Showing results for "Hell" in Women's Fiction

What do you get if you cross a dozen drunk hens with one shiny Butler in the Buff? Meet Lilah Fox. She's on the hen do from hell. Then she gets a message (44 of them, actually) from her best friend with big news: she's getting married in six months. Oh, and Lilah's her maid of honour. Which means she just got signed up for a military schedule of wedding fairs and weekly planning meetings, Excel spreadsheets and endless hen emails, and all the enforced, expensive fun you can imagine....

Seri, Aja und Karl verbringen ihre Kindheit in einem Ort in Süddeutschland: Verbunden durch eine innige Freundschaft erleben sie magische Kindertage...

Recovering from a breakdown, Willow has nothing and nobody to go on for until she discovers a mysterious box of letters hidden in her mother’s belongings. She needs to know: who was the enigmatic Aunt Rosa who wrote, unanswered, for so many years, and why had she been living in Thailand? Could Willow have a cousin when she thought that she was alone?

Helle Helle har siden debuten været elsket af anmeldere. Rødby-Puttgarden blev hendes helt store publikumsgennembrud. Jane og Tine er søstre og bor i Rødbyhavn. De arbejder som ekspeditricer i parfumeriet på færgeoverfarten Rødby-Puttgarden. Rundt om dem dør folk på stribe, sådan er det på de kanter. Mænd går ind og ud af deres liv. På samme måde var det også for deres mor og hendes mor igen. Rødby-Putpgarden vandt Kritikerprisen i 2005. I begrundelsen skriver Litteraturkritikernes Lav.

When her husband is offered a post at a small northwestern university, Maye Roberts is only too happy to pack up and leave the relentless Phoenix heat for the lush green quietude of Spaulding, Washington. But when you're a childless 30-something freelance writer who works at home, making new friends can be quite a challenge. Her attempts to do so lead her to enter a kooky beauty pageant - and to uncover a sinister mystery.

Als Simons Ehe in Scherben liegt, flüchtet der Architekt zu seiner Oma Frida ins idyllische Hareby an der dänischen Küste. Nirgends fühlt er sich so geborgen wie in dem gemütlichen Reetdachhaus, das schon morgens nach Zimtschnecken duftet. Doch alles ist anders als früher, denn dort lebt nun auch Fridas jüngere Mitbewohnerin.

Eine Geschichte...vom Reisen ans Ende der Welt, metaphorisch und buchstäblich. Denn während Mandy in ihrer eigenen Hölle aus Angst und Zweifeln festsitzt, hat Amanda die schönste Zeit ihres Lebens. Beide erleben eine intensive Zeit, überderen Gegensätzlichkeit es kaum eine Brücke gibt. Doch die beiden verbindet mehr, als es scheint...Mandy hat nach der Trennung von Arthur eine schwere Krise.

Wenn zwischen Geheimnissen, wilden Elchen und einem One-Night-Stand das ruhige Leben gehörig auf den Kopf gestellt wird. Ein Kleinstadt-Wohlfühlroman mit Humor und Herzklopfen vor der zauberhaften Kulisse Schwedens. Ebba liebt ihr ruhiges Leben in Lillaström. Sie verwaltet die Bücherei, führt das Bürgeramt und mag die Ordnung ihrer Akten. Zusätzlich hilft sie ihrer Familie, die das gemütliche Restaurant Little Italy betreibt.

I use people. Not in a malicious way, but in the way an addict abuses their substance of choice. People are my vice - men specifically. I crave the emotional high they give me, with a unique and reckless disregard for my own well-being - eagerly floating into an unsustainable euphoria, knowing full well that after every high comes an equal, if not more powerful, plummet into a devastating abyss. But like every junkie, I crawl willingly back into the arms of my demons.

When Jody Shaw is hired to be the new sheriff of Harrow Bay, a small coastal community, she’s excited to rise through the ranks and try something new. At 43, her career is everything that matters to her, besides her mother and grandmother, who move with her. It doesn’t take long for Jody to learn Harrow Bay is unusual. It’s home to all sorts of supernatural creatures, and there’s a Hell gate right at the center of town. Seriously, who thought it was a good idea to build an entire town around a Hell gate?

People today hardly ever think about Hell unless it is a scene in a Hollywood blockbuster. A journey of despair and distress can be metaphorical, but it can also be quite literal and waiting around the next corner. No one plans on sudden health complications or a substantial loss of income, but life is full of randomness and the unexpected. No matter how much we fool ourselves into thinking that we have a firm grip on our fate, a transformative change can cause the fairy tale to fade and disappear.

Clara, a single, promiscuous woman who struggles with many challenging personal issues, calls on God during one of the worst tragedies of her life. However, Clara does not get the answer she desperately seeks.

When you've been to hell...new friends can bring you back. In this inspiring debut from Jill Hannah Anderson - Peyton Brooks, a newly-empty nester with a comatose marriage, loses her three best friends in a car crash, and reaches out to women in the to-hell-and-back club, hoping they’ll help resuscitate her life. Through the “Hell Club”, Peyton learns that it’s never too late to begin again. These been-there-felt-that women use their sense of humor, strength, and support to help pull her off the couch and back to living her life.

Mercedes Jenkins ist jung, schön und als Clubmädchen ein Teil des Demons Hell MCs. Obwohl die junge Frau nach außen hin tough wirkt, sieht es in ihrem Inneren ganz anders aus, denn sie leidet bereits seit ihrer Kindheit an schrecklichen Albträumen. Und als ob das noch nicht genug wäre, muss sie ständig einen Blick über ihre Schultern werfen, in der Angst, dass ihre Vergangenheit sie einholt. Einzig Steel, dem Vize der Demons Hell, hat sie sich seinerzeit anvertraut, nachdem er einen Überfall auf sie vereitelt hat.

Die 22-Jährige Minni McFarlane arbeitet seit vier Jahren beinahe täglich als Bardame für den MC Demons Hell. Minni muss in ihrem Leben einiges erdulden. Auch ihre schreckliche Vergangenheit begleitet sie tagein tagaus, denn das Monster, das ihr Leben von Grund auf zerstört hat, ist noch irgendwo da draußen und hat sie in gewisser Weise in der Hand.Auf einer Club-Party bricht Minni plötzlich zusammen, womit sie Shadows ungeteilte Aufmerksamkeit auf sich zieht.

Molly O’Brien is living the dream of a cushy city life. But when her boyfriend bails on her and their inflated mortgage, she needs a new place to live. Molly finds the answer in the quaint town of Love, where a run-down general store with an attached home were willed to her deceased mother. Trading her acrylic nails for pounding nails, Molly gives the old place a facelift. As the business grows, so does her affection for the townspeople—including Jackson, the local hardware store owner. But her new home holds secrets, and some people have long memories

First, she must return home to spend the week with her siblings Zoe, Phinn and Poppy who, despite their best intentions, are quick to return to long-established battle lines. Waiting on the arrival of her best friend, Nora, for support against her family, Claudia starts to doubt her engagement and question her past relationships. What if her ex-boyfriend is really the one she should be with? Is downloading Tinder just before your wedding actually that bad? What if she wants to move to Malta? Or volunteer in the Philippines?

Denne fortælling om den kærligste og sværeste relation kommer omkring emner som familiers glansbilledhistorier om sig selv og fordomme over for andre, om halvskjulte alliancer i familien, om at give sin datter et godt selvværd med på vejen, om at skulle give omsorg til både sin store datter og sin ældre mor, om forventninger, skuffelser, konflikter, bekymringer, skyld og skam, og bag det hele ønsket om at skabe nære, givende relationer til vores mødre og døtre. En både stærk og rørende fortælling til mødre og døtre i alle aldre.

En fremmed kvinde på en bænk giver sig pludselig til at fortælle om, hvordan hun misrøgtede sin baby. Det unge par skal flytte, og ud af intet overvældes kvinden af tvivl, om hun egentlig skulle flytte med. Et lille øjeblik en almindelig dag udløser pludselig en ødelæggende jalousi. Disse realistiske noveller rammer med præcision de næsten umærkelige skift i forholdet mellem mennesker - de sorte huller der kan opstå i prøvede parforhold eller tilfældige møder.

Da Marianne var under 10 år, forestillede hun sig tit, at nogen ville placere et kamera på en kran og køre kranen efter hende med filmen rullende, når hun gik i skole. "Mariannes dag" skulle filmen hedde, og hun skulle selv fortælle om sine gøremål og sit penalhus og sprogets uvirkelighed hen over billederne af hende og de 27 andre elever i klassen. Marianne gik på fortovet med tasken i en ret vinkel fra kroppen og kranen efter sig. En morgen kom hendes veninde ud fra det flade hus på vejen og gav sig til at diskutere udseendets betydning i forhold til det andet køn.