Résultats pour "Captive" dans Littérature, romans et fiction

They destroyed his world. They killed his father. And now one of them is his prisoner. Ted James hates the Skya’ja, the fish-faced aliens who destroyed the Earth. Promising humanity the clean, renewable energy that transformed them into a peaceful spacefaring species, the invaders lured scientists like Ted’s father into their project. Instead, the explosion known as the Cataclysm wiped out electrical grids, governments, and militaries. Two years later, the Earth is a scrapheap where the remaining few humans and aliens war for the resources that are left.

Pour les fans de Lucinda Riley et du roman gothique ! (Re)Plongez dans cette saga familiale pour une expérience d'écoute inédite et addictive. Le timbre nuancé de Ninon Moreau nous offre une Cathy Dollanganger délicate et magnétique à la fois. À la mort de son mari, Corinne retourne dans la demeure parentale en compagnie de ses quatre enfants, deux garçons et deux filles. Pour des histoires d'héritage, la jeune veuve doit cacher leur existence à son père, avec lequel elle est brouillée.

La vie tranquille de Marianne, mère de famille, bascule un soir ordinaire de septembre lorsqu'elle est brutalement enlevée. Désormais captive d'un groupe violent, elle se retrouve plongée au cœur d'un chantage des plus sinistres… Et le plus troublant : son mari et sa belle-sœur semblent impliqués ! Et alors que les alliances se font et se défont, Marianne parviendra-t-elle à s'enfuir et reprendre une vie normale ?

Abandonnée dès son plus jeune âge, Emma Toska n'a jamais eu de foyer, jusqu'à ce que l'armée américaine lui offre une échappatoire. Entre régime strict et défis physiques, la dernière chose à laquelle Emma s'attendait était de la rencontrer. La capitaine Olivia Queen, charismatique et mystérieuse, Olivia l'attire irrésistiblement. Mais leur relation est interdite.

His identity now revealed, Damen must face his master, Prince Laurent, as Damianos of Akielos, the man Laurent has sworn to kill. On the brink of a momentous battle, the future of both their countries hangs in the balance. In the south, Kastor's forces are massing. In the north, the Regent's armies are mobilizing for war. Damen's only hope of reclaiming his throne is to fight together with Laurent against their usurpers.

Pour les fans de Lucinda Riley ! Bart, âgé désormais de vingt-cinq ans, hérite de Foxworth Hall, la demeure maudite, qu'il restaure entièrement. La grande fête qu'il y organise prend vite l'allure d'un nouveau départ pour cette famille meurtrie et déchirée depuis plus de quarante ans. Ainsi, la rivalité entre Bart, l'ambitieux, le mal-aimé, et son frère Jory, danseur étoile au firmament de sa carrière, est peut-être enfin appelée à se résorber – ou bien, au contraire, va-t-elle s'amplifier de manière irréversible.

Brooke and Heather had been prayer partners for over twenty-five years. They had each been awakened during the early hours of the morning and urged to pray. They just knew that young women with blonde hair and blue eyes were in danger, and the Lord needed them to pray. After several months of praying, they were urged to go to a small mountain town in Northern Kentucky to meet together to do battle against the forces of darkness.

Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to end the endless slaughter is the Livesuit forces. Soldiers meld their bodies to the bleeding edge technology, becoming something more than human for the duration of a war that might never end.

When you're accused of stealing jewelry from the grumpy single dad who you nanny for but... Grumpy single dad seeks Nanny... Her father tells me she’s mute. Except I catch her humming a lullaby. He’s a liar. Or she has everyone deceived. What possibly could a four-year-old be hiding? I really should have done a background check on him. Imagine my surprise when I discover my grumpy boss works for the mafia. I want to leave but he won’t let me. I’m his captive, forced to follow his rules and do as he demands. This slow burn mafia romance is the second book in the Mafia Marriages series.

Zoya NofiKova made one fatal mistake—she took an Ivanov. Now my cousin is missing, his pregnant wife left for dead in the wreckage of a brutal car crash. The guilt is a noose around my neck, tightening with every second he's gone. I was never fully Ivanov—half Russian, half Latin, never enough. But this time, I'll prove myself. I'll infiltrate Los Infidels. Find Pavel. And take the woman responsible.

With their countries on the brink of war, Damen and his new master, Prince Laurent, must exchange the intrigues of the palace for the sweeping might of the battlefield as they travel to the border to avert a lethal plot. Forced to hide his identity, Damen finds himself increasingly drawn to the dangerous, charismatic Laurent. But as the fledgling trust between the two men deepens, the truth of secrets from both their pasts is poised to deal them the crowning death blow.

Pour les fans de Lucinda Riley ! Ninon Moreau reprend avec brio son rôle de Cathy Dollanganger, une héroïne qui a désormais soif de vengeance. Libérés de l'emprise familiale et évadés du grenier où ils étaient séquestrés, les enfants rescapés sont parachutés dans un monde dont ils ignorent presque tout. Ils doivent désormais affronter la vie, ses embûches... et ses nouveaux drames. Néanmoins, la chance leur sourit quand leur chemin croise celui du docteur Paul Sheffield, qui les recueille aussitôt. Christopher peut alors entamer ses études de médecine, tandis que Cathy se lance dans une carrière de danseuse.

Ophelia, the Calder family's untouchable princess, drove my sister to take her own life. Now I'm taking hers—and I'm going to make her my obedient little pet. All brothers must choose a Ward, and she'll be mine. Forever. She'll dance at the end of my leash while her father's spies report every humiliating detail back to him. And when he comes for me, the Brotherhood will wipe him off the map. A perfect plan. Except it isn't.

Ornella will protect her king, even if she must face the infamous Wild Hunt. The cadre of the Autumn Prince. But she never expected to survive the encounter, much less become a captive of the riders in ghoulish skull helms and armour made from thorn and bone. Now, the Summer dryad is trapped in the Autumn Court with a reluctant warden. A gorgeous rider with violet eyes who has been ordered to train her so she can take her place in the Wild Hunt.

The windswept Scottish Highlands hold great beauty, but also great danger. So when Aimil Mengue's abducted by a feuding clan, she's right to fear for her life - and her virtue. For Aimil's keeper is the infamous warrior Parlan MacGuin. Aimil sets out to hate him, but Parlan is more honorable - and infinitely more alluring - than expected. Though betrothed to another, Aimil cannot deny her startling desire for the man who holds her captive. Parlan MacGuin knows well his reputation as a fierce warrior; he uses it to claim land and lovers.

Damen is a warrior hero to his people and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave. Beautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master, Prince Laurent, epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent.

Pour les fans de Lucinda Riley ! Cathy vient de s'installer dans une grande maison en compagnie de son frère et de ses deux jeunes fils, Bart et Jory. Ensemble, ils mènent une existence paisible, essayant d'occulter toutes ces années de troubles et de drames. Et les deux frères de s'épanouir et d'affirmer leur caractère... Ce pourrait donc enfin être le bonheur pour eux tous si, dans une proche demeure, ne venait s'installer une vieille dame voilée de noir ; si, dans le journal intime d'un aïeul, Bart et Jory ne découvraient l'atroce fatalité qui pèse sur leur lignée.

A young woman's body is found in a remote barn on the Fens. Before she was killed, one of her fingers had been cut off. Who is inflicting this violence and why? The young woman in the barn had been kept captive for some time. And the case shows strong similarities to an unsolved murder in Derbyshire. When another woman is found alive with similar injuries, the case grows even more complicated.

For months, Luke and his underground revolutionary group have been planning their biggest operation yet: kidnapping 23-year-old Adeline Woolsaw. They don’t want a ransom—they want to expose the Woolsaw Group, the source of Adeline’s parents’ enormous wealth, a vast yet largely anonymous company that runs everything from military bases and mental hospitals to commuter trains, call centers, and prisons.

Trapped in a twisted and dark courtship with a secret woman who needs my strength to survive, I will be wed. Walking the thin line between lunacy and reality, I am now the protector of my future captive bride. So I have no choice but to recite the vows: I take thee. In this arranged matrimony. Until we are parted by death.