Un envahisseur de charme

Résumé

Les inconnus sont rares, qui s’arrêtent dans la petite ville minière de Goldfield, perdue à l’extrême nord du continent australien. Et Kendra s’interroge. Qui est-il donc, ce Philip Faulkner, si beau, si mystérieux, comme jailli du désert ? Un de ces chercheurs d’or à la recherche du filon oublié ? Un agent immobilier véreux en quête de terres à racheter à bas prix ?

D’instinct, la jeune femme n’a aucune confiance en lui. Pourtant, depuis que son regard a croisé les yeux verts de l’inconnu, elle sait que plus rien, jamais, ne sera comme avant, dans la petite ville de Goldfield.

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Description en VO :

Only love would change her mind

Kendra loved Goldfield, a mining community in northern Queensland, but not its daydreaming prospectors. And now her brother had brought one home to help her in the store!

Rogan Faulkner, however, was undeniably hardworking—and attractive!—but Kendra stuck to her conviction. Gold miners lived in a fantasy, and no levelheaded woman would marry one.

But Rogan disturbed her equilibrium. He had plans for Goldfield—and especially for Kendra.

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Bush dances were always happy, lively affairs,suitable for both adults and children alike as everyone clapped their hands andstamped their feet to the spirited strains of traditional bush music, providedby an impromptu band of local players. There was old Mick Fowler who waseighty-five if he was a day and the last of the town's earlier miners, but ......

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With gold fever affecting her brother Kendra suspected her brother’s new found friend suffered the same ailment; this meant he was to be treated as no more than another brother, but with them both working in the produce store and he boarding in her house, brotherly love was the last thing on her mind.