Résultats pour "Adam" dans Science-fiction

“Why did they kidnap me? I'm not rich. I don't have a lot of family to extort. I have certainly not been a police officer long enough to make any enemies. But instead of waking to the incessant ringing of my alarm clock back in my small city apartment, I awoke in the dirt. In the jungle. Naked. What is happening? Where are their demands? Then I found her; beautiful and graceful, without a mark to show for her life trapped here. How did she survive in this jungle? And how is she keeping me alive? 14 days now, she has hunted, caught, cooked and provided without saying a word."

For almost a year, Talia has lived as a sex worker for the High Director of the Coalition Council, providing recreational sex and sensual pleasure for some of the most important and influential people in the explored universe. After a difficult and joyless childhood, she now has comfort and security, living and working in the center of power in Coalition space. She has everything she needs, and she doesn't know she has anything else to hope for—until she meets Desh.

The second installment of Adam’s Alluring Tale, will take the listener through the end of the initial investigation started by Jackson. The listeners will finally understand what happened to him, and why he left all of a sudden, with little for the friends to be able to act upon. Alison is tasked with finding out where her friends Adam and Mackenzie truly are, as well as find out what Jackson knows that the friends don’t. While being tasked with this, Alison and Patrick must try their best to stay under the radar of the big force that they’re opposing.

Roam Camden is a bright girl in small town Ohio, eager to graduate high school and pursue her dreams of teaching history. Her well-planned path includes Logan, her life-long best friend, and now boyfriend. On the first day of her senior year she meets the new history teacher, West Perry, and senses that there is something deep within her soul that remembers him... and a life they once shared. Roam quickly learns that her fate is not as simple as she once believed.

Rule One: Nowhere is safe, only safer. Rule Two: People will do insane things to survive, so trust no one. In a walled city at the end of the world, with zombies shambling everywhere, Gwen has a choice. Stay in a place where things are mostly safe, but is probably going to fall. Or go out on her own again. Surviving the zombies is something she knows, something she's good at. It's just too bad other survivors make the surviving part so damn hard.

Roam, imprisoned in an ancient land and left to the mercy of Troy's cruel reign, longs for freedom, her child, and West. Surviving with only Logan's presence to save her from certain insanity, she turns to herself and finds that she alone possesses the strength and power to save her own life. Deep within her soul, Roam remembers her timeless love for West and their child. Drawn together for the final battle, Roam and West cling to each other...and the promise of one last life...together.

Cass and Ken fled their wedding when an assassin tried to kill them. They ran from Los Alamos to Las Vegas to Massachusetts and finally to the flooded remains of New Orleans. Now Kendra will try to recruit her employer to help them get to the bottom of this mystery, but everything has a cost. She may have no choice but to pay it, however. Cass has problems of her own when she discovers that a friend is in jeopardy because of her. Can she organize a rescue attempt?

The baby growing inside him has two fathers, and it's killing him. Genetic engineering made it possible for Adam Khan to bear and birth his biological child, but it never prepared him to carry the weight of the world. The product of a religious family, Adam hid his true self. Unfortunately, the object of his affection cares only for himself. Desperate to be loved, he turns to the morally bankrupt Chimera Collaborative, run by the sinister Dr. Shen Duan. Will the pursuit of acceptance and an idyllic life be a matter of life and death?

In August of 2021, they tried to disprove the adage that violence doesn’t solve anything — by killing everyone. No people, no problems. Fifty years later, humanity has emerged from the ashes. As if nuclear war didn’t do enough, a cruel virus followed on its heels, reducing many survivors to mindless killers. Drivers are the only link between scattered towns. Anyone with the skill to maintain a vehicle (and the balls to hit the road) can seek fortune and glory running jobs for the Roadhouse.

Her family's fortune can buy Tara Douglas anything - except more time. Determined to make peace with her fate, she's come to the house her great-grandfather built in the Smoky Mountains to spend the time she has left in peace. But for once Tara becomes the healer when she finds wreckage of an otherworldly vessel and a badly injured man whose glowing eyes see right into her soul....

Kidnapped from Earth by an alien warrior when she visits her uncle, Summer Mills is terrified she will never be able to return home. Her alien captors are using human females as breeding stock, and her only chance to return to Earth is Ke'lar, the one Hir warrior willing to stand between her and his own kind. Returning this human female home won't be easy, and Ke'lar knows by this act of defiance he is throwing his own chances at a lifemate away.