Resultados para "Cages" en Literatura y ficción

Ray si sveglia in una cella. È solo. Non si ricorda nulla. Né come ci è arrivato, né perché. Indossa una divisa che non conosce, gialla come la luce che illumina la piccola stanza in cui è rinchiuso. Porta al polso destro un braccialetto senza fibbia simile a un display spento. Dove si trova? Non lo sa. I ricordi arriveranno poi, poco per volta.

Drugs, smuggling, big money and political intrigue in Iceland rally with love, passion, murder and betrayal until the winner takes all...in the masterful, explosive conclusion to the award-winning Reykjavík Noir trilogy. The prison doors slam shut behind Agla when her sentence ends, but her lover Sonja is not there to meet her. As a group of foreign businessmen tries to draw Agla into an ingenious fraud that stretches from Iceland around the world, Agla and her former nemesis María find the stakes being raised at a terrifying speed.

Un monolito color piombo al centro di una distesa di sabbia inondata di luce. E sulla superficie fredda e uniforme del monolito, una scritta: "Fase raccolta dati conclusa". Tutt'attorno: acqua. È questo il quadro che si para davanti agli occhi di Ray, al suo risveglio. La petroliera su cui ha più volte rischiato di perdere la vita è ormai un relitto sul fondo del mare, alle sue spalle.

Adara and Einar are at a crossroads. With no allies left in the fae realm, they only have one option left to unlock Adara's powers—the dragons who fled Ediria nearly twenty years ago. To find the dragons, Adara will have to travel to the heart of Mount Furian and access the portal they used to escape. Since Einar cannot cross the portal himself, she will have to travel to this dangerous new realm and convince the dragons to help her without her staunchest ally by her side.

After I saved his life and kingdom, Kalyll let me go, choosing duty over the passion that burned between us. Though his death was written in the stars, I found a dark, impossible way to pull him back, to anchor his soul to the world of the living. Still, that wasn't enough to win his heart. Now, the force that lives within him gives way to his darker nature, and for a second time, I'm kidnapped and made prisoner—this time in a high tower in the Seelie capital of Elyndell. With good and evil fighting within him, both his kingdom and heart stand at risk.

Avo was born a weapon, a slave to his instincts and his masters. He and his brothers were made to burn New Vultun to ashes. Everything changes when Avo gains immortality and becomes heir to an impossible legacy. He must ascend the megacity of New Vultun. He must challenge the very tyrants that usurped the gods. He must finally free the world from chains.

On the day the world ended, Tyrone followed Teledyne's orders and led a fleet of bombers over Colorado Springs, where he dropped enough thermobaric bombs to erase all life in the city. At the end of that day, he found himself the leader of a community of survivors on the grounds of what had once been the United States Air Force Academy, the school from which he'd graduated. Decades later, Tyrone has maintained the secret of what he did from the community he protects, but when Tyrone's adopted son, Kid, makes a discovery in a nearby lake, it could ruin everything.

Wyatt Stryker, ex-special ops, has suddenly found his more recent roles as a father, husband, and doctor thrown into a world of chaos. A deadly drug cartel has targeted him and his family and forced Stryker to revisit a chapter of his life he thought forever closed. Fortunately for his family, this transition was easier than he imagined - leading a simple life was never really in the cards for Stryker.

Le commandant du Bayard ne respirera à l'aise qu'une fois à Cayenne, sa cargaison de forçats débarquée, car quelque chose se prépare, il le sent. La mise aux fers de Chéri-Bibi, chef occulte et incontesté des forçats, ne le rassure pas et il a raison: Chéri-Bibi s'évade et s'empare du navire.

A master in the arena but a slave when combat is over, Jabez is a cage fighter raised on the streets. When two friends bet on a match, wealthy socialite Andreas wins time with the champion. He feels an instant sizzling connection with the battered warrior and buys out the man's contract, offering Jabez a chance for a better life. Uneasy in sudden luxury, Jabez resists attraction to his handsome employer. The two men's struggle against desire explodes in passionate fighting, but eventually they surrender to lust, which slowly evolves into something more.

Once upon a time, a boy from a noble family fell in love with a girl from the gutter. It went as badly as you’d expect. Seventeen years later, Susan Lazarus is a renowned detective, and Templeton Lane is a jewel thief. She’s tried to arrest him, and she’s tried to shoot him. They’ve never tried to talk. Then Templeton is accused of a vicious double murder. Now there’s a manhunt out for him, the ports are watched, and even his best friends have turned their backs. If he can’t clear his name, he’ll hang.

A feared cage fighter in mixed martial arts, Daniel is closing in on greatness - until an injury derails his career. Out of work in his country hometown, Daniel slips into the underworld, moonlighting as muscle for a childhood friend turned midlevel gangster. While his wife works nights and his 12-year-old daughter gets into scraps of her own, Daniel tries to escape and build a nobler life for his family - but he sinks deeper into a violent, unpredictable world, soon sparking a conflict that can be settled only in blood.

"Yellachile's Cage", a story by Robert McCammon, was first published in his short fiction collection Blue World.

To the victor go no spoils in the bloody battle for New Guinea. This is the Rat Bastards’ kind of war. They don’t fight for glory, but for survival. Reluctant heroes and outlaw soldiers, they hate the steaming, Jap-filled jungles, but they wouldn’t trade places with anybody. So for a high kill ratio, the Army calls on the experts. The Rat Bastards. Making history is what comes naturally to them.

Che cos’è il genio? È un lampo, un’intuizione, un principio di follia. A Paolo C. il colpo di genio arriva nel momento più buio della sua vita. Fa l’attore a teatro, ma quando i suoi genitori scompaiono prematuramente, seguiti a breve distanza dal suo maestro, il dolore e lo smarrimento lo riducono in mille frammenti. In quei momenti di malinconia, l’unico sollievo gli arriva dalla passione per il calcio. E a pochi giorni da una sfida della sua amata Roma contro il Milan, coi biglietti già esauriti da tempo, ecco l’idea che a nessun altro sarebbe mai venuta in mente.

Frightened, my wife nudges me awake, certain that she heard a noise somewhere in the house. I hear the intruder a moment later. Our home is in a run-down part of town where burglaries and robbery have become commonplace. Worried about our 18-month-old in an adjoining room, I get up, grabbing a golf club I know to be in our closet, and go out to investigate. There's just sufficient light to illuminate the form of a man close to me in the hall.

For Nikko "The Bull" Del Toro, an ex-marine turned MMA fighter, only two things quiet the demons raging inside him - facing an opponent in the cage...and the memory of his hottest one-night stand. But when his PTSD resurfaces, causing him to lose control at a CFA press party, it's his career that may be KO'd.

Marta es una actriz argentina que vive en New York, es joven, linda y perturbada. Intenta quedar en películas de gran despliegue, pero nunca termina de encajar en los estereotipos de lo que se espera de una latina. Una noche, en una fiesta, conoce a un músico muy famoso y se enamora de él. Pero lo que podría ser el inicio de una historia de amor es en cambio el inicio de una historia rabiosa y fracturada, minada de desencuentros.

The daughter of a Russian mafia kingpin, I get everything I want with the click of my fingers. Except for him. I've been in love with Ryker for years, but I'm supposed to marry his brother, Max. Until that one fateful day, celebrating my 18th birthday when everything changes. There's evil lurking in the shadows, just like papa said. And this time, I won't be able to hide.

When Jessica volunteered as tribute to a sorcerer's court, she knew that sex would be part of her job. However, she did not expect Lord Azrael to “feed” her to his pet incubus on her first day at work. She’s shocked that the incubus - a shape-shifting panther - can take the form of a man. She’s shocked that they have an audience. She’s even more shocked that she likes it. When the show is over, Jessica is sent off to new adventures, but she can’t stop thinking about him.