Showing results for "Seduction" in Thriller & Suspense

New York State Trooper Josh Burdette hasn’t had the best of luck with the ladies. The last woman he was sleeping with tried to kill him. So when sexy Delaney Mervis shows up, batting her baby blues, he’s cautious...but not cautious enough.

My mission is simple yet deadly—pose as the newly hired bodyguard for Vera Ivanova and assassinate her father. But Vera, clever and defiant, doesn't want a bodyguard. Instead, she proposes a dangerous game: I'll be her fake husband in public. Vera is unlike anyone I've encountered—intelligent, gorgeous, untamed and untouched. Everything I want and nothing I can have. The utter destruction and demise of my ultimate plan. Consumed by desire, I choose a new tactic: seduction.

I'm Ridge. I'm living a lie—except the night I met Kristi. After hours of sweltering passion, I fell hard. And I vowed to end my enemies to claim her. Instead, she ran straight into danger. So I have to kidnap her. But she has a surprise for me, too.... Now I'm even more determined to mete out justice so I can spend the next fifty years with her. Unfortunately, the mafia has a nasty habit of not letting go....

Dante had been courting his victim in cyberspace for weeks before meeting her in person. A few sips of wine and a few hours later, she was dead. The murder weapon: a rare, usually undetectable date-rape drug with a street value of a quarter million dollars. Detective Eve Dallas is playing and replaying the clues in her mind. The candlelight, the music, the rose petals strewn across the bed - a seduction meant for his benefit, not hers. He hadn't intended to kill her. But now that he has, he is left with only two choices: to either hole up in fear and guilt or start hunting again....

Hailey Roarke was never interested in her family's fortune. That's why she became a cop. But with her father and now her cousin dead, she's suddenly on the wrong side of a police interrogation. The only way to clear her name is to solve the riddle before the real killer. Without getting killed herself.

Townsfolk called him devil. For dark and enigmatic Julian, Earl of Ravenwood, was a man with a legendary temper and a first wife whose mysterious death would not be forgotten. Some said the beautiful Lady Ravenwood had drowned herself in the black, murky waters of Ravenwood Pond. Others whispered of foul play and the devil's wrath. Now country-bred Sophy Dorring is about to become Ravenwood's new bride. Drawn to his masculine strength and the glitter of desire that burned in his emerald eyes, the tawny-haired lass had her own reasons for agreeing to a marriage of convenience.

Tras sobrevivir a la peor de sus pesadillas, Noah Anderson se enfrentará cara a cara con sus demonios y a una encarnizada lucha interior sin retorno que la llevará a descubrir quién es ella y quién es realmente su marido, Clive Wilson. Pronto se verá envuelta en un triángulo amoroso en el que se entremezclarán los sentimientos ocultos, los recuerdos y el deseo. Sin embargo, una repentina pérdida la sumergirá en un estado de melancolía difícil de superar.

The intern and I have a history. It's tarnished and complicated. Filthy and forbidden. Yet she walked away a virgin. Then my buddy hires her to do a secret task for our firm. I'm her new boss. Now she can't say no. She's going to give me what's mine.

One glance is all it takes From the moment his eyes meet hers across the crime-scene tape, ex-con turned bodyguard Quasar Patterson knows he has to see the mysterious Dr. Randi Fuller again. She's a renowned psychic investigator who can foresee danger for others, but not for herself. That makes...

I was weak, but now I am strong. I was mistreated, and it is time they have a taste of their own poisons. They say the road to hell is paved with good intentions. That's exactly where they sent me—to hell. But I came back being a devil myself. It's not about revenge—it's about getting my kings to seek redemption. The pieces they have broken may not have rearranged themselves exactly as they wanted, creating something far more dangerous than they've ever planned for—a queen seeking her Kings of Seduction!

Tony Rossi, mafieux à la tête d'un réseau de crime organisé tentaculaire, tient en échec les autorités depuis plus de dix ans. L'Agence, une organisation gouvernementale spécialisée en missions à hauts risques, charge Maya dintégrer le cercle privé du ténébreux criminel. Séduire les hommes, c'est ce qu'elle fait de mieux. Sûre d'elle, la jeune espionne se jette dans la gueule du loup. Mais sa cible irrésistible pourrait bien la happer et l'entraîner vers des profondeurs abyssales familières qui hantent son passé.

In New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McQuiston's enticing new Seduction Diaries entry, a mysterious journal may provide a potential spinster with instruction—or lead her to her heart's desire Free-spirited Lucy Westmore isn't yet a spinster, although she fully intends to be...

Lina Schultze is a pawn. A shiny piece of plastic I’ll use in my plan for revenge. I’ll seduce her. Claim her. Then flaunt my acquisition in front of her ex, Lawrence Wellington—The man I plan to destroy. Once my mission is complete, I’ll send Lina packing. She’ll be the easiest and most … pleasurable part of my vengeance. Charming her away from a man old enough to be her father won’t be an issue. And if it comes down to it, I’m not above using force.

The first irresistible installment in New York Times bestselling author Jennifer McQuiston's Seduction Diaries series proves that some secrets are too delicious to hide. Pretty and popular, Miss Clare Westmore knows exactly what (or rather, who) she wants: the next Duke of Harrington. But when...

14 février, Saint-Valentin : voilà un an jour pour jour qu' "Elizabeth Giardino" est morte. Un an précisément qu'Anne Gardener - puisque c'est désormais son nom - se terre dans un village perdu au cœur du Colorado. Pourtant, elle ne se sent pas à l'abri : son père, éminent baron de la mafia new-yorkaise, lui a promis qu'il la retrouverait, où qu'elle se cache, quand elle l'a dénoncé aux autorités. Et, au fond d'elle, Anne vit dans la peur du jour où... Ce jour est-il arrivé ? Jake Westmoreland, un des sbires de son père, vient de resurgir dans sa vie.

Mika Ito combines her two favorite things in life—textile design and live-action role-playing (LARP)—by creating costumes for her fellow Magic Battledome gamers. Lately, someone's been assaulting LARPers and stealing their costumes. Concerned for the safety of her friends, Mika hires Maltese Security . . . only to discover that the lead investigator is the super-hot stranger she just hooked up with.

Tech wiz and former elite soldier Forest "Trees" Scott had one mission: Rescue the woman being hunted by a vicious cartel and get her to safety. It should have been simple . . . but the minute he sees the wary beauty with haunted eyes, his desire for her complicates everything. So does her stubborn refusal to trust him. When Trees is forced to abduct her, she vows to hate him—even as he finds himself falling in love . . .

Devoted. Loyal. Shameless. The Boys of Clermont Bay had been my protectors for as long as I could remember. And Olly Warner took the job to heart. He was intense and all-consuming, and I had been in love with him for years. Alarmingly handsome and recklessly charming, he attempted to deny there was ever anything between us. But we slipped over that invisible line, and the moment we gave in, something fractured. He was leaving regardless, and I couldn’t hang on tight enough for the both of us. Olly had always been the boy I could never have, but I couldn’t help losing myself in him.

In 1954, ex-escort Sunni Sinclair breaks free of Australia’s gangland, reinventing herself as a pub owner in a lawless mining town near Sydney. A champion of justice, she challenges societal norms, advocating for women’s rights and downtrodden miners.