Resultados para "Haven" en Literatura y ficción

The following books are included: Paingod and Other Delusions, I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream, and From the Land of Fear.

She fled an arranged marriage to a king… and wound up in chains. Savannah Calloway was born a pawn—promised to a tyrant for power, not love. But she chose freedom over a gilded cage… and paid the price. Trapped in a secret lab, her hope was fading fast—until he crashed through the door...

It was supposed to be a medical marvel. Instead, it triggered the apocalypse. Half of humanity mutated into mindless zombies. Half the survivors mutated into the inhumans: various new species of people with new appearances and abilities. Some grew scales, some grew fur, some could fly, some could survive only underwater. Decades passed, and from the ashes of the old world, a new patchwork civilization rose. Humans and inhumans lived in tentative peace, and the zombies turned out to be not much of a threat once a few generations of survivors had come and gone.

Sofía se siente atrapada en su vida en Bruselas y ya no puede más. Desesperada, decide dejarlo todo atrás y presentarse por sorpresa en casa de su hermano Héctor, en Madrid, con un regalo en el que tiene depositados sus sueños, ilusiones y esperanzas. Sin embargo, la sorpresa la recibe ella cuando descubre que Héctor se ha marchado de viaje y que quien está viviendo en la casa es Mateo. Precisamente Mateo que no puede caerle peor…

Six years after four family members died of arsenic poisoning, the three remaining Blackwoods—elder, agoraphobic sister Constance; wheelchair-bound Uncle Julian; and 18-year-old Mary Katherine, or, Merricat—live together in pleasant isolation. Merricat has developed an idiosyncratic system of rules and protective magic to guard the estate against intrusions from hostile villagers. But one day a stranger arrives—cousin Charles, with his eye on the Blackwood fortune.

When a dog walker stumbles upon a dismembered limb in Delamere Forest, Liverpool is plunged into a waking nightmare. Detective Chief Inspector Olivia Mann takes the lead—but the deeper she digs, the darker the truth becomes. Grotesque murders of vulnerable young women. Symbols carved into...

Set in the pre-Christian world of Glome on the outskirts of Greek civilization, it is a tale of two princesses: the beautiful Psyche, who is loved by the god of love himself, and Orual, Psyche's unattractive and embittered older sister, who loves Psyche with a destructive possessiveness. Her frustration and jealousy over Psyche's fate sets Orual on the troubled path of self-discovery. Lewis's last work of fiction, this is often considered his best by critics.

Una huida, un regreso y una apuesta arriesgada para salvar a quienes lo necesitan... Y salvar su amor. Cuando Katherine "Kit" FitzGilbert dio la espalda a la sociedad londinense hace más de una década, decidió no volver a poner un pie en un salón de baile. Pero cuando el negocio la lleva a Londres y se ve obligada a correr por su vida, tropieza no solo con un glamuroso salón de baile sino también con Graham, Lord Wharton. 

Margaretta Fortescue necesita desesperadamente desaparecer de la sociedad londinense, y su única esperanza es seguir los rumores de otra joven que recientemente hizo una vida para sí misma lejos del resplandor de la sociedad. Su búsqueda la lleva a la ciudad de mercado de Marlborough donde, a pesar de sus esfuerzos para evitar la atención, no parece eludir al abogado local Nash Banfield. Todo lo que Nash quiere es una vida tranquila y tranquila, sin riesgos ni sorpresas.

Anna Atwood returns to Breckenridge, where she spent one blissful summer as a young woman. This time, though, she comes to the quaint town as a penniless spinster with a single hope: to build a life free from the constraints her father’s death put on her and free from the persistent suitor Mr. Green, whose plans for marriage are Anna’s worst nightmare. When she runs into David Tate, the boy she knew from that memorable summer, she finds he has grown into a confident and striking man.

Stranded in Paris during an air traffic crisis, Laura offers to share her hotel room with a young woman who seems lost and alone. It’s a split-second act of kindness—one any good mother would make. But as the girl slips away at dawn, Laura feels a whisper of unease. Weeks later, as her precious family is targeted one by one, Laura’s ordinary life completely unravels and she can’t shake the feeling that everything leads back to that night. Suddenly she’s in a police cell, the main suspect in a serious crime.

"Legado de amor". Lo que menos esperaba Sarah Gooding era que, al devolverle un camafeo a una anciana señora eso la llevara a conseguir un empleo... y a conocer al nieto de la dama, alguien que, socialmente, está muy por encima de ella. En busca de refugio Margaretta Fortescue necesita desaparecer de Londres y de la vida social cuanto antes.

Daphne Blakemoor fue perfectamente feliz viviendo en su propio mundo aislado durante doce años. Tenía todo lo que necesitaba, un verdadero hogar y tiempo para satisfacer su imaginación. Pero cuando la propiedad de la finca donde trabaja como ama de llaves pasa, y el nuevo marqués tiene una conexión innegable con su pasado, todo en lo que ha llegado a confiar está amenazado. William, marqués del objetivo principal de Chemsford en la vida es ser exactamente lo contrario de su padre.

When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next step in trying to help their future child get a “leg up” in a competitive world. But the more Sam considers the lives that his child could lead, the more he begins to question his own relationships and the choices he has made in his life.

Private investigator Sonny Rush, the newest resident of Haven, California, knows that this fogbound coastal hamlet is every bit as dangerous as her hometown of Los Angeles. And when teenager and repeat runaway Honor Butler shows up at Sonny’s door with terror in her eyes, Sonny is immediately pulled into a new case that lands close to home.

Instead, it puts me directly in the path of Hudson Fitzgerald—single dad, small town royalty, and the most insufferable man I've ever met. He's rich, broody, and way too good-looking for my peace of mind. Oh, and he wants me gone. But I didn't come here just to tuck my tail and run away. I came to prove I'm not the hot mess everyone thinks I am. Even if that means going head-to-head with Hudson every single day.

In Pigs Have Wings, affably potty Lord Emsworth is embroiled in a fierce pig-rearing battle with his obese neighbour, Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe. Tossed in for good measure: romantic entanglements, some dubious detective work and a fearful dieting product called 'Slimmo'.

Si vivieras una vida entera pensando que tu familia está muerta, ¿qué pasaría si descubrieras que no es así? Jess Beuchene creía que había perdido a su familia... Hasta que se entera de que sus seres queridos están vivos pero en peligro. Hay secretos familiares que sigue sin descifrar, y eso no puede durar más. Desesperada, acude a Derek Thornbury, experto en Historia y antigüedades, para que la ayude a descifrar las pistas que se guardan en un viejo diario de la familia. ¿Adónde le llevará su investigación? ¿Descubrirá la verdad? ¿Qué le deparará el futuro? 

She's a former Olympic figure skater whose world turned upside down. He's a pro football player who never let go of the past. What happens when these two finally have their second chance, and a stalker threatens everything?

Following a funeral, Navy SEAL operator Bernie Phillips finds himself in a small town filled with gossip and traditions he doesn't understand. Battling survivor's guilt, he throws himself into reckless adventures, but nothing prepares him for the fiery, curvy cowgirl he accidentally hit with a bottle cap a week earlier. Despite her clear disinterest and the fact that he never thought he'd see her again, Bernie can't get her out of his mind. What starts as a distraction turns into something far more dangerous—real feelings.