Les Sombres Nuages du passé

Résumé

Le ranch de la Rivière Rouge…

C’est là que Kathleen vient rejoindre son père après la mort de son mari. Mais Henry Lyle ne vit pas seul : il a un associé, le brillant homme d’affaires Benton Croft. Et celui-ci, loin de plaindre la jeune femme pour son deuil récent, la secoue, la traite d’enfant gâtée… Ce qu’il ne peut pas savoir, évidemment, c’est que le désespoir de Kathleen a une autre cause, plus horrible encore. Mais ce souvenir atroce qui la ronge, elle ne peut en parler à personne…

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Description en VO :

"You're in love with a memory!"

Ben's accusation made Kate shiver. If ever she'd had love for her husband, he'd killed it long before his fatal accident. And very nearly killed her image of herself as a woman.

There was no way, she thought, she was going to make herself vulnerable to this antagonistic, autocratic stranger.

She'd dreamed of love, often - the kind of love she could respond to. But it was neither in her memories nor in any liaison she could imagine with Ben Croft!

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One man too many!

Kate Lyle didn’t want or need another man in her life. After the end of her disastrous marriage, all she wanted was to run away and lick her wounds, try to get over the terrible feeling of inadequacy her farce of a marriage had left her with. So she went to join her father on his Queensland deer farm, with the intention of turning her back on men forever and a day!

And she nearly succeeded, until the utterly maddening Ben Croft came along. But only when, too late, she had fallen in love with Ben did she realize that she was in the middle of yet another disastrous involvement!