Résultats pour "Chance" dans Policier, thrillers et œuvres à suspense

Un matin comme les autres, Marc prépare le petit déjeuner en famille. L'instant d'après, il se réveille sur un lit d'hôpital après douze jours de coma. Ce qui s'est passé entre-temps, deux inspecteurs de police venus à son chevet le lui annoncent, le laissant sans voix. Que peut-il leur répondre ? Non, il ne sait pas qui lui a tiré dans le dos, tué sa femme et kidnappé Tara, sa fille de six mois. À bien y réfléchir, le plus dur n'est pas de perdre ce que l'on a de plus cher au monde, mais d'être le principal suspect...

Son boulot chez Florida Security, c'est la dernière chance d'Owen O'Connor. Ancien toxico, il a enfin trouvé son équilibre au sein de l'agence Florida Security qui collabore étroitement avec une cellule gouvernementale très spéciale. Pourtant, lorsqu'une mission d'infiltration dans le milieu de la drogue leur est assignée, il n'hésite pas à se porter volontaire. Pour prouver qu'il est digne de la confiance de ses collègues, Owen est prêt à tout...

Il y a cinq ans, Lilas a perdu Steven, son premier amour, et a juré de ne jamais rouvrir son cœur. Jusqu'à ce qu'une fusillade la confronte à la mort, ravivant une étincelle de vie. Son sauveur, Storm, est un protecteur tatoué à l'aura dangereuse et aux cheveux longs qui est l'incarnation même de tout ce qu'elle prétend détester. Pourtant, jour après jour, il va patiemment briser ses a priori et démanteler ses défenses. Cette romance militaire enemies-to-lovers explore la résilience du cœur sur fond d'action et de suspense.

À dix-sept ans, Samuel Sooleymon, originaire du Soudan, se voit offrir la chance de sa vie : un voyage aux États-Unis pour jouer dans un tournoi de basket-ball, l'opportunité d'être repéré par des recruteurs universitaires. Pendant la compétition, Samuel reçoit d'effroyables nouvelles de son pays : sa famille est en danger. Accepté à Durham au poste de remplaçant et animé par une féroce volonté de réussir, l'adolescent n'a qu'un seul but : faire venir les siens aux États-Unis.

In an encounter straight out of fiction, Katie might have met Mr Right on the long-haul flight from Melbourne to New York. Richard Sinclair is charming, handsome, wealthy, cultured—and married. In an open marriage, according to him. When he invites her to join him in his lush lakeside villa in Italy as his son’s au pair, it might just be the opportunity for a reset that Katie has been longing for.

St Mary est de retour et rien ne va plus pour le docteur Maxwell. Une fois encore, l'institut très spécial de recherche historique St Mary, qui détient le secret du voyage dans le temps, passe d'une catastrophe à une autre. De la rencontre avec Isaac Newton au champ de bataille sanglant d'Azincourt, rien ne se déroule comme prévu. Mais c'est surtout à Troie, alors qu'Achille et Hector s'apprêtent à s'affronter sous ses yeux, que le destin de Max va se jouer.

'Holding on to the belief that life had meaning and must go on, I, too, would carry on.' In this million-copy bestseller from Korea, the owner of a corner store takes in a homeless man who does a good deed – a kind soul whose presence will transform the whole neighbourhood. Seoul Station is...

The first time I got married, I watched the man I love walk away from me. The second time around, I’m the one signing the dotted line first—this one a man who I realized I never loved. Once burned, twice broken, I’m done looking for love. Only my first ex-husband seems to be everywhere I turn—at my work, with my friends, and eventually…in my bed. I didn’t mean for it to happen. Twice. But I know if I don’t protect my heart, there will be nothing left of me if he walks away again without telling me why he did so in the first place.

The Carnacki institute exists to do something about ghosts. Lay them to rest, send them packing, or kick their nasty ectoplasmic arses with extreme prejudice. The institute’s operatives are the best of the best. JC Chance: sharp, brave, charming, and almost unbearably arrogant; Melody Chambers: science geek, techno-wizard extraordinaire who keeps the antisupernatual equipment running smoothly; and Happy Jack Palmer: the telepath with the gloomy disposition, the last person anyone would want navigating through their head.

Aurora Harper doesn’t like Chance Hughes. He’s too handsome, too charismatic, and he’s a player. She’s had enough of players in her life after her fiancé left her for a bridesmaid three weeks before the wedding. Been there, done that, not doing it again. But Rory let down her guard. She and Chance spent two hot weeks together after Rory nearly died at the hands of a madman. Chance was part of the team that found her, and he stayed by her side from the moment she was freed until she kicked him out of her house when she came to her senses.

The rules were simple. Protect the woman I love. And try to stop loving her along the way. Kane Montgomery Carr and Phoebe Dixon’s romance went from a fiery temptation to a fizzled out heartbreak. Only Kane has no idea why. All he knows is that he has to keep her safe when a stalker sets Phoebe in their sights. Yet as the two of them are forced once again into each other’s lives, the truth behind their breakup surfaces and they are forced to face the facts: the feelings and heat they buried aren’t quite as gone as they’d like.

Noah Bradford knows secrets that could get him killed, and staying in WITSEC seems like a good plan. What he didn't plan on is losing his heart to a man who is sworn to protect him. Battle scarred US Marshal Robert "Mac" Mackenzie has a job to do, and guaranteeing the safety of Noah Bradford is at the top of that list. Mac will do whatever it takes to keep Noah safe, even if it means walking away. Mac and Noah, brought together during extreme circumstances, have been separated by evil.

Quando Jaclyn Blackstone varca la soglia del suo studio, Eldon Chance non può immaginare che quella che all'apparenza è solo l'ennesima paziente affetta da amnesie possa rappresentare il più grave pericolo che abbia mai corso. Il dottor Chance è un rinomato neuropsichiatra di San Francisco nel bel mezzo di un divorzio difficile, alle prese con i problemi di una figlia adolescente piuttosto complicata, con l'invidia dei colleghi e con grane finanziarie che non gli danno tregua.

With its breathtaking vistas and down-to-earth people, Thunder Point is the perfect place for FBI agent Laine Carrington to recuperate from a gunshot wound and contemplate her future. The locals embraced Laine as one of their own after she risked her life to save a young girl from a dangerous cult. Knowing her wounds go beyond the physical, Laine hopes she'll fit in for a while and find her true self in a town that feels safe. She may even learn to open her heart to others, something an undercover agent has little time to indulge.

Will, Carl, Aiden and Darren are inseparable from the day they meet at school. The combination of Will’s street smarts, Carl’s brains, Aiden’s loyalty and Darren’s fearlessness mean they are a force to be reckoned with, and together they feel ready to take on the world. But solidarity can’t insure against tragedy, and when life tests the boys to their limits, slowly the four choose different paths as they take the step into adulthood.

Cloning is a luxury for the wealthy. For Chance Harker, it’s a way of getting on with his lives. Five years ago, when he was sixteen, he and his brother, Marley, were murdered in a kidnapping gone wrong. Chance was revived—and his grieving parents met his existence with anger, neglect, and aversion. The public, though? They can’t get enough of the death-defying stunts he has parlayed into a social media spectacle. But after Chance’s latest “refresh,” he awakens to accusations that he’s killed Lee Conway, a stranger Chance has never met.

When a young man is found frozen to death on a Highland street in mid-December, DCI Jack Logan initially puts it down to a Christmas night out gone tragically wrong. But, when a postmortem reveals something more sinister, Jack discovers he is dealing with a cold, calculating killer with a long line of victims, a talent for torture, and a perverse sense of justice.

Maggie McCabe está à beira do colapso. Como uma cirurgiã altamente renomada das Forças Armadas, ela sempre viveu no limite. Atuando em zonas de guerra, fazia de tudo para mudar vidas. E estava conseguindo... até que tudo foi pelos ares. Após uma série de tragédias que culminou na cassação de sua licença, Maggie perdeu o propósito, mas não a coragem e a paixão. Enquanto está no fundo do poço, recebe uma proposta irrecusável de um antigo conhecido, um cirurgião plástico de elite cujos clientes exigem, além do melhor tratamento que o dinheiro pode pagar, a garantia de discrição absoluta.

Although her marriage to George Waddley has been passionless, the beautiful widow Cecilia Haukstrom Waddley vows to unmask the man responsible for her husband's murder. Suspecting the culprit traveled in society circles, she diverts attention from eavesdropping and prying with constant and tiresome complaints of illness.

Boston hoodlum Julius Ventura wants to find his daughter's missing husband. At least that's how he puts it to Spenser and Hawk, even though it's clear that Julius isn't telling the whole truth—or maybe not any part of the truth. Something about the case appeals to Spenser's passion for justice, though, and he launches an odyssey that leads him and Hawk into the netherworld of organized crime.