Annie tenía demasiados prometidos y ningún esposo. A pesar de los deseos de su casamentero padre, el detective privado Cole Rafferty estaba felizmente soltero. Cuando Annie Bonacci acudió a él en busca de ayuda, Cole le propuso un trato: si se hacía pasar por su prometida, él haría el trabajo gratis. Lo que no sabía era que estaba a punto de convertirse en el tercer prometido de Annie... y pronto desearía ser su único marido.
Quinn VanWarren has unexpectedly inherited his family's massive fortune, and now they want to kill him to get their money back. They also might or might not be financing the Shadows. For the sake of their children, Quinn needs to get back into the family's good graces and untangle them from the army that's currently destroying civilization. But without backup, he won't make it through the first dinner course. Luckily, he knows just whom to call: the woman who already saved his life twice before and has been haunting his dreams ever since. Vega Ortiz is nobody's hero. She has her own problems, and a mission she's failing. But she owes Quinn a life debt, and his proposal could be her last chance to find the psychopath who still holds her leash. Working together is the obvious solution for both of them. But the intimacy of a fake marriage may just prove to be more real than either of them expected. And when things suddenly take a catastrophic turn, Vega and Quinn will have to face an enemy neither of them saw coming. Giving up is not an option. Failure is unacceptable. Their only available path leads forward—straight back to the Shadows. Tropes: Cinnamon roll hero, strong heroine,...
A brand-new official Deus Ex prequel, bridging events between Deus Ex: Human Revolution and the brand-new game Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. The year is 2029, and the promise of a new age of human augmentation is in ruins. Awakening in the aftermath of a changed world, augmented ex-cop and former security operative Adam Jensen struggles to find answers. In a world shattered by secrets, can the truth be brought into the light?
The next installment of Joanna Schaffhausen's critically acclaimed Detective Annalisa Vega series. For Chicago police detective Annalisa Vega, Sam Tran’s death presents an ominous puzzle. The ex-cop turned PI is found hanging from a cemetery tree with a message across his chest that suggests someone holds a murderous grudge against the police. Annalisa suspects the real answer lies in one of Tran’s open cases. She believes he stumbled on a dark secret during his investigations and someone killed him to keep him quiet. Her own family harbors plenty of secrets, something Annalisa is reminded of when her brother turns out to be one of Sam’s last clients. Vinny Vega hired Tran to find a dangerous stalker on his daughter’s college campus. Now Sam is dead and the stalker remains at large, with Annalisa’s niece Quinn firmly in his sights. To protect Quinn, Annalisa begins tracing Sam’s steps back through his open cases, which include not only the campus stalker but also a brutal double homicide from twenty years ago. Did Sam finally find the killer? Did he uncover the stalker’s identity? Annalisa must figure out which secret got Sam killed, and fast, or someone else will...
« Quand James Bond rencontre X-Files. » Cybernétisé après un accident qui a failli lui coûter la vie, Adam Jensen lutte pour rester humain en dépit de la mécanisation de son corps. Après la fin explosive de ses aventures dans Human Revolution, l'incident Aug et la destruction de Panchaea, Adam doit assumer les conséquences de ses actes et survivre dans une société où le schisme entre augmentés et normaux n'a jamais été aussi net, les factions aussi violemment opposées.
The first three thrillers in the Pinewood Bay series: The Dream Home When a dream home becomes a nightmare. Elle Quinn, worn out from her seemingly never-ending and messy divorce, faces financial ruin and homelessness. Feeling guilty for the trauma her divorce has brought on her young daughter, Madison, Elle receives an offer to rent a dream home by the coast for a ridiculously low sum. Hoping they can plan in peace the next stage of their lives, she accepts, but the idyllic house is not all it seems. Soon strange occurrences and the unwelcome attention of odd neighbors sets Elle on edge. Household objects mysteriously go missing. She gets the feeling they are not alone. That somebody is watching their house. When Madison becomes withdrawn and complains of a strange figure that visits in her dreams she realizes she must discover the secret to their dream home. Can Elle hold onto her sanity and unravel the mystery of the Dream House before it’s too late? The Downsize When Edward Brown dies and a billion dollar pension pot vanishes, his widow Beth faces a rising tide of anger, fear and violence from the community of Pinewood Bay. Someone out there wants her dead. In a race against ...
Una de las mejores sagas de aventuras de ciencia ficción. Galardonada con cuatro premios Hugo, dos Nebula, dos Locus y un Analog. Tras escapar recientemente de un intento de asesinato mediante la creación de un hermano clon, Miles deja en libertad al clon, Mark, para que tenga una oportunidad de vivir. Pero cuando decide dejar que su hermano clon asuma su identidad secreta y lidere a los Mercenarios Libres Dendarii en una misión no autorizada para liberar a otros clones de Jackson's Whole, las cosas comienzan a complicarse. Miles, acude al rescate, pero termina muerto y criogenizado en un tanque que se pierde. Ahora es el momento de Mark para tomar una decisión: ocupar la posición de Miles como heredero de la línea Vorkosigan o redimirse a sí mismo encontrando y salvando a Miles. Reseñas: «Bujold tiene un don, prácticamente único en ciencia ficción, para la comedia costumbrista.» Chicago Sun Times
Three years after humanity devolved into the bloodiest conflict in centuries, the Shadow war is far from over. Laura Belden is at the end of her rope. Her community is under the tyrannical control of a sadistic madman, and her people are depending on her to find a way out. The last thing she needs is the boy she once loved showing up out of the blue, as if he hadn’t broken her heart and then disappeared right out of her life. The problem is, he might be the only one able to help. After all, Finnegan Rowe is an expert on all things Shadow, courtesy of the twenty years he spent in their ranks. Finn is coming home for one reason: to beg Laura’s forgiveness and start making amends for two decades of bloodshed in the name of a lie. He knows it won’t be easy—Laura is hurt and angry, and she has every right to be. He’s ready to accept whatever punishment she deems necessary. What he doesn’t anticipate is coming face to face with an enemy who threatens the lives of everyone who still matters to him. The battle will cost him everything, but a Hawk is trained to never leave a mission unfinished. Turns out, there is a way out of Shadow after all. But it leads through blood…
Whether he's rescuing prisoners, keeping his enemies from replacing him with a clone, or coming back from his own dysfunctional death, Miles gets the job done. Of course, it may not be "quite" the job his superiors wanted done.
The exciting follow-up to Brothers in Arms. Miles Vorkosigan is in trouble. His brother, a cloned stranger formed from tissue stolen from Miles when he was a child, wants to murder and replace him. Unfortunately, Mark has learned that without Miles, he is . . . nothing.
1, 2, 3, WER KRIEGT DIE BRAUT? von KRISTIN GABRIEL Mit Männern hat Annie nur Pech: Ihr erster Verlobter entpuppt sich als Gangster, der zweite verschwindet spurlos. Zusammen mit sexy Privatdetektiv Cole Rafferty macht sie sich auf die Suche und merkt: Er ist ihr Mr. Right! Doch plötzlich stehen Nummer 1 und Nummer 2 vor der Tür ... WER KÜSST HIER WEN? von JULIE KISTLER Michael will es wissen: Die tolle Frau, die er gerade zärtlich küsst, kann unmöglich Cassie sein, denn die will doch seinen Bruder heiraten. Ist es ihre Zwillingsschwester Polly, die damals spurlos aus seinem Leben verschwand? Doch die Traumfrau schweigt - und genießt ... SÜSS WIE SCHOKOLADE von DAWN ATKINS Weil Nathan seinen Job hinschmeißen will, soll Mariah kommen und ihn zur Vernunft bringen! Leider ist er immer noch so gefährlich attraktiv wie damals, als sie ihn beinahe geheiratet hätte ... An die Ehe glaubt Mariah bis heute nicht, aber an Nathans heiße Küsse erinnert sie sich nur zu gut.
A compelling YA story with a magical realism twist about a girl whose pregnancy shocks everyone . . . most of all her Quinn Cutler is sixteen, the daughter of a candidate for congress in Brooklyn, and a student at a private school in Park Slope. She’s also pregnant, a situation made infinitely more shocking by the fact that she has no memory of actually having sex. Scared and confused, Quinn struggles to piece together what might have happened: An unlikely accident while she and her boyfriend were fooling around? A rape that she’s repressing from trauma? Before she’s had any revelations, the situation becomes public, putting her most intimate life up for scrutiny and ridicule, and jeopardizing her father’s political career. Religious fanatics begin gathering at the Cutlers’ house, believing she’s pregnant with the next Messiah. As things spiral out of control through a frenzy of brutal online gossip and rumor, the clues that Quinn uncovers reveal more about her childhood and her family than about the pregnancy itself. She starts to realize that much of her life is built on secrets and lies—strange, possibly supernatural ones that her father is desperate to keep...
Detective Vince Bianco had no idea what he was getting himself into when he agreed to investigate the disappearance of a prominent Long Island bank vice president. He discovers that the missing bank officer had become part of an elaborate bank fraud perpetrated by one of the bank's own clients. But when the client turns up dead - the victim of a mob style hit, the investigation takes a new twist. The trail leads to the bosses of two notorious New York crime families suspected in a rash of thefts from air cargo warehouses at JFK International Airport. After an air cargo employee is found brutally murdered, a connection is made between his murder and the bank scheme. Determined to crack the case, Vince sets out to find the missing bank officer, break up the ring responsible for the airport thefts, and bring the two Mafia bosses to justice.
The three volumes that will encompass North American Exploration appraise the full scope of the exploration of the North American continent and its oceanic margins from prior to the arrival of Columbus until the end of the nineteenth century. More than an assessment of historical events, these volumes portray the process of exploration. Without forgetting the romance of exploration, the authors recognize that exploration is a great deal more than the adventures themselves. All explorers are conditioned by the time, place, and circumstances of their efforts; these determine objectives, the behavior of explorers, and the consequences of their discoveries. In this first volume we follow the expansion of knowledge from the world of the pre-Columbian explorers through the end of the sixteenth century, with each topic addressed by an expert, and all fitting into a coherent whole. The volume is enhanced by a discussion of the geographical knowledge and beliefs of the native peoples of the North American continent, and how this knowledge influenced the efforts and understanding of the Europeans.
Long Gone, the next installment of Joanna Schaffhausen's critically acclaimed Detective Annalisa Vega series. Chicago detective Annalisa Vega shattered her life, personally and professionally, when she turned in her ex-cop father for his role in a murder. Her family can’t forgive her. Her fellow officers no longer trust her. So when detective Leo Hammond turns up dead in a bizarre murder, Annalisa thinks she has nothing to lose by investigating whatever secrets he hid behind the thin blue line. Annalisa quickly zeroes in on someone who had good reason to want Hammond dead: a wealthy, fast-talking car salesman who’d gotten away with murder once and wasn’t about to let Hammond take a second shot. Moe Bocks remains the number one suspect in his girlfriend’s brutal unsolved death, and now he’s got a new woman in his sights—Annalisa’s best friend. Annalisa is desperate to protect her friend and force Bocks to pay, either for Hammond’s death or his earlier crime. But when no one else believes the connection, she takes increasingly risky chances to reveal the truth. Because both Hammond and Bocks had secrets to die for, and if she doesn’t untangle them soon, Annalisa...
The current image of the Spanish conquest of America and of the conquistadores who carried it out is one of destruction and oppression. One conquistador does not fit that image. A life-changing adventure led Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca to seek a different kind of conquest, one that would be just and humane, true to Spanish religion and law yet safeguarding liberty and justice for the Indians of the New World. His use of the skills learned from his experiences with the Indians of North America, however, did not always help him in understanding and managing the Indians of South America, and too many of the Spanish settlers in the Rio de la Plata Province found that his policies threatened their own interests and relations with the Indians. Eventually many of those Spaniards joined a conspiracy that removed him from power and returned him to Spain in chains.
Jan. 2003- : "7 directories in 1: section 1: alphabetical section; section 2: business section; section 3: telephone number section; section 4: street guide; section 5: map section; section 6: movers & shakers; section 7: demographic summary."
The page-turning follow-up to acclaimed thriller Two Girls Down features the tenacious PI Alice Vega and her electric partnership with Max Caplan, as they follow a shocking murder investigation to it’s even more shocking conclusion. On the outskirts of San Diego, the bodies of two young women are discovered. They have no names, no IDs, but one of the Jane Does holds a note bearing the name, “Alice Vega.” The police and FBI reach out to Vega, a private investigator known for finding the missing. Fearing the possibility of a human trafficking ring, Vega enlists the help of her one-time partner, former cop Max “Cap” Caplan. Despite a case with so few leads, Alice Vega is a powerful woman whose determination is matched only by her intellect, and, along with her partner Cap, she will stop at nothing to find the Janes’ killers before it is too late. Louisa Luna is writing new classics of crime fiction, and her partnership of Vega and Cap is rightfully joining the pantheon of the most memorable thrillers.
Duets 2-In-1 by Kristin Gabriel\Jennifer Drew released on Jun 24, 1999 is available now for purchase.
The year is 1597. For nearly a decade, the island of Britain has been under the rule of King Philip in the name of Spain. The citizenry live under an enforced curfew - and in fear of the Inquisition's agents, who put heretics to the torch in public displays. And with Queen Elizabeth imprisoned in the Tower of London, the British have no one to unite them against the enemy who occupies their land. William Shakespeare has no interest in politics. His passion is the theatre, where his words bring laughter and tears to a populace afraid to speak out against the tyranny of the Spanish crown. But now Shakespeare is given an opportunity to pen his greatest work - a drama that will incite the people of Britain to rise against their persecutors - and change the course of history...
Atlantis Rey has achieved her goal of getting herself, her daughter, and the rest of the awakees safely back on earth, where they can roam freely if they choose. Now comes the hard part—securing their territory and scavenging the broken city for useful supplies. But before she can truly get a sense of who or what surrounds them, a native group tries to ambush them in their ship. Descendants of the survivors of the first Vampire war, this ragtag group of men call themselves The Voodoo Boys. Now that they know they’re not alone, Atlantis and the awakees continue to explore, but with far greater caution. They gradually discover other groups of survivors—some friendly, some definitely not. Worst is a post-apocalyptic cult whose leader serves the very beings that caused the world to be destroyed the first time. Even though the broken world has dangers at every turn, Atlantis, Night, and Kilian still find time to become more and more in love with each other. Verruca, Ryo, Jax, and Sphinx have also fallen more deeply in love. Can love sustain them as the dangerously broken world tries to rip them apart?
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