The Not Exactly Scarlet Pimpernel
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C. P. Lesley
Have you ever wanted to rewrite your favorite novel--fix the heroine's mistakes, win the hero's heart? Nina Pennington does. It makes her day when she lands the plum role as the heroine of The Scarlet Pimpernel in a class assignment based on a computer game. She knows she can win--until she...
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Have you ever wanted to rewrite your favorite novel--fix the heroine's mistakes, win the hero's heart? Nina Pennington does. It makes her day when she lands the plum role as the heroine of The Scarlet Pimpernel in a class assignment based on a computer game. She knows she can win--until she realizes her one chance for success requires an alliance with her least-favorite fellow grad student, cast as the Scarlet Pimpernel himself. The game challenges Nina in ways she never anticipated, and that least-favorite fellow grad student starts looking better by the minute. But then, she has always had a soft spot for the swashbuckling Scarlet Pimpernel. Now Nina has to choose: win the game, or take a chance on love?
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780615650142 (0615650147)
Publish date: June 5th 2012
Publisher: Five Directions Press
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Exciting and intriguing, "The Not Exactly Scarlet Pimpernel" is a brilliant reworking of the classic novel by Baroness Orczy. I have to admit that although I was casually familiar with the premise of the original, I'd never read it. That wasn't a problem here, though, as C.P. Lesley cleverly reveals...