Les Bonneaux, Tome 1 : L'alliance secrète

Résumé

Amérique, 1867.

En pleine guerre de Sécession, Julia, une jeune Sudiste, quitte sa Louisiane natale pour se mettre en quête de son mari disparu dans le Montana.

Accompagnée de leur fille, elle brave les dangers de l'Ouest, domaine des dernières tribus indiennes et des aventuriers en mal de fortune. Mais l'interminable cheminement de la caravane, le soleil brûlant du désert, le sentiment confus d'un péril imminent, tout cela n'est rien en comparaison du choc que la jeune femme reçoit quand, dans une garnison, elle retrouve par hasard non pas l'homme qu'elle cherche, mais le trop séduisant major épousé en secret quelques années plus tôt, cet espion nordiste qui l'a trahie et qu'elle a pourtant longtemps pleuré avant de se décider, le croyant mort, à refaire sa vie.

Et soudain, comme on retrouve un parfum perdu, le souvenir de leur passion enfouie la suffoque : son corps recouvre la mémoire d'affolantes étreintes, son coeur n'est plus en lambeaux de rêves évanouis. Et avec une aveuglante certitude, elle sait qu'il lui faudra livrer le plus terrible des combats pour échapper au joug sensuel de cet homme dont, en cet instant, le regard fixé sur elle reflète une promesse – ou une menace.

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Description en VO :

Determined to find her missing husband, Julia Bonneaux and her young daughter make a dangerous journey to Wyoming. But at Fort Laramie Julie finds instead Major Andrew Garrett, the man she had secretly married seven years ago, a Union spy who had betrayed her and who she believed was dead. Now she needs his help, and Andrew is torn between duty and desire, between the misunderstandings of the past and the promise of a new beginning.

Time has eased the pain of Andrew's months in a Confederate prison-but not the memory of Julia: the temptress who had enticed him, the woman who had nearly destroyed him...and the wife who now wears another man's ring. When she walks back into his life, asking for his help, Andrew is torn between duty and desire.

Now, with his career-and his heart-in jeopardy, he must choose between the misunderstandings of the past and the promise of a new beginning.

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Determined to find her missing husband, Julia Bonneaux and her young daughter make a dangerous journey to Wyoming. But at Fort Laramie Julie finds instead Major Andrew Garrett, the man she had secretly married seven years ago, a Union spy who had betrayed her and who she believed was dead. Now she needs his help, and Andrew is torn between duty and desire, between the misunderstandings of the past and the promise of a new beginning.

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Searching for her missing husband, Julia Bonneaux and her young daughter leave New Orleans for the dangers of Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory, where Julia comes face to face with Major Andrew Garrett, a Union spy whom she had married seven years earlier and whom she believed dead for years.