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Le marquis de Haverstock comptait acheter des informations de guerre cruciales pour le Foreign Office. Il est furieux d’apprendre que l’argent dont il avait besoin vient d’être perdu dans une partie de cartes avec la fille illégitime d’un duc anglais et d’une aristocrate française. Lorsque la séduisante jeune femme l’informe que la seule façon de récupérer les fonds est de l’épouser, il n’a d’autre choix que d’accepter.

Rejetée par le beau monde, Anna de Mouchet accepte une étrange proposition qui l’oblige à utiliser son habileté aux cartes pour forcer le marquis à l’épouser, bien qu’elle sache qu’il est un traître. Une fois devenue son épouse, elle aura toute liberté de l’espionner et de prouver son propre patriotisme envers l’Angleterre. Mais après avoir épousé le beau lord, elle commence à douter de sa loyauté. Surtout lorsqu’elle découvre la douceur des caresses de son époux.

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Description en VO :

The Marquess of Haverstock is incensed when he learns the money he needed to buy crucial war information for the Foreign Office has been lost at cards to the illegitimate daughter of an English duke and French noblewoman. When the bewitchingly beautiful woman informs him the only way to reclaim the funds is to wed her, he has little choice but to agree.

Shunned by the ton, Anna de Mouchet agrees to a bizarre proposal that has her using her skill at cards to force the marquess – whom she’s been told is a traitor – to marry her. As his wife, she will be free to spy on him and prove her patriotism to England. But once she marries the handsome lord, she’s less sure of her loyalties. Especially when she feels her husband’s silken touch. . .

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Manipulated into a marriage of convenience to prove their patriotism, Anna and Charles, the Marquess of Haverstock, question each other's loyalties. But there's no question that Anna's silken touch has bewitched the powerful lord who has become her husband, and no question that she craves every moment in his arms.

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Driven by fierce patriotism to England, the Marquess of Haverstock will do anything to reclaim the money his best friend lost at cards, money that was to purchase battle plans from a French official.

The bewitchingly beautiful but illegitimate Anna De Mouchet agrees to give the marquess back the money she "won." On one condition: that he marry her.

From this forced marriage rises a love as powerful as the canons of the war which tears them apart.

Lord Stephen Stanhope, fils de duc et diplomate en route pour le congrès de Vienne, accepte de protéger l’impétueuse jeune sœur d’un vieil ami, Lady Mary Beresford, qui s’est mis en tête de se rendre seule à Vienne. La jeune femme est têtue et a déjà pris de l’avance sur lui. Stephen finit par la retrouver dans une auberge des Alpes, où tous les clients sont bloqués pour deux raisons : le blizzard et le refus de Lady Mary de partir avant d’avoir retrouvé une vieille dame qui a mystérieusement disparu.

Mais tous les occupants de l’auberge nient l’existence de la vieille dame et Mary, furieuse de cette conspiration, se réjouit de l’arrivée du beau Lord Stephen, en qui elle voit un allié.

Stephen, qui lui cache avoir été envoyé par son frère, ne croit pas non plus en son histoire rocambolesque. Jusqu’au jour où quelqu’un tente d’assassiner Lady Mary.

Comment Edward, comte de Warwick, pourrait-il se débarrasser de la belle femme qui est arrivée en trombe dans sa maison avec pas moins de quatorze malles, une sœur cadette, une domestique et un très gros chat ? L’imposteur prétend être Lady Warwick.

Sous les ordres de son supérieur du cabinet des Affaires étrangères, Edward ne peut se débarrasser d’elle car son défunt époux détient la preuve de l’identité du plus grand traître de toute l’histoire d’Angleterre, une preuve qu’il leur faut absolument obtenir. Mais comment Edward pourrait-il demeurer avec Maggie, la très jolie comtesse contrefaite, de jour comme de nuit, sans pour autant rompre ses fiançailles qui le lient à une autre dame ?

"Durant ces dix dernières années, Harry, comte de Wycliff, n'a pas ménagé ses efforts pour reconstituer la fortune dilapidée par son père. Néanmoins, un objet continue à lui échapper : le portrait de sa mère adorée peint par Gainsborough. Seule Louisa Phillips, une jeune veuve à la beauté fascinante, détient la clé pour le retrouver. Harry parviendra-t-il à la convaincre de l'aider ?"

Pendant six longues années, Thomas Moreland a rêvé de la belle aristocrate qui l'a sauvé de la mort. Alors qu'il faisait fortune en Inde, il ne s'est pas passé une seule journée sans qu'il ne se remémore la beauté diaphane de Félicity, sans qu'il ne se souvienne des sonorités chantantes de sa voix douce, sans qu'il ne désire la posséder.

Devenue veuve, Félicity Harrison ne reconnaît pas dans ce nabab avenant le jeune homme laissé pour mort quelques années auparavant par des bandits de grand chemin. Même si rien ne lui ferait plus plaisir que d'ignorer cet homme arrogant qui promet de sauver sa famille de la faillite si elle accepte de présenter sa sœur cadette à la bonne société, elle se découvre incapable de lui tourner le dos. Il faudra donc qu'elle tolère sa compagnie.

Mais plus elle le côtoie, plus elle doit se forcer à demeurer fidèle à la mémoire de son défunt mari. Pourquoi donc ce Thomas Moreland, d'origine modeste, a-t-il plus de noblesse que n'importe quel homme de sa classe sociale ? Et pourquoi trouve-t-elle de plus en plus difficile de porter le deuil d'un mort alors que la virilité de Thomas éveille ses désirs les plus profonds ?

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Fasciné, le duc de Radcliffe regardait Bonny Barbara évoluer sur la piste de danse. Avec ses yeux pers, sa gorge hardie et son sourire qui tremblait, la jeune aristocrate était assurément le plus joli bijou qu'il ait rencontré. En comparaison, les élégantes de l'assemblée semblaient démons en cotillon ! A tout au moins de vulgaires verroteries de bazar en regard desquelles Bonny Barbara scintillait comme un pur diamant. Oui, vraiment elle serait une duchesse parfaite.

De fait, le mariage est célébré peu après dans l'allégresse, et le duc se croit comblé - jusqu'au jour où il découvre que sa brune enchanteresse fixe des rendez-vous secrets à un autre homme !