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I was an accomplished music professor. Happily single. Perfectly content. Now, I’m unemployed. Pining for a dark, brooding guy named Jack who lives in a garage with a piano. And I’m plotting to seduce a married man because his daughter is responsible for my nephew committing suicide.

Gemma Robinson comes into Elliot’s life like a whirlwind, and they marry and settle into his home. When she asks him if her parents can come to stay for a couple of weeks, he is keen to oblige - he just doesn’t quite know what he’s signing up for. The Robinsons arrive with Gemma’s sister, Chloe, a mysterious young woman who refuses to speak or leave her room.

Un enemies to lovers qui a déjà conquis des milliers de lecteurs. L’entrée à la fac est l’occasion de repartir à zéro. C’est ce que pensait April Greenson, mais son image lui colle à la peau. Élève brillante, rousse et ronde, elle n'attire que moqueries et remarques désobligeantes. Aydan, le quarterback de l'équipe de Seattle U, aime particulièrement la prendre pour cible. Cela dure depuis la middle school, et malgré sa méchanceté récurrente, April en a toujours été secrètement amoureuse depuis le jour où elle a aperçu une autre facette de lui.

For Chris, it’s love at first sight. After their grocery store meet-cute, it’s easy to get her name from a fallen receipt: Serena. A quick online search reveals Serena’s status (single mom), address, and workplace. And once he discovers she’s a Realtor, Chris schedules a house showing right away. But he isn’t pushy—he’ll wait to ask her out. In the meantime, he’ll just watch. And listen in. He wants to learn everything about her, so he can make her happy. It’s not creepy; it’s true love.

After the sudden death of her sister, devastated detective DS Ronnie Blake relocates to Cambridge to help her brother Alex raise their sister's young son, Noah. She reports for her first day but instead finds herself being questioned by a special investigations unit, nicknamed the DEAD Team. With a small group of six, led by DI Fenton, the once-successful DEAD team has a single outstanding case, Operation Byron, and the failure to resolve it threatens the unit's existence.

Ten-year-old orphan Libète has been hardened by the daily struggle to survive in Cité Soleil, Haiti's most infamous slum. But when she and her best friend, Jak, discover a young mother and her baby brutally murdered in a nearby marsh, it's unlike anything she's encountered before. Though initially shocked, the adults of Cité Soleil move on quickly from the event; after all, death is commonplace in this community.

Five years removed from winning a state championship in Nowata, Jerry Bailey had ended his run as the head coach at Sapulpa and was ready to move on to another high school and another football team. However, Bailey and his assistant Reagor left school on a January morning and never returned. Because of the Hate is the true story about the murder of Jerry Bailey, a beloved high school football coach in Oklahoma. In 1976, Jerry Bailey had resigned as the Sapulpa High School head football coach but was murdered by his assistant Paul Reagor, Jr.

A missing husband. A recent spate of attacks on gay men in the Swedish capital. And a daring P.I.Private investigator Gunvor Ström is probing a new missing person case. Eva Cedergren's husband, Per, son of a wealthy shipowner, has mysteriously disappeared from their residence on the island of Nämdö in the Stockholm archipelago.Meanwhile, at a bustling nightclub in town, rookie investigator Aidan encounters the secretive woman Marie, who is anxiously seeking information about her friend, missing for a whole week.As the two cases unfold, a dangerous pattern emerges. Are the incidents connected?

To the world, Dash Black is famous, wealthy, wildly good-looking, and intriguing. To say that he came into my life and shook my world is an understatement. He looked into my eyes and I swear our souls connected, but then, I saw what no one else was ever allowed to see. I saw a complicated man with secrets, a man who hides behind a persona that tells only part of his story. And ultimately, I felt his pain and he felt mine. He told me I belonged with him. I believed I did.

I lost my dream. My scholarship. My only choice was to start over, away from everything I knew and cared about. All because my loyalty was challenged. I was driven by anger and resentment toward the people I had once trusted with my life. Until I was almost run off the road.

Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award–winning author Amanda Flower. January 1855 Willa Noble knew it was bad luck when it was pouring rain on the day of...

Before Dominic De Luca broke into my apartment in the middle of the night, I hadn't seen him in 10yrs. It doesn't take long for me to realize that he followed in his father's footsteps into the world of organized crime. After giving me a run-down of what kind of trouble I may be in, he demands I pack my bag and go with him. There's so much uncertainty and chaos in my life, that I go willingly. In hindsight, I shouldn't have.

Brady Marshall has made a career of playing it safe. When he decides to do something rash and becomes a Navy SEAL, he thinks he's finally escaped the rigid structure of the high society life his parents forced down his throat. All he does is trade in one set of rules for another. He follows military protocol to a T, but it still results in the death of an entire team of Navy SEALS and puts his best friends directly in harm's way.

In two weeks, I'm supposed to become the perfect wife. I don't know or like the man my father chose to marry me off to but I have no say in the matter. That's why when I see Rocco Marchetti, the man I've had a crush on my entire life, I decide he'll be my first. We keep stealing glances and hiding smiles, but I want more. I want one night with him. So what if I'm the daughter of the most feared man in organized crime?

Single mother Lee has the daily routine down to a science: shower in six minutes. Cut food into perfect squares. Never leave her on-the-spectrum son Mason in someone else’s care. She’ll do anything - anything - to keep his carefully constructed world from falling apart. Do anything to keep him safe. But when her best friend Grace convinces her she needs a small break from motherhood to recharge her batteries, Lee gives in to a weekend trip. Surely a long weekend away from home won’t hurt?

When Andrew Sumner meets beautiful, edgy Charlie, he is certain his run of bad luck has finally come to an end. But as the two of them embark on an intense affair, Andrew wonders if his grasp on reality is slipping. Items go missing in his apartment. Somebody appears to be following him. And as misfortune and tragedy strike his friends and loved ones, Andrew is forced to confront the frightening truth.…

Meet Rachel. She is caught in a spiral of endless crying, dirty nappies, and sleepless nights. She fears for her sanity - and the safety of her children. She's lonely. Meet Adam. Suffering from the pain and trauma of a terrible accident that he blames himself for, he stays at home, unable to bring himself to leave the house. He's lonely. So when Rachel and Adam rekindle their long lost friendship online, what starts as a little harmless flirtation soon becomes an unhealthy obsession, and slowly the threads of their lives unravel before them.

Because of BTK - The Podcast is about the BTK serial killer that terrorized the community of Wichita Kansas from 1974 to 2005 while living a pretty normal life in Park City Kansas. The stories told by the people that knew Dennis Rader, but didn;t know that he was the brutal killer and brought to you by people that lived through the 31 years of terror that BTK brought to Wichita Kansas. The podcast is also a companion show to the Because of BTK DocuSeries being filmed now.

Each week, I interview guests who have crazy-unique occupations or life experiences. It could be anyone from a Mortician, a Near Death Experiencer, to a True Crime Event or a Religious Cult Escapee. I dig deep and pick their brains, and you won't believe some of the things I uncover because I wanna know... Join my Facebook group: "Because I Wanna Know" Contact me via: Becauseiwannaknowpodcast@gmail.com Contact me on my website at: https://www.podpage.com/because-i-wanna-know/ Instagram: @lesliefear TikTok: @authorlesliefear Twitter: @authorlesliefear

Захватывающий мрачный детектив, в мире, где человечество полностью ослепло после страшного вируса. Несколько лет назад весь мир погрузился во тьму. Ослепшие люди приспособились к новой реальности, но иногда все еще сталкиваются с чем-то с чем не справляются звуковые типперы, биометрические сканеры и голосовые оповещения.