Les Séducteurs - La série

À la mort de son père et de son frère, Eva Russell a dû endosser le rôle de chef de famille qui la condamne à rester vieille fille. Refusant de vendre le domaine ancestral, elle vit grâce à ses talents de peintre à Langdon’s End. L’arrivée du fils bâtard du duc d’Aylesbury va bouleverser sa vie casanière. Marchand d’art, Gareth est à la recherche d’une collection de tableaux qui a mystérieusement disparu. Il a aussi une réputation de libertin qui effraie le voisinage. Lorsqu’il fait clairement comprendre à Eva qu’elle l’intéresse, la jeune femme, méfiante, se cramponne à ses principes... qui ne vont pas tarder à fondre sous l’embrasement de la passion.

Fils de duc et avocat, lord Ywain Hemingford reçoit un soir une visiteuse inattendue. Padoue Belvoir vient le supplier d’assurer la défense de son père, éminent professeur qui vient d’être incarcéré à Newgate pour faux-monnayage. Or Ywain lui apprend qu’il travaille en fait pour la partie en charge de l’accusation et qu’ils seront donc adversaires. Néanmoins, il est troublé par cette jeune femme au charme fascinant qui, il le devine, a toutes les qualités requises pour combler sa sensualité exigeante et dominatrice. Qu’elle le veuille ou non, il compte bien la mettre dans son lit.

Lance Hemingford a hérité du duché d'Aylesbury à la mort de son frère aîné, disparu dans des circonstances troublantes. Percy aurait été empoisonné, chuchote-t-on. Et Lance, bien sûr, est soupçonné. Le juge de paix, qui est son voisin, en profite pour le faire chanter : il fera clore l'enquête si Lance épouse sa nièce Marianne. Le jeune homme feint d'accepter, mais il a un plan : il va enquêter pour démasquer le véritable assassin, et pendant ce temps il courtisera officiellement la jeune femme en s'arrangeant pour qu'elle le déteste. Ainsi, pas de danger qu'elle accepte sa demande en mariage. Il n'avait pas prévu que cette beauté rousse l'enflammerait d'une passion si forte qu’elle lui ferait oublier toute prudence...

Wearing nothing but a man's nightshirt, Fleur Monley woke to find herself in the bed of England's most charming and reckless libertine. But it was a stray gunshot, not passion, that put her at the mercy of a man as infamously handsome as he was famously talented in the arts of love. Believing herself immune to any seduction, Fleur thought herself perfectly safe to make him an offer no ordinary woman would dare make: half her fortune for the freedom she would gain by being his wife --- in name only. Desperately in need of funds, Dante Duclairc could do worse than the "white marriage" proposed by this idealistic beauty too naive to know the danger she was in. But the rashest thing he ever did was tell himself he'd be able to resist the invitation to sin that this sensuous innocent would arouse at every turn --- or that he'd be able to protect her from both the ruthless enemies that sought her ruin ... and his own dangerous desire.

Fuyant un mariage désastreux avec un homme aux penchants pervers, Pénélope, comtesse de Glasbury, s'est réfugiée durant quelques années à Naples. Mais son époux exige à présent qu'elle reprenne la vie commune et lui donne un héritier. Terrorisée par cette perspective, la jeune femme revient secrètement en Angleterre pour demander l'aide de son notaire et ami d'enfance, Julian Hampton. Troublé par cette visite inattendue, Julian offre à Pénélope de la cacher dans un petit cottage qu'il possède au bord de la mer. C'est là qu'elle lui expose son plan : trouver un homme dont elle deviendra la maîtresse et qui la compromettra suffisamment pour contraindre Glasbury à accepter le divorce. Furieux, car il aime Pénélope depuis toujours, Julian lui propose de jouer ce rôle. * * * Description en VO : A passionate new historical romance in Madeline Hunter's nationally bestselling Seducer series. This one features a fifth member of the London Dueling Society, the reserved, enigmatic lawyer to the Laclere family: Julian Hampton. All his life, it seemed, Julian had been in love with Penelope, now Countess of Glasbury. And when he learned the horrors she had endured at the hands of her vicious husband, Julian was instrumental in arranging for her escape to Italy. But he has never forgotten the love of his childhood, the woman he had rescued first as a "damsel in distress" when she was a girl, and then for real once she had blossomed into woman. When Penelope returns secretly to London, Julian is the one she turns to, even though her trust in him puts both their reputations, and ultimately their lives, in peril.

He’s never met a woman who didn’t want him. Until now. When carefree rake Ewan McLean inherits an earldom, his plans for his new fortune are entirely in keeping with his lifestyle: to expand his collection of erotic art and expensive mistresses. That is, until he becomes acquainted with his most intriguing new responsibility . . . Bride Cameron is beautiful, unmarried, and sole caretaker of her three younger sisters. Now it’s Ewan’s duty to see that she is provided for. But to his amazement, the last thing the fiery lass wants is Ewan’s help. The simplest thing would be to walk away. But Bride, with her sparkling gaze and fierce wit, is the most bewitching woman Ewan has ever met. And he intends to have her–and to learn how she has managed to survive on her own. Even if he has to employ all the arts of seduction for which he is notorious . . .

Award-winning author Madeline Hunter transports readers back to the scandal and intrigue of nineteenth-century England in the enthralling tale of a magnetically sensual man, a virtuous woman, and a love story that will take your breath away. . . . She arrives at his home without warning or invitation, determined to win him to her campaign to reform women’s rights. Instead, Charlotte, the widowed Baroness Mardenford, ends up being nearly seduced by Nathaniel Knightridge. No woman is safe from the mesmerizing sensual power of the famed courtroom advocate, and Charlotte discovers she is no exception. But does he recognize her as the masked woman who recklessly joined him in forbidden passion a month ago? And how to avoid becoming his Lady of Sin when he decides to pursue her again?