Despite her dear friend Jane Austen's warning against teaching, Arabella
Dempsey accepts a position at a girls' school in Bath, just before
Christmas. She hardly imagines coming face-to-face with French
aristocrats and international spies.
Reginald "Turnip" Fitzhugh-often mistaken for the elusive spy known as
the Pink Carnation-has blundered into danger before. When Turnip and
Arabella find their Christmas pudding yielding a cryptic message, they
are launched on a Yuletide adventure. Will they find poinsettias-or
peril?