Résultats pour "Echo" dans Fiction

It was the smell that Mrs. Powell noticed first. Slightly sweet. Slightly unpleasant...It shocked her badly to find a dead man in the corner, his head slumped on his knees. Who was Billy Blake, other than a homeless alcoholic who wandered the streets? Why was he found dead from starvation in one of the richest areas of one of the richest capitals in the world?

Brought to you by Penguin. Max didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. As a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he remains, Max watches his girlfriend Hannah lost in grief in the flat they shared and begins to realise how much of her life was invisible to him. In the weeks and months...

Who can you trust if you can't trust yourself? Estrel Beck doesn’t want to be a software salesman. Yet here he is, newly arrived in the city-state of Trinity, for a make-or-break meeting with the local Administration department. Under-prepared, under-motivated and over-sensitive, every little thing about this strange place seems to stress Estrel out. When he discovers a message scrawled on the back of a napkin, in his own handwriting, telling him he’s trapped in a time loop, he knows for sure that he’s in over his head. Then the Administration building explodes.

Pour fuir un drame familial, Joakim et Katrine Westin, une famille de Stockholm, ont décidé de s'installer dans le domaine d'Aludden, au nord-est de l'île d'Öland. Peu après, Katrine est retrouvée noyée et son mari sombre dans la dépression.

Brought to you by Penguin. In the depths of the archive, Hannah dances with the ghosts of Vichy France, lost in testimony and a desire to hear the voices of the past. Back in her apartment, Moroccan teenager Tariq crashes on her sofa, consumed by his search for the mother he barely knew. Their...

Les visites dans le passé reprennent à l'institut de recherche historique de St Mary. Maxwell et ses excentriques confrères historiens partent pour de nouvelles aventures à travers le temps. Promue directrice du département d'Histoire, Maxwell va contrer, à l'aide de son équipe, les plans de leurs ennemis qu'ils croyaient neutralisés. C'est l'Histoire tout entière qui est menacée par ces fantômes du passé. Au bord du burn out, l'historienne utilise ses dernières forces pour maintenir l'équilibre dans l'Histoire et dans sa vie privée.

Decades ago, they fought side by side, bound by duty and blood. Vietnam was their testing ground. Now, the past is coming for them. A forgotten war crime. A secret society buried deep within an elite university. An old friend returned. When one of their own is killed and a family member taken, old warriors are forced back into the fight—against an enemy that knows them better than they know themselves. The deeper they dig, the clearer it becomes: this isn't just revenge. It's a reckoning.

Brought to you by Penguin. What a thing of wonder a mobile phone is. Six ounces of metal, glass and plastic, fashioned into a sleek, shiny, precious object. At once, a gateway to other worlds - and a treacherous weapon in the hands of the unwary, the unwitting, the inept. The Cleverley family...

Unbeknownst to most of humankind, a powerful network of witches thrives within the shadows of society, using their magic to keep the world in balance. But they are being eliminated - and we will all pay if their power falls... When Elyse MacAllister's great-aunt Eleanora, the woman who raised her, becomes deathly ill, Lyse puts her comfortable life in Georgia on hold to rush back to Los Angeles. And once she returns to Echo Park, Lyse discovers her great-aunt has been keeping secrets.

Elliot "Echo" Hunt carries the weight of his past, haunted by the one person he couldn’t save. When he finds an injured woman on his ranch, he rescues her without hesitation—only to realize she looks eerily like the one he couldn’t protect. "Jane Doe" wakes with no memory, no identity—just an overwhelming sense of connection to the man who saved her. The attraction between them is undeniable, yet Elliot, scarred by his past, keeps her at arm’s length, terrified of what a second chance at love could cost.

THREADBORN ECHO is a character driven science fiction thriller about the invisible systems that hold our modern world together and what happens when they start making decisions of their own. Dan Rourke is a data analyst stuck in a numbing government job; he thinks in probabilities and patterns, not prophecies. When a casual “what if” about sending lottery numbers back in time collides with a secretive AI oversight program called AICept, he gets pulled into a high stakes loop where grid failures, wildfires, and human lives are all just variables in someone else’s model.

When the world ends, it doesn’t do so with one single scream. It fractures. And the dead rise faster than anyone can run. This box set collects the first four novels of Echoes of Decay, a relentless, character-driven zombie apocalypse saga set in a collapsing United Kingdom, where survival is measured not just by bullets and barricades, but by loyalty, sacrifice, and the choices that refuse to stay buried.

Recovering from despair, Sophie Michelli leaves her close-knit Bronx family for her brother's villa in California's wine country. But as she enjoys a dinner date, Sophie receives a shocking call from someone in her past.

The bestselling novel featuring the "wonderfully epic hero" (People) who inspired the hit film Jack Reacher. Thumbing across the scorched west Texas desert, loner Jack Reacher has nowhere to go, and all the time in the world to get there. Cruising the same stretch of two-lane blacktop is pretty...

Francine Rivers is winner of the ECPA Gold Medallion and many other awards. Her inspirational novels move the hearts and souls of millions of readers. Following A Voice in the Wind (K1069), An Echo in the Darkness is the second book in her remarkable saga set in ancient Rome. As a Roman trader...

The stunning sequel to James Smythe’s critically acclaimed literary sci-fi novel THE EXPLORER TWENTY YEARS following the spacecraft Ishiguro’s disappearance, humanity is setting its sights on the heavens once more. Under the direction of two of the most brilliant minds science has ever seen...

Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time. For the Wittgenstein...

Współczesne Włochy. Karolina Cichońska ma nadzieję, że wakacyjny wyjazd scali jej małżeństwo; odbuduje więź z synami i pomoże odzyskać miłość męża. Tymczasem musi mierzyć się z echem dramatu z 1963 roku, historią swojej rodziny oraz prawdą o sobie i matce. Każdy dzień to nowy sekret do wyjaśnienia.

In the aftermath of The Swarm’s relentless assault, and the brief but bloody civil war, Anderson and the other survivors must find a way to secure their future in their new home. With tensions running high, and the ever-present threat of the next moon phase, a plan is devised to take them to the source of the danger. To Europe. To ECHO site.

Against a vivid backdrop of history, Danielle Steel tells a compelling story of love and war, acts of faith and acts of betrayal…and of three generations of women as they journey though years of loss and survival, linked by an indomitable devotion that echoes across time. For the Wittgenstein...