La petite saison, tome 3 : Une promesse si téméraire

Résumé

France, 1814

"Je vous jure de recueillir Marley, votre fille chérie, s’il vous arrivait malheur un jour."

Lorsque Darby Travers, vicomte de Nailbourne, a fait cette promesse au chirurgien Hamilton qui venait de lui sauver la vie sur le champ de bataille français, jamais il ne pensait devoir l’honorer un jour. Jusqu’à ce matin où Sadie Hamilton, délicieuse et troublante sœur du défunt, se présente, accompagnée de sa jeune nièce désormais orpheline. Sadie, à qui il serait prêt à faire la plus étrange des propositions pour veiller avec elle sur Marley…

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Description en VO :

London's Little Season has never been so scandalous

It's the kind of vow often made on the battlefield. Darby Travers, Viscount Nailbourne, never imagines he'll have to honor it. Yet here she is on his doorstep—his late comrade's young daughter, and Darby's new ward. Worse, she comes with the most overprotective, mistrustful, bothersome chaperone—the child's aunt, Sadie Grace Boxer. Darby is quite sure that behind her lovely facade, the woman is guarding a secret.

Sadie Grace faced many trials working in her brother's surgery, but none prepared her for the world she's thrust into with his passing. Navigating the ton, with its endless ball gowns and parade of parties, is difficult enough, but hiding the truth about her niece while the sophisticated viscount watches her every move proves nearly impossible—particularly when his searing gaze tempts her to bare all. But when her family's past catches up with her, she'll have to trust in Darby…no matter the cost to her heart.