Haverstock House, Tome 1 : Lady par hasard
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- Cheryl Bolen (Écrivain)
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Her eyes widened for a hint of a second, then she moved to the edge of the bed, blew out the candle, and began to unbutton her gown.
"I want the candle lighted," he said harshly. "I am your husband, and I want to see what I'm getting." He scooped up the candle, strolled to the fireplace, and relit the wick from the flames. Walking slowly back to her bed, he watched her lift the gown over her head, then clutch the coverlet to hide her breasts, her face flaming.
He set the candle on the marble top of her bedside table and leaned over her, lifting her chin with his finger. "I cannot believe the former Miss De Mouchet blushes over the prospect of displaying her lovely body."
"It is just. . ." Anna whispered, "I did not know this act was performed . . .without clothing?"
His laughter shook the room. "Yes, my dear, we shall perform the act totally naked. I pity your former lovers if they were denied the pleasure of your entire body." His hand moved from her chin, down the slope of her chest, where he flicked off the covering and cupped a full breast while his thumb plied her nipple.
"There have been no lovers, my lord," she said in a shaky voice.
He removed his hand and met her bewildered gaze. "Do you mean to tell me you're a virgin?"
All he saw were her huge, brown eyes staring at him like a frightened doe as she nodded.
"So you say. There are ways a man can tell if a woman has been with a man."
She lifted her chin and spoke in a voice now devoid of shakiness. "I'm very happy to learn that. Then I will be exonerated of at least one odious deed."
"Oh, but my dear," he said, sitting beside her on the bed and stroking her breast, "there is nothing at all odious about the deed."
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Dates de sortie
Haverstock House, Tome 1 : Lady par hasard
- France : 2018-06-04 (Français)
- USA : 2013-05-19 (English)
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Résumé
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.
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