Résultats pour "Pamela" dans Action et aventure

Il giorno in cui la giornalista Katherine James, una donna dalle radicate convinzioni e dai forti valori morali, incontra Gabriel Rossiter le manca letteralmente la terra sotto i piedi. Quasi uccisa in una frana durante un'escursione, trova la salvezza tra le braccia dell'affascinante ranger. Sebbene quell'uomo non le sia indifferente, è convinta che non lo rivedrà mai più.

Presa in ostaggio da un assassino condannato durante un reportage in prigione, Sophie Alton non può sapere che l'uomo che le punta la pistola alla testa è il "cattivo ragazzo" che fu il suo primo amore al liceo. Condannato all'ergastolo senza condizionale, Marc Hunter è costretto a fuggire dalla prigione dopo aver saputo che sua sorella minore è scomparsa con il proprio bambino.

La giornalista investigativa Tessa Novak non poteva immaginare di trovarsi nel posto sbagliato al momento sbagliato. È sera, e una ragazza la supplica di aiutarla, ma lei non fa neanche in tempo a rendersi conto di quanto sta accadendo che un sicario in giacca di pelle nera fredda la giovane davanti ai suoi occhi. Tra la folla che si aggira intorno alla scena del crimine Tessa scorge un uomo con la stessa giacca che indossava il killer e, ancora sconvolta dall'accaduto, è convinta di riconoscere in lui l'assassino.

Mentre indaga su atti di violenza al confine col Messico nella città di Ciudad Juárez, una giornalista americana, Natalie Benoit, viene catturata in un sanguinoso agguato e fatta prigioniera da un gruppo di uomini armati, gli Zetas. Completamente sola e nelle mani di spietati assassini, avrà bisogno di ogni grammo di coraggio che possiede per riuscire a sopravvivere. Tradito da una collega, l'agente sotto copertura degli US Marshal Zach McBride ha subìto una settimana di torture e interrogatori per mano di un sanguinoso cartello della droga messicano.

For audio fans of C. J. Box, Craig Johnson, and Jon Krakauer — the 9th Patrick Flint novel, in which a killer acquitted at trial follows the family to the summit of Mount Rainier to finish what she started. Dr. Patrick Flint has been training for Mount Rainier for two years. He finally goes in August 1978, roped to his friends Henry Sibley and Wes Braten. Back in Buffalo, the jury in Bella Crooke's murder trial returns a verdict: not guilty. Bella is acquitted. Bella is also immediately free, and she has a list. The list starts with the Flint family.

Natchez is a stunning saga by NY Times bestselling author, Pamela Jekel, the second in her Southern trilogy. Spanning four generations of proud, strong-willed women, Natchez tells the story of hardships of frontier life, the glitter and opulence of plantation balls, the ravages of the Civil War, and the Great Flood of 1885.

Two souls bound together for eternity but lost in time. Until now. Brimming with romance, adventure and vivid historical detail, Christina Courtenay's gripping dual-time novel travels from the present day to the danger of Roman Britannia. Praise for Christina Courtenay: 'Paints a vivid picture...

Isabella wants to come home—a rather innocuous request—unless you're the king and Isabella is the aunt whose mental instability led her own father to banish her from the kingdom. Her arrival, unbidden, on the steps of the castle opens old wounds and forces Alfred to examine his grandfather's decision.

When Sir Guy promised Will's dying mother he'd look after her son, he couldn't imagine where that oath would lead. So he takes Will on as a man-at-arms for the worst job in England—guarding the deposed king. Will's fondness for making friends in the tavern and for the occasional company of barmaids runs contrary to Guy's personal code of honor-devotion to God and king. But the young man is a competent soldier and well-liked, so Guy settles for the occasional, public admonishment to keep the others from going down what he considers Will's path of dissolution.

Duplicity is Mike’s first nature. If you want to know what he’s doing with his life, just ask, but don’t expect the truth. You may not even be getting his real name. Such duplicity is the reason a so-called "acting job" at a suspiciously sparse agency LLJF becomes the perfect solution to Mike’s college drop-out blues. During a time when he is just finding out who he really is, Mike adopts the new identity of "Malachi", and it fits like a glove.

After three long years of war and disruptions, Alfred hopes for a time of peace and tranquility. A time to devote his energy to bettering the lives of his people, to focus on what the future holds for his children, to nurture his alliances, and to see his previous endeavors bear fruit. But even the home front has bumps in the road. The campaign to suppress Teuton aggression has been costly, Lord Meriden's threat to disrupt the kingdom shows no sign of abating, and Nerrick's growing negativity casts a shadow over the mutual defense plans with the Territories.

A hidden girl. A dying sky. A truth powerful enough to break every star.Seventeen-year-old Mara Vale has spent her life hiding the strange gold mark burned into her palm. In Evermere, whispers have always followed her—cursed girl, witch-fire, trouble from the sky. Her aunt Elen taught her to...

Kane Metclaf loves playing pool and had dreams of an NBA career before life got in the way! But the old man he encounters in the dank pool room in NYC may give him the chance he never thought he would have. What he doesn’t realize though, is that for every up there is a down and for every dream there is a sacrifice. How will he choose between his family’s very existence and his own mobility in exchange for all his dreams to come true? How would YOU choose?

He remembered loving her. She remembered nothing. But the stars remembered everything. On the colony world of Elyndra, memory can be archived, edited, and erased after trauma. The government calls it mercy. The Institute calls it healing. Mara Vale has always called it normal—until the dreams begin. A boy she does not remember. A father she was told abandoned her. A voice in the stars warning her to run.

This story is about two courageous little girls who share the same dream of having a friend. Angelene Gift is a little girl who loves everything; she's truly a sun child with a radiance of pure love. Develene Daragoes, on the other hand, has no sun in her life. She lives in the spookiest house on the road. Although she wants friends, children won't befriend her because they're afraid of her darkness. But not Angeline, even at the scariest time of year...Halloween. Angeline wants to share her sunlight with Develene.

A small community in Northern Los Angeles awakens to find themselves surrounded by a mysterious and dangerous barrier of falling light. Led by a fierce and charismatic Hispanic American policewoman, they experience many challenges in surviving the walls themselves and the people trapped within. The first in a three-part series, Walls begins their saga.