Resultados para "Riley Sager" en Literatura de género

Quando sir James Harrison, um dos maiores atores de sua geração, morre aos 95 anos, deixa para trás não apenas uma família arrasada, mas também um segredo que seria capaz de abalar o governo britânico. Joanna Haslam, uma jovem e ambiciosa jornalista, é designada para cobrir o funeral, no qual estão presentes algumas das maiores celebridades do mundo. Mas ela se depara com algo sombrio além de todo aquele glamour: a menção a uma carta que James Harrison deixou, cujo conteúdo algumas pessoas escondem há 70 anos a qualquer custo.

Posy Montague está prestes a completar 70 anos. Ela ainda vive na Admiral House, a mansão da família onde passou uma infância idílica caçando borboletas com o pai e onde criou os próprios filhos. Porém, a casa está caindo aos pedaços e Posy sabe que chegou a hora de vendê-la. Em meio a essa angustiante decisão, ela precisa lidar com os dois filhos, tão diferentes entre si.

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Uma mulher enigmática pode ser a chave para o grande mistério que Pa Salt deixou. Cada uma das seis irmãs D’Aplièse seguiu uma jornada incrível para descobrir sua ascendência, mas elas ainda têm uma pergunta sem resposta: quem é e onde está a sétima irmã? Elas têm só duas pistas: o endereço de um vinhedo e o desenho de um anel incomum, com esmeraldas dispostas em forma de estrela. A busca pela irmã desaparecida vai levá-las numa viagem pelo mundo–Nova Zelândia, Canadá, Inglaterra, França e Irlanda–unindo-as em sua missão de finalmente completar a família.

Helena nunca esqueceu o verão que passou na mágica Pandora, a casa de seu padrinho no Chipre, onde, cercada por oliveiras e pelo verde-esmeralda do Mediterrâneo, ela se apaixonou pela primeira vez, aos 15 anos. Mais de duas décadas depois, tendo herdado a antiga propriedade, ela retorna a Pandora para mais um verão, dessa vez em companhia do marido e dos filhos. No entanto, Helena sabe que voltar àquele lugar pode trazer à tona segredos que ela preferia esconder.

Ally D’Aplièse é uma grande velejadora e está se preparando para uma importante regata, mas a notícia da morte do pai faz com que ela abandone seus planos e volte para casa, para se reunir com as cinco irmãs. Lá, elas descobrem que Pa Salt - como era carinhosamente chamado pelas filhas adotivas - deixou, para cada uma delas, uma pista sobre suas verdadeiras origens. Apesar do choque, Ally encontra apoio em um grande amor. Porém mais uma vez seu mundo vira de cabeça para baixo, então ela decide seguir as pistas deixadas por Pa Salt e ir em busca do próprio passado.

Filha mais velha do enigmático Pa Salt, Maia D’Aplièse sempre levou uma vida calma e confortável na isolada casa da família às margens do lago Léman, na Suíça. Ao receber a notícia de que seu pai morreu, ela vê seu universo de segurança desaparecer. Antes de partir, no entanto, Pa Salt deixou para as seis filhas dicas sobre o passado de cada uma. Abalada pela morte do pai e pelo reaparecimento súbito de um antigo namorado, Maia decide seguir as pistas de sua verdadeira origem que a fazem viajar para o Rio de Janeiro.

Winter, Liverpool, 1947. Evie Kilgaren is a fighter. Abandoned by her mother and with her father long gone, she is left to raise her siblings in dockside Liverpool, as they battle against the coldest winter on record. But she is determined to make a life for herself and create a happy home for what's left of her family. Desperate for work, Evie takes a job at the Tram Tavern under the kindly watch of pub landlady and pillar of the community Connie Sharp. But Connie has problems of her own when her quiet life is upturned with the arrival of a mysterious undercover detective.

Liverpool 1950. When Evie Kilgaren takes over the running of the back office at Skinner and Son's haulage yard, she has no idea she is walking into a hive of blackmail, secrets and lies. Her fellow co-worker and childhood nemesis, Susie Blackthorn, is outraged at being demoted and is hell-bent on securing the affections of local heartthrob Danny Harris. Grace Harris, a singer on the D’Angelo transatlantic ocean liners, is returning home, engaged to be married. But Grace is harbouring her own shocking secrets and something valuable her fiancé very desperately wants back.

1910 Liverpool Docks. Ruby Swift is a hard-working, straight-talking woman of substance who does not suffer fools gladly. But when tragedy strikes on a bitter Christmas Eve, Ruby and her beloved Archie take matters into their own hands when a trusted employee’s house is mysteriously engulfed by flames and lives are lost. Orphaned by the fire, Ruby welcomes heartbroken 16-year-old Anna Cassidy into her home and family, but circumstances conspire against them, and she is unable to save Anna's 12-year-old brother Sam Cassidy, who is sent by the church to Canada as a Homeboy.

Maia ist die älteste von sechs Schwestern, die alle von ihrem Vater adoptiert wurden, als sie sehr klein waren. Sie lebt als einzige noch auf dem herrschaftlichen Anwesen ihres Vaters am Genfer See. Doch dann stirbt ihr Vater überraschend und hinterlässt ihr einen Umschlag - und plötzlich hält sie den Schlüssel zu ihrer unbekannten Vergangenheit in Händen: Maia fasst den Entschluss, in ihre Geburtsstadt Rio zu fliegen, und an der Seite des befreundeten Schriftstellers Floriano Quintelas beginnt sie, das Rätsel ihrer Herkunft zu ergründen.

The Seven Sisters is the story that began it all. An epic tale of love and loss, it tells the stories of the D’Aplièse sisters, all adopted as babies by the enigmatic billionaire they affectionately call Pa Salt. Read by Tuppence Middleton (Thirty Days in Paris, The Doll Factory). This is...

Hazard: A game of Chance and Luck, made riskier when Fate is rolling the dice. For Aristide Delacroix, the first throw summons shades from his past. A man he had met, just once, over a card-table... and the lovely girl indirectly responsible for plunging his life into catastrophe. For Lord Nicholas Wynstanton, tired of waiting for Madeleine Delacroix to make up her mind, it slyly suggests he begin a whole new game with loaded dice; while for Madeleine, it devises a terrifying lesson in missed opportunities and the uncertainty of second chances.

For Hazel Northrup, it’s the day she escapes the only world she’s ever known—a fanatical water-worshipping cult deep in the Oregon wilderness. With her little brother in tow, she flees into a dying world, vowing to keep him safe from both the toxic wasteland and the ruthless men hunting them. Miles away, a remote research team discovers something far worse than silence: water that kills. Stranded and grieving, scientist Emily, survivalist Bash, and their last remaining colleague make a desperate bid to escape the forest—only to collide with Hazel and Caleb.

Two years ago, a freak weather event covered the Earth in ice, and temperatures plunged below freezing. Jarred, Fiona, and their fellow survivors thought they had found a safe haven in an underground cave system. But when a series of earthquakes destroys their home, they’re forced to flee their place of refuge… Jarred and Fiona are determined to keep everyone safe… But the world has only grown more dangerous since the new ice age began. And despite Jarred’s best intentions, his daughter, Hope, struggles against her father’s over-protectiveness.

Jessie Warner has married Tom Smith and their baby is almost due. Settling down into their new home in Bethnal Green, Jessie looks forward to her new life – even though Tom is continually getting into mischief that borders on the downright criminal. When war begins and Tom is called up almost at once, Jessie is left to cope with the baby alone. Meanwhile Jessie’s twin, Hannah, has been recruited to help at Bletchley Park. Immersed in her work decoding German messages, she has no idea of Jessie’s increasing desperation.

Blackshirts march through the East End in 1930s London and the Jewish community is under threat of violence. In the midst of this, Jessie Warner discovers a family secret and turns to her mother for answers – but she is met with silence. Over in Bethnal Green, Hannah Blake reluctantly joins the Blackshirts, forced by her cold-hearted mother to do so. Next-door neighbour Emmie Smith looks on, wishing she could tell Hannah the truth about her family and provide her with hope for a brighter future.

It’s 1945, the war is over and the soldiers are coming back to the bomb-ravaged East End. Tom Smith is one of the thousands who are returning home. He can’t wait to see his wife, Jessie, their son, Billy, and the new baby daughter he hasn’t even laid eyes on. But life back home wasn’t easy, especially once Jessie’s army pension was stopped after Tom deserted. So when she was told to put her infant daughter Emma-Rose into a home for her own good, she thought it was for the best. But how will Tom take the news?

Hollywood star Ashe Hunter has done many things to get ahead...some best kept hidden from the public eye...But when someone from his past threatens to reveal his deepest and darkest secrets, how far will he go to keep them from the woman he loves? To his fans, Ashe Hunter is the perfect man, the classically trained British actor taking Hollywood and Broadway by storm. To his American girlfriend, Riley Eames, he is a man in love who'll do anything to keep her safe from the prying eyes of paparazzi suddenly digging into her life.

Tragedy drove him into unwilling exile. Death demands his reluctant return. In the decade between, he has answered to many names and amassed a variety of secrets. Now the actor known to Paris as L'Inconnu must resume his real identity and become Francis Adrian Sinclair Devereux, Earl of Sarre...a man he no longer knows how to be and whose name, thanks to the malice of a friend turned enemy, remains tarnished by an old scandal. Revenge, so long avoided, slithers temptingly from the shadows.