Deciding that true romantic heroes are a thing of the past, eloise kelly, an intelligent American who always manages to wear her jimmy choo suede boots on the day it rains, Leaves Harvard's widener library bound for Engl...Deciding that true romantic heroes are a thing of the past, eloise kelly, an intelligent American who always manages to wear her jimmy choo suede boots on the day it rains, Leaves Harvard's widener library bound for England to finish her dissertation on the dashing pair of spies the scarlet pimpernel and the purple gentian. What she discovers is something the finest historians have missed: a secret history that begins with a letter dated 1803.