Showing results for "Hades" in Contemporary

To most, Kal Anderson is a villain. Harbinger of death, keeper of souls, frequenter of nightmares. Doctor Death. Hades incarnate. They say he stole me. Usurped my fiancé and filled the cracks in my heart with empty promises. Imprinted his crimson fingerprints on my psyche and tried to set me free. They’re not wrong, per se. Except it was my choice to stay.

Perséphone n'est la déesse du printemps qu'en titre. Depuis qu'elle est toute petite, les fleurs se ratatinentà son contact. Après s'être installée à New Athens, elle espérait mener une vie discrète, dans la peau d'une journaliste mortelle. Tout change lorsqu'elle s'assied dans une boîte de nuit clandestine pour jouer une partie de cartes avec un étranger hypnotique et mystérieux. Hadès, le dieu des morts, a bâti un empire du jeu dans le monde des mortels et ses paris favoris sont réputés impossibles.

Only through blood can the deepest redemption be found. He was born to ascend. He was destined to lead. He was never meant to fail. Prophet Cain lies broken and defeated on the floor of his cell. A cell he has been thrown into by the one person who was supposed to stand by his side until the end. His flesh and blood, his only companion. His beloved twin brother.

After a job gone wrong, I find myself in the back of a transport van on my way to the women's prison in my city. Only... We never make it there. Three canisters of knockout gas later, I'm ten thousand feet in the air with a dozen other prisoners being told to jump or die. I choose to jump. The island I land on isn't an ordinary island. The worst of the worst are put here by a private army to do the jobs normal people are too scared to do—their very own suicide squad.

My best friend, my right hand, the man I trusted above all others. Zayden de Rosa declared his love for me and pursued me until he shattered the walls between us. Then the man who loved me proved to be a traitor. I never saw that coming.

They say to keep your enemies close and mine are all around me. At the heart of it are four dangerously gorgeous men. The man who wants to light my darkness and already paid the price for loving me. The man who can handle my power and loves every dark inch of me. The man who has been my closest companion and now threatens to upend our carefully balanced world in pursuit of me. But the fourth man is probably the most terrifying. He wants to take the others away. He wants to tear the spinal column out my empire. Destroy my businesses. Destroy me.

I sit on a throne of sins. Silent in the shadows, untouchable like the King of the Underworld himself. Few even know the sound of my voice, but those who fear me call me Monster. My men just call me Pakhan. To her, I am Nikolai. Her savior. Her captor. Her lover. With hair as bright as the sun, a face that could sink a thousand ships, and more curves than I can handle, Cassiopeia. Is. Everything. But she’s in danger. And safety comes with a price tag.

Hades owns a diamond mine, but he wants something money can’t buy—Persephone. The innocent young woman challenges his claim on her. He’ll stop at nothing to have her. The contract is binding. Persephone wants freedom more than anything. Instead, she falls into the hands of a ruthless businessman. He demands complete possession of her. Body. Mind. Soul. He wants her submission. She demands his secrets. Their sensual battle may break them both.

Salome knows only one way to live - under Prophet David’s rule. In the commune she calls home, Salome knows nothing of life beyond her strict faith, nor of life beyond the Fence - the fence that cages her, keeps her trapped in an endless cycle of misery. A life she believes she is destined to always lead, until a horrific event sets her free. Fleeing the absolute safety of all she has ever known, Salome is thrust into the world outside, a frightening world full of uncertainty and sin; into the protective arms of a person she believed she would never see again.

A few long weeks after being reluctantly ripped from the comforting embrace of her sacred prophet's religious commune - the only life she has ever known - a terrified Delilah is thrust into a world enveloped by evil and swimming in sin. Steadfastly devout in her faith, and retaining the deep belief that her soul is innately tarnished as a branded "Cursed woman of Eve", Delilah is determined to find her way home to her people in The Order and away from the corrupt and damned outlaw motorcycle club - The Hades Hangmen.

Ex-Marine Daisy Weston is going undercover, by uncovering it all. Every night the pretty blonde wraps herself around a pole in a club owned by the Raptors MC - the club involved in her sister's disappearance. One lap dance at a time, Daisy gets closer to discovering Rose's whereabouts. She intends to free Rose, no matter who she has to do. There's just one big, muscular obstacle in her way - a handsome biker named Cowboy who won't leave her the hell alone. And what's worse, she's not sure she wants him to.

USA Today best-selling author Lexy Timms gives you a biker collection of four different biker stories. These are first books from different series and may end in a cliff-hanger. Includes: One You Can't Forget, Making Her His, Billionaire Biker, and Battle Lines.

Hadès, le dieu des Enfers, est connu pour sa règle inflexible, ses luxueuses boîtes de nuit et ses marchandages impossibles. Habitué à tout contrôler, il n'est pas préparé à découvrir que les Parques ont choisi Perséphone, déesse du Printemps, pour être sa future épouse et reine.

La relation de Perséphone avec Hadès est devenue publique et la tempête médiatique qui en résulte perturbe sa vie normale et menace de l'exposer en tant que déesse du printemps. Pour ajouter àses ennuis, tout le monde semble désireux d'éloigner Perséphone du Dieu des morts en exposant son passéinfernal. Les choses ne font qu'empirer lorsqu'une horrible tragédie laisse le coeur de Perséphone en ruine et Hadès refuse de l'aider. Désespérée, elle prend les choses en main et conclut des accords qui ont de graves conséquences.

Emily Rose Dougherty is a good Catholic girl from mythical Walkerville, CT. She had somehow managed to get herself into a heap trouble with the law, all because an ex-boyfriend has decided to make things difficult.

They call me Hades for one reason, and one reason only. I’m the one who sovereigns rule around here. I sit on a chair made up of skulls in the depths of Hell, ready to add more to my extravagant throne if they deserve it.mMy life was filled with nothing but pain until I met her. In a split second I realized the pain has only just begun. Could this woman who captured my soul be the one destined to control Satan himself? She doesn’t know the power she holds over me and I doubt she ever will.

From best-selling author Lexy Timms comes a motorcycle club romance that'll make you want to buy a Harley and fall in love all over again. Emily Rose Dougherty had only fallen in love once, in high school with a boy her parents didn't approve of. Emily saw through the tough-guy facade, his leather jacket and motorcycle. She gave her heart to him. An accident on Luke's motorcycle brought things to a screeching halt when her parents forbade her to see him again. Neither forgot about the other. Fast forward 10 years....

Emily Dougherty and Luke Wade were in love in high school, but circumstances conspired to keep them apart. Ten years later they meet again and find their connection is just as strong and more searingly hot than ever. Except Luke and his motorcycle club, Hades' Spawn, are hip deep in problems between the vicious Rojos one percenter motorcycle club and their associated street gang, the Hombres. When Luke's employee and best friend, Gibs, is slain in a brutal shootout, dark secrets from Luke's past claim him.

Emily and Luke were in love in high school. Ten years later they meet again and find their connection is just as strong and more searingly hot than ever. Events take a dangerous turn when Luke's uncle, drug lord Raymondo Icherra, stirs up trouble. Emily's pregnancy turns high risk with her fainting and having continuous high blood pressure. While Luke deals with a problem with his motorcycle club, Emily is kidnapped. As Luke searches frantically for Emily, he learns the truth about his past and his parent's murder.

Perséphone et Hadès sont fiancés. En représailles, Déméter provoque une tempête de neige qui paralyse la Nouvelle-Grâce, et refuse de lever le blizzard si sa fille n'annule pas ses fiançailles. Lorsque les Olympiens interviennent, Perséphone voit son avenir entre les mains des anciens dieux, qui sont divisés. Doivent-ils permettre Perséphone d'épouser Hadès et partir en guerre contre Déméter, ou interdire leur union et prendre les armes contre le dieu des morts ? Rien n'est sûr, sauf la promesse de la guerre.