Resultados para "Nevada" en Literatura y ficción

Obsession is forever. When seventeen-year-old Ariana runs away from her foster home she finds herself living with the Willens family and looking after Daniel, their twelve-year-old son. Daniel is sensitive and brilliant—the most brilliant person Ariana has ever met. The two of them forge an...

How well do you know people? How well do they know you? Six award-winning, bestselling authors of suspense explore the lingering threat of secrets and the inescapable fear that they can’t stay buried forever. No matter how dark the hiding place, the consequences of revealing the truth can bring out the worst in lovers, friends, family, and strangers.

On the grim streets of London, a young man succumbs to his demons. Discarded by his lover and left penniless and alone, Michael “Micha” Dashwood uses sex to pay the bills and opium to numb the pain. When a sudden illness strikes, all seems lost. But hope finds Micha in the shape of the Reverend Thomas Mandeville. Haunted by grief of his own, Thomas cannot bear to ignore another man’s plight. He brings the ailing Micha home to heal in his parish at Nettlefield.

Newlyweds Tricia and Ethan are searching for the house of their dreams. But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end. In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains audio transcripts from every single patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed.

Moira ist eine junge Psychologiestudentin, die nachts in einem Callcenter der Seelsorge jobbt. Während einer Nachtschicht erhält sie einen unheimlichen Anruf. Der meistgesuchte Serienmörder ist angeblich am anderen Ende. Soll sie auflegen oder zuhören, was er zu sagen hat? Wenn sie auflegt, ist sie sein nächstes Opfer. Zeitgleich trifft sie auf Arūnas, einen Mann mit zwei Gesichtern. Ist alles bloß ein Zufall oder ist er der berüchtigte Mörder namens Magnus, der fast ein Jahrzehnt in Vilnius sein Unwesen treibt?

Naomi wasn’t just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her twin. Too bad for Naomi, her evil twin hasn’t changed at all. After helping herself to Naomi’s car and cash, Tina leaves her with a niece she didn’t know she had. Now, she’s stuck in town with no car, no job, no home - and an 11-year-old to take care of. Since Naomi’s life imploded right in front of him, the least Knox can do is help her out. And just as soon as she's out of trouble, he can get back to his peaceful, solitary life. That’s the plan, until the trouble turns to real danger.

Oona Kelly Webster is an editor at a prestigious New York publishing house. Married with two children, her twenty-five-year relationship falls apart when she books a silver wedding anniversary getaway at a luxurious château in France and her husband Charles suddenly drops a bombshell which will shatter her carefully built world. Although devastated, Oona decides to travel to France without Charles, but soon after her arrival in the charming village of Milly-la-Forêt, the world comes to a standstill due to a terrifying pandemic and all travel is forbidden.

Reglas, las conozco, pero no las seguí. Me mudé a su ciudad, a su territorio, sin su aprobación. Y ahora, es tiempo de que pague el precio. Casarme con el frío y calculador Don de la Cosa Nostra, con el hombre al que casi nadie ha visto o podrían reconocer, y estar atada a la mafia para siempre. Pero cuando viene a buscarme, me doy cuenta de que esta no es la primera vez que nos hemos visto.

Nina Encantadora, cautivadora y seductora, y un asesino de sangre fría. De todos modos, me casé con el Pakhan de la Bratva rusa. Tuve que hacerlo. Era parte del trato. Ahora, estoy fingiendo felicidad conyugal, mientras tiemblo de miedo, Y no puedo esperar a estar fuera de las garras de este hombre despiadado.

Charlie Wynwood and Silas Nash have been best friends since they could walk. They've been in love since the age of 14. But as of this morning...they are complete strangers. Their first kiss, their first fight, the moment they fell in love...every memory has vanished. Now Charlie and Silas must work together to uncover the truth about what happened to them and why. But the more they learn about the couple they used to be...the more they question why they were ever together to begin with. Forgetting is terrifying, but remembering may be worse.

Haría cualquier cosa por mi hermana, incluso casarme con un hombre de la Bratva para mantenerla a salvo. Esperaba a un salvaje despiadado y de corazón frío, sin embargo, me he llevado una sorpresa. Este hombre lleno de cicatrices y aterrador, es todo lo que siempre he anhelado. Ahora, depende de mí derribar sus muros, y destruir las barreras entre nosotros con susurros rotos.

Once upon a time, there was a king who passed. He left behind two sons, one beloved and one outcast. The older of the two was set to take the throne, but before he could, he had to find a queen to call his own. The younger one was known to be unruly and unhinged. The chosen queen was warned to keep far away from him. Beautiful and cunning, in the light is where she stayed. But late at night, it was the shadowed lands in which she played. Mistakes were made and secrets forged; forgetting duty and her sense. And while the new king had her hand, her heart belonged to the scarred prince.

On being kicked by life harder than he could ever imagine, Sachin had three options. He could look life in the eye and fight back. He could succumb and do something that would haunt him forever. Or he could flee to a place where there were no traces of the blow he had received. So Goa it was. In search of solace, perhaps, by working in a small shack at an unknown beach. Dealing with the local police, resurrecting a dying shack, and managing rowdy parties, risking having his bones and jawline broken, does Sachin get what he was seeking?

Father Cade Frederic is a holy man. Brought up in the streets of Paris, he has dedicated his life to the church. But there's a monster that lingers just beneath the surface. A sickness. One that bleeds darkness and feeds on the damned. When he's tasked to become the priest in Festivale, Vermont, a town both beautiful in architecture and riddled with despair, his sickness sings, demanding he rid the place of evil.

 Alessandro. He esperado ocho largos años, planeando pacientemente mi venganza. Ahora, lo he encontrado, y lo haré pagar. Me contrató para cuidar a su esposa, garantizar su seguridad. Y planeo matar a la misma mujer que juré proteger. Sufrirá como yo lo hice, y cuando termine con él, suplicará piedad, piedad, que no le daré. Ravenna. Me observa con odio en su oscura mirada, sus ojos tan negros como un abismo, siguiendo cada uno de mis movimientos. Esos ojos lo ven todo; No puedo escapar de esa mirada silenciosa, o esconder los moretones que cubren mi cuerpo, cada marca es una señal.

In "Hearts That Never Learned To Leave," acclaimed author Lena Fairfax invites listeners into a richly woven tapestry of love, loss, and the enduring ties of friendship. Set against the backdrop of a small coastal town, this evocative novel traces the intertwined lives of three childhood friends—Clara, Samuel, and Elise—as they navigate the tumultuous waters of adulthood.

Després del divorci dels seus pares, la Lali es trasllada a la Carena, el poble de la seva família paterna, buscant un canvi a la seva vida. Allà coneixerà la vida de la seva besàvia, la Tònia, una dona que, com ella, no pot viure sense escriure, tot i que ho ha de fer d’amagat. A través del manuscrit, la Lali se sentirà atrapada per la personalitat de la seva besàvia, una dona avançada a la seva època, que estimava secretament el seu cosí i que va viure en aquell poblet de muntanya sola i incompresa.

In one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatizes her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.

The House of Dead Roses offers murder, espionage, and mayhem to the highest bidder. Agent Harmony Black's war against the infernal cult -- and their seductive, sadistic mistress, the demoness Nadine -- last found her facing off against Nadine's top assassin under the glittering lights of Las Vegas, a battle that left her physically and psychically scarred.

Un matrimonio per fermare una guerra. Ma tra loro, è solo l'inizio di un incendio. La mafia russa e quella italiana sono in guerra. Una guerra feroce, fatta di sangue, potere e vendetta. Entrambe le fazioni sono spietate, inflessibili, incapaci di perdonare. Ma quando viene deciso di unire i nostri mondi con un matrimonio, mi ritrovo di fronte la donna più bella del clan nemico… e il destino spinge tra le mie braccia quello che ho sempre desiderato.