Lauren Willig

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 2005
  • Latest Book:
    March 2025
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About the Author

Lauren Willig (b. March 28, 1977) is most noted for her crossover appeal, linking together both mainstream historical and traditional romance genres. Willig, who hails from an academic family, has been reading and studying historical romance since the age of six. She later majored in Renaissance Studies and Political Science at Yale. Following that, she spent time as a doctoral candidate studying European history at Harvard. Willig also earned a J.D. from Harvard, though she later quit law in order to focus exclusively on writing. In 2010 Willig put her academic background to use, as she was one of two instructors at Yale to teach a course titled Reading the Historical Romance. Willig has won numerous awards including the 2011 RITA Award for her novel The Mischief of the Mistletoe, as well as the 2011 Golden Leaf Award and the 2012 Booksellers Best Award, both for her novel The Orchid Affair.

Full Series List in Order

A Pink Carnation Novel

1 - The Secret History of the Pink Carnation (Feb-2005)
2 - The Masque of the Black Tulip (Jan-2006)
3 - The Deception of the Emerald Ring (Nov-2006)
4 - The Seduction of the Crimson Rose (Feb-2008)
4.5 - Ivy and Intrigue: A Very Selwick Christmas (Sep-2011)
5 - The Mischief of the Mistletoe (Nov-2010)
5.1 - Away in a Manger: A Very Turnip Wedding Night (Jul-2011)
6 - The Temptation of the Night Jasmine (Feb-2009)
6.5 - Bunny and Biscuits: A Very Dorrington Valentine's Day (Feb-2012)
7 - The Betrayal of the Blood Lily (Jan-2010)
8 - The Orchid Affair (Jan-2011)
9 - The Garden Intrigue (Feb-2012)
10 - The Passion of the Purple Plumeria (Aug-2013)
11 - The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla (Aug-2014)
12 - The Lure of the Moonflower (Aug-2015)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • The Secret History of the Pink Carnation

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 1

    Nothing goes right for Eloise. The one day she wears her new suede boots, it rains cats and dogs. When the subway stops short, she's always the one thrown into some stranger's lap. Plus, she's had more than her share of misfortune in the way of love....

  • The Masque of the Black Tulip

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 2

    Modern-day graduate student Eloise achieved the academic coup of the century when she unmasked one of history's greatest spies, the Pink Carnation, who saved England from Napoleon. But now she has a million questions about the Carnation's deadly Fren...

  • The Deception of the Emerald Ring

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 3

    Harvard grad student Eloise Kelly has gotten into quite a bit of trouble since she's been spying on the Pink Carnation and the Black Tulip--two of the deadliest agents to saunter the streets of nineteenth-century England and France. Not only has she ...

  • The Seduction of the Crimson Rose

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 4

    Harvard grad student Eloise Kelly heads back into the musty library stacks to watch an intricate plot unfold against Napoleonic France. Determined to secure another London Season without assistance from her new brother-in-law, beautiful Mary Alswo...

  • The Temptation of the Night Jasmine

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 6

    After years abroad, Robert, Duke of Dovedale, has returned to England to avenge the murder of his mentor. To uncover the murderer's identity, he must infiltrate the infamous secret Hellfire Club. But the Duke has no idea that an even more difficu...

  • The Betrayal of the Blood Lily

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 7

    Lauren Willig's Pink Carnation novels are "great fun" (The Boston Globe) and "grandly entertaining" (Publishers Weekly). Now she whisks readers away to nineteenth-century India -- home to romance, intrigue, and a spy known only as the Marigold. . . ....

  • The Mischief of the Mistletoe

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 5

    Get into the holiday spirit with this charming Christmas caper featuring Jane Austen. . . . Arabella Dempsey's dear friend Jane Austen warned her against teaching. But Miss Climpson's Select Seminary for Young Ladies seems the perfect place for Ar...

  • The Orchid Affair

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 8

    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 c...

  • Away in a Manger: A Very Turnip Wedding Night

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 5.1

    n this bonus chapter to "The Mischief of the Mistletoe" (the 2011 RITA Winner for Best Regency Romance), Turnip and Arabella lose their way in a snowstorm on their way from the wedding. Will Turnip’s wedding night be snowed out? Will Arabella’s n...



  • Two L

    Something is rotten at Harvard Law. As the frat boys take over the Law Review and the law school sorority, the Veritarts, bring hems to a new high and grades to a new low, the Dean is very strangely gone, leaving in charge one Arthur Agnelli, a schol...

  • Ivy and Intrigue: A Very Selwick Christmas

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 4.5

    'TIS THE SEASON FOR...SPIES? When Lord Richard Selwick, the spy formerly known as the Purple Gentian, and his bride head home for the holidays, they find that far more than mince pie is waiting for them. Can the Purple Gentian save the holiday? ...

  • The Garden Intrigue

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 9

    In the ninth installment of Lauren Willig's bestselling Pink Carnation series, an atrocious poet teams up with an American widow to prevent Napoleon's invasion of England. Secret agent Augustus Whittlesby has spent a decade undercover in France, p...

  • Bunny and Biscuits: A Very Dorrington Valentine's Day

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 6.5

  • The Ashford Affair

    From New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig comes The Ashford Affair, a page-turning novel about two women in different eras, and on different continents, who are connected by one deeply buried secret. As a lawyer in a large Manhattan fir...

  • The Passion of the Purple Plumeria

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 10

    Lauren Willig's Pink Carnation novels have been hailed as "sheer fun"* and "charming."** Now she takes readers on an adventure filled with hidden treasure and a devilishly handsome English colonel.... Colonel William Reid has returned home from I...

  • That Summer

    2009: When Julia Conley hears that she has inherited a house outside London from an unknown great-aunt, she assumes it’s a joke. She hasn't been back to England since the car crash that killed her mother when she was six, an event she remembers onl...

  • The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 11

    In the latest Pink Carnation novel from New York Times bestselling author Lauren Willig, rumors spreading among the ton turn deadly as a young couple unites to solve a mystery.... In October of 1806, the Little Season is in full swing, and Sally ...

  • The Other Daughter

    Raised by her widowed mother in genteel poverty in the 1920s in an isolated English village, for the past six years Rachel Woodley has been working in France as a nursery governess. When her mother unexpectedly dies, she returns to England to clear o...

  • The Lure of the Moonflower

    A Pink Carnation Novel - 12

    In the final Pink Carnation novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, Napoleon has occupied Lisbon, and Jane Wooliston, aka the Pink Carnation, teams up with a rogue agent to protect the escaped Queen of...



  • The Record Set Right

    in Fall of Poppies: Stories of Love and the Great War

    On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month... November 11, 1918. After four long, dark years of fighting, the Great War ends at last, and the world is forever changed. For soldiers, loved ones, and survivors the years ahead str...

  • The English Wife

    From New York Times bestselling author, Lauren Willig, comes this scandalous novel set in the Gilded Age, full of family secrets, affairs, and even murder. Annabelle and Bayard Van Duyvil live a charmed life in New York: he's the scion of an old K...

  • The Glass Ocean

    The lives and loves of three remarkable women -- two in the past, one in the present -- and the tragic final voyage of the HMS Lusitania. From the New York Times bestselling authors of The Forgotten Room comes a captivating historical mystery, inf...

  • The Summer Country

    The New York Times bestselling historical novelist delivers her biggest, boldest, and most ambitious novel yet -- a sweeping Victorian epic of lost love, lies, jealousy, and rebellion set in colonial Barbados. Barbados, 1854: Emily Dawson has alwa...

  • All the Ways We Said Goodbye

    The New York Times bestselling authors of The Glass Ocean and The Forgotten Room return with a glorious historical adventure that moves from the dark days of two World Wars to the turbulent years of the 1960s, in which three women with bruised hearts...

  • Band of Sisters

    A group of young women from Smith College risk their lives in France at the height of World War I in this sweeping novel based on a true story -- a skillful blend of Call the Midwife and The Alice Network -- from New York Times bestselling author Lau...

  • Two Wars and a Wedding

    “Filled with vivid details, shocking truths, and two sly, strong women who bring panache and humor to every scene. I’m simply in awe of the masterful, magical way Lauren Willig makes history come alive.” -- Fiona Davis, New York Times bestsel...

  • The Girl from Greenwich Street

    Based on the true story of a famous trial, this novel is Law and Order: 1800, as Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr investigate the shocking murder of a young woman who everyone -- and no one -- seemed to know.At the start of a new century, a shocking...

Award-Winning Books by Lauren Willig

The Garden Intrigue
2012 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Fiction
The Mischief of the Mistletoe
2011 Rita Award -- Regency Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Lauren Willig has published 27 books.

The next book by Lauren Willig, The Girl from Greenwich Street, will be published in March 2025.

The first book by Lauren Willig, The Secret History of the Pink Carnation, was published in February 2005.

Yes. Lauren Willig has 1 series.
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