Resultados para "The Promise" en Policíaca, negra y suspense

I’m a dead man walking. I promised him I wouldn’t go near her, promised him that I would treat his sister like she was my little sister. But that was a lie. Because Darcey Sawyer was not my sister. She was my forbidden fruit. Forbidden fruit that I have waited four years to touch, four years to have one little taste. I was Conor ‘King’ Royce, and this King needed his Queen.

The twisted and intriguing storytelling that you loved in Consequences and the Infidelity series continues with the epic conclusion of the all-new alpha anti-hero in the dark romance series Web of Sin, by New York Times best-selling author Aleatha Romig.

It was their darkest secret. Three schoolgirls made a promise - to take the horrible truth of what they did to the grave. Thirty years later, Beth and Sally have tried to put the trauma behind them. Though Carol has distanced herself from her former friends, the three are adamant that the truth must never come to light, even if the memory still haunts them. But when some shocking news threatens to unearth their dark secret, Beth enlists the help of private investigator Matthew Hill to help her and Sally reconnect with estranged Carol.

To most, Kal Anderson is a villain. Harbinger of death, keeper of souls, frequenter of nightmares. Doctor Death. Hades incarnate. They say he stole me. Usurped my fiancé and filled the cracks in my heart with empty promises. Imprinted his crimson fingerprints on my psyche and tried to set me free. They’re not wrong, per se. Except it was my choice to stay.

When people choose to leave, you should let them. That’s a lesson Lyla Peterson has learned over and over again. Abandoned more than once, her focus is on ensuring her son never experiences that familiar sting, not on lingering questions from the pain-filled past. Until the opportunity arises to seek elusive answers, and Lyla seizes it, opening old wounds and revealing dangerous secrets. He chose to leave. She should have let him.

For two years I held Vance Winters off...right up until the day my fiancé dumped me for his mistress and Vance kissed me senseless. Vance Winters was six feet of dangerously beautiful mayhem. Wicked blue eyes, tousled blond hair, and golden skin covered in tattoos. Trouble. I should have taken one look and run in the other direction. I should have told him to take his job offer and shove it up his tight, perfect ass. I should have done a lot of things.

Lucas Rurik, sole living member of the Raven Guild, hoped that killing the deranged Dr. Callie Mitchell would end her plot to stir up trouble between the Rift and Earth, bringing peace to both lands. And it did—for exactly three weeks, four days, seventeen hours, and eleven minutes. But then it all went to hell.

David Harwood sta assistendo impotente allo sgretolarsi inesorabile della propria vita. Dopo la morte della moglie e la chiusura del giornale per cui lavorava, rimasto solo con il figlio di nove anni è costretto a trasferirsi a casa dei genitori a Promise Falls, la cittadina in cui è cresciuto. Quella che sembra essere un'esistenza destinata a un anonimo fallimento intraprende però una direzione inaspettata quanto tragica.

I knew running from Adrian wouldn't be easy. That there was a risk I would be caught, but I never anticipated he would go to such great lengths to find me. Now that he knows what I've done, I wonder if there will ever be love between us again, or if we were always meant to be enemies?

Tot ce i-am promis tatălui meu balansează cu grație feminină între amintirile încă vii ale tinereții și prezentul unei realități necruțătoare. Drama schizoidă a femeii mature eșuate în rol de mamă se transformă, cu prilejul unui punct de cotitură, într-o zbatere între dreptul la o viață proprie și păstrarea echilibrului în universul familial. Povestea de iubire, fie ea și una la distanță, imposibilă, dar cu atât mai ușor de dus, vine ca un colac de salvare, iar eroina o (re)trăiește ca pe o a doua șansă.

A Promise Falls, il crollo dello schermo di un drive-in causa la morte di quattro persone. Sembrerebbe una tragica fatalità, ma qualcosa nelle indagini non torna: molte le circostanze spiegabili solo riducendole a casualità, troppe le coincidenze sospette.

I byen Promise Falls er det lige så let at få hævn som at tælle til 1, 2, 3... Dagen begynder som en helt almindelig lørdag – et bad, en kop kaffe, morgenmad. Men pludselig bryder helvede løs i Promise Falls. Folk falder døde om på gaden, hospitalerne og beredskabet bliver lagt ned af det høje antal ofre. Er det massemord gennem madforgiftning, en virus eller noget endnu mere dystert? Er der mon nogen, der står bag?

Alle forbrydelser har konsekvenser. Alle byer har hemmeligheder.

En ung pige bliver dræbt af en spritbilist. Lokalsamfundet er rystet over tragedien og kræver retfærdighed. Det betyder ikke noget, at den anklagede selv kun er et barn. Da han får en mild dom, lyder der et ramaskrig.

Da David Harwood bliver bedt om at køre forbi sin kusine, Marla, der er traumatiseret af at have mistet sit barn ved fødslen, tror han, at det bliver et hyggeligt afbræk i sit ellers håbløse liv. Men da han ankommer, er der blod på Marlas hoveddør. Og hvad værre er, så har Marla et lille barn hos sig, som hun hævder, "en engel" har afleveret til hende. Kort efter findes en kvinde dræbt, stukket ihjel, og hendes lille dreng er forsvundet. Alt tyder på, at Marla har gjort noget ganske forfærdeligt.

I byen Promise Falls er det lige så let at få hævn som at tælle til 1, 2, 3 ...

Dagen begynder som en helt almindelig lørdag – et bad, en kop kaffe, morgenmad. Men pludselig bryder helvede løs i Promise Falls.

Folk falder døde om på gaden, hospitalerne og beredskabet bliver lagt ned af det høje antal ofre. Er det massemord gennem madforgiftning, en virus eller noget endnu mere dystert? Er der mon nogen, der står bag?

Alle forbrydelser har konsekvenser. Alle byer har hemmeligheder. En ung pige bliver dræbt af en spritbilist. Lokalsamfundet er rystet over tragedien og kræver retfærdighed. Det betyder ikke noget, at den anklagede selv kun er et barn. Da han får en mild dom, lyder der et ramaskrig. Under truslen om hævn hyrer drengen og hans desperate familie privatdetektiv Cal Weaver til at beskytte ham. Men der er øjne overalt, og gengældelsen kan komme fra alle sider … Der er noget ved hele sagen, der ikke stemmer, og Weaver spekulerer over, hvad det er, han overser.

Veteran journalist Jay Morgan senses that the simmering conflict in Kosovo is about to take on a new dimension when he hears rumors that a mysterious bearded foreigner, bearing weapons and money and preaching Holy War, has appeared in the rebels’ mountain camps. What is this mysterious man’s mission? What new horror has he brought to the city? Together Jay and his translator, the beautiful Alija - who is searching for a missing brother and is herself a victim of the war - race to find this prophet of jihad.

Seattle gallery owner Virginia Troy has spent years battling the demons that stem from her childhood time in a cult and the night a fire burned through the compound, killing her mother. And now one of her artists has taken her own life, but not before sending Virginia a last picture: a painting that makes Virginia doubt everything about the so-called suicide - and her own past. Like Virginia, PI Cabot Sutter was one of the children in the cult who survived that fire - and only he can help her now.

Once in a Promised Land is the story of a couple, Jassim and Salwa, who left the deserts of their native Jordan for those of Arizona, each chasing their own dreams of opportunity and freedom. Although the two live far from Ground Zero, they cannot escape the nationwide fallout from 9/11.

Everett Ramses came into my life like a hurricane on a dark New Orleans night. With a deep voice and penetrating gaze, his mere presence tingled my nerves and twisted my insides much like the city’s legendary stories of spirits and ghosts. As the ruler of New Orleans, Everett Ramses lives life hard and takes what he wants without apology. He wants me to be his queen. I am not an unwilling capture or a damsel in distress.