Resultados para "The Accident" en Literatura y ficción

Hace mucho tiempo, Maddie era una niña que jugaba a las muñecas en su habitación y vio algo que no tendría que haber visto... Y ahora intenta recordar aquel momento traumático creando unas esculturas inquietantes.

Cuando se conocen, ambos tienen pareja. Pero se gustan. O eso parece. Al menos lo suficiente como para poner en marcha un mecanismo imparable a pesar de la evidente imposibilidad. El mismo engranaje que entra en funcionamiento cada vez que la razón se nubla y el deseo –o la imperiosa necesidad de gustar– se impone. El accidente cuenta el vértigo de lo que ocurre en los primeros compases del enamoramiento y deja al descubierto la universalidad de ciertos rituales de seducción.

Katherine Nichols knew she’d had too many drinks, but they were only going a short distance. “There’s no traffic anyway,” Eve had pointed out. And they'd had such a great night out, the two of them. Even now, driving them home and knowing she shouldn’t, seemed almost mischievous. All part of the fun. Not anymore.

Están prohibidas las visitas. No se puede pasar una noche fuera del departamento. Y por ningún motivo se debe molestar a los inquilinos, en su mayoría gente rica o famosa, o ambas… Esas son las únicas reglas que Jules Larsen debe seguir en su nuevo trabajo como cuidadora de departamento en...

La vida de Maritza da un vuelco de ciento ochenta grados la noche en que Patricia, su hija mayor, sufre un terrible accidente de tráfico. Nada volverá a ser como antes: atrás queda una intachable trayectoria profesional en el bufete de abogados de mayor prestigio de Lima, Perú; para el...

Ellie y Rebecca son dos estudiantes de la universidad de Florida que tratan de mantenerse al día con sus estudios, divertirse con sus amigas y soportar el ambiente machista que prevalece en su escuela. Todo cambia cuando los restos de un estudiante son encontrados en aguas cercanas al campus...

In theory, the dragoness of Summer can make any resident on her island the ruler, if the previous Lord Summer is so careless as to die without an heir. In practice, absolutely no one expected her to choose Teddy, the last lord’s middle-aged fancy man. With his quick wit, heaps of charisma, and excellent dress sense, Teddy brings plenty of virtues to his new role, but statecraft, pedigree, and decorum are not among them. That’s all right: he’s done his duty to the island, and his five-year-old daughter, Zinnia, will make a brilliant Lady Summer when her time comes.

Every time Kate Duggan looks in a mirror she's reminded of the night her life changed forever. Kate managed to walk away from the car accident that ruined the lives of her siblings, but questions still remain about what really happened on that dark stretch of road. Since then Kate’s life has been spiralling. On the surface her fiancé Rob is supportive, but the reality is he’s controlling and manipulative and Kate knows she has to get away. So, when Kate begins work at a firm of private investigators, she hopes this is her chance to shake off her guilt and start again.

When a sudden blast of severe weather causes a traffic accident, the effects will ripple through the lives of many long after the scene is cleared... Hannah has lost a leg, as well as her memory of the event, leading her to fear she may have been at fault. Struggling with recovery and anxiously awaiting the inquest results, she remains at home with her husband and kids. Joe wants to take his own life after his wife died in the accident, leaving him injured and alone.

Los hombres como él deberían venir con una etiqueta de advertencia. No mezclar con alcohol: enormes efectos secundarios sexuales. Me casé accidentalmente con mi novio de la secundaria. ¿Y lo que es peor? No es simplemente un chico al que dejé en la graduación. También es mi jefe. Tiene unos ojos azules penetrantes, es multimillonario y terriblemente sexy. No podría dejar de babear por él ni aunque lo intentara. Pero ahora tengo un certificado de matrimonio. Una resaca. Y una enorme vergüenza con la cual lidiar.

From the author of His Bloody Project, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2016. There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal car crash on the A35. But one question dogs Inspector Georges Gorski: where has the victim, an outwardly austere lawyer, been on the night of his death? The troubled Gorski finds himself drawn into a mystery that takes him behind the respectable veneer of the sleepy French backwater of Saint-Louis.

Verona Montero loves calling herself a private dick because it makes her sound like she’s in a 1940s detective movie. And it means she gets to say “dick” a lot. So when Miami—a walking Barbie doll with an emoji addiction and bikinis smaller than Verona's patience—needs proof her billionaire husband Javier is cheating, Verona's all over it. Especially when it means working with divorce lawyer Quentin, whose cologne gives her what she professionally diagnoses as “crotch headaches.”

Bogotano por accidente es el retrato de un joven norteamericano apabullado por lo que le toca vivir en un mundo ajeno. Se encuentra inmerso, de buenas a primeras, en las calles del Bogotá de inicios de la década de los noventa, época de imprevisibles atentados criminales de la mafia. Lejos de...

On a sunny spring day, in an ordinary kitchen, Rosemary answers an unexpected phone call. A car has hit her husband, Hugh. Rosemary arrives at the hospital just in time to see him before he's rushed into surgery. Thinking of their twin daughters, Rosemary pleads with her unconscious husband as he lies on a gurney. "Don't you leave me Hugh Rawlins. Anna and Mary need you. I love you." Overwhelmed, but determined to bring Hugh back home, Rosemary leans on family and friends as Hugh endures two emergency brain surgeries, a coma, and a confused awakening.

La vida de Maritza da un vuelco de ciento ochenta grados la noche en que Patricia, su hija mayor, sufre un terrible accidente de tráfico. Nada volverá a ser como antes: atrás queda una intachable trayectoria profesional en el bufete de abogados de mayor prestigio de Lima, Perú; para el...

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Freya thought she could relax when Ryan's best mate Jamie got engaged to her best friend Hannah. Two couples, four friends – what could be better than that? But a day before the wedding, Freya is torn between keeping the peace or blowing it up. Hannah's perfect wedding is hours away and she's daydreaming of a honeymoon in Tahiti and starting the family she longs for when she hears the first-responder sirens. Is it a grass fire? Worse? And why aren't Ryan or Jamie answering their phones?

Imogen has always wanted to be a doctor, but the pressure of her job is slowly cracking her fragile mental state; her infatuation with an old flame twisting into something darker. Grace has her hands full as a vet and a harried mother to a recovering anorexic teenager. But when circumstances force her daughter to change school, Grace's carefully-hidden secrets are threatened with exposure. Zoe, a teacher, is blissfully in love with her new boyfriend, but his old school friend, Imogen, still seems to be obsessed with him and now her.

A grieving mother finds solace from her son’s death in a relationship that quickly blurs the line between friendship and intimacy. By Accident portrays a year in the life of a woman after the accidental death of her teenage son. Laura Lucas is numbed by the loss, a loss that is paralleled in the spate of upscale construction - and attendant destruction - in her starter-home neighborhood. It’s about Laura's relationship with a young tree surgeon who slowly becomes a replacement for her son - but also an object of desire.

Tara has it all. Married and about to move into her dream home, she can't explain why she is tempted by one last fling with her ex before she settles down. David would do anything for Tara. So when he finds her with another man, his world starts to crumble around him. Ryan isn't prepared for the punch David throws at him. Stumbling, he slips over the balcony and falls three stories to the patio below. In one split second a man will be killed. In one split second David and Tara's life will change forever.