Resultados para "Emma" en Antologías y relatos breves

Sometimes you find the perfect person. But it's not the right time. They second chances don't come often, but in these three romances, they finally get a chance.

Diverse and moving, these six outstanding stories are meditations on grief and loss, love, communication and loneliness. Each one will take the reader on a brief yet unforgettable journey into private worlds and unexpected corners of the human heart.

Every nosy neighbor, gossipy friend, and meddling relative is just one good mystery away from becoming a detective. From behind locked doors or out in broad daylight, driven by chance or curiosity, amateur sleuths get in over their heads in these six hair-raising, hilarious stories.

It’s 1927 and Emma has returned to England from Canada with her teenage daughter, Fleur. After the tragedies of the past, Emma is ready to start again in Devon, the place she used to call home. But memories are not the only thing that she has to contend with. Throughout it all Matthew Caunter is rarely far from Emma’s thoughts. Could he be the key to her finally finding happiness?

The body of a woman found in front of Nordby City Hall has a message for Emma Frost carved into the skin. Behind this ruthless murder stands a ghostly figure that likes to play childish games. Soon, this killer brings a reign of terror to the small Danish island—and especially to the life of Emma Frost. While Emma's personal life is in a mess, she also has to hunt down a cruel predator who seems to be targeting people with serious mental illnesses. It's spring break in Cocoa Beach, and evil is lurking everywhere.

We all know that high school reunions can be a daunting and, sometimes, horrifying experience. Well, for Emma Frost, that is exactly what it becomes when she is invited to meet with all of her old classmates at a desolate hotel in the most northern part of Denmark. Soon, she will learn that there was more to this reunion than just them catching up on old times, as a dark secret from their mutual past is revealed. Fasten your seatbelt as Willow Rose takes you on a crazy and very surprising ride.

Things are going well for Emma Frost, for once. She has a sweet boyfriend and has just finished a new book. Her daughter Maya is doing well in high school and even her special-needs son Victor is thriving and playing with his new best friend, the strange girl who fell from the sky. But soon, a murder shocks the island of Fanoe when a woman is found dead in her bed with no apparent signs of having been killed. But as they find out she died by drowning, and more deaths like it begin to occur around the peaceful island, Emma finds herself following signs that lead to her own front door.

Um pai ausente busca o filho no internato quando ele comete um ato de violência chocante. A babá de uma família de celebridades se refugia em um rancho após um escândalo ser estampado nos tabloides. Uma jovem vende suas roupas íntimas para estranhos. Um hóspede famoso se interna em uma clínica de reabilitação no sudoeste dos Estados Unidos.

Keri and Paula are strangers with something rotten in common: the annoying Devlin brothers. Keri is an investor whose expertise is dismissed on the entrepreneurial reality show that shot the boys to fame. Paula is the boys’ accommodating neighbor who has suffered their ingratitude for years. The world is wide open for the Devlins after their overnight success. But for Keri and Paula? For all it’s worth, they’re coming face-to-face with the maddening business of being a woman.

Two engulfing tales from the Amazon All-Star best-selling author Willow Rose: There's No Place like Home and Slenderman.

Two breathtaking tales from the Amazon all-star, best-selling author Willow Rose: Where the Wild Roses Grew and Waltzing Mathilda.

Secrets is a spicy stalker romance featuring a jealous, possessive alpha male who’ll stop at nothing to make his sweet, innocent heroine his—and his morals? Let’s just say they’re as gray as they come.

Lights, Camera, Love is packed with intense chemistry, possessive obsession, and unapologetically steamy moments. If you’re ready for a no-holds-barred romance where the bad boy won’t take no for an answer, buckle up! Justin will ruin you in the best way possible.

When a $3 million Bulgari diamond necklace disappears into thin air during a locked photo shoot, the suspects are all on set. There’s the magazine’s new editor-in-chief with much to prove, the tarnished photographer she’s indebted to, the fallen star who swooped in when her young rival got sick, and the grandiose stylist. But it’s the lowly assistant who must solve the case—and find the gems before taking the blame.

Miriam was raised in a society without children. To offset the devastation of climate change, state-of-the-art birth control has made daycares and playgrounds things of the past. As tempting as the government inducements are to remain child-free, Miriam’s curiosity about the people who “drop out” of society to become parents grows. When she finds a like-minded partner, she must choose between the rewarding comforts she knows and the unknowable mysteries of being a mother.

What happens when women step out of line and take control of their own stories? Big fears, small frustrations, and the power of hope collide as seven award-winning authors explore the possibilities. From demanding equal pay to resisting a genetically engineered future, this collection offers up visions that are grimly funny, deeply touching, and chillingly conceivable.

Resurrecting buried scandals, audacious hoaxes and private tragedies, Emma Donoghue has written a sequence of short stories about peculiar moments in the history of the British Isles. Here artists mix with poisoners and countesses rub shoulders with cross-dressers, vicars and revolutionaries; the Second Coming is proclaimed in Scotland; and a miniature girl becomes a tiny skeleton in a London museum.

Touchy Subjects is about things that make people wince: taboos, controversies, secrets, and lies. Some of the events that characters crash into are grand, tragic ones: miscarriage, overdose, missing persons. Other topics, like religion and money, are not inherently taboo, but they can cause acute discomfort because people disagree so vehemently. These stories are about the spectrum of feeling that runs from awkwardness through embarrassment to shame.

Emma har separerat från Jörgen och ska flytta till en ny lägenhet, eftersom hon bara måste komma bort. Hennes kompis Olle hjälper till med flytten. Emma håller på att svälta ihjäl – på kärlek, beröring, passion, närhet, lust och sex. Men så noterar hon att Olle faktiskt är riktigt sexig! Emmas första impuls är att undvika frestelsen, men nu vet hon vad hon vill. Hon vill uppleva passionerat sex... Detta är en erotisk novellserie om Emma.

A collection of Katherine Mansfield's finest short stories including "Miss Brill", "The Garden Party", "The Singing Lesson", and "Bank Holiday". Listen to this enchanting collection and discover (or remind yourself) why Mansfield is widely regarded as one of the greatest short story writers of the last century.