Resultados para "Limit" en Literatura y ficción

The heat is oppressive and storms are brewing in Brighton in the summer of 1982. Little Gold, a boyish girl on the brink of adolescence, is struggling with the reality of her broken family and a home descending into chaos. Her only refuge is the tree at the end of her garden. Into her fractured life steps elderly neighbour, Peggy Baxter. The connection between the two is instant, but just when it seems that Little Gold has found solace, outsiders appear who seek to take advantage of her frail family in the worst way possible.

Life is hard for a freshman. Billy chose his college carefully. His dead Uncle William went there, studied the same major as Billy, and for a reason that no one seems to understand, died there. Was it foul play? Or, did Uncle William really kill himself? Billy has to find out. He has been walking in his uncle’s footsteps since the moment he was born.

In the small town of Point Pleasant, Cory and Jensen are visiting their friends Blake and Danny during a town festival. Blake is hosting the baking competition which is being filmed for a worldwide Television audience. When one of the judges is poisoned during the festival, the town's overworked and under-appreciated sheriff requests the help of Cory and Jensen to get to the bottom of the case. Can they solve the mystery without the help of Vicki Dean and Sheriff Hottie, or will their case fall as flat as an underbaked cake?

My name is Angel, and I’m the only Beta professional matchmaker. I should be getting my own life under control, but instead, I’m helping rejected Omegas find their forever pack bonds. Even if I’ll always be alone. When I save a stunningly beautiful but broken male Omega, for the first time, I wish that I was an Alpha.

Mason: Being the second-string quarterback for Moray College has its perks. Girls throw themselves at me and I get a free ride to college so I can get my education degree. It pays to be one of the big men on campus. Off-campus is a different story. At a townie party I meet Calvin, who is completely unimpressed by me. I’m not too big a fan of his either at first. But fate forces us to be in each other’s life, and with every argument and debate, I can’t stop getting this irresistible urge to kiss him. I’m not sure what scares me the most, him or my emotions.

Lisa and Elliot have been best friends ever since the day they met as children. Popular, bright and sporty, Lisa was Elliot's biggest supporter when the school bullies made his life a misery, and for that, he will always be grateful. Twenty years later, life has pulled the pair apart, and Lisa is struggling. Her marriage is floundering, her teenage kids are being secretive and she's so tired she can't think straight. So when Elliot knocks on the door, looking much better than she remembers, she can't help but be delighted to see her old friend again.

What you see depends on what you’re looking for.... Nova can do many things. She can speak five languages. She can tell when someone is lying from the sound of their voice. She can even make an excellent sandwich with peaches, pepperoni and pickles...although she can’t convince anyone to try it. But there’s one thing Nova can’t do. She can’t see. Until an operation restores her sight, and everything changes.

Meet Leander: lover, fighter, liar. He learnt a long time ago that nothing is as intoxicating as blood. And these days, whether it's his or someone else's, he frequently finds himself covered in it. Up to now, it's been his secret. But it's hard to remain invisible when you leave a trail of destruction everywhere you do go. And when he comes to the attention of one of London's most infamous criminals, Leander decides to put his appetite for violence to the ultimate test.

Justin made the ultimate sacrifice for his country, battling domestic terrorism, never the man he really was, using hate to avenge the death of his best friend. The friend he'd killed. What he doesn’t count on is getting shot, and if he's going to die, he wants it to be on Crooked Tree soil. Home. Sam is as much a part of Crooked Tree as any of the families, and the offer to buy into the ranch is a dream come true. But falling for a hidden, secretive, injured man isn’t the way to keep his head in the game.

Derek is facing yet another Christmas where his life feels out of control. He has a new career that doesn’t feel like his, and parents who would just love to see him settled down. All he needs is a temporary buffer for the parties he has to attend, and for his parents to leave him alone. Enter, Luke. Luke is 20,000 dollars short for the renovations on Halligans, his family’s bar in New York’s Financial District. A favor for a buddy has him agreeing to play the part of boyfriend to a guy with more money than sense.

Book two in the Turning Point Series. A fight for what's right becomes a fight for his life. As guilt plagues him, Matthew Elliott's world begins to spiral out of control. The harder he holds on, the more it slips through his fingers, and he's helpless to stop it. Entering into the underground cage-fighting scene, he starts out fighting for what's right. The deeper he gets, the more guilt consumes him - the more pain he takes for his penance - and he's soon fighting for more than justice. He's fighting for love. He's fighting for his life.

As the youngest of the three Rowe brothers, Tennant has always had to play against his brothers’ reputations. To get out of their shadows, he accepts a trade to the Harrisburg Railers. Jared Madsen is Tennant’s new coach and the sexiest thing on which he’s ever laid eyes. Jared Madsen’s hockey career was cut short by a fault in his heart, but coaching keeps him close to the game. Nine years his junior and his best friend’s brother, he knows Ten is strictly off-limits, but as soon as he sees Ten’s moves, on and off the ice, he knows his heart could get him into trouble again.

Matthew Elliot is one of LA’s best detectives. He’s been labeled the golden boy of the Fab Four: a team of four detectives who’ve closed down drug-rings all over the city. He’s smart, tough and exceptionally good at his job. He’s also a closeted gay man. Enter Kira Takeo Franco, the new boxing coach at the gym. Matthew can’t deny his immediate attraction to the man his fellow cops know as Frankie. But in allowing himself to fall in love with a man known to his colleagues, Matthew risks outing them both.

Drew is down and out. Reduced to sleeping rough, he strikes gold when sheltering in a bush outside a house on a 'nice' street. Hearing music, he peeps through the window to see a beautiful woman dancing. The dance changes to something that is utterly erotic and the woman changes, too.... In fact, she isn't a woman at all - and Drew certainly isn't complaining. When the boy invites him inside the house, Drew has no illusions about what he's after. Except, he's wrong.

Daniel Barnes is a rising star with a secret - he can't resist older men. One chance encounter at a post-show party, however, will lead to a trail of destructive desire in a journey that includes a simmering sexual encounter on the banks of the Tiber, casual pickups in Hyde Park and a decadent threesome where anything goes.

It’s the 1960s at a British seaside resort where Cindy walks the promenade each day in her Snappy Snaps blazer and creased white flannels, her trusty Rolleiflex camera slung around her neck. But behind the sunny façade there lurks a darker side to her nature, as Cindy desperately seeks her muse and wrestles with her own sexuality - two conundrums that might be resolved when she meets a voluptuous Venus at the far end of the beach.

Wayne was looking forward to the perfect Christmas, treating his fiancé’s twin sons to a visit to Santa’s grotto in Lapland. But his fiancé has left him for another man, and Wayne doesn’t have the heart to enjoy his office party - until he gets his own visit from Santa, in the form of shy, sexy Cameron from the post room. Cameron looks great in a Santa outfit and biker’s boots, but Wayne thinks he’d look even better once the red cloak and fake beard come off....

Every summer, Neil rents his guest room to a performer in the summer show in the small seaside town where he lives. His rates are cheap, he enjoys the company and he’s usually left alone to get on with his work as an illustrator. But he’s never had a tenant like PJ. PJ is a handsome, talented magician with a decidedly dominant streak who stirs unexpected feelings in Neil. He thinks Neil might be the ideal person to help him perfect his new trick - and when he brings out the ropes and the St Andrew’s cross, Neil is bound to enjoy what comes next....

Angie is having a night at home in her furry onesie and slippers. Like she does most nights, this means Horlicks in front of the telly, by herself, in London flatland. Angie has always loved Greta, but Greta has always had a string of boyfriends and never appeared to be interested in any girl on girl action. That is, until tonight...

Separated from his friends after a college football game in Austin, Texas, Taylor meets a handsome older man named Colin who turns out to be far more dangerous than Taylor could have imagined. After a hook-up in a 6th Street bar bathroom, Taylor agrees to return to Colin’s apartment to continue their sexual exploits, but along the way things don’t exactly go to plan.... This steamy short story by Michael Bracken contains graphic depictions of sexual activity and is therefore strictly for mature adults only.