Resultados para "Abandon" en Literatura y ficción

La primera novela de J. D. Barker, autor de El Cuarto Mono. Terror clásico e intriga con el estilo único del maestro americano del suspense. Cuando Thad McAlister, un joven y exitoso autor de bestsellers de terror, empieza a escribir su nueva novela, siente que las palabras fluyen sin esfuerzo...

En "Campo de muerte", Poe y Tilly están desayunando, preguntándose cómo pasarán el resto de sus vacaciones, cuando su presencia es solicitada en un aeródromo de Cumbria. Un aeródromo que durante la crisis de la fiebre aftosa de 2001 se conocía como el campo de la muerte... En "¿Por qué no encogen las ovejas?" una pandemia global obliga a Poe y a Tilly a aislarse juntos. Las cosas no salen bien. Discuten y están a punto de pelear cuando Poe encuentra un viejo expediente: un misterio en el que ha estado reflexionando durante años.

She wakes bound on the back of a horse. The gods are gone. And the world is no longer gentle. Tsunala is carried through a land that no longer remembers mercy—guarded by monsters, watched by a half-breed who should be her enemy, and pulled toward truths she is not ready to name. Power lingers...

Después de compartir toda una vida, el esposo de Bárbara muere. Ella, devastada por la situación, pierde el rumbo. A bordo de un crucero, decide abandonarlo todo, incluso a sí misma. Se despide de su familia, de su casa y de los recuerdos que alguna vez la hicieron feliz. ¿Cómo recuperar...

Spanning sixty tumultuous years of Ukrainian history, this multigenerational saga weaves a dramatic and intricate web of love, sex, friendship, and death. At its center: three women linked by the abandoned secrets of the past—secrets that refuse to remain hidden. While researching a story...

Este audiolibro está narrado por una voz digital. Cuando su novio la dejó plantada en el altar, Jessica Holcomb se refugió en la mansión que el marido de su difunta hermana tenía en una playa de California. Allí descubrió que Zane Williams, una superestrella del country, seguía bajo el...

Maupassant es, junto a Chèjov, el más importante autor de cuentos y relatos del siglo XIX. Escribió más de 300 relatos y inconcovelas. Son especialmente destacables sus cuentos de terror, género en el que es reconocido como maestro, a la altura de Edgar Allan Poe.

The loud roar snapped Mrs. Doyle from her sleep, and she quickly slid from her bedroll, stepped to the tents flap, and pulled it aside seeing a bear standing on its hind legs just a few feet from her. What made it more horrifying was what she didn't see. The camp behind the bear was empty. She dropped the flap and turned to her the frightened boy standing behind her. He looked at his equally terrified nanny unaware that they had been abandoned to die in the wilderness.

Todo cambia en la vida de Olga cuando, después de quince años de matrimonio, Mario la abandona por una jovencita. Sola con sus dos hijos, el mundo en apariencia perfecto de la mujer se desmorona. Atrapada entre las cuatro paredes del piso que antes llamaba hogar, Olga no duerme, no come y casi no se reconoce: quien está al otro lado del espejo cuando se mira por la mañana es una mujer que ha perdido todos sus atributos y tendrá que buscar otras palabras que la definan y le permitan seguir adelante.

A dog named Slipper almost ruined my life. The uncatchable stray snuck on the patio where I was waitressing and knocked me straight into Lee Powell's lap. My fist slammed into his junk. Then I accidentally flipped his breakfast platter onto his pants. I thought it couldn't get any worse, but when I bring my brother to baseball practice, I discover his new coach is none other than Lee, owner and founder of Powell Dog Sanctuary, and he's not happy to see me.

The Sinclair Resort Hotel has many secrets. Some, it wants to share, and others it wants to keep buried deep. Lively and Minerva have discovered that they are connected to the hotel in more ways than one and that their involvement in the disappearance is more significant than they could have...

Katie Berry continues the interwoven saga of Lively and Minerva Deadmarsh and Chief Inspector John Harder in this second book in the Lively Deadmarsh series. Some questions are finally answered, but others arise as Lively and Minerva find the Sinclair Resort Hotel to be much more than it seems...

My ex-wife is the only one that can save me. Guess I shouldn't have eaten her favorite Girl Scout cookies . . . You know you've still got it bad when you haven't taken the wedding ring off a year after the divorce. Andy has always been the only one for me. The brawn to my brains. The hot fudge...

On December 31, 1981, high atop a snowy mountain peak in the rugged interior of British Columbia, Canada, ninety-eight beautiful people eat, drink, laugh, and dance inside the opulent grand ballroom of the Sinclair Resort Hotel. The clock strikes twelve, a cheer goes up and the music swells...

With the scalding sting of betrayal still tearing at his soul, American covert operative Chase Fulton steps through a door he believes he can never reopen and into a world unlike the one he’d known since stepping off the playing field and onto the battlefield.

Abandoned in the Dark is a collection of unnerving stories which are grounded in reality, journeys that promise to keep you awake at night and get your heart pounding. “Abandoned in the Dark” and “Close Call,” among other similar stories collected here, delve into our universal feeling of dread and will ruthlessly steal your breath away. “Behind the Curtain,” a uniquely unsettling sexual tale ridden with disturbing undertones and unforgettable imagery, is certain to haunt parents in particular.

On his way to claim his late father's title, highland chief Connor Brunwood, stumbles upon an English lass in a deserted clearing. She's dressed like a man, in shirt and breeches, her blond tresses hidden under a large hat and a foil in her hand, as she practices the art of sword-fighting. Awed...

On December 31st, 1981, high atop a snowy mountain peak in the rugged interior of British Columbia, Canada, ninety-eight beautiful people eat, drink, laugh, and dance inside the opulent grand ballroom of the Sinclair Resort Hotel. The clock strikes twelve, a cheer goes up and the music swells; balloons drop and streamers swirl. Then blackness . . . Fifteen seconds later, the power returns and every living soul inside the ballroom has vanished, never to be seen again.

Leah Pfeifer has spent two years in an isolated cabin in Colorado with her almost three-year-old daughter, Anna, trying to protect the girl both from her inherited psychic ability and from the government organization that would be happy to exploit it. Trouble seems to find them anyway, and a panicked phone call from Leah's younger sister, Rowena, prompts Leah to leave in search of treatment for Anna and to rescue Rowena from the cycle of abuse that Leah herself narrowly escaped years ago.

Silas Blackburn is killed on the day before he intended to remove his grandson from his will. For some strange reason he decided to sleep where many of his family have died in agony and he is found dead in this locked and abandoned room. How did someone get in? And who did it? The detectives who show up to investigate the case suspect any number of characters, including the grandson who has no memory of what he did that night but who was in the area.