Resultados para "Cash" en Literatura de género

My dad and I have been estranged for years, but as his only living relative, it's no surprise I inherit his massive cattle ranch when he dies. But the stipulation in his will that requires me to live on the ranch and actively manage it for a year before I can access my inheritance money. I haven't stepped foot in Hartsville, Texas, population one thousand, since my parents split when I was six. Now a city girl through and through, I never imagined having to move back to cowboy country. But I need the money to invest in my company, and a girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do.

Brought to you by Penguin. Think your family is dysfunctional? Meet the Flynns. For the three Flynn daughters, it’s been disastrous since their parents opened up their marriage. Abigail, the eldest, is dating an ex-soldier several years her senior nicknamed ‘War Crimes Wes’. Louise, the...

Nineteenth-century art expert Derryn Witt documents an impossible find: gorgeously detailed paintings depicting the modern world…from 1859. But when a massive solar flare forces a shutdown of all integrated technology, her discovery is jeopardized. The threat intensifies when a group of rebels attack the college, their movement resting upon the rejection of technology. Derryn flees to New York with the help of a sympathetic Sovereign, under the guise of being one herself.

Eigentlich könnte die Familie Flynn eine Vorbild-Vorstadt-Familie sein: Mutter, Vater und drei Töchter, sonntags geht man in die Kirche. Eigentlich. Denn die Flynns haben es schwer. Jeder für sich und alle miteinander. Seit Mutter Catherine in einer Sinnkrise beschlossen hat, die Ehe zu öffnen, lebt Vater Bud im Auto in der Garage und findet in der Selbsthilfegruppe Zuflucht, die am wenigsten nach Sekte klingt: die Verlorenen Schäfchen. Auch die Töchter suchen ihre Wege aus der familiären Lebenskrise.

Most humans cower in the face of Death. Not Nella May Carter. She sees him. She doesn’t hide. Instead, she bargains. Born enslaved in eighteenth-century Georgia, Nella still believes in the will to survive amid the most untenable of conditions, in the glory of life, and in the ultimate goodness of the human race. She asks that Death, doubtful and curious, allow her to live long enough to prove it. He’s giving Nella all the time in the world.

Cash è un vero buono, di quelli che esistono solo nei film. Viene da Cerignola, ama la sua famiglia, ama Samantha e non ha un lavoro stabile, perché, a suo modo, è un ribelle. Qualcuno lo prende anche per un violento, perché un senso profondo e quasi irrazionale della giustizia gli arma spesso pugni tanto maldestri quanto potenti. Samantha lo lascia, il padre è severamente malato, soldi non ce ne sono: tutto sembra precipitare. E allora Cash va incontro al suo destino: per una strana concatenazione di eventi si ritrova in Colorado, Usa, dove ha luogo un mega reality sulla boxe.

On his latest bullion run for the Reverend's Temptation Gold Mine, Shotgun Johnny crosses paths with three desperate strangers. One is an old man. The other is his daughter Dixie. The third is the old man's son, Jake Teal, a bank robber who's wanted dead or alive. Thing is, Jake is already dead—stuffed in a pine box on his family's wagon. Now every bounty hunter in the state is after his body . . .

Inspired by a true story, A Land More Kind Than Home is a spellbinding, heartbreaking tale about cruelty and innocence - and the failure of religion and family to protect a child. It is thick with stories and characters connected by faith, infidelity, and a sense of hope that is both tragic and unforgettable.

Detective Jake Cashen is called to a cul-de-sac on the edge of Blackhand Hills, where a teenage girl has discovered the victims of a murder-suicide. Newlyweds, shot in their own home. It looks open-and-shut. But something about the scene feels wrong—and Jake can't shake the parallels to his past. The case dredges up memories of his own parents' deaths under the same circumstances. His father snapped. His mother paid with her life. End of story. But as Jake digs deeper into the present-day investigation, he finds unsettling threads that lead straight to the tragedy that defined his childhood.

Born to the secretive, prepper enclave on the other side of Red Sky Hill, Adah Lee has no birth certificate, no social security number, and no school records. To the outside world, she simply doesn't exist. So when she's kidnapped on her seventeenth birthday, it might just be the perfect crime. Only this girl means something to someone dangerous.

Jake is poised to reopen a chilling murder case once thought closed. In just six weeks, Wesley Wayne Hall will be executed for the heinous murder of Ruby Ingall, a beloved member of the Blackhand Hills farming community. Ruby's murder tore her family apart, and it took them fifteen years to pick up the pieces. But Hall swears he's innocent and reaches out to Jake with proof he can't ignore. Against his better judgment, Jake digs into the case.

More than any writer before or since, Louis L'Amour brought the American West to life. His action-packed stories deal with eternal themes: honor, deceit, passion, betrayal, loyalty, courage, love. His settings are historically accurate, his prose riveting, and his characters colorful: good guys, bad guys, toughs, roughs, sidekicks, and saints.

More than any other writer before or since, Louis L'Amour brought the American West to life. His action-packed stories deal with eternal themes: honor, deceit, passion, betrayal, loyalty, courage, love. His settings are historically accurate, his prose riveting, and his characters colorful: good guys, bad buys, toughs, roughs, sidekicks and saints.

As she draws her last breath, Detective Mary Rathburn leaves a cryptic message to Jake written in her own blood. It's a clue to her killer's identity she knew only he would understand. It sets him on a dangerous path that could change him forever. Jake faces mounting pressure to solve this case from his fellow cops, Mary's grieving family, and his sense of duty to his fallen sister in blue. His investigation reveals disturbing secrets about Mary's personal life that send shockwaves through Blackhand Hills. But did her secrets lead to murder?

A local businessman is found tortured to death at the foot of Ohio's infamous Red Sky Hill. No one heard his screams. No one came to help. Detective Jake Cashen catches the case that terrifies his small town. In his fifteen years as an investigator, Jake's never seen a more gruesome crime scene. The victim, Craig Albright, has no known enemies, but the site of his murder has been shrouded in secrets and myths for generations.

Rumors have swirled around Jake Cashen his whole life. Is he crazy like his father? Is it true they booted him out of the F.B.I. right after he cracked a career-making RICO case? Was he dirty? Only Jake knows, and he’s not telling. He came back to his tiny hometown at the foot of Ohio’s Blackhand Hills to serve as a deputy sheriff. He hopes to punch a clock and keep his head down until retirement. It was a solid plan—until someone put a bullet in the head of a revered county judge.

Dane Kirby is a broken man and no stranger to tragedy. As a life-long resident and ex-arson investigator for McFalls County, Dane has lived his life in one of the most chaotic and crime-ridden regions of the south. When he gets called in to consult on a brutal murder in a Jacksonville, Florida, motel room, he and his FBI counterpart, Special Agent Roselita Velasquez, begin an investigation that leads them back to the criminal circles of his own backyard. 

Savanna Johnston had it all—a promising career, a beautiful home, and the kind of love that everyone envied. But behind closed doors, her fairytale began to unravel. The man who once whispered forever now used his words to control, his silence to punish, and his hands to remind her who held the power. From the rainy streets of Memphis to the firestorm inside her own heart, Savanna fights to hold on to the woman she used to be.

Mr. Reuben Wray, a retired actor who has had little public success, flees Stratford-upon-Avon fearing pursuit by the police. He arrives in Tidbury in the Marsh and sets up shop teaching elocution. Two local villains notice he carries a rather large cash box and attempt to steal the contents. When their plans come to naught and they exact their revenge Mr. Wray is left devastated and it takes Annie, his granddaughter, and her intended, Martin, to rectify the situation.

Is there anyone who has not heard of Miss Molly Gertrude Grey, the owner of the well-known Cozy Bridal Agency? Of course, the aging, spunky woman is, perhaps, best known for her work as an amateur sleuth, since together with her bubbly assistant Dora Brightside, she has now solved countless mysterious crimes in the peaceful tourist town of Calmhaven.