Livres - Bibliographie

Amour, magie, tragédie...

Un grand voyage sur la face obscure de l'amour romantique, une aventure inoubliable

Luke Findley est médecin à St Andrew, une petite ville perdue du nord de l'État du Maine. Ce soir-là, quand il prend son service à l'hôpital, il s'attend à une nuit comme les autres. Mais au lieu de cela, Lanore McIlvrae entre dans sa vie – et la transforme pour toujours.

Car Lanny est une femme au passé chargé... Son histoire, où l'amour se mêle à la trahison et transcende la mort, a commencé au début du XIXe siècle dans une petite communauté puritaine au nord des États-Unis. Là, à douze ans, Lanny a décrété que Jonathan, d'une beauté exceptionnelle, serait l'homme de sa vie.

Séduction, obsession, passion, décadence, perversité et brutalité, la vie de Lanny traverse les siècles sans parvenir à apaiser ses démons...

Après une carrière dans le renseignement pour des agences gouvernementales américaines, Alma Katsu se consacre aujourd'hui à l'écriture. Elle est diplômée de l'université de Brandeis, où elle a étudié avec John Irving. Sa trilogie connaît un vif succès aux États-Unis et à l'étranger.

After decades of running from her past, Lanore McIlvrae returns to America for the first time in 20 years to confront the source of her fear. The year is 1846 and Lanore—Lanny—has just landed in Baltimore after a long transatlantic crossing. That very night, she meets an “unattractive man with a high forehead and sunken eyes, and a tiny, pinched mouth like a parrot’s beak” who claims to write stories so dark and unsettling that he could be the Devil’s Scribe. His name? Edgar Allan Poe. Has Lanny finally met her match in this macabre man…or is it the other way around?

DREAMS CAN COME TRUE—BUT THE PRICE IS STEEP in this short story from THE TAKER saga

Evangeline McDougal is the luckiest girl in St. Andrew, Maine. She’s to wed Jonathan St. Andrew, eldest son of the town’s founder and heir to the timber business that has made the St. Andrews one of the wealthiest families in the state.

Nor does it hurt that her bridegroom is so very handsome. Irresistible, in fact. And when rumors fly about her husband-to-be and several of the other girls in town. . . . What is Evangeline to think? There is a price to pay for her marriage to Jonathan, but surely it is worth the cost.

Isn’t it?

This is the only way to explain the series of misfortunes that have plagued the passengers of the ship from the moment they set sail: mysterious disappearances, sudden deaths. Now suspended in an eerie, unsettling twilight zone during the four days of the liner's illustrious maiden voyage, a number of the passengers - including millionaires Madeleine Astor and Benjamin Guggenheim, the maid Annie Hebbley and Mark Fletcher - are convinced that something sinister is going on . . . And then, as the world knows, disaster strikes.

Years later and the world is at war. And a survivor of that fateful night, Annie, is working as a nurse on the sixth voyage of the Titanic's sister ship, the Britannic, now refitted as a hospital ship. Plagued by the demons of her doomed first and near fatal journey across the Atlantic, Annie comes across an unconscious soldier she recognises while doing her rounds. It is the young man Mark. And she is convinced that he did not - could not - have survived the sinking of the Titanic . . .

After having travelled west for weeks, the party of pioneers comes to a crossroads. It is time for their leader, George Donner, to make a choice. They face two diverging paths which lead to the same destination. One is well-documented – the other untested, but rumoured to be shorter.

Donner’s decision will shape the lives of everyone travelling with him. The searing heat of the desert gives way to biting winds and a bitter cold that freezes the cattle where they stand. Driven to the brink of madness, the ill-fated group struggles to survive and minor disagreements turn into violent confrontations. Then the children begin to disappear. As the survivors turn against each other, a few begin to realise that the threat they face reaches beyond the fury of the natural elements, to something more primal and far more deadly.

Based on the true story of The Donner Party, The Hunger is an eerie, shiver-inducing exploration of human nature, pushed to its breaking point.

(Source : Bantam)