Showing results for "Vera" in Romance

It should have been an easy sell. He was just another client, a wealthy target. I offered him what I had. He stole the rest. Beautiful. Confident. His mafia lineage made him a conqueror. He dominated my senses. He planned to rule my body as well. I didn’t have a chance at keeping my heart.

Forced to marry an American heiress to save his family, Graeme Parr, Earl of Montclair, vowed their marriage would be in name only. Abigail Price thought handsome, aristocratic Graeme was her knight in shining armor, rescuing her from her overbearing father. But when she was spurned by her husband on their wedding night, Abigail fled home to New York. Now, years later, Abigail has returned. But this sophisticated, alluring woman is not the drab girl Graeme remembers. Appalled by her bold American ways but drawn to her beauty, Graeme follows her on a merry chase.

Nobody is coming to save me. I've been kidnapped and charged for a crime I didn't commit. To stay alive, I need to convince the King of my worth. But he's my enemy. I come face to face with my captor, the Fae King, and he's as terrifying as he is mesmerizing. His dark hair, chiseled body, and icy blue eyes draw me in, but he's dangerous—especially because I'm a human.

Véra de Villiers de L'Isle-Adam es una novela corta que explora las complejidades del amor y los celos. Ambientada en París, la historia gira en torno a un triángulo amoroso entre la narradora, Véra, y su amante. A medida que las relaciones se desmoronan, temas de pasión, traición y expectativas sociales se entrelazan hábilmente en esta exploración de las emociones humanas.

When the vicious Blood Brotherhood prince I’ve been hidden from all my life finally comes to claim me at my wedding and kills my heinous groom, he gives me one choice—stay here and take my chances with the unknown force raining poisoned arrows on my ceremony or leave with him as his bride. He’s the man I was raised to fear. He’s the most ruthless warrior in all of Malhaven. Few dare to even speak his name. But with my family’s safety on the line, I choose the unthinkable and agree to become his queen.

Laura Hunt was the ideal modern woman: beautiful, elegant, highly ambitious, and utterly mysterious. No man could resist her charmsnot even the hardboiled NYPD detective sent to find out who turned her into a faceless corpse. As this tough cop probes the mystery of Lauras death, he becomes obsessed with her strange power.

My enemy claimed me as his own. I must return to Palgia—to the place that was once my prison. The Kingdom of Palgia is fractured, divided, and broken. It's up to me to bring the light back to the country overrun with darkness. Erol was once the ruthless captor who kept me imprisoned. He is set to become the King of Palgia, and I'm expected to cater to his every whim. It doesn't matter that I can't stop thinking about him and imagining what his lips would feel like against mine.

Aeson Kassiopei, Imperial Crown Prince, survived his fiery death at Ae-Leiterra, saved the Fleet, and became the man we know today. Filled with alien knowledge he cannot understand and prescient memories of the blue-eyed girl who would change his life and save everything, he must make the most important decision of his life. Aeson has lived and died doing what's best for Atlantis, but now he burns for Gwen Lark. Learn his feelings from the inside out—from their first meeting to the moment he must decide Gwen's fate.

James de Vere has always insisted on being perfectly pragmatic and rational in all things. It seemed the only way to deal with his overdramatic, greedy family. When he falls ill and no doctor in London can diagnose him, he returns home to Grace Hill in search of a physician who can - or to set his affairs in order. Arriving at the doctor's home, he's surprised to encounter the doctor's daughter Laura, a young woman he last saw when he was warning her off an attachment with his cousin Graeme. Alas, the doctor is recently deceased and Laura is closing up the estate.

Der bekannte Kölner Nachrichtenmoderator Tom Monderath macht sich Sorgen um seine 84-jährige Mutter Greta, die immer mehr vergisst. Was anfangs ärgerlich für sein scheinbar so perfektes Leben ist, wird unerwartet zu einem Geschenk. Nach und nach erzählt Greta aus ihrem Leben - von ihrer Kindheit in Ostpreußen, der Flucht vor den russischen Soldaten im eisigen Winter, der Sehnsucht nach dem verschollenen Vater und ihren Erfolgen auf dem Schwarzmarkt in Heidelberg. Als Tom jedoch auf das Foto eines kleinen Mädchens mit dunkler Haut stößt, verstummt Greta.

Fleeing college pressure, Jules heads home to rest, recharge, and figure out a plan before fall break ends. Eager to spend time with her mother and stepfather, there's one presence she's less thrilled about seeing: Red. The sentient, smirking pitcher of Cherry Chill-Assist Punch was a huge pain in the glass. He'd been getting under her skin for two years now, ever since their parents' wedding day. Red's taste in entertainment and weirdly suggestive commentary were driving her crazy, a destination she was capable of finding all on her own.

Die Fortsetzung von "Stay away from Gretchen". Tom Monderath ist frisch verliebt, und glücklich. Bis er durch Zufall auf seinen Halbbruder Henk stößt, der alles über ihren gemeinsamen Vater wissen will. Doch Konrad starb vor vielen Jahren, und seine demente Mutter Greta kann Tom nicht befragen. Als sich weitere Halbgeschwister melden, wird es Tom zu viel. Toms Freundin Jenny und Henk hingegen folgen den Spuren Konrads. Selbst fast noch ein Kind kämpfte Konrad im Krieg, geriet in amerikanische Gefangenschaft, bevor er in den späten 1940er-Jahren nach Heidelberg kommt.

C'è chi è pronto a traslocare, chi sceglie a chi somiglierà da grande, chi vorrebbe che il figlio nato troppo presto torni nella pancia, chi dimentica la figlia in macchina e poi si reca al lavoro, chi si dimentica il gas acceso, chi ha un segreto che potrebbe far crollare un’intera casa, chi cerca di non farsi capire dai più piccoli, chi ha perso un figlio. Dieci racconti possibili e, in quanto tali, quasi veri, che parlano di famiglie, di madri e bambini, di coppie, di quotidianità, di cose difficili e dolorose; che parlano a ognuno di noi.

Blessed with the power to protect. A princess born to two worlds. But despite being the star pupil at Veras Academy for superpowered young adults, all she wants is to be “normal”. Bryony Haddix is the heir to the Nelian throne, but the world of elves from which one of her fathers hails is a strange, mystical place, and Bryony is much more comfortable at Veras Academy on Earth, home to the rest of her family. Born a Natch with superhuman abilities, she’s called on to protect and defend Earth’s Natches from prejudice so that they may flourish on a once-doomed Planet Earth.

Jasmine Leong is the heiress apparent to Phoenix, her family’s billion-ringgit company known especially for its pork snacks. When her grandmother, the great Madame Leong, unexpectedly passes away, Jasmine discovers she is actually a Malay Muslim and this newfound identity threatens to upend her life and ambitions. Finding herself at the centre of a political controversy, and caught between two men who love her, The Accidental Malay examines the human cost of a country’s racial policies and paints a portrait of a woman unwilling to accept the fate history has designated for her.

A late morning mining accident casts gloom over the town of Blessings Valley. Over 20 souls were lost in an excavating explosion. Recently widowed laundress Vera Baldwin is pregnant and terrified of how she will provide for her unborn child. She has no family to turn to, neither her’s nor her late husband’s. Assigned to investigate the mining accident that killed several men in Blessings Valley, undercover agent Jack Daniels is torn between duty and family when he learns Vera Baldwin is carrying his estranged brother’s child.

The Fae King claims me as his own, but a fairytale ending is not in my foreseeable future. Half of the kingdom supports our union. The other half of the kingdom wants to hunt me down. I keep getting visions, and I must run to escape that possible truth. How am I supposed to convince the kingdom I'm not evil? I can't even convince myself.

NO LEAS ESTE LIBRO. ES ALTAMENTE INAPROPIADO. Si te gustaron Corrupt y Hideaway, no puedes perderte de la nueva entrega de este dark romance. El dolor es el detonante; y el placer la recompensa. WINTER: Enviarlo a prisión fue lo peor que pude haber hecho. No importaba que él cometiera el crimen o que yo deseara que estuviera muerto. Quizás pensé que tendría tiempo de desaparecer antes de que él saliera o que se calmaría en la cárcel. Pero estaba equivocada. Tres años pasaron demasiado rápido y la prisión sólo le dio tiempo para planificar. Y aunque anticipé su venganza, no esperaba esto.

¿Qué haces para enamorar a una mujer si eres parte de un cuerpo de élite militar? Fácil, te la llevas a una misión en tu país natal, Cuba, y le enseñas lo maravilloso que sería estar contigo. Y todo sería perfecto si no tuvieras que casarte con ella para protegerla, tu madre y tu abuela se empeñaran en que no sea solo un matrimonio falso y que además tengas que ayudar en un golpe de estado por parte de disidentes.

Atrévete a descubrir el universo Security Miller. Rocío debe enfrentarse a un nuevo trabajo tras la pérdida del anterior. Esta vez, espera que nada enturbie su carrera profesional. Solo quiere la tranquilidad que en los dos últimos años se le ha negado. Samuel Pope ha tomado una decisión: confesar su secreto para mantener una verdadera relación con Rocío, pero el miedo se lo impide.