Resultados para "The Rain" en Negra y suspense

As a replicant, or "technohuman", Detective Bruna Husky knows two things: humans bioengineered her to perform dangerous, undesirable tasks, and she has just 10 years on the United States of Earth before her body automatically self-destructs. But with "antitechno" rage on the rise and a rash of premature deaths striking her fellow replicants, she may have even less time than she thought. Investigating the mysterious deaths, Bruna delves into the fractious, violent history shared by humans and replicants, and struggles to engage the society that fails to understand her - yet created her.

Are you ready for redemption? My name is Soldier, but I was never meant to be a hero. From the moment I was born, I was looked at as a beacon of hope, a guiding light—a savior. That type of pressure can drive a man to desperation, to do things he shouldn't, and in my case, that's exactly what...

I got pregnant twice. Ask me how. Same man. Same ridiculous jawline, same brooding glare. The first time? One night. No names. Just a perfect man who vanished before sunrise. Surprise! Baby number one. Fast-forward four years. I’m on a ladder outside a California mansion (don’t ask), and of course, I fall off the damn ladder… And land in his arms. Yeah. Him. The one with the fake name, the real empire, and the kind of money that just begs a girl to spend it. He’s not just back. He the one who owns the house. And worse? He wants another night with me.

For as long as I can remember, I've watched over Eloise Meadows. She's too innocent for this wicked world; her perfection is her curse. The instinct I have to protect her is mine. I'm a slave to infatuation. My obsession is lethal. The fantasies I have… unspeakable. My name is Ren Ashcroft...

Join J.F. Gonzalez Lifetime Achievement-winning author Edward Lee and Madness Heart Press as we strive to bring you the very best of twisted, sordid, and sickening stories of Czech extreme horror from seven authors, translated and published in English for the very first time. With an accompanying novella from Edward Lee, this collection includes monsters, killers, perversion, terror, and splattery gore-soaked beauty.

Rob and Emma have made a fresh start, moving away from London and back to her hometown. With their baby daughter Sophie, their family is complete. Until one night, Rob arrives home from a late shift to find baby Sophie crying and on her own. Frantically, he searches the house and surroundings, but Emma has disappeared without a trace. Rob is distraught. Emma couldn’t abandon their child - could she? As rumours spread around the village, Rob uncovers secrets about Emma’s past life that shake his foundations about the woman he thought he married.

I never wanted to inherit a title; I was doing just fine living estranged from my father, making my own rules. Now that he's dead, I'm the new Duke, and people have expectations of me. The first one is to find myself a Duchess. Olivia Adams is innocent to the world, and far too naive to its...

Dacă vrei să supraviețuiești atât de mult ca mine în lumea în care trăiesc, trebuie să gândești ca inamicul. Am învățat lecția asta de la bandele care m-au urmărit când eram puști și am șlefuit-o în Cambodgia. Trebuie să-ți pui întrebarea: Dacă eu aș încerca să-mi fac...

I knew my fate the moment I surrendered. I’d seen the public executions on TV. No jury. No bail. Just a hole in the ground and a bullet between the eyes, broadcast live in high-definition. There are worse ways to die, I told myself. I was doing the right thing, exchanging my life for Rain’s. Survival wasn’t everything.

Zwei starke Persönlichkeiten, die voneinander lernen, zu lieben. Wäre da nicht ihre Vergangenheit und sein rätselhaftes Verhalten ... Sie, tough und stets in allen Belangen fest die Zügel in der Hand, trifft auf ihn, fucking Gentleman, bestimmend führend, der weiß, was Frau braucht und sie auf seine ganz eigene Art und Weise davon überzeugt.

The second novel in the highly acclaimed Hackberry Holland series. Hackberry Holland is a man haunted by a chequered and traumatic past. A former POW from the Korean War, he has left everything behind to become sheriff of a dried-out, broken-down border town in south Texas. Hack soon finds...

Paul Czarcik, the longest-tenured detective in the Illinois Bureau of Judicial Enforcement, puts the rest of the team to shame. Ruthless and riddled with vices, Czarcik always gets his man. And fast. Until now... A double slaying isn’t the open-and-shut case of urban crime he’s used to. Connecting it to a high-profile Texas judge, Czarcik realizes something bigger is going on. It’s the work of a serial killer for whom Chicago is just the beginning. Now he’s inviting Czarcik to play catch-me-if-you-can on a cross-country murder spree. Going rogue, Czarcik accepts the challenge.

The year is 1993. East and West grapple in an apocalyptic war to the death—but is the tide about to turn? The United States and its NATO allies prepare a desperate Hail Mary: a knockout blow to end the war in a matter of months. At the same time, the Soviets ratchet up the war of attrition, a...

Veteran homicide detective Franza Oberwieser prefers her job in the winter. Summer is for growing, not for dying. So when the body of a beautiful young woman is found on the autobahn, dressed in a glittering party dress and bathed in June rain, Franza is determined to give her justice. Revealing victims’ hidden lives is part of the job, but as Franza and her partner, Felix, peel back the layers shrouding the girl’s disturbing past, darker mysteries emerge. Everyone has something to hide - even Franza, who must face her own secrets to reveal the truth.

With a new identity, a staged death, and a chance to flee the treachery that stalks her, Rachel has escaped from a faceless assassin. Now, thousands of miles from home, under the lush canopy of the rainforest, she’s found sanctuary. But in this world teeming with unusual creatures walks the most exotic of them all. His name is Rio. A native of the forest imbued with a fierce prowess, he is something to be desired. Possessed of secrets of his own, he is something to be feared.

A killer on the loose. A detective on the edge Jake Sawyer is feeling the heat. Returning to duty after an enforced psychological break, he’s called in to investigate the murder of a young woman found near one of the Peak District’s key beauty spots. Sawyer is intrigued by the unusual mix of...

Kellerika Virtanen wants vengeance. Payback for the death of her mentor and father figure, Roger, at the hands of one of the Nine. Her real dad? He doesn't understand. He dreams of her being a successful doctor. Kell shattered those when she dropped out of college over a failed relationship. His resentment pushed her into her current vocation, a demon hunter.

Dave Robicheaux has been warned that he's on somebody's hit list, and now the homicide detective is trying to discover just who that is before he ends up dead. Meanwhile he has taken on the murder investigation of a young black girl found dead in the Bayou swamp. Robicheaux uncovers a web of...

Johnny Delarosa’s past collides with his future when hired to stop a blackmail scheme against a local celebrity, former pro football star - turned car dealer - Stan Shelton. When a young woman’s body is found in front of Stan’s building, allegations surface of his involvement with an escort service owned by Talia Thorne, the alluring woman with long, raven hair. But Stan has a bad habit of fumbling the truth, and with his back against his own goal line, the pressure builds for Johnny to keep the old pro’s name out of the news.

Plus-size beauty Ebony Drake has been poor all her life. Instead of wishing for her situation to change, she decides to change it. She moves away from her drug-addicted mother to start her life anew. The last thing on her mind is love until she meets the mysterious Rain Tanaka. Ebony doesn’t know what he sees in her, all she knows is that he scares her with the way he makes her feel.