Results for "Emmi" in Literature & Fiction

A long time ago, Emmie Blue released a red balloon with a secret message hidden inside - and against all odds, across hundreds of miles of ocean, it was found on a beach in France by a boy called Lucas. Fourteen years later, on the eve of her 30th birthday, Emmie hopes that Lucas is finally about to kiss her. She never expected him to announce that he was marrying someone else! Suddenly Emmie's dreams are shattered and the one person in her life she can rely on is slipping through her fingers. But what if Lucas isn't her forever? What if her love story is only just beginning.

In this charming and poignant novel that “oozes charm and wit and speaks beautifully about friendship and love, and the differences between the two” (Laura Pearson, author of I Wanted You to Know), teenager Emmie Blue releases a balloon with her email address and a big secret into the sky...

Als sie unerwarteter Weise die Football Mannschaft ihres Vaters erbt, gerät ihr sonst so straff geplantes Leben durcheinander. Als letzten Stolperstein in ihrem Leben setzt ihr Vater ihr Cooper Stanley vor die Nase. Mit dem heißen Manager der San Antonio Lions fliegen vom ersten Moment an die Fetzen, bis die Anziehung zwischen den beiden zu groß wird.

Emmie is broken. Her friends have separated and Dr. Albright’s mysterious death has the psychic community reeling. But after investigating the doctor’s home in New Orleans, she faces a terrifying truth: the murderer can get to anyone. Determined to follow their only clue, Emmie and Jason are on their own, and their last hope for getting answers is a man they barely trust. After defying his cryptic warning, they’re confronted by an angel of death—and it sees them. It’s only a matter of time before it returns to finish them off.

Emmie just wants to get as far away from her psychic past as possible. Who can blame her? Seeing dead children isn’t a “gift." It's heartbreaking terror. But once she loses her job in the big city, there’s only one place for her to go: back into the heart of her trauma and fears. Her childhood home. Hanging House. Determined to make the best of her new life, she soon realizes she can’t outrun the ghosts of her past. She needs to face and conquer the looming darkness, or she won’t get out alive.

Finn took the girls to the beaches of Mexico to unwind. Emmie couldn’t wait to leave. It’s difficult to enjoy paradise as a third wheel. But after returning to the bitter Minnesota winter, she’s devastated to discover her life in ruins.

She isn't looking for love, but can love break through her walled-off heart? Beautiful and independent, Shelly Scott is always looking over her shoulder, wondering if she'll have to run again. Her new position as manager at Dessert First Bakery shines more light on her than she likes, but Jake...

For Hanna Moss, love has always come with danger. From the incessant stalking by an ex to nearly losing her life in a hit-and-run accident, she vows to remain alone—and safe. So when her golden retriever, Bella, welcomes a handsome private investigator into their lives, Hanna is reluctant to confide in him.

'Where itaranta shines is in her understated but compelling characters' Red star review (for MEMORY OF WATER), Publishers Weekly. The tapestry of life may be more fragile than it seems: pull one thread, and all will unravel. In the City of Woven Streets, human life has little value. You practice...

Stripped of her Silver Scale, made a pariah by the Summit, and with a price tag the size of Kentucky on her head, Ayala is on her own. Gregor Gaskin is still missing, and when Ayala discovers he’s far outside the Mediator territory line, she'll have to unravel one of the Summit's most closely kept secrets to track him. Finding Gregor will take her far from home, but catching him might hit her right where she lives - and Gregor’s plans may just release hell on Earth before she can stop him.

Zwischen Zapfhahn und Leichnam wird nicht mehr gemütlich eing'schenkt – Wirtin Leni hat eigentlich genug um die Ohren: ein Gasthof am Limit, eine Bank im Nacken und eine Beziehung, die irgendwo zwischen Garmisch und Berlin festhängt. Da passt eine tote Frau im Eibsee ungefähr so gut wie ein...

Eine perfekt gegarte Leiche in der Strandsauna? Nicht gerade das, was Caro Falk sich von ihrer Kur auf der Insel Borkum erwartet hat. Wattspaziergänge, Robbengucken und jede Menge erholsame Langeweile waren ihr eigentlicher Plan. Trotzdem ist sie empört, als die örtliche Polizei den Fall einfach zu den Akten legen will. Zusammen mit Türsteher Jan und Schwiegervater Hinnerk beginnt Caro notgedrungen selbst zu ermitteln. Und schon bald müssen Polizei und Mörder sich verdammt warm anziehen.

Emmi hat ihren lieben Paul begraben und richtet sich nun auf die Einsamkeit ein. Aber sie kommt nicht zur Ruhe. Erst eröffnet ihr der Notar...

The author of the critically acclaimed Memory of Water returns with this literary ecological tale in the vein of Ursula K. Le Guin and Sheri S. Tepper, in which an innocent young woman becomes entangled in a web of ancient secrets and deadly lies that lie at the dark center of her prosperous...

With the Summit on barely unified tenterhooks and hellkin bubbling into Earth with no sun to stop them, Ayala Storme has her hard-won family, an uncertain new love, and a team of allies - half of who have betrayed her in the past. When the cities of North America begin to fall to demon hordes, Ayala has to fight her way back into Nashville in a desperate hope to save her city.

After months of training a budding army of human/demon hybrids, Ayala and Carrick have worked out most of their differences. Who gets to use the bathroom first in the morning. Who'll feed the bunny before they go out to make mayhem. Who gets to keep the jeeling claw they found in Forest Hills. You know, the important stuff.

Mediator Ayala Storme kills demons by night and handles PR by day. She avoids Mediator luncheons and a fellow Mediator who’s been trying to get in her pants for years. She does her job. She keeps her sword clean and her body count high. But when a rash of disappearances leads her to discover that Nashville’s hellkin are spawning a new race of monster on human hosts, Ayala will be the first line of defense against these day-walking killers. That is until one of them saves her life.

Eine perfekt gegarte Leiche in der Strandsauna? Nicht gerade das, was Caro Falk sich von ihrer Kur auf der Insel Borkum erwartet hat. Wattspaziergänge, Robbengucken und jede Menge erholsame Langeweile waren ihr eigentlicher Plan. Trotzdem ist sie empört, als die örtliche Polizei den Fall einfach zu den Akten legen will. Zusammen mit Türsteher Jan und Schwiegervater Hinnerk beginnt Caro notgedrungen selbst zu ermitteln. Und schon bald müssen Polizei und Mörder sich verdammt warm anziehen.

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