Résultats pour "raven" dans Afro-américaine

Sot, rescued as a child from the brutality of Danish slave markets, grows up under the fierce protection of Roar Bjornsson, a famed warrior and trader. Known for her dark skin and amber eyes—marks of a distant land she cannot remember—Sot is both admired and feared, called witch and warrior in equal measure. But beneath her poised exterior, she wrestles with a restless heart and an aching desire for identity. When she leaves the comfort of Roar’s protection to follow the enigmatic Saxon warrior Eadric, Sot plunges into a world fraught with treachery and bloodshed.

“A living legend."" -- Julia Quinn The newest novel in USA Today bestselling author Beverly Jenkins’s compelling Women Who Dare series features a fearless grifter who goes undercover to reclaim the stolen Declaration of Independence. Lying and cheating may be sins to some people, but for...

O terceiro volume da série Mulheres Pioneiras apresenta uma destemida trapaceira profissional que precisa ajudar as autoridades a recuperar um importante documento histórico desaparecido. Mentir e trapacear podem até ser considerados maus hábitos pela maioria das pessoas, mas para Raven Moreau são um meio de vida. Ela vem de uma longa linhagem de vigaristas e se orgulha muito disso. Até o dia em que é obrigada a trabalhar para o governo.

"You are free to choose, but you are not free from the consequences of that choice." Someone should have told 18-year-old Raven Green that before she made a choice that she would ultimately come to regret. Since she was a young girl, she always knew what she wanted her future to look like. She dreamed of it nightly, so when she's handed her dreams on what she thinks is a silver platter, she makes sure nothing or no one stands in the way of her accomplishing them...even her loving and dating boyfriend of one year, Sameer.

"There is a universal appeal to [Narrator Ariel] Blake's performance as Edie, a protagonist who may be her own worst antagonist. Blake's delivery has an immensely human, relatable quality that makes the listener want the best for Edie as she struggles to make her way in the world." -- AudioFile...

Die dreiundzwanzigjährige Edie lebt in Bushwick, Brooklyn, und hält sich nach ihrem abgebrochenen Kunststudium finanziell mit einem Assistenzjob in einem Verlag und emotional mit wechselnden Liebschaften über Wasser. Dann beginnt sie eine Affäre mit Eric, einem weißen Mann, der in einer offenen Ehe lebt und fast doppelt so alt ist wie sie. Während sich Edie mit Erics Ehefrau und vor allem mit der Adoptivtochter des Paares, Akila, einem Schwarzen Mädchen, anfreundet, verschieben sich alle Perspektiven.

Edie tem vinte e poucos anos e está tentando descobrir quem é e o que quer ser — tudo isso enquanto trabalha numa editora e faz as piores escolhas amorosas possíveis. Pela internet, ela conhece Eric, um homem branco de meia-idade que tem um casamento aberto e com quem inicia um relacionamento.

ANTOINE HENDERSON, a spiritual anchor for so many others is faced with battling cancer. In his blueprint, he glorifies God with his unwavering faith. Faced with and surpassing many defeats it seemed he’d beat the odds yet again. But with the speed of metastatic cancer, he and everyone who loves him are faced with the sad truth. Their lives will be ripped apart by his death. Life without Bishop is their new norm.

Betrayed and left for dead, a soldier in 13th-century East Africa winds up in hiding as a monk in Roha (Lalibela). He soon gets romantically entangled with a wealthy heiress as he struggles to maintain his monastic vows. However, when old enemies resurface and threaten those he has come to care for, he secretly picks up the sword again, offering salvation by day with the Bible, but secretly exacting deadly vengeance and justice by night with the sword.

After a heartbreaking betrayal shatters her sense of trust, Isabelle is forced to make a life-altering decision that will test her strength, her faith, and her understanding of love. Set against the backdrop of Vietnam and the heartland of America, Somewhere There's a Love For Me is story of faith, redemption, and the quiet miracles that unfold when we allow love, and God, to mend what's been broken.

Fresh off the firestorm of desire that brought them together in Interracial Fire and City of Fire, Alyssa Martin and Darius Kingston are finally in sync—living together, building careers, waking up tangled in love and sheets. But beneath the comfort of their new routine, something is smoldering.