Showing results for "Bait" in Literature & Fiction

In the next thrilling Duty & Honor novel, a female CIA agent and a Delta Force soldier must catch a deadly assassin… but do they know where the danger truly lies? After several assassination attempts on an allied royal, the CIA sends in operative Christina Madison—who bears a striking...

In the wilds of Alaska, Assistant District Attorney Shyla Pierce is supposed to be dead, killed in the pursuit of justice. But in fact she is very much alive, quietly in hiding and slowly recovering from her near-fatal injuries.

In this charming, sexy, and "laugh-out-loud" (USA Today) funny romantic comedy, an online dating ghostwriter's life gets hilariously complicated when she recognizes one of her clients' matches--her ex!--and finds herself forced to flirt with him again, on someone else's behalf... We switch. I...

I'm a rescuer. It's in my DNA. Stray dogs. Stray women... But this one doesn't need rescuing. She needs something real, but I never keep the ones I rescue. I could let her go...but I can't watch her walk away. I'm an ex-Navy SEAL, and I never give up on a mission.

The mob couldn’t kill him, the cops couldn’t catch him, and even time wouldn’t slow him down. His name’s Nolan...a shrewd, restless tough guy with a talent for theft. With a lifetime of heists under his belt and a bullet in his side, he’s ready to retire. And the Mafia’s eager to help him along...permanently. They think he’s got a debt to pay - with his life. But at all these years, they might be willing to settle for 100 grand instead. Nolan’s got to pull a bank job to try to save his ass.

Daisy Lane's fortunes take a spectacular fall when Roy decides to run his criminal empire from London. Without him, the punters disappear and so, too, does the cash. Still, Daisy can take comfort in the fact that her son Eddie is growing up to be as courageous as his late father was. But Eddie’s younger brother, Jamie, is a deeply disturbed young man. Meanwhile, there’s a killer at work in Gosport. It’s Daisy who spots this nasty Casanova at work. She takes it upon herself to have him apprehended - with devastating consequences.

When Terry and Wayne stumble upon a backwoods bar while camping in the Rockies, they just want a beer and a burger. And maybe a warm bed for the night, if they're lucky. Instead they find themselves in the middle of a strange group of disturbingly scarred locals, served by a one-armed bartender. Even the sexy waitress with the elaborate octopus tattoo has what looks to be...bite marks? They know they should leave.

Runyon's short stories are almost always told in the first person by a narrator who is never named and whose role is unclear; he knows many gangsters and has no job that can be gleaned from his musings, nor does he admit to any criminal involvement; he’s a bystander, an observer, an average street-corner Joe. Runyon described himself as 'being known to one and all as a guy who is just around'. That line seems to say a lot about Runyon and his life.

כאשר ליזי בדיחי חוזרת הביתה, אל החדר האטום, היא מוצאת שם לתדהמתה את הקצין המת לכאורה, חי ובועט..פיצוח זהותו של הנרצח האמיתי והמניע לפשע יהפוך את הסקאדים לבעיה הקטנה ביותר שלה.

Меня зовут Раяна Маали, и я - будущая ищейка. Сбежав от жестокого жениха, я попала прямиком в Академию Имперских Ищеек. Теперь в моей жизни добавилось и приключений, поджидающих на каждом шагу. И демонов, с которыми предстоит разобраться. А еще я оказалась отличной приманкой для падших! Только почему-то мой куратор сильно этим недоволен. Ну, ничего, разберусь. И с врагами, и со своими чувствами к этому мужчине.

Les cambriolages violents se multiplient dans les Cotswolds, au sud-ouest de l'Angleterre, comté vallonné célèbre pour ses demeures cossues, dont les propriétaires sont aujourd'hui gagnés par la peur. Lorsqu'un corps mutilé est retrouvé dans un manoir, il devient évident que les auteurs de ces home-jacking ne sont pas des malfrats ordinaires.