Evan H. Rhodes Livres

" Au-delà de cette zone s'étendait un territoire dangereux. Jay-jay savait que des bandes d'adolescents rôdaient (...), prêts à se jeter sur le premier passant assez imprudent pour s'aventurer sur leur terrain de chasse. Lorsque le gibier se faisait rare, les jeunes loups se dévoraient entre eux (...) " Quand, à onze ans et en plein New York, Jay-jay s'échappe de l'appartement de sa mère adoptive pour fuir sa tyrannie, on pourrait craindre pour lui. Mais ce Gavroche des temps modernes a plus d'un tour dans sa besace et devient bien vite le Robinson Crusoé de Central Park. Trouvant refuge dans un chêne, il profite de la nuit pour découvrir son nouveau territoire magique... Il y survit au jour le jour, recueille un chien, fait la connaissance d'une vieille femme avec laquelle naît une curieuse amitié. Mais il doit aussi échapper à Elmo, un jeune drogué qui s'est juré de lui faire la peau...

Bless This House begins the epic series about the history of the White House, nerve center of the world. In 1792 the new nation called it The American Palace, and as it rose above the Potomac, it symbolized the magnificence of the American dream. The House of Brand: two brothers, Jeremy the builder and Zebulon the adventurer. Rivals for Rebecca Breech, a lone woman competing in a man's world, but a blazing beauty whose ambitions were even greater than theirs. Together they formed a dynasty whose destiny is forever entwined with that of Washington, the Nation and the White House.

In 1829 the White House is rocked by intrigue and sexual scandal; the visionary Andrew Jackson, aided by Rebecca, alias Rebel Thorne, struggles to hold the fragmenting Union together. The Brand dynasty kindles devotion in many, but hatred in some, notably in the traitorous Tory clan, the Connaughts. On the eve of marrying Devroe Connaught, Rebecca's daughter elopes with her lover. Devroe pursues them, intent on murder. Rebecca's sons are divided by a dark secret while Rebecca fights desperately for peace at home and freedom for Texas.

A Distant Dream continues the saga of The American Palace. In the White House, new Presidents risk war to expand America's borders from sea to shining sea. As the nation grows, so grows the Brand dynasty. Rebecca's son Gunning falls into a trap set by the exquisite, degenerate Veronique Connaught. On the Texas frontier Suzannah and her family fall victim to the deadly Connaught feud. Coming soon, Book 5, The Divided Heart, when there were two White Houses in America. It concludes with the Civil War, the Confederate plot to assassinate Lincoln, and the ultimate redemption of Rebecca Brand.

Forged in Fury continues the epic begun in Bless This House. The White House is burned to the ground by the British in the War of 1812, but it will rise again. The dynasty begun by Jeremy and Zebulon Brand is fired once more by the tempestuous Rebecca — bound to one brother by law, and to the other by her own passionate blood. No one suspects that Rebecca, the reigning beauty in Washington, is also the anonymous firebrand journalist, Rebel Thorne, who inspires her countrymen in the nation's most dangerous hours.