Showing results for "Crossed" in Romantic Suspense

Father Cade Frederic is a holy man. Brought up in the streets of Paris, he has dedicated his life to the church. But there's a monster that lingers just beneath the surface. A sickness. One that bleeds darkness and feeds on the damned. When he's tasked to become the priest in Festivale, Vermont, a town both beautiful in architecture and riddled with despair, his sickness sings, demanding he rid the place of evil.

Er ist Rechtschaffenheit. Sie ist die Sünde. Pater Cade Frédéric ist ein heiliger Mann. Aufgewachsen in den Straßen von Paris, hat er sein Leben der Kirche gewidmet. Doch unter der Oberfläche lauert ein Ungeheuer. Eine Krankheit. Eine, die in Dunkelheit blutet und sich von den Verdammten ernährt. Als er den Auftrag erhält, Priester in Festivalé, Vermont, zu werden, einer Stadt, die sowohl durch ihre schöne Architektur als auch durch ihre Verzweiflung geprägt ist, singt seine Krankheit und verlangt, dass er den Ort vom Bösen befreit. Amaya Paquette ist das schöne Geheimnis von Festivalé.

It seemed harmless when we met. He needed a nanny, and I needed a job. Badly. I was the only thing keeping food on the table and lights on in our not-so-happily-ever-after home. I thought working for Dominic Reed would be easy. I thought very wrong. It was the exact opposite of easy. In fact, it was impossible when he was my boss, and I was his employee, and fate decided it didn't care about professionalism or boundaries. It didn't care that I was ten years younger. It didn't care that I'd built the entire foundation of my adult life on the fact that love was poison and men were the devil.

When I met Dominic Reed, I got my first taste of death and became addicted to its flavor, its potency. I died when I fell in love with him and his thunder. Now, the death staring me down isn't the pretty metaphorical kind, but the kind that chases you down until your heart gives out. All because of love. Stupid love that I didn't even understand or want, but feelings were nonconsensual little devils. Dominic had started that revelation. Blake confirmed it.

Coach Damon Kilpatrick believes that he has finally found Ms. Right in sexy corporate executive Nichole Adams, that is, until he realizes that she is already in a relationship. Nichole Adams has been involved with police officer Deacon Miles for two years. When he's shot in the line of duty, she leans on her friend Damon for support. She arrives at the hospital only to discover that Deacon, the man she planned to marry, already has a wife. Unable to deal with his lies and betrayal, Nichole leaves him, but Deacon can't accept it. Obsessed with Nichole, he will do anything to keep her.