Cruelle dérobade

Résumé

"Elle ne pouvait lui refuser cette chance, la vie était assez dure sur l’île de Shetland sans y rajouter les demandes incessantes de Brett Simon. Si seulement son frère, Magnus, n’avait pas permis à la compagnie pétrolière de Brett de rechercher un nouveau terminal ici, et d’utiliser leur maison comme hôtel ! Mais Catriona n’avait pu s’opposer à Magnus. Un terrible accident a détruit sa volonté, et ce projet était des plus importants à ses yeux. D’un autre côté, aussi longtemps que Brett restait, plus sûrement Catriona risquait de perdre la raison. Brett désirait plus, bien plus qu’elle ne pouvait lui donner..."

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Description en VO :

She couldn't deny him this one chance

Catriona found life on the remote Shetland island hard enough without Brett Simon's maddening demands. If only her brother, Magnus, hadn't agreed to all Brett's oil company to research a new terminal here--and to use their home as a hotel!

But Catriona didn't dare oppose Magnus. A terrible accident had shatter his spirit, and this project seem to mean the world to him.

The longer Brett stayed, though, the more Catriona felt her own sanity was at stake. Brett wanted more, much more, than she could give him...

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Ever since her brother had been mentally crippled by an accident on an oil-rig, Catriona had hated oilmen and all their doings. So she wasn't exactly ready to co-operate with Brett Simons when he arrived on her peaceful Shetland island home with grandiose plans to ruin it by setting up an oil terminal there. True, once their initial conflict was past, Brett did seem to be showing a lot of interest in her - but wasn't that just to make sure she capitulated? And then Catriona discovered that Brett also seemed to be involved with her friend Fiona...