Resultados para "Terror" en Contemporánea

When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time, how the fairytale twisted into something far more crooked—and darker—than I ever imagined. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.

They call me a monster. Murderous and hateful. Beautiful but broken. Nothing can calm the ever raging storm inside of me. As the ruthless leader of the Doubeck family, there is a certain standard of brutality, I have to uphold. Then I meet her. Beautiful, innocent, and so very afraid. Valentina is a rival family's daughter, and the little temptress has purposely tangled herself in my dark web. She seeks me out, needing my help, but the price for what she wants will be steep.

Mariem e Raul sono i protagonisti di questa favola gotica, un intenso gioco tra il noir e l’erotico, tra l’amore e la morte, in una originale eco della tradizione letteraria andalusa. Mariem è un’adolescente e vive a Malaga, Raúl ha qualche anno più di lei. Ad accomunarli c'è il rapporto morboso che entrambi intrattengono con la morte.

I'm not interested in love. It's the chase that intrigues me. I saw her in the park, my pretty little prey. I intend to make her mine, and the closer I get, the more she will lose. Her friends. Her family. Her freedom. Each move will bring her further under my control until she has nothing left... but me. Am I playing a cruel game? Of course. But I warned you: It's not love that I want.

Do pahiye se thoda sa zyada, Chaar pahiye se thoad sa kam.

Broken hearts do not fully heal. Even if they are mended, fissures remain, and over time, pressure can split open old wounds. There was a time when Isabelle and I were solid. There was a time when it was just the two of us against the world. I ignored the cracks beneath the surface. Now, everything is different. They are after us, and they are not going to give up no matter what. They have more resources, more man-power, more strength. What do we have? We used to have each other, but now...I’m no longer certain we have even that.

Set in 1840’s Hawaii, the Ghost of Queen Liliuokalani forces modern-day lovers to time travel and view damaging residential school she attended with other high ranking children who became actual monarchs of Hawaii.

In 2008, the year in which the world became poorer and India less safe, there was a couple passionately in love. Aniruddh, a Ducati-riding, economics-loving dude studying in St. Stephen's College. And Apu, a girl from Goa who loved roadside food and super-large earrings. Opposites in a lot of ways, they fell for each other the instant they met. But then on a pleasant November night, when India was going to sleep, Aniruddh's love for his dusky lady met a terrifying enemy that came in boats from the sea, with enough ammunition to take on a whole city....

Maddox Kinkade is an expert at managing the impossible. Tasked with neutralizing a lethal bioweapon, she turns to the one person capable of helping her stop the threat of pandemic in time: the love of her life, back from the dead and mad as hell at her supposed betrayal. Recruiting Cole to save millions of lives may be harder than resisting the attraction still burning between them, but Maddox will do whatever it takes...even if it destroys her.

"Gli Stati Uniti si rifiutano di negoziare con i terroristi." Meg Moore ha ben in mente queste parole. Le aveva sentite ai tempi in cui lavorava come interprete in un'ambasciata europea. Quelle stesse parole, però, sono una sentenza di morte per sua figlia e sua nonna, rapite da un gruppo di estremisti. Meg farebbe qualsiasi cosa per salvarle, persino uccidere. Il Marine John Nilsson è convocato a Washington dall'FBI come esperto in negoziazione: una donna tiene in ostaggio un ambasciatore puntandogli la pistola alla testa.

Tom Paoletti, tenente della marina americana, è in congedo dopo una missione in cui ha riportato un grave trauma cranico. Appena rientrato nella sua città natale, s'imbatte in un terrorista a cui dà la caccia da anni, ma i suoi superiori sono convinti si tratti solo di una delle allucinazioni che lo colpiscono ultimamente. Sospettando un attentato in occasione di un'importante cerimonia cittadina, Tom decide di mettere in piedi una piccola squadra antiterrorismo, reclutando alcuni dei suoi sottoufficiali più leali e due burberi veterani della Seconda guerra mondiale.

Carmen Ronaldo is my enemy and my obsession. I'll conquer her and make her mine. For years, Carmen has hated me. I seduced her to learn her family's secrets, and then I used those secrets to fracture the Ronaldo cartel, taking half of their territory for myself. I made myself a king, but I've never been fully satisfied in my victory. I've never experienced regret. The emotions that rule weaker men don't affect me. Until her. I've waited far too long to claim Carmen for myself.

Ripley Todd just wants to live a quiet, peaceful kind of life. Her job as a sheriff's deputy keeps her busy and happy, and she has no trouble finding men when she wants them - which, lately, isn't all that often. She's perfectly content, except for one thing: she has special powers that both frighten and confuse her - and though she tries hard to hide them, she can't get them under control.