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Forced onto a shorter leash by his CIA watchers, Kris is taken to Washington DC, but the trip is far from being the rest and relaxation he needs. A chance meeting with a congressperson ensues, a meeting that results in tragic and horrifying consequences. It's soon revealed that Vega has a massive secret—a deadly, terrible secret Kris is only now painfully aware of—along with the troubling realization that there's truly no going back now. He'll learn the reason Vega came here, to this place and to this time, or he'll die trying.

In a riveting debut thriller that has drawn comparisons to masters of the genre like Dennis Lehane and Michael Connelly, Brian Freeman weaves obsession, sex, and revenge into a story that grips the reader with vivid characters and shocking plot twists from the first minute to the last.

I might be blind, but I still should have seen that he was trouble. He's a scheming billionaire perched on the brink of dominance. Cold. Calculating. Ruthless. A king. Roman Kincaid is everything I'm not… a titan of real estate. A god among men. A man who owns the entire world. Almost… Despite being handicapped and the caretaker of every wounded animal that comes my way, I am not exempt from catching his attention. I can't make out the color of his eyes, but I can still feel their heat.

It's a dark night in an alley when Seo Jin-tae marks me. A death sentence written across my skin that there's no escaping from. No matter how far I run, or how well I hide, he'll come for me. But when he returns to carry out his grim mission, something changes. Instead of ending my life, he claims it. I become his obsession—the one thing he can't bring himself to destroy. And as passion burns between us, I realize I don't stand a chance. I find myself drawn to the man who once sought to kill me.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas… Until you wake up married to three dangerous silver fox bikers. My fiancé dumped me during my bachelorette party. So when three hot bikers offer to make me forget, I did what anyone would do—I rode them until sunrise. They gave me the wildest ride of my life. And forget I did. In fact, I have absolutely no memory of last night. All I know is I drunk-married three bikers twice my age.

Waitressing isn't a calling; it's a way to pay for my art degree. Until Killian Smith walks into the bar and turns my world upside down. It isn't that he's drop-dead gorgeous. Rich. Powerful. It's that he's unhinged. I know the dead look in his eyes. I've seen it before. And he sees me too. Every night is some twisted game of cat and mouse and he's drawing closer to catching me. Until one night when I step into a back alley and I'm a witness to a Bratva murder.

Jake Kincaid is a beautiful beast in disguise. Older. Cunning. Ruthless. My family could only dream of having the power and success of the Kincaid's. Why my father tried to challenge them, I don't know, and I don't care. The only thing I want from this life is to get out. But my plans are ruined when my father can't make good on his debts, and the Kincaids send their most devilish weapon…. Jake.

Além de transformar a minha vida profissional em um caos, Laura gosta de se meter onde não é chamada. A gota d'água foi quando apareceu no meu apartamento de madrugada, brigando por um mal-entendido, e eu soube que precisava me demitir. Mesmo que eu tivesse largado a minha família na Espanha por esse emprego e precisasse do dinheiro. Até Laura, ao invés de aceitar a minha demissão, anunciar publicamente que estávamos noivos. Noivos? Ela só podia estar brincando.

The Proxima finally reaches Fleet Headquarters on Vega. Here, the fate of the Terran Republic will be decided. The crew makes an extraordinary discovery - one that could change the outcome of the battle. The dying Empire clings to its last hope. And Zadiya Ark makes a momentous decision.

James Hawker finds her in the Yellow Pages, listed under "P" - for prostitution. This is Las Vegas, after all, where the world's oldest profession is just another business. Vegas has been a wide-open town for more than a century: a place where respectable Americans can indulge their darkest fantasies. But an unpleasant new attraction has been added to this paradise of gambling and perversion - the forbidden vice called murder. Hawker isn't a gambling man, but murder is his business.

Después de casi dos siglos, un precioso códice iluminado vuelve a un monasterio femenino situado a los pies de la cordillera Cantábrica. El Beato de San Andrés de Arroyo -hoy propiedad de la Biblioteca Nacional de Francia- regresa al cenobio que lo poseyó durante seiscientos años. Han sido incontables las gestiones necesarias para que las autoridades galas lo autoricen. Todos los esfuerzos se dan por bien empleados porque la obra es la pieza estrella de una exposición sobre la que descansan muchas esperanzas.

Ruthless. Lethal. Handsome as sin. The devil has always been wrapped in a tempting package. And that's Mason Kincaid. King of Vegas and of sinners. He owns half this town and runs the other half with an iron fist. He's pretty much everything I've learned to avoid. I dated his brother a few years back when I thought a bad boy would be fun. It did not take long for me to learn the Kincaids are not fun. They are the snakes in the garden…

Leo Kincaid is my kryptonite. Ruthless. Lethal. Arrogant. Handsome as sin. So when he offers me one night of passion, I take it. Being with him is like nothing I've ever known. It's the hottest night of my life. But every time one thing feels right, ten fall apart.

Con una sensibilidad especial y una profundidad que pocos narradores consiguen, esta novela nos relata el viaje de dos hermanastros por las costas de Cádiz y Huelva en pos de un pasado esquivo. Un intento por reconstruir las piezas de un puzle cuyo resultado es el enigma ocurrido una mañana de noviembre de 1970. En el viaje, como en todos, nuestros dos protagonistas dejarán parte de sí mismos en el camino.

Paul Stubenrauch, ein Münchner Architekt, macht auf dem Oktoberfest den Deal seines Lebens: im Auftrag des Gouverneurs von Las Vegas soll er ein Mega-Projekt in der Wüstenstadt aus dem Boden stampfen. Doch alles kommt anders als geplant und der Zufall will es, dass Paul in der Spielmetropole mit Mateo Hidalgo zusammen trifft, einem Gelegenheitsarbeiter aus Mexiko, der einerseits als Putzkraft in einem unterirdischen Depot der NASA arbeitet und in seinem zweiten Job als Wachmann eines Spielkasinos. Beider Leben wird durch einen mysteriösen Fund in unerwartete Bahnen gelenkt.

Tarot reader Sara Wilde has spent her whole life finding the lost with the use of her trusty cards. But when her newest assignment sends her straight to Hell, she discovers more than she bargained for. The journey through Dante's playground forces Sara to endure a client's bitter loss, fall victim to a vicious betrayal by her own kind, and come face-to-face with the woman she might have been. Not even Sara's blossoming love for the darkly sensual Magician is safe in the underworld. She's tested in ways she never fathomed, ways that could drive her mad or utterly destroy her.

If there's one thing tarot-reading magical-artifacts-hunter Sara Wilde has never been able to track down, it's the truth about her own past. But now a powerful new threat to the psychic community will take Sara back to where it all began: the last job she worked with Officer Brody Rooks as "Psychic Teen Sariah", the job that destroyed her life and sent her on the run. Because the enemy she fled all those years ago has returned...with a posse of demons as his personal entourage.

When an antique gold show comes to Vegas, artifact-hunter Sara Wilde's job is simple: to locate and liberate a set of relics rumored to give their bearers access to an ancient, incredible power. Yet within the Connected community, whispers of a war against magic draw every psychic, mystic, warlock, and witch to Sin City. The most powerful Connected also covet the infamous relics, but no one wants them more than Sara's client - the insufferably arrogant, criminally sensual, and endlessly evasive Magician.

Using her well-worn Tarot deck, magical-artifacts hunter Sara Wilde can find anything - for a price. And the price had better be right, since she needs to finance her own personal mission to rescue several young psychics recently sold on the paranormal black market. Enter Sara's most mysterious client, the wickedly sexy Magician, with a job that could yield the ultimate payday. All she'll have to do is get behind Vatican walls and steal the Devil himself. But play with the Devil, and you're bound to get burned.

Sidney drives me crazy. As a professional poker player, I never want to lose, but when that woman beats me, it makes me want to punch something. She haunts my dreams. Only, they're hot-as-hell dreams that end with me waking up in a sweat wishing she was right next to me. My friends are joining me in the Bahamas for a poker tournament that I'm gonna rule. I know she'll be there, grinning as she flashes her cards and licks those red lips just to mess with my head. But this time, I refuse to let her win.