Ergebnis für "Caged" in Literatur & Belletristik

Maya Angelou’s debut memoir is a modern American classic beloved worldwide. Her life story is told in the documentary film And Still I Rise, as seen on PBS’s American Masters. Here is a book as joyous and painful, as mysterious and memorable, as childhood itself. I Know Why the Caged Bird...

After the death of her parents, Ruby awakens from a lifetime of shadows and finds herself alone, thrust into a world of lies, deceit, betrayal and the supernatural. As her quest for truth continues to come up short, she realizes that maybe some questions really are best left unanswered. When her true identity is finally unveiled, she is forced to choose between two of the mysterious men who continually seem to crop up in her life.She chooses poorly. Now abandoned, Ruby must learn to call on the darkness within to survive, or spend a hellish eternity imprisoned because of it.

In life, it's always the goal to be the most loved, respected, and adored. The favorite, if you will. However, Demi Rao has realized that being the favorite isn't always a dream come true. Being the favorite can be your worst nightmare. After barely escaping, Demi finds herself at the gorgeous, one-of-a-kind, exclusive resort run by her former psychopath boss, Dr. Ivory's younger brother.

Sunshine Cage created and leads the biggest drug cartel in Memphis - La Familia. She runs La Familia with her sisters and cousins. Sunshine is known for her beauty, street smarts, and soft heart. As the youngest of the Cage crew, Sunshine’s sisters and cousins guard her heart ferociously. They give no man the chance to enter Sunshine’s life and heart. She is the brain behind everything they’ve built. She approves every deal and every hit they make. She is the foundation on which they stand. So, what happens when the foundation is rocked and no longer able to keep steady?

Betrayal hurts worse at the hands of someone you love. I locked my heart up the night my wife was murdered. Now there is only one possessor of a key… my little girl. And that’s how I thought it would stay. Until my beautiful d’yavolitsa turns up covered in blood, begging for my help. She caught me off guard, preyed on my weakness, and set free my caged heart. Now she is mine to keep, cherish, and tear the world down for. Little did I realize, loving this woman would be the end of everything as I know it.

Adara and Einar are at a crossroads. With no allies left in the fae realm, they only have one option left to unlock Adara's powers—the dragons who fled Ediria nearly twenty years ago. To find the dragons, Adara will have to travel to the heart of Mount Furian and access the portal they used to escape. Since Einar cannot cross the portal himself, she will have to travel to this dangerous new realm and convince the dragons to help her without her staunchest ally by her side.

Lexi is back from the underworld, heartsore but determined to exact some sweet vengeance on the shadow shapers. To do that, she'll need Zeus's help, but Zeus is trapped in the wires, slowly disintegrating into nothingness. Without his lightning bolt, he's toast. So all she has to do is find the missing pieces of the lightning bolt and her troubles should be over, right? Wrong. She may have found out who she is, but her memory is still full of holes—which will make tracking down the lightning bolt kind of tricky.

Struggling to pull together the pieces of her life after another falling out with Ohio’s most powerful political dynasty, Casey Cort turns her attention toward her budding relationship with rising assistant US Attorney Miles Siegel. Things come to an abrupt halt when circumstances catapult them onto the scene of a horrific crime.

Sheltered and lonely, Jon's life changes drastically when a strange ship sails into the harbor of his small port town one day. Trapped between the possessive pirate captain and his murderous first mate, he must learn to adapt or he will lose himself completely. An epic tale of love, treachery and revelation, this first instalment of the Baal's Heart series brings you into the lives of three men so bound together by jealousy and lies that they must sail to the very ends of the earth to find forgiveness.

I don’t know what it is about Cage Rucker that makes my wolf howl. Yeah, he has a body that’s been chiseled from marble, and a smile that melts my heart, but it’s more than that. There’s something about the way he smells. My wolf knows. Does that mean that this boy is going to fall all over himself to find out? No way. Cage has a girlfriend. I don’t fall for straight boy… anymore. I wouldn’t even have talked to him again if he hadn’t offered me an exchange I couldn’t refuse.

He was everything. A reformed drug dealer turned bodyguard who was more than capable of providing and protecting. The perfect mix of holy and hoodlum. With the body of a Greek god, swag that easily left those around him captivated, a way with words that could stimulate the deepest of minds, and a power that commanded fear and respect...Canon Woods was everything. There were just two problems. One - he didn’t want commitment. Two - Dynasty Cage wasn’t the only woman with her eyes on him.

In the sleepy town of Beatrice, where the monotony of daily life lingers like a fog, a stranger arrives with a bright red truck and a promise of something extraordinary. For seventeen-year-old Tom, this spectacle is more than mere entertainment; it's a fleeting glimpse of freedom and a world beyond the mundane.

In the second novel of the 'Choosing to remember' series, Jerome Clarkson takes a swan dive into his past and the trauma he's carried for far too long. Jerome grew up in a very toxic and unloving environment, unable to escape the torture. His mother had him at just 13 and went on to have seven more children, that she took her frustrations out on constantly. Jerome was berated as child for being different and his mother often abused him because she believed that he was gay. From the moment his mother first beat him, Jerome felt the need to please his mother and prove her suspicions to be wrong.

Jim is a young man living by himself in a studio apartment in the city. He harbors a secret desire for female domination and he's out at the bar with his college friends one Friday night when his lesbian friend, Vee, discovers that he is wearing a chastity cage and wants to know all about it and why. After she learns about it, she offers to hold the keys for him. This is a short novella written in first person that explores some of the various female domination kinks. Narrated by the author with female voices by Logan Love.

Charlie North has neither the time nor the know-how for relationships, complications, or keeping someone happy. It's difficult enough to keep himself satisfied. He just needs something discreet without the hassle of connections. When he's slipped a business card to a club called Illusion, he has every intention of throwing it away, until... it starts burning a hole in his pocket. He never expected the means to scratch an itch would turn into a wildfire of desire. The man behind the privacy panel leaves him craving more of the same—something he's never desired before.

In the gripping tale of power and passion, Mafia Don Ace has claimed Rose as his own, compelling her into a forced marriage. What began as an alluring and intense affair has now become a complex web of desire and intrigue. Rose finds herself entangled in the luxurious but perilous world Ace commands, where secrets lurk in the shadows.

Twenty years ago, Aniston Kline learned that childhood rhyme wasn’t true after being bullied in junior high. Now a newspaper reporter, Aniston returns to her hometown - a place she thought she would never return to - prepared to write an article about a boy’s story that echoes her past. Aniston wants nothing more than to slip in and out of Savanna Shores unseen and unrecognized by anyone who might still remember her; however, a brutal snowstorm ushers her into town and leaves her stranded in a snowstorm with her high school crush, Arjay.

Wyatt Stryker, ex-special ops, has suddenly found his more recent roles as a father, husband, and doctor thrown into a world of chaos. A deadly drug cartel has targeted him and his family and forced Stryker to revisit a chapter of his life he thought forever closed. Fortunately for his family, this transition was easier than he imagined - leading a simple life was never really in the cards for Stryker.

There are dragons in Lagos and witches who wear their sons’ skins, while a cabal of otherworldly beings are collecting intelligent life forms in the depths of the universe. This collection features some of Falowo’s most notable previously published stories alongside new tales of magic and terror.

A disastrous first attempt at femdom leaves Jonathan bruised and humiliated, and he’s at rock bottom. Then, sexy, sophisticated, and wealthy Mrs. Cavendish comes to his rescue and promises to make everything all right again - at a hefty price. She demands total obedience and utter control over him.