Showing results for "The Victim" in Romance

It's been seven years since the Seattle Strangler terrorized the city. His victims were all young, pretty, their lifeless bodies found wrapped in a home-sewn white dress. But there was one who miraculously escaped death, just before the Strangler disappeared. Lara Church has only hazy memories of her long-ago attack. What she does have is a home in Austin, a job, and a chance at a normal life at last. Then Texas Ranger James Beck arrives on her doorstep with shattering news: The Strangler is back....

Despite a happy childhood, successful entrepreneur Addison Fox has always yearned to find her birth mother. And with the unexpected death of her adoptive parents comes a renewed determination to fill in the missing pieces of her life - to find her "other" family. But she's too late. Addison is the sole survivor of her bloodline - a line that a killer is determined to make extinct. World-weary detective Randall Talbot has little regard left for life, but he may be the only man capable of saving hers....

Deep in the Smoky Mountains, the victim lies, sacrificed on a makeshift altar. FBI agent Dallas Sloan knows the scene all too well - just as he knows the killings won't stop until there are four more bodies. Genny Madoc's "sixth sense" has brought many of Cherokee Pointe's residents to her isolated log cabin, looking for help. But now it's Genny who needs help from the disturbing visions she sees. Thrown together by necessity, drawn to each other by desire, Dallas and Genny must band together, searching the darkest heart of a town's hidden secrets.

A successful young executive meets a beautiful woman; falls in love, and then strange things begin to happen. He loses his job, his car is repossessed, and no matter how hard he tries he can't seem to be hired anywhere. He has just signed up for his final unemployment check when he finally makes eye contact with the "Are You Ready Willing and Able to Work Sign Up Here Please Girl". She slips a note warning him that he is in danger and to meet her after work.

The ugly words delivered online finally hit their mark. The younger sister of web security specialist Lauren Miller took the taunts to heart - and took her own life. Devastated, introverted Lauren has nowhere else to turn but the arms of a man who shares a similar pain…and a burning need for vengeance. FBI agent Brent Durant is determined to unmask the Troll King, a vicious Internet stalker he suspects of preying on the weak, goading his victims into suicide.

The vigilante romance heats up when Catherine and Thomas move in together, as much out of love as from a mutual commitment to continue their work against the evil Ganymede society. Now joined by FBI agent and superhero fan Jason Leong, they seek to bring individual members of Ganymede to justice, even as the NYPD struggles against red tape and corruption in the mayor's office to do the same.

My life has been severed into two distinct origins. Before. After. You don't need to know too much of my life before. It's no longer relevant to my story. The damage is mine. I'm a ghost. The shell of the girl from before striving to survive in the after. Love. Life. Friendship. I've pushed it all away in my fight to breathe another day. Who am I? No one. Worse, I've lost sight of why I continue to endure. Until him. Until he reminds me of the girl of before.

Have you ever taken into consideration the things that would go through your mind before you die? I never thought that I would...at least so soon in life. But given certain circumstances that I had experienced in my life recently, I started to. I began thinking about my family - my mom, dad, brother, my good friends, even my dogs, since all of these things meant the world to me. What would happen to them if anything drastic ever happened to me? What would happen to them if anything at all ever happened to me?

Ob in einer Silvesternacht, in New York oder am Strand beim Meeresrauschen, überall kann einem die Liebe begegnen. Manchmal kehrt sie nach Jahren zurück, manchmal überrumpelt sie einen wie ein Dieb in der Nacht, aber stets verändert sie das Leben unwiderruflich.

A deadly agent is assigned to prepare an exotic beauty to be the ultimate seductress and perfect spy...lessons that will require long hours of personal instruction to perfect her ability to pleasure a man...and, ultimately, conquer him.

My doctor tells me to start exercising more, so I go to the gym, where I'm alone except for one other person. About the strongest, studliest specimen of a man that I've ever seen....