Showing results for "Encounters" in Romance

Erst war es nur ein ONS, dann nimmt er mir mein Erbe weg und dann soll ich seine Frau spielen? Ganz schon viel verlangt von diesem reichen, gutaussenden Mistkerl, dem ich nicht widerstehen kann.
Und das war noch nicht alles: Seine Familie hasst mich und ich bin von ihm schwanger! Josie steckt in der Klemme: Sie hat ihren Job verloren und ein Hotel geerbt – eine Bruchbude, die nichts als Ärger macht. Dann soll sie auch noch auf der Hochzeit ihrer Cousine Lea die Trauzeugin spielen. Danach steht ihr wirklich nicht der Sinn.

Lee Grafton is a divorced cop and the father of a teenage girl. Carol Taggart is a newly single professor. Their lives collide one night when Carol is caught in the crossfire of an undercover drug sting gone south. Shot and seriously wounded, she finds an unexpected friend in Lee... unaware that the man she's falling for could be the shooter. Twenty years on the street do nothing to prepare Lee for the night that changes his life.

I walk into the bar with my pack, and I scent her straight away. She’s lying behind the counter with blood trailing from an injury to her head. My desire to protect her stuns me almost as much as her beauty. But it’s the smell of her blood that stuns me the most—it’s something not quite human. When she wakes up, her fear tells me all I need to know. She definitely thinks she’s mortal. I choose to disagree.

The first night I met Parker Cole, he insulted me within five minutes of opening his gorgeous mouth. Between the banter and nicknames thrown at each other, a spark ignited that lingered well beyond that evening. Our next encounter was a night full of masked pleasure and fun, with no expectations. Well, maybe one… for him to stop being such a jerk. Now, much to his disapproval, he's my new boss. As time passes, his presumably impenetrable walls start crumbling, and suddenly, two people who can barely stand each other find their lives tangling in every way imaginable.

Sloane Ellis has a secret—actually, she has many. Working in a sex club wasn't part of her life plan, yet neither was her best friend vanishing without a trace. The club and her missing friend go hand and hand. One secret leads to another, until the lies pile up. After months of working in the club her friend frequented, Sloane's no closer to finding answers, the police have no leads, and time is quickly running out. The last thing Sloane needs is the newest member of Club Joi, Adam Newcomb, complicating her mission and stealing her heart. Yet with one kiss, she falls....

Dezi Gianni is a very much a man used to getting what he wants. Tall, fine, and gorgeous; rich, powerful, and deadly, he’s just set his sights on the beautiful woman dining in the restaurant where he and his partner are having lunch. Kayla DeWitt is the focus of Dezi’s affection. Beautiful, sexy, sophisticated, she’s searching for the ideal man to fill the emptiness left by her ex-boyfriend's betrayal. Her best friend Taea is convinced they’ll find compatibility with the two wealthy hustlers. Kayla is just hoping they don’t get killed.

Lord Stephen Stanhope, a duke's diplomat son who's traveling to the Congress of Vienna, agrees to protect his friend's wayward sister on Stephen's journey to Austria. Lady Mary Beresford has impetuously set off on her own for Vienna. Vexed with the headstrong woman he's yet to meet, Stephen despairs of ever catching up with the maddening lady. They eventually meet at an inn in the Alps, where the guests' progress has been impeded by two matters: a blizzard—and Lady Mary's refusal to leave until she's found an elderly fellow traveler who has disappeared.

He stole my first kiss in the dark. The shadows welcoming him like a lover's touch. Every night since, the dark brings him back to me. He's my demon, my nightmare, and my dream all rolled up into one. He tells me I'm his but during the day I cannot find him. Until my demon has no choice but to come for me, to save me, to rescue me from the tower I am locked away in. But does my black-eyed demon just wish to free me of those chains to fit his own? Or am I strong enough to break their lock and find the man underneath?

这不是华丽的小时代，这不是复古的致青春，这里有残忍的现实，有深切的遗憾，有友情，有爱情……這不是華麗的小時代，這不是復古的致青春，這裡有殘忍的現實，有深切的遺憾，有友情，有愛情……

Fiona Denali’s mind is a fortress of secrets: things she can’t tell, people she must protect. She never wanted to hurt anyone, but they hurt her first. Now, she must protect the one person she can still count on—herself. On the run from anyone who knows her face, Fiona crosses paths with a man whose eyes seem just as haunted as her own. She could save him...but he could destroy her. It’s a choice she’s had before, but last time she chose wrong.