Ergebnis für "Sinner" in Literatur & Belletristik

I was bleeding out and halfway to Hell when God sent me an angel. He had no business sending her to a man like me. She was sunshine wrapped in pink glitter, with a touch so gentle it hurt. She was everything I’ve never had nor deserved. Under the glow of the streetlamp, I was delirious enough to tell her she was beautiful. Hell, I even laughed when she asked me to tell her again. But then she asked me something else. Something that stole the last breath from my lungs.

No good ever comes from a red-head in a stolen dress with her worldly possessions at her feet. I should have known she was trouble when smoke and sin followed her into my bar and she challenged me to a game. She may have won my watch, but she started a war. As she slipped my Breitling off my wrist and onto her own, she gleefully announced she was the luckiest girl in the world. Yeah, lucky to everyone but me.

My world is on fire, and I’m obsessed with the girl who lit the match. Bloodied knuckles and a lifeless body at my feet confirm it: Penny is my demise. My gentlemanly façade is nothing but a memory. My sins are seeping through my shirt like ink. I tried to leave her. Couldn’t do it. I tried to snuff the life out of her. Couldn’t do that, either. So we’ll slow dance in the flames until I’m nothing but ash and embers. I’ll only rise like a phoenix when she’s gone. The problem is, I’d never let her go.

No one tells you what to do when the boy who shattered your heart comes back to steal it. Roman Riviera was my everything once upon a time. I found my knight in shining armor in the form of a fellow foster kid. He protected me and promised to stand by my side forever. But Roman Riviera is a liar. He left me with monsters.

Es ist ein Einsatz, nach dem sich viele seiner Reporter-Kollegen alle Finger lecken würden: Eine Auswanderer-Doku auf der Trauminsel Bali! Doch so richtig genießen kann TV-Journalist Chris (36) die Reise nicht, denn er steht vor einem Scherbenhaufen. Erst vor wenigen Wochen hat seine innig geliebte Freundin Emily mit ihm Schluss gemacht, und vom jahrelangen Stress im Job fühlt er sich komplett ausgebrannt.

All three, full-length, contemporary romances in the Sinners and Saints series, together in one collection. If you like morally grey heroes, found family, heroines who should come with a warning label, and bad guys getting what they deserve, you're going to love Sinners and Saints. Includes: Take Me to Church-a brother's best friend, morally grey hero romantic suspense with touch-her-and-die vibes. Tell Me No Lies-a boss/employee, surprise pregnancy, action-filled romantic suspense. Tear Me to Pieces-a damaged heroine, rockstar, pregnancy pact series finale.

Fox, JJ, Chase, and Maverick. The four names tattooed onto my heart more permanently than any of the ink on my skin. They don’t just live in this town anymore, they rule it. And the view here may be beautiful, but the sun, sea and sand hide dark secrets. The gangs. The lies. The violence. It all lurks beneath a veil so thin that once you’ve seen through it, you can never close your eyes to the truth again. But I don’t plan on closing my eyes. I have four devils set in my sights. And this dead girl no longer has anything to lose.

Love isn't on my mind when I sign up for the yearly Sinners Retreat, but a chance meeting at the airport changes everything. We click right away, and my bond with Kindra only deepens when we discover our mutual love for the most macabre hobbies. But then she brings up her brother's unsolved murder and her real reason for being here—to find his killer. That's when my past finally catches up with me, and I'm faced with an impossible choice.

Pain is the only thing that makes me feel alive anymore. On the ice, in the gym, or from someone else's fists—it doesn't matter, as long as it drowns out the void inside me. Caleb was my first love, my best-kept secret, and the reason my world fell apart. I thought the guilt would destroy me, but then his brother, Damon, walked back into my life. Damon is all sharp edges and raw anger, and I should stay the hell away from him. But his rage cuts in a way that feels too much like salvation. I hate how much I need it.

When I was a kid, my best friend betrayed me in the worst way possible, ripping my family to shreds in the aftermath. She ruined my life in one fell swoop, and didn’t even have the heart to warn me. Now, nearly a decade later, I’m back in the town I grew up in, determined to make her pay. They say revenge is a dangerous game, but I’ve never been one to play it safe. There is nothing I’ll love more than to find her weakness and use it to destroy her. The lie she told all those years ago will be her undoing.

I'm not a good man, and I've never pretended to be. I don't believe in goodness or God or any happy ending that isn't paid for in advance. What do I believe in? Money. Sex. Macallan 18. They have words for men like me - playboy. Womanizer. Skirt chaser. My brother used to be a priest, and he only has one word for me: sinner.

I've come to Seven Gates Cemetery nursing a broken heart, but peace is hard to come by, for the ghosts here and for me. When the body of a young woman is discovered in a caged grave, I know that I've been summoned for a reason. Only I can unmask her killer. I want to trust the detective assigned to the case, for he is a ghost seer like me. But how can I put my faith in anyone when supernatural forces are manipulating my every thought?

Cora Bender killed a man. But why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in the throat, again and again, until she was pulled off his body? For the local police it was an open-and-shut case. Cora confessed; there was no shortage of proof or witnesses. But Police Commissioner Rudolf Grovian refused to close the file and began his own maverick investigation.

Wenn sich an Halloween die Tore zur Unterwelt öffnen, verstecken sich die Menschen in Grimmwood Creek. Sie will endlich die Wahrheit über den mysteriösen Tod ihrer Mutter erfahren. Um zu überleben, geht sie einen fatalen Pakt mit dem attraktiven Dämon Azael ein: Er hilft ihr, sich als Dämon auszugeben, dafür muss sie sieben Rituale der Todsünden durchführen. Doch während die Grenzen zwischen Mensch und Monster verschwimmen, merkt Parker zu spät, wie hoch der Preis für die Wahrheit tatsächlich ist.

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Nach Monaten der Trauer reist sie auf eine einsame norwegische Insel, um sich ihren Fragen und Zweifeln zu stellen. Die Suche nach Antworten führt Sophie nicht nur zu magischen Orten und zauberhaften Begegnungen, sondern vor allem zu sich selbst. Mit der Zeit beginnt sich ihre Sicht auf das Leben zu wandeln, und sie gewinnt Einsichten, die ihr zuvor unvorstellbar erschienen.

I was raised in a world where money and power are at your fingertips. My father is a lord, a very respected member of a secret society that knows no bounds. When tragedy struck my family, we discovered we weren’t untouchable. Just when I thought life couldn’t get any worse, I was shown what hell is really like. Then he came and saved me. The devil disguised as my personal hero. But of course, nothing is for free. Not when a soul is up for grabs.

Men tremble at the sound of their names while women run, their lives flashing before their eyes. They’re the monsters under your bed, the boogeymen in your closet. Every living soul fears them. They’re relentless and they’re coming to play. They’re the sons of the most notorious mafia boss, the leader of the DeAngelis Family, and they’ve just set their twisted sights on me. They stalked me through my apartment, haunted my hallways, and crippled me with fear. They led me straight into their trap and captured me as though they had every right.