Showing results for "Kitty" in Thriller & Suspense

After an eviction notice and one too many apple martinis, I wake, stripped bare and alone in a cell. No, wait, not alone. My evil garbage fire ex, Andrew, who suggested he’d let me stay with him “for a price” is here, too. He’s the whole reason I lost my job. My head is throbbing, my vision fuzzy. “Andrew, you piece of… what are you doing?” “Who’s Andrew?” My blood runs cold. That’s not Andrew’s voice. Oh god. Oh god. Oh god.

Everyone said I married the perfect man. But if Conall Walsh were perfect, I wouldn’t have killed him. I thought I got away with it until I received an anonymous note at the ballet company I dance for. A mysterious stranger threatens to spill all my secrets, to ruin my life and put me in prison for my crime.

The house promises a kind master, but the monster in the dungeon wants her. And Brian breaks all his toys. Mina Calloway is lured to the Pleasure House with the promise that all her dark fantasies will come true, but her past abuse makes her too hard to train. Instead of being sold to someone safe as promised, she ends up in the dungeons, left in the hands of the house’s most brutal and sociopathic trainer. When she looks into his cold dark eyes, she’s sure her life is over. Brian is a monster, a known killer. But he’s paid a lot of money to possess her.

This is the story of a man falling in love with a woman. A man that was supposed to be a role model, and a woman that was just barely 21. A man who should’ve known better, and a woman that didn’t know that she was destroying his career word by word, innocent touch by innocent touch, smile by smile, until it had already imploded. The world collapses around Absinthe ‘Sin’ Solomon, and the only thing he can do is try not to take her down with him.

My life had been perfect, and then I was stripped away from my family. I had everything: loving parents, a huge biker family (even though they did fight like cat and dogs a lot), and the love from every member of one of the most notorious clubs in United States history. The Reapers' blood flew through every vein in my body. It took my years to find out why - or better who - had stripped me of my life, never knowing who the man was that'd taken everything from me.

Caroline Verlaine knows something is wrong. Her sister has gone missing, and no one can tell her why. The only option is to go where Roma was last seen—an estate with a deadly history. The Stacy family has lived off the Dover coast for generations, carefully navigating the treacherous quick sands nearby. But the sands aren't Caroline's biggest threat. Everyone here has a secret, especially the enigmatic young heir Napier Stacy. No matter where Caroline turns, the ground she walks is dangerous.

Die Welt hat sich verändert. Kreaturen, die im Schatten lauern, sind keine Schauermärchen mehr. Wer sich zu weit in die Wildnis hinauswagt, riskiert den Tod. Und wenn du eine Frau bist, droht dir ein noch schlimmeres Schicksal. Monster jagen ist mein Job. Ich bin verdammt gut darin. Ich brauche keine Hilfe dabei. Vor allem nicht von denen, die an allem die Schuld tragen. Mein Vater macht mich zur Liaison-Offizierin. Zum Babysitter für die fremden Kommandosoldaten. Ihr Anführer ist ein primitiver Wilder. Nichts an ihm zieht mich an. Absolut gar nichts!

Greg Samuelson, an unassuming bookkeeper, hired Joe Kozmarski to dig up dirt on his wife and her lover, Eric Stone. But now Samuelson has taken matters into his own hands. It looks like he’s torched Stone’s Mercedes, killed his boss, and then shot himself, all in the space of an hour. The police think they know how to put together this ugly puzzle. But as Kozmarski discovers, nothing’s ever simple.

Lily Jones is thrilled to find herself in the 1950s. She misses her 21st century life but has a blossoming romance with her musician friend Louis and her dream job working on a movie set. The lead actress Kitty Fox is a rising star, yet Lily recalls that after this movie she goes missing, her disappearance an unsolved mystery that barely makes a ripple in Hollywood history. But as Lily begins to understand the brutal studio system of Hollywood in the 1950s, she wonders if there might be something sinister at play behind Kitty's vanishing.

Six years ago strangers broke into my house while I was home alone. I hid, but one of them found me. I expected death, but he spared me. I thought it was over … except for the nightmares. But he was only waiting for me to ripen to his taste. I’m not the first girl he’s taken to sate his dark hunger, but I will be the last.

Maplemead Castle is crawling with ghosts, and the new owners need them gone. When Melody Bittersweet and the Girls' Ghostbusting Agency arrive on scene, they quickly identify the troublemakers swinging from the chandeliers...literally. A century ago, stunning trapeze artist Britannia Lovell plunged to her death, and has done every night since. But did she really just fall, or was there something more to her demise?

Sparkle McCavity, young drag queen and employee of Miss Merkin, is missing, presumed kidnapped or even worse. Naturally, Merkin turns to reluctant sleuth and friend to the community Fi for help, but clues and suspects are worryingly thin on the ground—and the drag king Stan the Man is proving somewhat distracting. When Merkin’s niece is then found murdered, spiked on a light pole in nightclub TRASH, it becomes clear that Fi’s friends are in danger. Again.

Cool, selbstbewusst und zickig präsentiert sich die Influencerin Gladys in den sozialen Medien. Außerhalb der Öffentlichkeit zerbricht sie beinahe an ihren Albträumen aus ihrer Zeit mit den Red Rocks. Als noch ein Stalker in ihr Leben tritt und sie immer massiver belästigt, sucht sie Hilfe bei Mia, ihrer Stiefschwester, die unverzüglich Rix, den Road Captain informiert. Ausgerechnet der Weiberheld Duke wird als ihr "Schatten" eingesetzt und raubt ihr den letzten Nerv. Seit Monaten fliegen zwischen ihnen Fetzen, denn beide haben ziemlich vorgefasste Meinung über den jeweils anderen.

Er ist der Dekan der Schule und absolut tabu für mich. Er wurde eingestellt, damit nicht noch jemand stirbt - wie meine beste Freundin. Wie dominant er ist, erfahre ich, als ich einen dummen Fehler begehe. Ich recherchiere die falschen Dinge auf dem Schulcomputer und lande in seinem Büro. Dass er heiß ist, macht es nicht einfacher, ihm meine tiefsten Geheimnisse zu offenbaren. Aber ich kann nicht anders. Nur er wird mich verstehen. Nur er kann... diesen Hunger befriedigen. Den Hunger, den erst er wirklich weckt. Sie ist eine Schülerin. Nicht weniger und niemals mehr.

Ruby and Mike have built a quiet and happy existence, but their lives are about to unravel—with deadly consequences. When Mike’s new promotion begins to keep him away from home, Ruby befriends the charming new neighbor, Henry. Their forbidden connection ignites emotions Ruby has never felt before—but it also unleashes something sinister, and leaves her questioning everything she thought she ever wanted.

Eine abgefuckte Aufgabe für einen gestörten Typen. Dozent für Disziplin und Gehorsam. Auf einer privaten Hochschule für Töchter der Elite. Ein Job so krank, dass nur jemand wie ich ihn machen kann. Doch Sie ist noch kaputter als ich. Sie weckt etwas in mir, das ich tot glaubte. Meine Maskerade aufrechtzuerhalten wird immer schwerer. Professionelle Distanz zu wahren wird zu einem Problem. Sie ist wie eine wahrgewordene Wunschvorstellung. Sie nicht in Besitz nehmen zu wollen ist fast unmöglich. Teach me - Lehre mich. Als ich diese Worte von ihren Lippen höre, verändert es alles.

Was ich getan habe ist unverzeihlich. Ich bin ein Stalker. Ein Perverser. Ein krankes Schwein. Es darf sich niemals wiederholen. Darauf ist mein ganzes Leben ausgerichtet. Doch das interessiert Sie nicht. Ahnungslos tritt sie in meine Welt und weckt mein Begehren. Sie weiß nicht, worauf sie sich einlässt. Take me - Nimm mich. Als ich diese Worte von ihren Lippen höre, verändert es alles. Sie hat keine Ahnung, was sie da von mir verlangt. Wie soll ich nicht ausnutzen, was sie mir da anbietet?

On the 21st August Tabitha Rice disappeared without a trace. All the signs point to murder, but no signs point to a murderer. The easiest answer is her husband, Rick. But he protests his innocence and there is little proof he is the murderer. Annabella knows there is more to the story than what the police are telling. Tabitha was her best friend and she vows to uncover the truth. As Annabella delves further into the past, she uncovers sides to Tabitha that she never saw coming.

Mistakes? I've made many. My ex can attest to that, but none bigger than accidentally giving life to the dying god. Now, he's coming, full of vengeance and wrath, determined to destroy me and everything I hold dear.

When Kenny Thorpe, a contestant on Expose TV's Big Blubber, is murdered on live television in front of three million viewers, the case seems watertight. After all, everyone saw Barry do it, didn't they? Cherry Hinton knows there's more to this than meets the eye. As an investigative reporter, she went undercover on dating show, Caravan of Love...but after getting in too deep with one of the other contestants, she was humiliated, fired, and heartbroken, and so fled to Brentwood. Until Kenny Thorpe's sister walks into her shop with a letter that turns Cherry's world upside down.