Men Made in America, Tome 1 : La maison aux sortilèges

Résumé

Série "Men Made in America" - Tome 1

Follement excitée, Lottie voltigeait de fenêtre en fenêtre tandis que les nouveaux locataire s'installaient dans sa maison. Enfin, un peu d'animation dans cette vieille bicoque ! Quand on errait comme elle dans les limbes depuis plus de cent cinquante ans, on avait diablement besoin de sentie le mouvement de la vie autour de soi de temps en temps ! Et puis, il y avait déjà un petit moment que Lottie voulait se rendre utile dans le monde des vivants sans que l’occasion se présente... Mais cette fois, il semblait bien que la chance fût de son coté. Car la nouvelle locataire était une jeune femme jolie. Très jolie, même. Et même embarrassé de toute sa tribu d'enfants qu'elle élevait seule. Or, pas très loin de là, vivait Tucker Highsmith. Charmant. Très charmant. Et seul lui aussi. Nul besoin d'être un fantôme très sorcier pour deviner que tous les elements d'une belle histoire d'amour étaient réunis. A condition, bien sûr, d'y ajouter un peu de cet magie d'outre-tombe que connaissait si bien Lottie...

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Description en VO :

Justine's life was full...of trouble

It wasn't that she didn't have a lot to offer, but she was convinced there would be no takers. She had a smart-aleck eleven-year-old son, an insecure eight-year-old daughter, and she could just imagine herself telling the first man who threw himself at her how she'd inherited her mother and gotten custody of her ex-mother-in-law in the divorce settlement. What kind of man would choose to take on this brood?

Tucker Highsmith, her new neighbor, was determined to show her that no challenge was too great for an Alabama good of boy. He tackled all her family crises - from outdated wiring to a frustrated ghost - and he wasn't going to give up until he convinced her that there was room in her full house - for him.

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Need Help? Hire a Ghost!

Lottie Roberts is restless and lonely. She’s been sitting on her bones for decades, waiting for her ticket to heaven until… Justine Hale and her family take up residence in Lottie’s two-hundred-year-old plantation house. Lottie senses in Justine a kindred spirit—filled with heartache and in reduced circumstances—which Lottie considers mirrors her own situation exactly. Yet Justine is trying to do the right thing. Else why is she burdened with a bankrupt mother without an ounce of common sense? Or an ex mother-in-law who looks like a pickled beet with a tongue sharper than a hatchet? And where is the father of the recalcitrant eleven year-old boy and the eight-year-old afraid of her own shadow?

Justine needs help and Lottie is of a mind to provide it. But before Lottie can say squat and Justine even unlocks the front door, Tucker Highsmith shows up to steal her thunder. His dark eyes, lazy grin, and sexy Alabama drawl coupled with the dern braggart’s Mr. Fix-it talents just might be the answer to all of Justine’s problems. Or maybe not…

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Need Help? Hire a Ghost. She Cooks.

Lottie Roberts has been sitting on her bones since the Civil War, waiting for her ticket to heaven until…Justine Hale moves into Lottie’s two-hundred-year-old house with three generations of emotional baggage--her mother, her ex mother-in-law and two pesky children. Lottie senses in Justine a kindred spirit—filled with heartache and in reduced circumstances, which mirrors Lottie’s situation exactly. Justine needs help. Lottie is of a mind to provide it, but before she can say squat, Tucker Highsmith arrives. His dark eyes, lazy grin, and sexy Alabama drawl coupled with the dern braggart’s Mr. Fix-it talents just might be the answer to all of Justine’s problems--or, maybe not… Because Lottie has her own agenda, one she has been waiting, hoping and praying for since she discovered her bones on a hidden staircase.

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History. Reality. Fantasy. All rolled into one zany family.

If Justine Hale had the time, she'd get in her car and go crazy. She owns two kids, an ex-mother-in-law, and a bankrupt mother. Money scarce, she moves her entire family into a run-down, two-hundred-year-old farmhouse.

Resident ghost Lottie Roberts offers to help. She’s bossy, but she cooks. So what if she’s betwixt and between? After all, it's her house. Before Lottie can intervene, though, Tucker Highsmith steals her thunder with his sexy grin, lazy Alabama drawl, and Mr. Fix-it talent.

Plagued with the demands of her family, Justine dismisses ghost and handyman alike. But hidden agendas prevail, and Justine is caught in the middle.

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Strange things were happening in the Alabama farmhouse next to Tucker Highsmith's property. It wasn't just the arrival of an unattached woman and her unruly brood. There were phantom raids in the pantry, mysterious moving objects and spooky things that went bump in the night. Tucker's heart went bump, too, the moment he met Justine Hale. She was all he'd every wanted in a woman. She'd just have to find room in her heart and her full house for him...