Le Secret de l'immortelle - La série

Amour, magie, tragédie... Un grand voyage sur la face obscure de l'amour romantique, une aventure inoubliable Luke Findley est médecin à St Andrew, une petite ville perdue du nord de l'État du Maine. Ce soir-là, quand il prend son service à l'hôpital, il s'attend à une nuit comme les autres. Mais au lieu de cela, Lanore McIlvrae entre dans sa vie – et la transforme pour toujours. Car Lanny est une femme au passé chargé... Son histoire, où l'amour se mêle à la trahison et transcende la mort, a commencé au début du XIXe siècle dans une petite communauté puritaine au nord des États-Unis. Là, à douze ans, Lanny a décrété que Jonathan, d'une beauté exceptionnelle, serait l'homme de sa vie. Séduction, obsession, passion, décadence, perversité et brutalité, la vie de Lanny traverse les siècles sans parvenir à apaiser ses démons... Après une carrière dans le renseignement pour des agences gouvernementales américaines, Alma Katsu se consacre aujourd'hui à l'écriture. Elle est diplômée de l'université de Brandeis, où elle a étudié avec John Irving. Sa trilogie connaît un vif succès aux États-Unis et à l'étranger.

Lanore McIlvrae is the kind of woman who will to do anything for love. Including imprisoning the man who loves her behind a wall of brick and stone. She had no choice but to entomb Adair, her nemesis, to save Jonathan, the boy she grew up with in a remote Maine town in the early 1800s and the man she thought she would be with forever. But Adair had other plans for her. He used his mysterious, otherworldly powers to give her eternal life, but Lanore learned too late that there was a price for this gift: to spend eternity with him. And, though he is handsome and charming, behind Adair's seductive facade is the stuff of nightmares. He is a monster in the flesh, and he wants Lanore to love him for all time. Now, two hundred years after imprisoning Adair, Lanore is trying to atone for her sins. She has given away the treasures she's collected over her many lifetimes in order to purge her past and clear the way for a future with her new lover, Luke Findley. But, while viewing these items at an exhibit at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, Lanore suddenly is aware that the thing she's been dreading for two hundred years has caught up to her: Adair has escaped from his prison. He's free—and he will come looking for her. And she has no idea how she will save herself.

In the magical fens wood, Adair meets a pair of sister witches who turn out to be more—much more—than he bargained for in this short story, a prequel to the third book in The Taker Trilogy, THE DESCENT.

The final installment in the “mesmerizing” (Booklist, starred review) and addictive trilogy—find out who truly holds the key to Lanny’s heart and whether she’ll ever be reunited with her beloved in this gripping supernatural tale of magic, lust, and longing. Lanore McIlvrae has been on the run from Adair for hundreds of years, dismayed by his mysterious powers and afraid of his temper. She betrayed Adair’s trust and imprisoned him behind a stone wall to save Jonathan, the love of her life. When Adair was freed 200 years later, she was sure that he would find her and make her existence a living hell. But things turned out far different than she’d imagined. Four years later, Lanore has tracked Adair to his mystical island home, where he has been living in self-imposed exile, to ask for a favor. She wants Adair to send her to the hereafter so she may beg the Queen of the Underworld to release Jonathan, whom she has been keeping as her consort. Will Lanore honor her promise to Adair to return? Or is her intention to reunite with Jonathan at any cost? Of all the forces of the universe, the most mysterious, confounding, and humbling is the power of love. The epic story of love and loss, magic and destiny that began with The Taker and sparked a chase around the world in The Reckoning comes to a surprising conclusion with The Descent.