Livres - Bibliographie

1665. Lorsqu'Elise de Lesseps est vendue en mariage à Lord Edward Asher, elle décide d'être une épouse obéissante et dévouée, jusqu'à ce que, lors de leur nuit de noces, elle découvre exactement ce que son mari lui réserve. Sa demande lui laisse un sentiment de choc et d'humiliation, mais étant sa propriété, elle n'a pas le droit de refuser. Les conséquences de cette nuit scellent le destin d'Elise et la mettent sur un chemin qui la conduira à un coeur brisé et à une tragédie.

2013. Archéologue de renom, le Dr Quinn Allenby a un don : elle peut voir dans le passé en tenant un objet ayant appartenu à un mort. Lorsqu'on lui demande d'animer une série de la BBC intitulée "Echoes from the Past", Quinn utilise son don pour découvrir ce qui est réellement arrivé au couple du XVIIe siècle connu sous le nom de "The Lovers", et tombe involontairement sur le secret de sa propre naissance.

His heart pounding, the man scribbles the words in his notebook as fast as he can: “Woman dead in Highgate. Man in caped coat. Milky way and red streaks. I’m being followed.”

Hours later, the man’s cold body lies in the city mortuary, alongside the woman he couldn’t save. And his sister, unconventional nurse Gemma Tate, tracks down troubled police inspector Sebastian Bell to unravel the truth.

Sebastian has enough pressure to solve the murder of an aristocratic heiress without Gemma meddling in his case. But the cryptic sentences she brings him from her brother’s notebook could be a crucial lead. If only they knew what “milky way” meant. But as the trail of clues takes them away from the gilded drawing rooms of the nobility and into the dangerous slums of London, how far will their partnership be tested on the quest for justice, and will they both emerge unscathed?

Fans of Andrea Penrose, Deanna Raybourn and Carole Lawrence will be hooked on this intricate, compelling mystery set in Victorian London.

In the spring of 1685, Lord Hugo Everly, ardent supporter of the Protestant upstart the Duke of Monmouth, vanishes without a trace just before the Monmouth Rebellion, leaving future generations forever baffled as to what might have become of him. In 2013, while visiting Everly Manor as part of her job as a location scout for a film production company, Neve Ashley stumbles onto a secret passage that leads her into the seventeenth century and straight into the path of the ill-fated lord. Neve is able to return safely to her own time, but she can't forget the man she met or the fate that's about to befall him. Against her better judgment, Neve decides to go back and warn Hugo of impending danger, not realizing that she's walking into danger herself, for history is never straightforward, and people's motives not always what they appear to be. Taken hostage by the very man she was trying to save, Neve is trapped in the seventeenth century, her fate now intertwined with that of her captor, and the future something that neither one of them could have envisioned.