Rothwell - La série

– Nous sommes ruinés, Alexia. Je suis désolé, mais je ne peux plus t'entretenir. Horrifiée, Alexia Welbourne comprend que son cousin la met à la porte. Elle va devoir quitter la demeure où elle vivait avec ses cousines et trouver un travail. Tout cela à cause de lord Rothwell, un homme sans cœur qui, bien que riche à millions, n'a pas hésité à les ruiner. Elle le déteste ! Pourtant, lorsqu'il lui propose un emploi de gouvernante, Alexia est bien obligée de ravaler sa fierté. Elle ne se doute pas que lord Rothwell va bientôt lui faire une proposition d'un tout autre genre et que, en dépit de la haine qu'elle semble éprouver à son égard, elle devra lutter contre la force irrésistible qui la pousse dans ses bras... * * * Description en VO : Dangerous. Sensual. Handsome as sin. Meet Hayden Rothwell, the shamelessly erotic hero of The Rules of Seduction and author Madeline Hunter’s most irresistible alpha male yet: a man of extraordinary passion and power, a man who can bring out the seductress in any woman.… He enters her home without warning or invitation–a stranger of shadowy motives and commanding sensuality. Within hours, Alexia Welbourne is penniless, without any hope of marriage. Until Hayden Rothwell takes her to bed. When one impulsive act of passion forces Alexia to marry the very man who has ruined her, Hayden’s seduction of Alexia is nearly complete. What Alexia doesn’t know is that her irresistible new husband is driven by a secret purpose–and a debt of honor he will risk everything to repay. Alexia is the wild card. Reluctant to give up their nightly pleasures, Hayden must find a way to keep Alexia by his side...only to be utterly, thoroughly seduced by a woman who is now playing by her own rules.

"Les mémoires posthumes" de Richard Drury. Ce livre, qui n'a pas encore été publié, est une véritable menace pour lord Elliot Rothwell car il contient des révélations infamantes sur sa famille. Il faut à tout prix empêcher sa parution. Elliot se lance donc à la recherche de la fille de Drury, une certaine Phaedra Blair. Il sait déjà qu'il aura affaire à forte partie : il s'agit d'une excentrique qui n'en fait qu'à sa tête, prône l'amour libre et l'indépendance des femmes. Jamais elle n'obéira aux injonctions d'un homme ! Pourtant le sort va jouer en sa faveur : à Naples, où il débarque bientôt, il la trouve en prison. Se faisant passer pour son fiancé, il réussit à la faire libérer, mais promet en échange aux autorités locales de la garder sous haute surveillance. La belle suffragette est désormais à sa merci... * * * Description en VO : Handsome, suave, and carnal as the devil, Lord Elliot Rothwell awaits readers in Lessons of Desire, bestselling author Madeline Hunter’s latest book in the Rothwell series and her most provocative novel to date. A man used to getting what he wants, Elliot is every woman’s most secret fantasy in the living flesh. He first appears beneath her prison window as her savior—a sinfully attractive man whose charm and connections have ensured her release from an unjust arrest. But author and publisher Phaedra Blair quickly learns that the price of her “freedom” is to be virtually bound to her irresistible rescuer. For Elliot Rothwell didn’t come solely on a mission of goodwill. He came to extract a promise that Phaedra won’t publish a slanderous manuscript that could destroy his family’s name, and he’s not above bribery, threats, or bedding her to get his way. And with each erotic encounter raising the stakes between them, Elliot discovers he’s ever more reluctant to lose this sensual game…or the one woman who’s every bit his match. * * * Best-selling author Madeline Hunter stokes the fires with this sinfully delicious tale of an unjustly imprisoned woman and her savior. When publisher Phaedra Blair is released from confinement, she has Lord Elliot Rothwell to thank. But she soon learns Rothwell's ulterior motive-to prevent her from publishing a manuscript that would scandalize his family. Yet Phaedra doesn't mind playing Rothwell's erotic games-and she is every bit his match.

First he’ll learn her most intimate secrets. Then he’ll arouse her deepest passions. He’s the lover she’s been waiting for: the man who can rescue her from her wicked past–for a price–in Madeline Hunter’s tale of sin, seduction, and irresistible, impossible love. He catches her eye across the dining room–a handsome stranger who stands out among the lewd noblemen and bawdy painted women. But their worlds are about to collide in a way Roselyn Longworth could never have imagined. For before the night is out, she will be auctioned off to the highest bidder…and Kyle Bradwell will lead her from one kind of hell to another. Yet from the moment he wins her, Kyle treats Rose with a gentleness she hasn’t known since a family scandal destroyed her reputation. And when she finally learns what is really driving Kyle, it’s too late. For Rose has fallen for the man who knows her most intimate secrets. Now he has stunned her with a proposal of marriage–the first step in a seduction that will demand nothing less than her complete surrender.

Journey back to a time of scandal, intrigue, and reckless desire in Madeline Hunter’s sensuous new novel, the tale of a man who will give up everything for the woman he’s determined to possess—even reveal his most sinful secret. Only a desperate mission could bring Leona Montgomery face-to-face with the scoundrel whose dangerous sensuality once sent her fleeing from his arms. But she has under-estimated Christian, Marquess of Easterbrook. As irresistible as ever, his past swathed in mystery, Christian has his own plans for the woman he has waited seven years to claim. Yet once desire reignites, bringing a dangerous secret into the open, Leona will find herself bound to the seductive nobleman in ways she could never have imagined. Seven years have changed nothing: this man can tempt her to ruin with just one touch. With Leona’s reputation and hopes for her family’s salvation in tatters, she must follow the only course left to her…even as each step brings her closer to a shattering truth and a passion she can no longer live without.