Resultados para "Convicted" en Literatura y ficción

Fifteen years to life is a long time to be sentenced to prison, even if I do deserve it. As the Enforcer of my MC, I had to do some things that would give most people nightmares. I'm prepared to do my time, waiting for my lawyer to appeal my sentence. But when an opportunity presents itself to escape, I take it. I'm on my way back to my clubhouse in Tennessee when I get stuck in a small Missouri town. I have to kidnap the small-town mechanic to aid in my escape, ignoring the unfamiliar cravings I feel towards him.

When Clara Alexander returned from finishing school to Virginia City she had two goals: to become a reporter and make peace with the father who betrayed her mother. But even in the West, there is no room for her in the newsroom or in the family her father made when he married his mistress. Clara is forced to take desperate measures to prove her worth to an editor—including a reckless venture into a dangerous mine shaft.

As young Lord Hadley and his companion Edward Dudley travel along a dark, coastal road, they encounter a young girl pinioned by a fallen wall. They rescue her and alert her father, stationed on the cliff-top, apparently watching for something or someone, before continuing their journey to the home of Sir Arthur Adelon. What was the girl doing out alone at night? What was her father's business on the cliff? Who is the sinister-looking stranger that young Edgar Adelon spots at the home of his beloved? And does Dudley have a chance with the beautiful heiress Eda, or have her affections been won by his wealthy patron?

She was a shy little virgin, looking to rebel. I was a bad accident waiting to happen. I’m the bad boy your parents warn you about. I’ve been to prison, killed for someone I love, and now I’m suffering through college. Then I see her…sweet, so naïve it hurts, and of course beautiful. She’s scared of me the moment we lock eyes, but beneath that fear is curiosity. From that moment on I’m consumed with a need to make her mine, to claim her...but when my past collides with my future, will I risk the chance of going back to prison to protect yet another person I love?

When Alison Strange receives a debt claim she can’t afford to pay from the Australian government’s unemployment office, she’s caught completely off-balance. As she wrestles with a slippery bureaucracy, her history-loving grandfather bolsters her resolve with the story of their ancestor John Strange, an English cobbler who was banished to Australia for his part in a political movement. Drawing inspiration from John’s life, Alison finds her own unique way to demand a future that’s fair for all.

Que signifie mourir lentement, en en étant parfaitement conscient ? Dans Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné, Victor Hugo ne raconte pas l’histoire d’un crime. Il donne une voix : celle d’un prisonnier attendant de mourir, en toute connaissance de sa sentence, comptant les heures jusqu’à ce que la lame tombe. Il reste entièrement anonyme. Son passé n’a pas d’importance. Ce qui reste, c’est une pensée brute empreinte de sentiments multiples qui s’entremêlent : peur, résistance, désir, rage et résignation dans un monologue final.

In modern London, Detective Grayson Steel works on Scotland Yard’s most uncomfortable cases. While investigating the mysterious death of a young woman, he discovers secrets that normal people are oblivious to and is dragged into a hidden society that exists alongside the human world. The Nebula Convicto has to deal with secret councils, magical assaults, and beings that usually exist only in fables and myths. Within this magical community, Steel is supposed to take on the role of a special investigator in order to find a girl who has been kidnapped as quickly as possible.

When Molly Holden’s husband, Thomas, is convicted of being a Luddite on the word of a secret informer, he is sentenced to be transported to Australia. Left with their baby daughter, Molly must find work to survive. But the man who informed on Thomas is a former suitor of Molly’s, and Isaac believes that with Thomas out of the way she will return to him....

One of the country’s most-acclaimed and popular novelists offers a selection of a dozen short stories set in James Lee Burke’s most beloved milieu, the Deep South. “America’s best novelist” (The Denver Post), two-time Edgar Award winner James Lee Burke is renowned for his lush...

Beyond the slammer walls, hearts beat in rhythm with the roar of the crowd. The Tidy Yates Show is just the opening act. This six-story collection takes you on a journey into the soul of prison sports, where dedication, grit, and unwavering passion defy confinement. Feel the pulse of competition, the sting of defeat, and the unyielding hunger for victory.

Fans of Iceberg Slim's Pimp Tales and HBO's OZ series will really dig this. In Prison Stories, Seth Ferranti brings forth a powerful memoir of life in federal prisons in the 1990s when the "war on drugs" and mandatory minimums were in full effect, quadrupling the population of the Bureau of Prisons.

Köln, 1225. Richard träumt von mehr als Kornsäcken und Mühlradgeklapper. Als Kreuzritter durchs Dorf ziehen, sieht er in ihrer Mission nicht nur Abenteuer – sondern Wahrheit. Ohne Abschied folgt er dem Tross in den Krieg Gottes. Doch was er findet, ist keine heilige Schlacht. Es ist der Abstieg in eine Welt aus Illusion, Wahnsinn und Feuer. Was als Suche nach Ehre begann, wird zum inneren Krieg. Was als Schwur auf Gott gemeint war, bindet ihn an eine Ewigkeit im Dienst an den Unschuldigen. Dies ist der erste Schritt eines Mannes, der zum Custos werden wird.

What do you get when you cross an innocent curvy girl with a morally gray prisoner? Letters filled with the filthiest desires. When I meet my convict for the first time, he convinces a guard to give us our privacy. In an empty classroom, he fills me right up.

"Steh an meiner Seite und gebiete mit mir über die Muintir na hÉireann!" Winter 1887. Die treibende Macht ist enthüllt!Doch was will der Sohn des Meeres? Und was hat er mit Caoimhe ›Kiwa‹ O’Shea vor, die immer noch nach ihrem Platz innerhalb derNebula Convicto sucht? Während die Unendliche Legion zum Krieg rüstet und zahlreiche Kräfte versuchen, die finsteren Pläne ihres Gegenspielers zu entschlüsseln, reist Miss O’Shea nach Hause. Nach Boston. Sie fürchtet, dass es dort auf ein finales Aufeinandertreffen von Wasser und Eis hinauslaufen wird!

Ich bin der Custos, der Wächter. Ich bin der Schild der Quadriga.« November 1887. Caoimhe ›Kiwa‹ O’Shea, jüngst zum Custos der Ratsquadriga ernannt, dürstet es nach Gerechtigkeit für Yifan Zhangs Opfer! Ihre durchaus ehrenhafte Absicht trifft auf eine überaus ehrenlose Gegnerin. Und während die Zauberin geradezu spielerisch und mit scheinbar grenzenloser Tücke agiert, führt sie der Quadriga deren Grenzen deutlich vor Augen und verfolgt dabei ihre eigenen Pläne. Wieder und wieder fragt sich Kiwa, ob sie dieser Gegnerin gewachsen ist.

"Mister Broken Tree geht es gut. Dem Sasquatch leider nicht." November 1887. Für Caoimhe "Kiwa" O’Shea ist nichts mehr so, wie es einmal war. Die Welt hinter dem Nebel – die Nebula Convicto – ist wie eine Lawine über sie gekommen und hat ihr altes Leben als Polizeifotografin hinfortgerissen. Zwischen Zauberinnen und Zauberern, Gestaltwandlern und Nachtstreifern, Unendlicher Legion und Nebelwacht sucht sie ihre Rolle und ihre Zukunft – und stößt dabei auf die Vergangenheit und uralte Talente, die man besser nicht heraufbeschwören sollte. Es sei denn, man ist der Macht der Cailleach gewachsen.

"Was wissen Sie über Werwesen, Miss O’Shea?" Boston im Winter 1887. Eine klirrend kalte Nacht. Ein grausiger Mord um drei Uhr früh. Ein eisiger Morgen. Ein ganz normaler Arbeitstag für Caohime 'Kiwa' O’Shea, die junge Fotografin des Bostoner Police Departments. Doch dieser Tatort und dieses Verbrechen sind anders als alles, was Miss O’Shea bislang vor die Linse bekommen hat: Das Opfer wurde furchtbar entstellt, als wäre es von einem wilden Tier gerissen worden! Mitten in der Stadt! Wie ist das möglich? Und warum entlädt eine Kutsche zwei merkwürdige Pinkerton Agenten, die die Ermittlung an sich reißen?

Respect all, fear none.... I lived by my father’s motto until River entered the MMA cage; River’s brown eyes reflected mystery, and his soul held darkness. Off-limits to a good girl like me. One day, the demons that haunted River swallowed him whole. Forever passed away, yet I failed at forgetting the beast who showed me a tender side of him. Now, I’m the law. A cop. River’s as gorgeous as sin. An ex-convict. And I’m the reason he was tossed in the slammer.

I've tracked down ten authors who have, at some point, participated in the act of cannibalism. I've collected one short story from each writer and combined them here for your amusement and observation. Isaac Cone presents “Margaritaville”, Jimmy Buffet’s hit song reinterpreted as a southern gothic. Sandeyu Yamamoto writes “Antiquing” about a family with a rare type of OCD where they haunt the object they most obsessed over.

From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Night Watch, a spectacularly riveting novel based on a real-life crime by a con man who preyed on widows: “a brilliant fusion of fact and fiction” (Stephen King). In Chicago in 1931, Asta Eicher, a lonely mother of three, is desperate for money...