Ergebnis für "Miles" in Familienleben

Fünf Brüder, ein Junggesellenabschied in Las Vegas - was soll schon schiefgehen? Liam Knight ist es gewohnt, alles unter Kontrolle zu haben. Seine Entscheidungen werden nicht angezweifelt. Seine Worte sind Gesetz. Bis Emma Dawson, die neue Leiterin der Rechtsabteilung, eines Morgens ohne Termin in sein Büro platzt. Sie ist die erste Frau, die es wagt, Liam die Stirn zu bieten und damit ihren Job zu riskieren. Doch Emma kennt das unglaubliche Geheimnis des Familienoberhaupts, wodurch Liams perfekte Welt ins Wanken gerät.

Er ist gutaussehend. Er ist verschwiegen. Er lebt nur nach seinen eigenen Regeln. Egal was das Gesetz sagt! Nicht umsonst gilt Josh Bennett als einer der zwielichtigsten Geschäftsmänner New Yorks. Gemeinsam mit seinem Bruder Ethan führt er das erfolgreichste Telekommunikationsunternehmen des Landes, doch mehr zum Schein, denn sein Vermögen kommt aus einer ganz anderen Quelle. Nachts, in der Dunkelheit, öffnen sich die Pforten des Parade Club und damit auch der Gang in den Untergrund, den nur erlesene Mitglieder kennen.

They live 500 miles apart. Yet their lives are about to collide. Lissa loves her job as a nurse, but recently she's been doing a better job of looking after other people than looking after herself. After a traumatic incident at work leaves her feeling overwhelmed, she agrees to swap lives with someone in a quiet village in Scotland. Cormac is restless. Just out of the army, he's desperately in need of distraction and there's precious little of it in Kirrinfief. Maybe three months in London is just what he needs.  

Kein Risiko ist ihm zu groß, kein Geschäft zu gefährlich. Logan Knight braucht den Nervenkitzel und liebt es, hoch zu pokern.Bis er auf schmerzhafte Art und Weise erkennen muss, dass er sich mit den falschen Leuten angelegt hat. Eine Tatsache, die dem smarten Geschäftsmann erst bewusst wird, als es schon fast zu spät ist. Mit dem Rücken zur Wand muss er alles daran setzen, den Namen Knight und sein eigenes Leben zu retten.

Christian Knight ist bekannt als der Sonnenschein der Familie, an dem einfach alles abzuprallen scheint. Dabei ahnt niemand, mit welcher Gewalt die Dunkelheit versucht, ihn für immer zu umgeben. Selbst Christian will es nicht wahrhaben und spielt sein Spiel weiter, bis ausgerechnet seine neue Haushälterin hinter sein Geheimnis kommt. Er versucht, sie mit leidenschaftlichem Zwang zum Schweigen zu bringen, aber Brooke ist keine Frau, die schweigt.

Es ist egal, wie schnell oder wie weit du läufst - die Vergangenheit holt dich ein. Immer! Etwas, das James Knight zu spüren bekommt, als er zum ersten Mal wieder in die Augen der einzigen Frau blickt, die ihm jemals etwas bedeutet hat: Ally Monroe. Die Schwester seines besten Freundes, dessen Blut an seinen Händen klebt. James ist verantwortlich für den Schmerz in ihren Augen, für das Leid und den Hass.

Aidan Somerville, Duke of Forster, is a rake, a spy, and a soldier, richer than sin and twice as handsome. Now he is also guardian to his deceased best friend’s young son. The choice makes perfect sense - except that the child’s mother is the lovely Sophia Gardiner, to whom Aidan was engaged before he went off to war.

Despite all that Clara Berg has achieved as a wife, mother, and chemist - especially for a woman in turn-of-the-century Berlin - ending her abusive marriage comes at great cost. The judge hands her inheritance - her parents' pharmacy - over to her ex-husband. Now, with her reputation in near ruins thanks to the scandal that rocked her marriage, no reputable chemist will hire her. Worst of all, she has lost all rights to her young son and daughter.

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It’s 1945, the war is over and the soldiers are coming back to the bomb-ravaged East End. Tom Smith is one of the thousands who are returning home. He can’t wait to see his wife, Jessie, their son, Billy, and the new baby daughter he hasn’t even laid eyes on. But life back home wasn’t easy, especially once Jessie’s army pension was stopped after Tom deserted. So when she was told to put her infant daughter Emma-Rose into a home for her own good, she thought it was for the best. But how will Tom take the news?

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When Isabelle took a chance and eloped with Leon Feininger, her true love, she hadn't stopped to consider what would happen next. Winter on his family's isolated vineyard proves tougher than she expected, and Isabelle finds herself daydreaming, envisioning the wines she and Leon will make when they have their own land. An unexpected inheritance opens a door for the newlyweds - Leon's uncle has left them a vineyard, and in champagne country no less! But all is not as it seems.

A family tale that speaks to ages 12 and up about unity, pride, and the bonds that tie.

A classic of American literature from a Nobel Prize–winning author, The Sound and the Fury is widely considered to be one of the best novels of the twentieth century. William Faulkner expertly illustrates the epic and tragic story of the Compson family, three generations of Southern aristocrats on the brink of ruin. Unprecedented for its time, Faulkner weaves a tale spanning nearly two decades and told from multiple points of view in a style all its own.

Clive Hapgood is feeling stuck. The private school he teaches at is consuming his life, no thanks to wretched headteacher Julian Crouch. The gentle country life Clive envisaged has stifled him and left his marriage on the brink. What he needs is a holiday - something to remind him and Helen what life used to be like. But when things don't go to plan, and an incident at school begins to weigh heavy on his head, Clive's life starts to unravel in front of him. Has he got it in him to turn things around, whatever the cost? After all, it's his own time he's wasting.... 

The journey of a thousand miles begins with sequins and a beehive wig in this sharply funny and achingly tender debut novel about mothers, daughters, and the surprising power of Elvis. Grace Johnson can’t escape the feeling that her life is on autopilot—until her husband announces he’s...

After escaping the violence of London, Anya hides away on an isolated Welsh island, with her husband, daughters, and dog. Life is idyllic—as long as she doesn’t look too closely at all she has lost. Thousands of miles away in the Middle East, Niamh is struggling to find her way home to the UK. In a world with limited transportation and communication, she finds refuge in a walled city, run by women. But the security of the walled city is a cover for a much darker secret that hides beneath the surface.