Showing results for "Power" in Romantic Suspense

In the mafia world, women don’t reign. I’m the exception of that rule. I didn’t choose this life. It chose me. I have a legacy to protect, a power to snatch, and no one will stop me. If an arranged marriage is what it’ll take to lead, then so be it. What I don’t count on is that my chosen husband happens to be a ghost from my past. Kyle Hunter. He was once my guard, my protector. Now, he’s after my kingdom. The road to the throne is paved with thorns, blood, and casualties. To win, I’ll risk it all. My heart included.

From USA Today best-selling author Cassandra Robbins comes her most forbidden romance to date. An explosive age-gap, complete stand-alone love story about infamous attorney Jett Powers, and the woman who brings him to his knees.

Mary Jane, a struggling comedienne, stumbled into the wrong club at the wrong time. She didn't notice the gangster gripping the gun and the two scary men on his sides. She just jumped on the stage, tested the microphone, and went into her routine. That's where things got interesting. Noah was the gangster that gripped the gun. The beast of Din City. The boss of the streets. The one who ruled them all from the North to the South. Not liking to murder women, he'd now been thrown into an uncomfortable situation. She'd accidentally become a witness to something she shouldn't have seen.

Sometimes the power of love . . . A.J. Grayson has come a long way from adopted orphan to fast-rising executive at a cutting-edge technology firm. Now an anti-terrorist agency wants to use the revolutionary artificial intelligence system she developed to thwart a plot against Jafir's...

When State Department attorney Vivian Steele witnesses two ambassadors collapse as if poisoned at a diplomatic dinner in Washington, DC, she is recruited to be a member of a joint FBI task force assigned to investigate. But she soon finds her by-the-book ways clashing with a special agent in the Diplomatic Security Service, Jacob Cruz. A former Navy SEAL and in charge of the event's security, Jacob takes the attack personally and is driven to act quickly, even ahead of the rules and regulations.

Detective Kinley Wright knows fear. As a teen, she was the lone survivor of a ruthless serial killer and has taken back her life by solving crimes for other victims and their families. When her personal computer is hacked and she receives a string of threatening emails, FBI tech whiz Easton Adair is determined to uncover who is behind the menacing messages. He'll do anything to protect his foster brother's partner, including face down a killer.

The Book of All Power by Edgar Wallace is set in London at the beginning, and then the action moves to Russia. The story covers the period from 1910 to 1919 during which the Russian Revolution takes place and this results in drastic changes to Russian society. This book could be described as a romantic adventure story and the main characters are a weird assortment - Malcolm Hay, a young Englishman, a beautiful Grand Duchess of the Russian Aristocracy, a Russian general, a Jewish bookbinder, and an American sharp shooter.

I've been told all my life that love is a weakness in our world. That couldn't be further from the truth, but that's only half of what I need to finish the job. Power—it's the only thing some people understand besides money. I'm not worried; power is one thing I'm not lacking in this fight. That's what comes with being the sole heir to two criminal empires and making friends in all the right places. Now that all the pieces are set, it's finally time to shake things up in this criminal world and bring an end to the era of the Five Families.

The New York Times bestselling author of Radiant Sin delivers a smoking hot series about the O'Malley family—wealthy, powerful, dangerous and seething with scandal. Teague O'Malley hates everything associated with his family's name. And when his father orders him to marry Callista Sheridan to...

It's time to make my move. With solid proof on my finger, I leave my love and enter the gates of the enemy. Ugo is by my side as we fall into their world and quickly discover the cracks in the Coppola family's foundation. I'm confident I'm protected by my father's name, and though I'm welcomed by some, I'm watched by others. I played my part well—maybe too well, because I think I just changed the future for us all.

Pietra Romano foi criada diferente das outras garotas, desde cedo foi forjada em segredo para comandar o império da família. Seu pai, um dos Caporegimes, da Camorra a ensinou que a arma mais poderosa de uma mulher é ela mesma. Teodoro Muccino é o melhor torturador da máfia, um homem cuja crueldade assusta até os mais insanos. Conhecido pela sede violenta de se divertir sujando as mãos com o sangue dos seus inimigos.

L'univers entier se ligue contre Angie : son merveilleux petit-ami est en fait marié, le job de ses rêves lui passe sous le nez et elle risque l'expulsion pour loyers impayés. Karma désastreux ? Bienvenue dans la vie d'Angie. Aussi lorsque le manager de son frère Bo, chanteur d'un groupe célèbre mais avec qui elle a coupé tout contact, lui propose un deal inespéré, elle n'a pas trop le choix.

J'ai toujours cru que deux fragments d'une même âme pouvaient se retrouver dans deux corps différents. La mienne appartient à Maxime depuis toujours. Inséparables, fusionnels, nous avons grandi ensemble, affrontant le meilleur comme le pire. Comme Bonnie and Clyde. Et puis il y a huit ans, je suis partie sans un mot.

Ich hatte alles. Das perfekte Leben. Bis das Schicksal seinen gnadenlosen Plan in die Tat umsetzte und mich aus der Bahn warf. Jetzt stehe ich hier, verantwortlich für dieses kleine Mädchen, obwohl ich selbst nicht mal weiß, wie ich mein Leben weiterleben soll. Und als wäre ich nicht schon gestraft genug, muss ich in der Firma auch noch mit der grauenvollsten Frau zusammenarbeiten, die jemals meinen Weg kreuzte. Meine Nachbarin, die keine Möglichkeit auslässt, um mich zur Weißglut zu treiben und die mich mit ihrer verführerischen Ausstrahlung gleichermaßen fasziniert, wie provoziert.

Que feriez-vous si du jour au lendemain votre vie se retrouvait parasitée par votre parfait opposé ? Le laisseriez-vous entrer ? Mes amies me conseillent de me lâcher... Serai-je assez audacieuse, ou inconsciente, pour pactiser avec le Diable en échange de ce que j'ai toujours rêvé d'obtenir ?

The road to hell is paved with good intentions. What should've been a simple fact-finding visit changed in the blink of an eye. I'm a patriot. A CIA officer. A master at manipulating the double agent schemes. The straight and narrow path I set out on turned into a hundred winding roads, all leading to the same destination: I'm now aiding and abetting a foreign spy. Kira Petrova stole something from me the moment we met - my breath, my heart, my allegiance. If I'm caught, I'll be tried as a traitor. But there's more to her story than anyone knows, and time is not on our side.

A serial killer, strong in his faith, never wavering in his mission, Exodus Roberts aka The Destroyer, has targeted a small, tight-knit community, taking the lives of its citizens. Police are baffled by the seemingly random killings or the killer’s motivation as the body count continues to rise. Two things are certain however: the killer is not slowing down, and the murders are not as random as they appear.

I never expected the man I saw as nothing but a billionaire player to be the only person who could rescue me from near insanity. One moment, everything was perfect, until it...wasn't. I guess I never realized that brief periods of perfection could instantly be followed by a nine-day, horrific hostage situation that would forever change the woman I'd been before that incident. Oddly, after my release, the only person who knew that I was struggling to get my life back was Jaxton Montgomery, my billionaire boss, and the king of one-nighters. Not exactly the perfect confidante, right?