Résultats pour "The Baby" dans Fiction

L'imprévu pourrait être sa plus belle surprise ! Il est 10h30 quand son patron arrive au café dans lequel travaille Célia. Il lui fait un sourire et l'invite une fois de plus à dîner. Mais Max est Français, et la réputation des Français pour briser les cœurs n'est plus à faire... Quelle excuse va-t-elle pouvoir trouver pour l'éviter ? Et si elle mettait ses préjugés de côté, Célia ne serait-elle pas surprise ?

Sam a connu les horreurs du monde et de la guerre comme opérateur au sein des Forces spéciales. Alexia, une jeune femme trans, tente d'échapper à la violence qu'est devenue sa vie. La liberté a un prix. Et cette liberté, parfois, se paie de chair et de sang.

The arrangement was perfect. I make my donation, she gets her baby, we go back to being friends. No strings. No messy heartbreak. Except everything changes when we decide it’ll be a lot more fun to make a direct deposit and do things the old fashioned way. That spark between us? Now it’s a blazing fire I have no desire to extinguish. Our baby proposition just got a lot more complicated. 

L'inattendu pourrait venir tout bouleverser ! Il est 11h05, le monde continue de tourner. Célia n'est plus debout derrière sa caisse. Max ne lui sourirait certainement pas si elle y était. Et Roman ne fera pas son apparition comme par miracle. Célia est seule. Enfin, non. Célia n'est pas seule, Célia ne sera plus jamais seule... Elle doit désormais penser pour deux.

L'inespéré pourrait finir par leur arriver ! Il est 11h05, le monde s'arrête de tourner pour Célia. Elle vient de perdre ce qu'elle a de plus cher. Malgré tous ses efforts, elle se retrouve vraiment seule cette fois-ci et ne voit plus comment reprendre sa vie en mains. Alors que le contrat signé avec Roman prend brusquement le contrôle de leurs destinées à tous les deux, le passé de chacun va ressurgir et les emmener au bord du précipice.

I get to the nursery gates. “Sorry I’m late. Work was super busy.” The receptionist seems puzzled. “I think there’s been some confusion. Madison was picked up four hours ago.” ‘By Gemma, my childminder?’ I ask. ‘Uh... no, Ms Banks. By you.’ My baby daughter is just nine months old. They show me the CCTV. The woman collecting my daughter looks just like me. Except it’s not me. My worst nightmare has just begun.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The lives of three women—transgender and cisgender—collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires in “one of the most celebrated novels of the year” (Time) “Reading this novel is like holding a live wire in your hand...

There are only three things in this world that are certain: death, taxes, and babies. Nobody knows this truth better than Emily McCoy, a third year resident working in Baby City, the affectionate nickname for the busy Labor and Delivery unit at a New York City hospital. On a typical day in Baby...

Auschwitz, 1945: My baby’s thin cry pierces the cold, frosty night. I rock him gently in my arms, willing him to be quiet. Because if anyone hears my newborn, he could be snatched from me–or worse. We’re so close to freedom now and I pray that soon I will walk out of the iron gates with my precious son…

Rosemary Woodhouse and her struggling actor-husband, Guy, move into the Bramford, an old New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and only elderly residents. Neighbours Roman and Minnie Castavet soon come nosing around to welcome them; despite Rosemary's reservations about...

Brought to you by Penguin. The big-hearted, grown-up new novel about love and second chances from million-copy international bestselling author Rainbow Rowell Cherry and Tom had built a quiet, contented life together in Omaha, until Tom’s semi-autobiographical webcomic went viral and turned...

‘My baby’s been taken,’ I sob into the phone. Blood is everywhere. My fiancé, Alex, is slumped beside the birthing pool, his head gashed open. The baby? Gone. I cradle my empty stomach, my empty arms. And then Alex looks at me — not with love, but with blame. This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. The move. The fresh start. The antenatal classes. The new friends. But nothing about this feels right. And as the sirens wail closer, I realize something terrible — someone planned this. Someone in our new life wanted our baby.

She survived the massacre. Now the real trouble begins. One minute, Erin Callahan is a hero—the teacher's aide who miraculously survived the Cedar Ridge Elementary massacre. The next, she's a pariah. The police are digging into her past. The media is turning her into a villain. The town has turned against her. But only Erin knows why she's truly afraid. Someone left a bouquet on her doorstep. Tucked inside: a plain white card with five words, neatly printed: I killed them for you.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "Sexy, messy, funny and raw." —The New York Times #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell returns with a breathtakingly honest novel about a woman who lost everything — and isn't sure she wants it back, narrated by Rebecca Lowman. Everybody...

Cynthia is 21, bored and desperately waiting for something big to happen. Unemployed and living with her father, her existence is self-absorbed yet meaningless; her days absorbed by reality TV, social media and an obsession with her striking fitness instructor Anahera. When Cynthia suggests they run away together, it’s not long before Anahera arrives at her door, ready to throw in the towel on her job and her marriage.

The day I was told I’d never be able to have a child, my world came crashing down. My husband says he still loves me, but I lie awake at night, wishing we could have a family. One morning, my husband’s side of the bed is cold and empty. I hear a noise and head downstairs. In the middle of the rug in my living room is a wooden drawer. Swaddled inside, with perfect rosy cheeks and beautiful round blue eyes, a baby gazes up at me.

“Nuclear hot action in and out of the bedroom along with lots of juicy backstabbing … Steamy-hot passion” from the New York Times–bestselling author (Library Journal). Blake Crystal is at the top of her game, professionally, financially, and personally. At fifty, she has four wonderful...

A emotional romance from Alison Roberts One tiny baby. Two guarded hearts. A second chance at family Smoke, danger and split-second decisions are all in a day’s work for firefighter Jason Halliday. But nothing has prepared him for the tiny baby abandoned at the station doorstep…or the...

From the high-rises of Canary Wharf to the turquoise pools of Miami, Sugar, Baby is an intoxicating, darkly funny debut novel about beauty and greed, desire and delusion, from an extraordinary new voice in fiction. Agnes Green is turning 21 and her life is heading nowhere. Still living at home...

I ran from the altar only to land in the arms… ahem… bed of my ridiculously hot ex. Now he's a crazy rich single dad, and the reason for my baby bump. That night, I entered the bar looking like a runaway bride cliché with only five bucks stuffed in my bra. "You look like you need a drink," Oliver says in a voice deeper and huskier than I remember. A few shots later, and all I want is his body driving me wild like only he can. The next morning, as the haze lifts, I remember the shocking reason we broke up all those years ago and why it could never work between us.