooling the children of England's elite aristocracy, Laura sheds her domestic shackles and heads to the Selwick spy school, expecting an exciting new world of elaborate disguises and thrilling exploits. With the code name "the Silver Orchid," Laura sets off for France in service of the master spy known as the Pink Carnation. There's just one hitch. The Pink Carnation wants her to infiltrate the household of André Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police--as a governess. à André Jaouen has enough on his plate with rumors of a Royalist rising sweeping Paris. The arrival of his children, formerly tucked away in safety in Nantes, causes a whole new level of complication, especially with his sinister colleague, Gaston Delaroche, who is determined to one-up him in whatever way he can. Hiring a governess is meant to be the solution to the problem, and Laura seems like the perfect candidate. But from her first day in his house hold, André finds he's hired far more than he's bargained for. . . .With political intrigue and sinister plots swirling around them, can André and Laura uncover the secrets of state--and of their own hearts--before it's too late?
