Showing results for "Scars" in Genre Fiction

Sixteen-year-old Rebekah Silver is your average teenager living in Southern California. She worries only about learning her cheerleading routines and passing her math test. But as world dictators rise to power and devastating disasters claim millions of lives she is inspired to search for answers. Becky soon discovers her world is quickly coming to an end, just as it was prophesied. Now she must decide whether to risk her life to follow the laws of God or surrender her soul to the law of man in this action-packed thriller. Will Becky survive?

Nate King embarks on a perilous journey through the Rockies to track a huge grizzly bear that has been terrorizing the Utes, but he gets more than he bargained for when he comes face to face with the eerily clever creature.

Libby Caldwell has been in love with Isaac Harrison for years, ever since her late father befriended him. While her head knows there is no hope of sharing her life with a British soldier, her heart is much more difficult to convince, especially now that he is quartering in her home. With Boston under siege and battle looming, each day together forces her to recognize how deep her feelings truly are…and how forbidden.

As Autumn deepens into darkness in Lidingö, on the Stockholm archipelago, the island is plunged into chaos: in the space of a week, two teenagers, the son of the island's mayor and that of a powerful businessman, are brutally murdered. Their bodies are left deep in the forest, dressed in white tunics with crowns of candles atop their heads, like offerings to Saint Lucia. Maïa Rehn has fled Paris for Lidingö, where her husband has grown up, trying to come to terms with the death of their only daughter in a car accident...

Whilst Paul and Kate work alongside each other as doctor and nurse on the surgical ward, strains in their relationship emerge. And when Kate's baby dies and Paul's inexperience costs lives, doubt and despair hang in the air and their marriage appears to be doomed.

Dulu Harper Simmons memiliki segalanya. Keluarga hangat dan kekasih yang penyayang. Prestasi gemilang, tim debat tangguh yang memenangi turnamen demi turnamen antar sekolah, dan sahabat yang mendampinginya untuk menaklukkan dunia. Sampai suatu malam, seorang pria bernama Scott Gideon merenggut itu semua. Kini, yang gadis itu miliki adalah malam-malam penuh mimpi buruk yang hanya terlewati dengan bantuan obat tidur. Psikiater yang kerap kali menanyakan apa ketakutan terbesarnya.

A boy of just six years old, Austin Roberts found himself perpetually in the way at the post-funeral gathering of his great uncle Jack. Frustrated and alone, he wandered out onto the front porch to find his great uncle Cat, Jack's brother, sitting alone, an old album on his lap. Oblivious to the world around them, the two begin an unlikely conversation and together embark on a journey that stretches almost seven decades in length.

Ex-special forces soldier Alex Abbott escaped the Middle East under a cloud and now lives hand-to-mouth in Singapore. Scraping a living as a gun for hire and estranged from his family, Abbott is haunted by ghosts of the past, drinking to dull the pain. Life's tough, but there is one upside - at least he's not in Baghdad. That's about to change. When a job goes badly wrong, Abbott's in hot water. Next he learns that his military son, Nathan, is missing in Iraq. Knowing something is wrong, needing to find his son and desperate for redemption, Abbott has no choice but to go back.

From author Eliot Storm comes a novel whose mission is to bring Vietnam veterans a universal symbol of recognition and honor for their sacrifices.

Tom Judah, a former Marine recently discharged from the military after serving three tours of combat in the killing zones of Iraq. Jessica Spire, a young woman trying to reinvent her life after fleeing a callous and loveless marriage. Scars of the Prophet is a dynamic story of what happens when fate and destiny collide in an aggressive world of pawns and broken kings. Tom Judah wanted to fit back into society and forget the horrific necessities of a war his conscious was still fighting.

Im zweiten Teil ihrer Schweden-Dilogie erzählt Tine Nell eine wunderschöne Enemies-to-lovers-Romance. Die quirlige Liv lebt in Stockholm und liebt ihre Arbeit als Touristenführerin. Zweimal im Jahr verbringt sie Auszeiten bei ihrer Tante Edda in der Kleinstadt Nora. Bei ihrem letzten Besuch hat sie Cai geküsst, den sie eigentlich nicht leiden kann. Diesmal muss sie ihren Aufenthalt in Nora unfreiwillig verlängern. Sie braucht einen Übergangsjob und bekommt ihn ausgerechnet im Elchpark, den Cai betreibt. Er ist abweisend und scheint wegen Livs fluchtartigen Verschwindens nach dem Kuss verärgert zu sein.