Showing results for "Absinthe" in Romance

Julian è sfuggito alla morte diventando un vampiro, ma la maledizione di un'eternità di sangue l'ha messo in catene. James è sfuggito alla morte diventando un demone, ma la morte gli è comunque rimasta dentro e lo segue in ogni dove da quando è tornato dall'inferno. I cuori di entrambi vivono in un passato da dimenticare, i corpi si muovono in un presente in bilico tra vizi e virtù. Jago, burattinaio inarrestabile, ha sete di vendetta e niente gli impedirà di ottenerla: Julian è il suo antagonista da annientare e James un mero strumento da piegare.

The name on the screen was "Absinthe". But I knew her as the sultry voice blowing up my phone for late-night chats about Proust and Hemingway interspersed between the filthiest little...mutually satisfying exchanges...I'd ever experienced in my life. We'd never met. Until the day she walked into my office, her cherry lips wrapped around a candy apple sucker and an all too familiar voice that said, "You wanted to see me, Principal Hawthorne?"

I ran as fast as I could, escaping the monster, escaping my personal hell. I wanted freedom, a ray of precious sunlight, yet all I found was darkness. Pitch black consuming darkness. That's until an opportunity arrived, maybe the most dangerous of them all, but the only one that could save me—The Pleasure Room. Heaven and hell dancing in mesmerizing circles.

They broke me. Now I'm theirs to fix. And who is to say I didn't break them harder? They are mine now in a wicked game of destiny to convert anger into passion. Lies, lust, and madness intertwined into something so twistedly perfect. My fears were replaced by desire, and my morality by sinful cravings. I am as f--ked up as they are, loving and living for their games the same way they all live for me. I wanted them as much as they wanted me, but most of all, we wanted revenge.

They've been surrounded by darkness. But the time has come for you to step into their world. Take a glimpse into the kings' minds from the beginning and follow the story from their POV.

I was weak, but now I am strong. I was mistreated, and it is time they have a taste of their own poisons. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. That's exactly where they sent me—to hell. But I came back being a devil myself. It's not about revenge—it's about getting my kings to seek redemption. The pieces they have broken may not have rearranged themselves exactly as they wanted, creating something far more dangerous than they've ever planned for—a queen seeking her Kings of Seduction!

Miss Ada Quicksilver, a student of London's Lovelace Academy for Promising Young Women, is spending her holiday in Ireland to pursue her anthropological study of fairies. She visits Dublin's absinthe bars to investigate a supposed association between absinthe and fairy sightings. One night a handsome Irishman approaches her, introducing himself as Edward Donoghue. Edward takes absinthe to relieve his sleepwalking. She discovers that he's the earl of Meath, and that he will soon visit a mysterious ruin. On learning about Ada's area of study, he invites her to accompany him.

London Sinclair was the boy my mother warned me about for as long as I can remember. His name alone has brought my family nothing but shame and suffering, so it’s no surprise we’ve been sworn enemies since the first moment we met. With his bedroom eyes and cocky smile, he has all the girls under his spell. I have one more year of school left, and then I’m home free because I’m guarding a secret, one I’m ashamed to keep. The boy who is completely off-limits is the one who drives me, Holland Brooks, wild. I want London, and I think…he wants me, too.