Resultados para "Carmen" en Contemporánea

Un elogio de la felicidad y del amor sin condiciones. Han pasado seis meses desde la muerte de mi madre. No he sido capaz de afrontarla hasta que un desconocido ha aparecido en mi vida de una manera sorprendente, apremiándome para que resuelva los asuntos pendientes. He de aceptar una herencia que, aunque resolverá mi vida, me atará definitivamente a la de mi familia. No estoy segura de que sea eso lo que quiero: perder mi independencia.

Alba, una profesora de Inglés apasionada de la Historia y la moda, acaba de perderlo todo: una relación con el que creía que era el hombre de su vida, la calidez de su hogar, y su propósito. En un intento por reencontrarse, Alba decide comprar un viaje solo de ida a Edimburgo, donde tendrá que convivir con su hermano Adrián y su novia escocesa, Abby. También conocerá a William, un estudiante de Parapsicología con el que comparte una conexión sobrenatural.

When small-town radio host Ainsley Jefferson takes a late-night call from a mystery man with a velvet voice, she doesn’t expect him to steal her heart—one quiet conversation at a time. But when "Boston Guy" shows up in real life, she has to decide if the voice that comforted her in the dark is the one she wants beside her in the light.

A la muerte de su padre, víctima de un misterioso accidente, Rodolfo Montero debe regresar de París y tomar las riendas de los negocios vinícolas familiares.

Fredrik Welin, médico retirado, vive solo y alejado del mundo en una isla junto a la costa sueca; pero su reclusión voluntaria se ve perturbada un día por la llegada de un antiguo amor al que abandonó en el pasado. Se trata de Harriet, quien, gravemente enferma, ha venido a pedirle que cumpla una antigua promesa de juventud: llevarla a una laguna del norte del país. Con su presencia, Harriet saca a Fredrik de la apatía en que éste vive sumido y es el detonante para que él se decida a saldar viejas cuentas con su pasado.

Brogan Ramsay ha vuelto a la vida de Lydia De Havilland, y ya no es aquel muchacho sensible y tranquilo que ella recuerda; se ha convertido en un hombre poderoso, un hombre que busca venganza: Brogan no olvida que Lydia es la chica que lo engañó de la forma más cruel, dejando su corazón destrozado y a su familia en la calle, pero tampoco olvida que es la única mujer capaz de quitarle el aliento, la única que sigue firmemente afincada en su alma. La única a la que puede amar.

Adored by all, Britta is an ambitious waitress working at Sluggers. The popular bar holds a special place in her heart and is a regular hangout for the Bridgeport Bandits, the local hockey club. With a half brother on the team, Britta has a strict no-dating policy for hockey boys. But she does have a soft spot for one particular player.

He is a sinner and never a saint. His words drip with lust. His touch... sinful. That is what girls whisper after one night with him. He even has scratches to prove it. He is powerful, dangerous, and never backs down from a challenge. The pawn? The new girl. He can smell her innocent nature like a piranha smelling blood and won't be satisfied until he has a taste. The problem? He isn't the only one who wants it.

Kira Dallaire está desesperada, con poco dinero en el bolsillo y todavía menos opciones de conseguirlo. Grayson Hawthorn atraviesa una situación límite: al salir de prisión, se encuentra con que los viñedos de los que es propietario y que prometió a su padre sacar adelante están al borde de la ruina. Cuando Kira aparece en el despacho de Grayson con una descabellada propuesta que podría resolver los problemas de ambos, a él no le queda más remedio que aceptar.

Colette está cansada de ser la oveja negra de su familia, es decir, el proyecto fallido del prestigioso matrimonio Kessler. Ahora, más que nunca, está dispuesta a demostrar su valía profesional como periodista. Cuando le llega una oportunidad laboral, acepta jugárselo todo. Pero no cuenta con reencontrarse con la única persona capaz de confundirla lo suficiente para echar por tierra su determinación de alejarse de aquello que todos llaman tentación.

As one of the world's most hated celebrities, I'm used to unwanted attention. But when I woke up one morning to find a mysterious man had broken into my house, I knew I needed security, fast. Enter "The Angels," my three ex-military bodyguards. Having three gorgeous men guarding me 24-7 sounds like a dream come true, but it turns out to be a nightmare. They're always here, watching me. Caring for me. Protecting me. They tell me to ignore them and go about my business, but I can't even think with them so close. The spark is too intense.

Lucía y Alejandro viven una apasionada historia de amor que rompe la desgraciada y temprana muerte de él. Ella cae en la desesperación y en la impotencia por no haber podido compartir su futuro con el hombre de su vida. Hundida en la soledad, se refugia en su trabajo, un programa de radio realizado a medianoche en el que, mágicamente y con nuestra imaginación, podremos escuchar estremecedoras historias humanas. A él recurre también el espíritu de un ser que se niega a marcharse de nuestro mundo terrenal hasta que no vea a Lucía con la felicidad a la que lo tenía acostumbrado.

¿Qué harías si tu esposo te diera un mes de soltería? La respuesta a esta pregunta cambiará la rutinaria vida de Julia Lester, quien se siente enjaulada y asfixiada en brazos de su marido, Paul. Pero un día aparece Charlotte, y ella lleva a su amiga, Julia, hasta Nueva York para que cumpla...

Esta novela de Ana Castillo, autora aclamada por la crítica, es un juego de pasión, amor e independencia. Carmen la coja es la historia de una bailarina de Chicago físicamente impedida desafiando los estereotipos sociales. Carmen Santos inicia un romance con Manolo por el cual se definirá su vida.

After her parents die in a horrific car accident, Sydney Moomaw is thrust into running their guest ranch in eastern Washington. She soon discovers that her parents were keeping secrets. Why is the ranch in serious debt? Why did her parents allow the insurance to lapse? Why didn't they tell her about it? And where are their wills? Sydney needs to figure out a way to save the ranch she loves before her sister sells it.

Wanting to build a better life and eventually change the world, she uprooted herself and her eight-year-old son from the Sandhills of North Carolina and planted roots in Chicago, Illinois. After three years of struggling to publish even one hope-filled article, Maura’s dreams begin to crumble and fade, much like her run-down tenement. She works a second job to make ends meet and struggles to balance parenting with work, while her journalistic responsibilities are reduced to correcting typos for her plagiarizing co-workers.

Art dealer Lorenzo Baldi will lose his prestigious career if his anarchist father's paintings are revealed to the art world. He's determined to persuade the paintings' eccentric owner to sell them to him, even if to pull it off, he'll have to blackmail his daughter's nanny—a woman with the sexy curves of a Botticelli masterpiece—into being his fake fiance. The gorgeous island of Capri inspires some major misbehaving. But even as the loan shark breathes down Alice's neck and the paintings move closer to the art scene, Lorenzo drops one more bomb that will change everything.

Ambitious, succesful, attractive, and newly married, Bella Browning is determined to Have It All. She wants love, sex, a beautiful home, a fabulous career, kids AND to keep her jaw-dropping looks. How hard can it be?! Her journalist husband, Don, is terrified. He’s not against babies, but his job takes him all over the world and into warzones! The last thing he wants is a war at home. But he'll do anything to make Bella happy. Won't he? But Bella's about to discover that having it all is absolute rubbish.

Personal shopper Annie Valentine is back! Older and bolder! Fashion guru Annie is struggling to cope with her hectic life. With the demands of two older children, plus four-year-old twins, her marriage to Ed is in a romance-free rut and she’s clinging by a couture thread to her job as the nation’s favourite fashion fixer. And where is Svetlana, her multi-millionaire friend, when Annie needs her? Busy with an expensive mid-life crisis, that's where!

Jennifer McAndrew thinks she’s living her best life in London – wonderful man, great job, happily child-free. Except the ‘wonderful man’ turns out to have a secret that ruins everything. Shocked and devastated, Jen doesn’t know what to do. So, she packs her bags and runs for the hills – away from her problems, all the way to her childhood home in Scotland and the safety of her dad. But her dad is a changed man. Busy with his girlfriend, golf and G&Ts, he doesn’t have time for Jen’s worries. And she can’t see her sister, Isla, who she fell out with years ago.