Under the Habit, the Fever, livre ebook

Sister Clara has always lived in the shadow of the walls of the Saint-Raphaël convent. Devoted to her faith, she has taken a vow of chastity, but a thirst for the absolute burns within her, a desire she has never dared to name. When she is sent on a mission to assist the sick at an isolated hospice, she is unaware that she has just set foot in Poudain-Bassé, a place whose whispers speak of prohibitions and damnation. It is there that she meets Raphaël, a man whose aura is a promise of sin. He is everything she has fled from: flesh, arrogance, temptation incarnate. He, amused by this proud nun, enjoys provoking her. But beneath the cassock, he perceives something else. A woman in struggle, a blaze hidden beneath the marble of devotion. Days pass, and what was once a clash of principles becomes a dangerous game. Every exchanged glance, every accidental brush consumes them a little more. Clara tries to resist, praying with greater fervor, but Raphaël's voice resonates in her mind louder than God's. And when he finally dares to break the last barrier, when he whispers in her ear that heaven has never burned so fiercely as in his arms, she falters. To yield is to betray her faith. To resist is to betray her own heart. But in this forgotten place of the world, where lost souls seek each other, where good and evil intertwine, one truth remains: there is no salvation without passion, and no love without damnation.