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Fleur de glace (Ice Trap) (French Edition)
Fleur de glace - Ice Trap - French Edition Author:Kitty Sewell, Oristelle Bonis (Translator) Moose Creek, Territoires du Nord-Ouest, Canada. Le timbre, là sur l'enveloppe, n'a pas échappé à Dafydd Woodruff, chirurgien à Cardiff. Ni la petite ville qu'il évoque : il y a quinze ans, une erreur opératoire lui a valu un court exil dans le Grand Nord canadien. Il se souvient fort b... more »ien de ce bled polaire, de l'hôpital, de ses collègues et de l'infirmière en chef, Sheila Hailey. Mais de ce que cette lettre lui apprend, nul souvenir. Or comment l'oublier? L'infirmière Hailey prétend pourtant avoir eu des jumeaux de lui, deux adolescents aujourd'hui désireux de connaître leur père. Dafydd n'en revient pas. Décidé à rétablir la vérité, il s'envole sur le champ pour affronter, sur place, un test de paternité positif. Dès lors, son mariage, sa carrière, ses certitudes craquèlent comme la banquise sous ses pieds. Et le piège se referme, pire que la glace...
At the height of his career, a British surgeon has found success in both the hospital and at home. He and his wife have everything they want out of life, except the child the longs for, the child Dr. Woodruff secretly believes he may never be ready to parent.
Suddenly, the delicate equilibrium of their relationship is blown apart by the arrival of shocking news. Deep in the desolate sub-Arctic wilderness of Canada where Woodruff lived and worked years before, a woman claims he is the father or her thirteen-year-old twins. Woodruff knows it cannot be true -- but DNA tests don't lie.
To make sense of the impossible, he must return to that frozen wilderness, where no rules and few laws apply. Leaving his shattered relationship behind, he finds that his well-guarded secrets have even deeper and more sinister layers. But the people he once knew in that godforsaken place guard secrets of their own and no one -- least of all the ruthless woman at the dark core of this maelstrom -- will help him uncover the truth.
The past quickly gains a stranglehold, threatening to unravel everything Woodruff has built -- his marriage, his career. And a man who has made one mistake may pay dearly for another -- and risk destroying his entire future.« less