Showing results for "The Kiss" in Literary Fiction

Most people avoid the dreaded Whitechapel district. For Honoria Todd, it's the last safe haven. But at what price? Blade is known as the master of the rookeries - no one dares cross him. It's been said he faced down the Echelon's army single-handedly, that ever since being infected by the blood craving he's been quicker, stronger, almost immortal. When Honoria shows up at his door, his tenuous control comes close to snapping. She's so... innocent.

January 28, 1547. It is almost midnight, and the cream of English nobility hold their breath as King Henry VIII prepares to face his God. As the royal physicians wring their hands and Archbishop Cranmer gallops through the frigid night, two dispossessed princesses pray for their father's soul, and a boy, soon to be king, snivels into his velvet sleeve. Time slows, and dread settles around the royal bed, the candles dip, and something stirs in the darkness...something, or someone, has come to tell the king it is time to pay his dues.

All it took was one look, one kiss. The promises he made - I should have known better. He was a rock star and I had no time for a guy like him in my life. I fell anyway. I believed his promises. Held onto them and waited. But the thing about rockers is that their private lives are never truly private. Seeing him on the cover of a national tabloid shouldn't have surprised me. Seeing him with two women all over him? That nearly broke me. Now the memory of that first magical kiss was tainted.

Deep within the Balou mountains lies a small rural town populated by disabled people. Blind, deaf and disfigured, the 197 citizens of the village of Liven have until now enjoyed a peaceful, mutually supportive life out of sight and mind of the government. But when an unseasonal snowstorm wipes out that year’s crops, a county official dreams up a scheme that will raise money for the district and boost his career.

A fictionalised account of the Kaiser Wilhelm's last years in Nazi-occupied Holland. It is 1940, and the exiled Kaiser is living in Holland, at his palace Huis Doorn. The old German king spends his days chopping logs and musing on what might have been. When the Nazis invade Holland, the Kaiser's Dutch staff are replaced by SS guards, led by young, eager Untersturmfuhrer Krebbs, and an unlikely relationship develops between the king and his keeper.

After Phoebe Kitzke's kind heart gets her suspended from her job in LA, she swears off doing favors - until her best friend begs for help on the family ranch in Fool's Gold. Unfortunately, sexy cowboy Zane Nicholson isn't exactly thrilled by the city girl's arrival.

An unscrupulous womanizer, as devoid of morals now as he once was full of idealistic fervor, returns to Italy, where he is wanted for a series of crimes. To earn himself the guise of respectability, he is willing to go as far as murder.

In The Kiss, a beautiful young woman, Nathalie, has decided to marry the unattractive and uninteresting but very wealthy Mr. Brantain. When an old friend kisses her passionately in front of Mr. Brantain, Nathalie must control the damage done by this kiss in order to reassure Mr. Brantain. This done, the relieved Mr. Brantain proposes to her. At their wedding, her old friend appears and suggests another kiss. Has Nathalie arranged matters perfectly? Or not?

Tres amigos que lo compartieron todo de niños se reúnen al cabo de unos años sin verse para asistir al funeral de un pariente millonario que les ha dejado en herencia sus propiedades y sus ricos viñedos. Sin embargo, el testamento contiene una trampa: el primero que se case lo heredará todo. ¿Quién logrará hacerse con el patrimonio?

Rogelio, al que todos creían muerto en 1936, regresa en junio de 1977 al pueblo donde nació y fue fusilado junto a su padre y su hermano. Son los días de las primeras elecciones democráticas. Cuando la noticia se da a conocer, los sentimientos de los supervivientes se cruzan y reaparecen tras más de 40 años. Todos dan por hecho que vuelve para vengarse, pero en su represo lo acompaña su esposa, veinte años más joven que él, y su hija de 19 años. Rogelio no sabe quién le delató entonces, por qué está vivo, por qué las balas de los que le fusilaron no le alcanzaron.

Im zweiten Teil ihrer Schweden-Dilogie erzählt Tine Nell eine wunderschöne Enemies-to-lovers-Romance. Die quirlige Liv lebt in Stockholm und liebt ihre Arbeit als Touristenführerin. Zweimal im Jahr verbringt sie Auszeiten bei ihrer Tante Edda in der Kleinstadt Nora. Bei ihrem letzten Besuch hat sie Cai geküsst, den sie eigentlich nicht leiden kann. Diesmal muss sie ihren Aufenthalt in Nora unfreiwillig verlängern. Sie braucht einen Übergangsjob und bekommt ihn ausgerechnet im Elchpark, den Cai betreibt. Er ist abweisend und scheint wegen Livs fluchtartigen Verschwindens nach dem Kuss verärgert zu sein.

Never kiss a villain – selbst wenn es noch so verführerisch scheint. Im ersten Band von Andreas Dutters queerem New-Adult-Duett Love Studies trifft der Überflieger-Doktorand Quentin auf den attraktiven Massimo, der ihm in mehrfacher Hinsicht gefährlich werden könnte... Der 24-jährige Überflieger Quentin Wallace ist überglücklich, weil er zusammen mit einem anderen jungen Doktoranden ein besonderes Stipendium ergattert hat: Die beiden dürfen im zauberhaften Obsidian Hill Cottage in Glasgow wohnen, das der Uni vermacht wurde.

In 1916 Ambrose March, a young cameraman, was wounded on the Western Front. Nearly a century later his astonishing film remains testament to his talent. Now a Hollywood movie company is aiming to recreate his final days. On set, Rory Defoe is giving the performance of his life. Off set, he’s proving the typical Hollywood bad boy. In utter despair, the director knows there’s only one person to turn to. Ella Buchan is tired of stars like Rory.

Consuelo's Kiss is a novel from Barry Gifford's Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels. On the 20th anniversary of the publication of Barry Gifford's international best seller Wild at Heart, as well as the anniversary of the Palme d'Or-winning film adaptation by director David Lynch, Sailor & Lula: The Complete Novels presents all of the novels and novellas that comprise the saga of Sailor Ripley and Lula Pace Fortune, "the Romeo and Juliet of the South".

La repentina muerte de su mejor amiga, Sofía, impulsa a Hada a recapitular sobre su propia vida. Insulsa, tímida y apocada, sabe que son muy pocas las veces que ha arriesgado y demasiadas las que, a escondidas, se ha limitado a observar tras un grueso telón el discurrir de su propia existencia. Decidida a sacar todo el jugo a la vida, confecciona una lista, sobre las chaladuras y las audacias más relevantes emprendidas por Sofía, con la intención de emular cada una de ellas.