Resultados para "Captive" en Literatura y ficción

Brothers Gavin, Slade, and Dex fall hard for Gavin's new secretary, beautiful Hannah Craig. The oil executives know they must give her time to get to know them before she can choose one...who will seduce the virgin and keep her for his own. But when a dangerous predator begins stalking the small-town beauty, they work together to protect her, abducting Hannah and spiriting her to an isolated hideaway. Once alone with her, none of them can contain their burning desire.

Three brothers set out for revenge, to avenge one man's wrongdoings. He killed everyone they ever loved, stole their world, and nearly killed them in the process. So as the three brothers waited and watched, they took his most treasured possession, his one and only daughter. They knew she was innocent in the war, that she didn't deserve rage or violence, but they didn't care. Nothing would stop the brothers from getting justice for their family.

Tainted. Dirty. Those are the words my family use to describe me. It doesn’t help that after my mother escaped them all years ago, she was tragically killed and I was returned back to them like a neat little package. My aunt hates me. My grandfather despises me. My life until now has been one of keeping my mouth shut and keeping my head down, praying no one sees me. And then he comes along. Conrad Blake. He’s confident, an egotistical arsehole but I’ll admit there is something attractive about him. He’s my aunt’s fiancé.

Jackie June is a bounty hunter. She’s going undercover as a sex slave to find and capture the ringleader of a West Coast human-trafficking ring, Harley Laroque. With the help of her assistants, Brendon and Brian Carper, she enters the dark, violent world of the Mexican drug cartel as a captive. She quickly realizes this isn’t going to be as easy as she thought.

Two years ago, Jason and Kate Ryker were brought together by grief and bound to one another by love. Now married, they're confronting their fears together. But heartbreak finds them again, and the ties that bind Kate and Ryke are tested as she struggles against fear and sadness. As a grief counselor, Kate understands all too well the pain of her clients. And while her husband's career as an NHL forward is at an all-time high, he's coping with the frustration of feeling powerless as his wife's hopes slip away.

I was a journalist, I had a life, friends, and then all of that was taken from me. No, not taken, stolen. The Brethren found out about my exposé. They realised I was getting too close to their nasty little secrets—and so they made sure I disappeared. Except, they didn’t just grant me the mercy of a shallow grave. Oh no, instead they handed me over to Magnus Blake, practically gift-wrapped me for him. And he’s got plans for me. Big plans.

Damen is a warrior hero to his people and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave. Beautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master, Prince Laurent, epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent.

He takes me his captive at his lavish estate. Massive. Dangerous. A modern-day Viking. A bad man worthy of his plundering ancestors. There's no denying he's sexy as he is big. My father owes him a debt, and he wants me to pay. The cost is my virgin body to do with as he pleases. He threatens to tie me up, punish me, bring me to the edge. Now, his hands are on my body, his mouth on mine. How can I escape when I'm craving his touch?

The women in the Palacios family are cursed to always lose their love. Until one day, Amada Palacios uses all her magic to transfer the curse into her own body. Now, Amada wanders the world alone, never getting too close or too intimate with anyone who might have the misfortune to love her. But when the curse begins to ache in ways it never did before, she's desperate to end her agony. Amada travels to Scotland in search of the Grand Master of the Abyss who is said to have a cure for any curse . . . for a price.

Caleb is a man with a singular interest in revenge. Kidnapped as a young boy and sold into slavery by a power-hungry mobster, he has thought of nothing but vengeance. For 12 years he has immersed himself in the world of pleasure slaves searching for the one man he holds ultimately responsible. Finally, the architect of his suffering has emerged with a new identity, but not a new nature.

After destroying a small Rhode Island town, the Shrink Bandits have willfully gone into US custody. Thinking they will destroy from within, the girls have no clue the plot against them. With the help of a tiny shrunken man, they are freed, and now Sarah realizes her power is just getting started. She can turn humans into beastlings, shrink them, and make them docile. But the Shrink Bandits will not be given an easy escape.

After her village is raided by Vikings and she is carried off and taken as a slave by one of the marauding Norseman, 21-year-old Duna learns the hard way that her best attempts at defiance will merely earn her a painful, humiliating spanking. More shameful still is the inspection of her naked, helplessly aroused body which follows the strict chastisement. Though he does not hesitate to punish his new slave, Halvor cannot deny the effect Duna's innocence and beauty have on him. But when a man from her village tracks her down, will Duna choose to stay by Halvor's side?

I was a top prosecutor with everything going for me—until the day they took me. Three dangerous men. One luxurious prison. Gabriel, with his cold eyes and calculating mind who sees right through me. Mateo, wild and passionate, whose touch makes me forget who I am. And Dominic, quiet and powerful, whose strong arms make me feel safe even when I shouldn't.

I never lived a day until he came along and found me… Forced to compete for our Chapter Lord’s hand in marriage, I silently pray through each and every ritual that I will not be chosen. But when my nightmare becomes a reality, my life turns into nothing short of hell. My dear Lord husband chose me because he needs an heir. He doesn’t care for my needs, he doesn’t even see me as a person. I’m a thing to own, a vessel to use. But amongst the horror there’s one shining light; Devin. One of my Chapter Guards. I’m not meant to look at him, let alone know his name.

Peter had never been in trouble a day in his life. He always made sure he played by the rules and did things the way they were supposed to be done. That’s why he could never imagine that day would come when cops showed up at his place of business to arrest him. Granted, he had very much done one big thing wrong in his lifetime, but he didn’t think he would get caught, nor was he going to admit to it. However, as Peter would soon find out, the day he got arrested would not be the worst day of his life. That was to come soon, though.

Little does Jasabel Buchanan realize the rakish Bermuda sloop she sights on the horizon is about to plunge her into a passionate voyage of intrigue and adventure. An indentured lady's maid to the rich Governor's daughter, Jasabel is taken prisoner when the ship on which they sail is seized by pirates. Soon she finds herself the personal captive of the pirates' dark, enigmatic captain. Sent into bondage on the plantations because of his Jacobite loyalties, Captain Neil Devlin escaped to become the terror of the English colonies.

Calen is a good man from a bad family, but when the girl of his dreams falls in his lap can he do the right thing and let her go? Calen is the son of an Irish mobster, but he’s rejected his legacy and has made a name for himself as a club owner. After years of hard work, he has the life he’s always wanted. Almost. Then his father asks him to take a meeting with a rival crew. It’s too important to say no. Reluctantly, he drives out to the middle of nowhere to meet them.

Sworn enemies are plunged into a steamy, forbidden romance in the first book of a new series that explore the darker side of the richly imagined world of Nightshade Twenty-five-year-old Tristan Doran is a direct descendant of the Keepers—witches who have embraced dark magic. Deferring only to...

I woke on the floor of a prison cell, but I wasn't alone. There was a man. My fellow prisoner. My protector. He spoke into my mind, saying things that couldn't be true. That I'd been bitten. That I was going to turn. That I had to obey him if I wanted to survive. He was beaten, but his voice rang with power, and his body called to mine. And when he won our freedom, I learned he was far more powerful than I realized. I escaped one prison just to land in another. Now I'm caught in a war between shifters—and my protector has become my captor.

She's his captive. He's her captor. Their relationship is a volatile push and pull. He plays the villain, and she plays the victim; each play their roles to a tee. One buries the past to forget, the other fights to remind the other how they began. She is desperate to escape. He is desperate to keep her. One thing is clear: Only one will be left standing at the end.