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

Il m'a fait une promesse — puis il l'a rompue. Kingsnake m'a promis de me libérer une fois qu'il aurait trouvé le remède, mais il me tient dans l'ignorance depuis le début. Maintenant que je connais la vérité, que je sais qu'il n'existe pas de remède, il refuse de me laisser partir. Et je suis à nouveau sa prisonnière. La trahison m'a détruite et je lui ai fermé les portes de mon cœur, mais ma jalousie est incontrôlable.

Banks: Buried in the shadows of the city, there's a hotel called The Pope. Ailing, empty, and dark, it sits abandoned and surrounded by a forgotten mystery. But you think it's true, don't you, Kai Mori? The story about the hidden 12th floor. The mystery of the dark guest who never checked in and never checks out. You think I can help you find that secret hideaway and get to him, don't you? I will never betray him. Kai: You have no idea what I seek, Little One. You don't know what I had to become to survive three years in prison for a crime I would gladly commit again.

D'aussi loin que je me souvienne, j'ai toujours désiré Jace en secret. Le problème, c'est qu'il a six ans de plus que moi, que c'est le meilleur ami de mon frère Nathan, et qu'il me voit définitivement comme une petite sœur. Pourtant, lorsque Jace emménage avec Nathan et moi dix ans plus tard pour nous aider à joindre les deux bouts après la mort de nos parents, l'alchimie entre nous devient... explosive, et, sous notre toit, Jace est plus autoritaire et protecteur que jamais.

Sending him to prison was the worst thing I could've done. It didn't matter that he did the crime or that I wished he was dead. Perhaps I thought I'd have time to disappear before he got out or he'd cool off in jail and be anything but the horror he was. But I was wrong. Three years came and went too fast, and now he's anything but calm. Prison only gave him time to plan. And while I anticipated his vengeance, I didn't expect this. He doesn't want to make me hurt. He wants to make everything hurt.

One woman learns the secrets of the five Jaeger brothers in the new romance from New York Times bestselling author Penelope Douglas. On the other side of town, in the dark glades, under the rain… Macon is the oldest. Thirty-one. Ex-Marine. I don’t think I’ve ever seen him smile. Army is...

Damon: Will is gone. He hasn't been seen in months, and the texts coming from his phone are almost certainly forged. Something's wrong. We need to act now. Michael is ready to tear down The Cove, Rika's hiding something, Evans Crist is a threat, and Winter's father is still out there. Everyone is off in a million directions, and we're vulnerable. It's time to do this. It's time to claim our place.

Penelope faceva il pubblico ministero, poi un misterioso incidente ha messo drammaticamente fine alla sua carriera. Un giorno si presenta da lei un uomo che è stato indagato per l'omicidio della moglie. Il procedimento si è concluso con l'archiviazione ma non ha cancellato i terribili sospetti da cui era sorto. L'uomo le chiede di occuparsi del caso, per recuperare l'onore perduto. Penelope, dopo un iniziale rifiuto, si lascia convincere... Gianrico Carofiglio ci consegna una figura femminile dai tratti epici.

Als Zephyr herausfindet, dass ihr Freund sie betrügt, sagt sie kurzerhand die geplante Hochzeit ab. Allerdings muss sie vor ihrem 29. Geburtstag verheiratet sein, um das Erbe ihrer Großmutter zu erhalten, und Zephyr braucht das Geld! Unverhofft begegnet sie Alpha, ihrer Jugendliebe, und macht ihm kurzerhand einen Antrag. Doch Alpha leidet seit einem lebensgefährlichen Angriff vor einigen Jahren an Amnesie und kann sich nicht mehr an Zephyr erinnern … Während Alpha und Zephyr versuchen, zueinander zu finden, lauert im Dunklen eine Gefahr, der sie sich nur zusammen stellen können.

Penelope Spada è stata un magistrato che non si piegava, che voleva la verità ad ogni costo. Poi qualcosa si è rotto ed è dovuta uscire dalla magistratura per un motivo che ancora non conosciamo. Ciò che sappiamo però è che adesso la sua vita è molto più complicata perché si è dovuta inventare una nuova professione, una nuova identità e… non sa neanche lei se è la cosa giusta. Un bar come ufficio, uno sbirro come confidente e un giornalista che le porta un caso di giustizia mancata innescano questo primo… "caso".

A Tiernan de Haas ya no le importa nada ni nadie. Cuando sus padres fallecen de repente, sabe que debería estar devastada. Pero ¿ha cambiado algo realmente? Al fin y al cabo, siempre ha estado sola. Jake Van der Berg, el hermanastro de su padre y su único pariente vivo, asume la tutela de Tiernan, a quien todavía le faltan dos meses para cumplir los dieciocho años.

Kingsnake prend mon visage entre ses mains et m'attire vers lui. Or nous devons finir ce que nous avons commencé, former une alliance avec les Éthéréens et partager le remède avec les humains, mais j'ai du mal à être en sa présence maintenant. Nous avons renoué dans le passé… mais j'ignore comment nous le ferons cette fois.

Joseph Ingram made the mistake of stealing from me - four million dollars. He took my intelligence without paying for it. And thought he could get away with it. Think again. Now I’ll take something from him - something irreplaceable. His sister. Collateral. But even when Joseph doubles the amount of money he owes me, I don’t give her up. Nope. I have an image to maintain. So I keep her. And I’m not giving her up.

I found out my husband of three years had cheated on me and his mistress is the one who told me—because he didn’t have the balls to do it himself. I move out and get a new apartment, a job as a bartender, and try to move on with a broken heart. I wonder where it all went wrong, if I hadn’t been enough for him, if I’d been stupid for marrying him in the first place. I’m at work one night when he walks inside—the most beautiful man I’ve ever seen. He sits at the bar and a forest fire burns between us.

They've taken my father. They'll take me next unless I comply with their demands. Taking down the most powerful man in Italy. Cato Marino. The man is accompanied by his security team everywhere he goes. His fortress in Tuscany is impenetrable. He's the most paranoid man in the country.

When I was little, I was obsessed with fairytales. My dad told me the stories of the stars and white knights who rescue princesses. I’d wear a silver plastic crown and stare at the sky, waiting for the day my knight in shining armor would come. Then my dad died, my crown broke, and my mom shipped my sister and me off to boarding school. And then I met them. My knights. Only they’re nothing like the fairytales I grew up on. They’re wrapped in sin and shrouded in darkness. Bossy, protective, alphaholes. And heirs to the Italian mafia.

Damons Torrance ist gefährlich und unberechenbar. Als er nach Thunder Bay zurückkehrt, hat er nur ein Ziel: Er will Rache – und das Leben von Winter Ashby zerstören, deren Aussage ihn ins Gefängnis gebracht hat. Doch Winter weigert sich, sein Opfer zu sein. Um zu gewinnen, muss sie sich auf sein düsteres Spiel einlassen, bei dem schon bald glühender Hass und verbotenes Verlangen aufeinandertreffen – und die dunkelsten Geheimnisse von Thunder Bay ans Licht kommen.

I'm working off my buttons. But I'm also giving them away. The more I fall for Crow, the more I want him to do the things that I want. Dinners, dates, and evenings at the beach. Everything comes at a price, and quickly the hoard of buttons I worked hard to earn are depleted. Will this go back and forth forever? Or will someone run out of their buttons first?

Der Organist der Kirche wird während des Gottesdienstes vor aller Augen erschossen. Wer hat ein Interesse daran, einen harmlosen Kirchenmusiker zu ermorden? Neben der heimtückischen Bluttat gibt ein mysteriöser Zettel in der Hand des Toten Rätsel auf. Wer ist Penelope?

Kai Mori ist nach Thunderbay zurückgekehrt, um nach Damon Torrance zu suchen. Sein bester Freund ist zu seinem größten Feind geworden, und er soll sich in einem verlassenen Hotel in der Stadt verstecken. Nur die mysteriöse Nik Banks, eine Frau aus Kais Vergangenheit, weiß, wo Damon ist, und so bittet Kai sie um Hilfe. Doch Banks hat ihre eigenen Geheimnisse und Pläne. Auch wenn es ihr immer schwerer fällt, ihre Gefühle für Kai zu unterdrücken, weiß sie, auf wessen Seite sie steht – und dass in dieser Devil's Night Kai der Gejagte sein wird.

I gave Crow Barsetti a piece of my mind—and I had no regrets. Now he’s the one trying to earn my approval, but it’ll never work. He put me through hell and back, almost made me lose Vanessa for good, so I don’t have to like him. Tolerate him, yes. But not like him. I try to make an effort for Vanessa, but it just blows up in my face. Sitting across from Crow at the dinner table, in the very chair where he handcuffed me and pointed a gun at my face…made me blow a fuse. All I want is Vanessa, and now that I have her, I have no obligation to her family.