Resultados para "Dark" en Literatura y ficción

Ella podía ver el futuro; ella debía velar por las premoniciones en la antigua Fenicia. Ella era el oráculo más longevo que la ciudad había tenido; conducía los ritos de la fertilidad y debía permanecer virgen para mantener su don. Hasta que el deseo pudo más, hasta que la sensualidad...

Empezó con un beso, se convirtió en una obsesión Wren Beaumont es hermosa y siempre saca buenas calificaciones. Nuestras compañeras la aman, todas quieren ser sus amigas. Solo yo sé quién es en realidad: una mosca muerta reprimida que seguramente está a punto de explotar por guardarse...

I ignored Aida's warnings, and now I’m ensnared in a ruthless man’s trap. When I went to give Fabio Alteri a piece of my mind, I never expected the visit to take a forbidden turn. Aida told me not to go but in a drunken fury I visited the dangerous don. Angry that this man would tear my friend from me the way he did—his own daughter. Then, our eyes met and it felt like he set my soul on fire. I shouldn’t want the ruthless Sicilian mafia don.

I’ve done a lot of bad things. Killing. Stealing. Breaking men who deserved it. But falling for my dead brother-in-arms’ daughter? That’s the sin that’ll ruin me. He called me as he bled out—said his girl was in danger and I was the only one he trusted to keep her safe. So I did what any brother would. I brought her into my world. Into my club. Under my roof. What I didn’t expect was Sasha—wide eyes, soft curves, and a stubborn fire that lights me up from inside.

I don’t attract bad boys. No, I attract bad men. My relationship with the last one left me with no choice but to abandon everything I knew to escape his abuse, only for me to collide into someone just as dangerous, if not more so. I'm in a new city where no one knows my name. All I’m looking for is a job, but when I go to an interview with the hopes of becoming a sales associate, I find myself in the midst of a jewelry heist that turns deadly.

They took my name first. Then my face. I was brought here to pay for sins that were never mine. Traded, reshaped, and punished until the woman I used to be is completely erased. They say I look like her. They demand that I become her; become a living ghost. And when I fail, they remind me what happens to replacements that don’t fit their requirements. For a long time, I believe there is only one man doing this. His cruelty and obsession simply wearing different moods like a living god who punishes and absolves at whim.

I’m the illegitimate son of a monster. I truly have the devil inside. I try to be good. To ignore the deep, dark, despicable urges. But every day, it gets harder. To prove to myself that I’m not completely damned, I attempt to infiltrate a trafficking ring to save all those trapped within it. Only problem is, I meet her on the night of my initiation. I’m given a task to take her, steal her, train her. She sparkles like diamonds, bleeds like rubies, and bruises as deep as emeralds.

OXFORD, INGLATERRA. LA CIUDAD DE LOS CAPITELES DORMIDOS, DE LOS OSCUROS SECRETOS... Y DEL DESEO. Vine aquí con una misión: descubrir la verdad sobre lo que le sucedió a mi hermana; cueste lo que cueste. Hasta que lo conocí: Anthony St. Clair. El futuro duque de Ashford. Un enigma imprudente... y mi mayor tentación. Saint es mi llave de entrada a un mundo sensual de riqueza y privilegios, pero hay algo perverso que acecha tras los muros tapizados de hiedra. Y esta gente está dispuesta a matar por proteger esos secretos.

The line between love and hate has always been thin. Rhett Thornwood has always known exactly who he is. He knows how to work hard, be the son his parents are proud of, be the golden child the town of Cedarbrook knows him to be. He knows exactly what to do. Except when it comes to Colton Dawson. Colt came back to Cedarbrook with three simple goals—Work hard, keep his head down, and leave before anything can make him cross the line into trouble again. But Rhett Thornwood has always been his favorite line to cross.

I don’t know what’s wrong with me to want something like this. To pay money for something like this. But I love it, even in my terror, even with tears streaming down my face as I race through the dark. What’s happening is my fantasy, isn’t it? Not some random person chasing me? The uncertainty adds to my panic. But when he catches me and throws me down, when his powerful body dominates mine, I know it’s him. The one who’s been instructing me via text. The one I need. The problem is, once won’t be enough. But this one brutal, blissful moment is all I can afford.

Havia um motivo pelo qual eu evitava a floresta: sua escuridão atraia o que havia de pior em mim, e os demônios na minha cabeça ficavam especialmente agitados lá. Quando vovó precisou da minha presença, no entanto, eu fui obrigada a engolir meu medo e cruzar a floresta Blackwood para chegar até sua casa. Eu sabia que havia algo de cruel naquele lugar, mas nunca pensei que estaria tão perto. Eu não notei até ser tarde demais.

I sent an anonymous email to The Ghost—a hacker who destroys scumbags for fun—detailing my darkest fantasy. He replied. With a phone number. Now he's texting me, saying he can make it real. That he's watching me. That he knows exactly what I need. I should run. Instead, I'm saying yes. The question driving me insane: Who is he? The question that's going to ruin me: Do I really want to find out?

A jealous husband put a knife in my gut. That should’ve been the end—except it wasn’t. I wake up in Castle Dominion, the place I once ruled as a feared Castle Core… before the Light Maidens banished me to Earth a century ago. Now I've returned—and I'm out for revenge. With Lilith and Desire at my side, I begin rebuilding my deadly domain. Adventurers flock to my halls seeking glory. Some find unique treasures. Others find pain. And the truly unlucky? They find servitude.

After watching my mother succumb to a mysterious illness, I promised myself two things. I'd find the cure for what ravaged her and leave the godforsaken city where she abandoned me. Four years later, I received an acceptance letter from Dracadia University, one of the oldest most prestigious schools in the country. Nestled on a secluded island off the coast of Maine, it's rumored to be haunted by the souls of the mental patients exiled there centuries before, those whose bones are said to make up the island's white sandy shores. And restless ghosts aren't even its most daunting peculiarity.

For ten years, Kassen has lived alone—hidden in a forgotten mansion tucked away in the woods. If the walls could talk, they would whisper of the horrors and monsters he survived. Of the price he paid to save everyone else but himself. And now all he wants is for death to finally find him. But she finds him instead. She trespasses into his nightmares and wakes up his atrophied heart. The only problem is, he's only ever known hate and violence. He has no idea how to tell her she's the only thing he's ever wanted and the only person who can save him. Instead, he chains her to him.

Seis meses após o pai ser brutalmente assassinado pelo próprio irmão, Aaron Myers é forçado a voltar à casa onde o crime mais famoso do Canadá aconteceu. Agora maior de idade e vivendo sob o peso das acusações da cidade, que o vê como cúmplice, Aaron enfrenta olhares de desdém e sussurros de condenação. Para a população de Quebec, ele é tão culpado quanto o irmão foragido que ajudou a escapar naquela noite. Por trás de suas tatuagens e da arrogância defensiva, Aaron esconde cicatrizes mais profundas do que imaginam, mas Falyn enxerga cada uma delas.

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.

Uno es el príncipe de sus sueños, el otro no dudará en usar sus colmillos para seducirla. ¿Por qué no elegir a ambos? Junto con otras trece competidoras, Tem debe entrenar con un basilisco para aprender el arte de la seducción y ganarse el corazón del príncipe Leo. Cuando Caspen es...

‘If you can’t love me right, then love me wrong.’ My father gave me no choice. Marry his enemy to make peace. His enemy old enough to be my father, and with a penchant for leaving his partners dead. Escape is my only option. Using my father’s enforcer to create a diversion works, unfortunately it leaves him with a vendetta against me. Hot on my heels, he tracks me down, determined to take me home to be wed. Little does he know that I’m not going to make it easy. Slashed tires, sliced credit cards, a burning car… But our tumultuous trip across Spain brings us both into uncharted territory.

At twenty-four, Cody has already lost hope of having a life of his own. All his time is spent playing nurse to a dying, spiteful stepfather and maid to his bully half-brother. His only escapes are playing his favorite online fantasy game, Black Oasis, and talking to the strange, unearthly presence under his bed that may or may not actually exist. Everything changes when his nightly visitor, who introduces himself as Nor, starts talking back. As their connection deepens, Nor invites Cody into the surreal world existing just beyond his nightmares.