Wherlocke, Tome 6 : If He's Daring
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- Hannah Howell (Écrivain)
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Chapter One
England, Fall, 1790
The groan echoed through the small house, every note of it filled with pain and helpless fury. Catryn tossed her cloak on the hook near the front door and rushed toward the room she was certain the sound was coming from. Her heart pounded with fear for her family as she cursed herself for leaving them alone. She never should have given in to her friend Anne’s pleas to join her at the morning salon on the servants’ day off. She certainly should never have lingered there as long as she had.
She found her father on his knees in the library, one hand on the settee as he struggled to get to his feet. Catryn ran to his side to help him stand and then urged him to sit down on the settee. Blood stained his pale cheek as it seeped from the side of his head, the red of it stark against the white of his hair. The knuckles on his right hand were scraped and his left eye was already swelling. A quick look around the room revealed a knocked-over table and a smashed vase. Who would attack her father? The man was just a quiet, somewhat reclusive scholar.
A demand to know what had happened burned her tongue with the need to be uttered, but she bit it back. Her father needed tending to first, the dazed look in his gray eyes telling her that he was not ready to answer all her questions, not even the one now screaming in her mind. Where is my son?
Catryn quickly dampened her handkerchief with a little of the spring water her father always brought to the city from their country home and kept in a decanter on his desk. Her heart still twisted with fear, she gently bathed the blood from his face. By the time she was finished, his wound did not look quite as bad as she had thought it was, and his eyes had cleared. The first words he spoke chilled her to the bone.
“He took Alwyn.”
“Who took him, Papa?” she asked, although she already had a very good idea of who would commit such a crime against her.
“Morris.” He took the damp handkerchief from her hand and held it against the small wound on the side of his head. “He and some hired brute came into this house, marched right into this room whilst I was reading a story to Alwyn, and demanded that I give him the lad. Told the man he was a daft fool and to get out. Then we had us a tussle and I lost.”
She could see how that shamed him and patted his knee. “It was two men against one, Papa. I know, with all my heart, that you did all you could do to stop him. Now I will do what I can.”
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Wherlocke, Tome 6 : If He's Daring
- USA : 2014-08-25 (English)
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Dans un roman éblouissant de la saga de la famille Wherlocke, Hannah Howell, l’auteure à succès du New York Times, crée une histoire inoubliable d’intrigues, de menaces et de désirs... Voler la voiture d’un étranger est la deuxième chose la plus irresponsable que Lady Catrin Gryffin de Warrene ait jamais faite. La première succombe à sa puissante attirance pour le propriétaire de la voiture. Catrin a entendu les rumeurs au sujet de la famille de Sir Orion Wherlocke et de leurs autres dons. C’est la seule personne qui peut protéger son fils et son héritage du frère impitoyable de son défunt mari. Quant à savoir comment se protéger... il est peut-être trop tard pour cela. Orion fait face au pire danger qu’un homme de son espèce puisse trouver : une femme qu’il ne peut pas abandonner. Catrin est un mélange enivrant d’innocence et de sensualité, et pour la première fois, la séduction est bien plus qu’un jeu. Mais sa beauté et sa fortune ont fait d’elle une cible - une cible qui l’osera risquer tout ce qu’il connaît - à la poursuite de tout ce qu’il a toujours désiré....
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