Resultados para "Lucien" en Negra y suspense

Adele Schumacher non è la tipica mamma preoccupata. Quando ingaggia Elvis Cole per ritrovare il figlio scomparso, Josh, ideatore di un controverso podcast su UFO e alieni, porta con sé una borsa piena di soldi, bizzarri racconti di cospirazioni governative e una squadra di guardie del corpo professioniste. Trovare Josh dovrebbe essere semplice, ma Elvis scopre ben presto di non essere solo nella caccia: una squadra micidiale di misteriosi sconosciuti è determinata ad arrivare prima di tutti a Josh e alla sua amica Skylar, star del cinema porno.

Nella grande casa spenta in cima alla collina, vive sempre sola una bambina… Si chiama Eva, ha dieci anni, e con lei ci sono soltanto una governante e una ragazza finlandese au pair, Maja Salo. Dei genitori nessuna traccia. È proprio Maja a cercare disperatamente l’aiuto di Pietro Gerber, il miglior ipnotista di Firenze, l’addormentatore di bambini. Da qualche tempo Eva non è più ­davvero sola. Con lei c’è un amichetto immaginario, senza nome e senza volto.

Nate Burke, ex poliziotto di Baltimora, accetta il posto di capo della polizia di Lunacy - un paesino dell'Alaska che conta 506 abitanti - per fuggire alla crisi causata dal fresco divorzio e dal trauma della morte del suo compagno di lavoro, per la quale si sente in parte responsabile. I primi giorni nella cittadina scorrono tranquilli, a parte qualche piccolo problema di ordine pubblico e una relazione un po' movimentata con l'umorale Meg Galloway, bella e sfacciata. All'improvviso, però, in una grotta nascosta viene ritrovato il corpo del padre di Meg, scomparso sedici anni prima.

Esistono silenzi che valgono più di mille parole, e David, educatore professionale di comprovata esperienza, lo sa bene. Quando sulla soglia della comunità socioeducativa per cui lavora fa capolino Ariel, una bambina abbandonata alla stazione di Sestri Levante, il suo unico obiettivo diventa restituirle un'identità e, con essa, la speranza di un futuro senza ombre. Improvvisandosi investigatore, si reca nel luogo del ritrovamento con un disegno di lei che indica una casa su un promontorio.

Whispers, rumors, and horror stories abound about The Barrens and the strange creatures that lurk within them. Determined to find the remaining vampires that stood against his father in the war, Braith knows that it’s dangerous to enter the inhospitable land, but that they must if they are to have a chance at gaining allies to help overthrow the king.

Two months after Sunan, Sousuke and Kaname are in a holding pattern. He'll fire his rifle off the school roof. She'll yell at him to stop. Lather, rinse, repeat. That all changes one day when Sousuke's commanding officer Teletha "Tessa" Testarossa shows up at his apartment, trying to hide a key to a terrorist superweapon of unprecedented power. Tessa is brilliant, pretty, and the same age as Sousuke, and her presence might put a serious crimp on his relationship with Kaname... assuming the city survives the night!

The body of a blonde young man found in the canal is discovered to be that of a journalist who had been claiming he was onto the story of a lifetime. The area where he was murdered turns out to be subject to a land dispute. A young woman is adamant she remembers a childhood twin brother, but her father swears she’s an only child. And now a second young blonde is missing. Rachel King and her East Manchester CID team must determine what links this all together - or are they being led to draw connections which aren’t there? And if so, who is pulling their strings? 

Katherine Shaw. Rich girl? Check. Spoiled and obstinate? Check. A sexy fireball who pushes every button ex-SEAL Jason Garrett has? That was not listed on the dossier he received when he was assigned as one of her bodyguards. The last thing he ever expected was that his tempting client would prove to be more sinful and dangerous than those he’s protecting her from. It’s been five years since a family tragedy tilted her world off its axis, and Katherine Shaw still relives the nightmares of that night. She escaped. The danger should’ve been over.

Once in a while, a first novel arrives like a bolt of lightning, commanding attention with an explosion of power, grace, and light. Flying in Place is such a book. As unflinching as The Lovely Bones, as startling as Beloved, it is a work to bear witness - with bravery and compassion - for the experience of millions of readers and their loved ones. Emma is 12, a perfectly normal girl, in a perfectly normal home. With a perfectly normal father...who comes into her bedroom every night in the hours before dawn. Emma will do anything to escape.

The phone and the radio were dead, but they'd already heard the news: a mass murderer was on the loose. Hannah and her younger sister, Meg, were miles from the nearest neighbor, trapped in a raging blizzard, home alone. When two wounded, bleeding strangers show up, Hannah doesn't know whether to help them or turn them away.

Imprisoned by Caleb and at the mercy of the king, Aria is determined not to let them break her. However, the more atrocities she witnesses, the more she realizes there are some horrors no one can withstand, and sometimes survival isn’t always the best option.

When they are attacked on their way back to the palace, Aria realizes she must do whatever is necessary to put an end to the threat looking to destroy all those she loves. Braith will sacrifice anything and do whatever is necessary to keep Aria safe. However, there are some things that not even he understands or can stop from happening. Jack will do everything he can to help secure the future of their world and keep the peace. What he’s not expecting is for a new danger to rise from within their allies; one none of them could have seen coming. 

Driven by a burning need for vengeance, William sets out in search of the man who ended his mortal life. Determined to kill Kane, no matter what the cost, he travels deeper into the mountains to find him. What he’s not expecting is to discover Tempest. Forced to flee her sheltered mountain town in search of help, Tempest has no idea what to expect from the world outside her valley. At first, she believes it’s a miracle when she stumbles upon William. Until she realizes he has only one thing on his mind, murder.

In The Captive Series, the vampire king that decimated the human and vampire races was introduced, but now it’s time to meet the man who existed before he became a tyrannical king. At 25, Atticus is the last surviving member of the most powerful line of vampires and is known as a prince among his kind. The life of luxury and privilege he’s always known is about to change in ways that he never could have seen coming though. Ways that will forever alter the course of his life, the lives of all those around him, and the history of the world.

A year has passed since the war against Jack's father freed the humans from their roles as blood slaves and servants to the vampire race. Having left the palace behind to ensure the outer towns are obeying the new laws, Jack struggles to come to terms with the grief and haunting memories that drove him from the palace in the first place. He's content to lose himself in the outer lands and the obscurity they offer him. That is until he encounters Hannah.