Ergebnis für "The Nightmare Girl" in Literatur & Belletristik

When family man, Joe Crawford, confronts a young mother abusing her toddler in a gas station parking lot, he has no idea of the chain reaction he's setting in motion. How could he suspect the young mother is part of an ancient fire cult, a sinister group of killers that will destroy anyone who threatens one of its members? When the little boy is placed in a foster home, the young mother burns herself alive in grief and rage...and the cult's fanatics begin their mission of terror as Joe and his family are plagued by otherwise inexplicable events.

Spannung vom Feinsten von Bestsellerautorin Claire Douglas (Liebste Tochter) Zwanzig Jahre ist es her, dass Olivia bei einer Heimfahrt mit ihren drei besten Freundinnen einen tragischen Verkehrsunfall verursacht hat. Zwanzig Jahre seit ihre Freundinnen mitten in der Nacht spurlos vom Unfallort verschwanden, während Olivia bewusstlos im Unfallwagen lag. Noch immer muss sie vorwurfsvolle Blicke der Angehörigen und Gerüchten ertragen. Dabei behauptet sie selbst, sich an nichts erinnern zu können.

When Brock sees an opportunity to address his personal existential dread once and for all, he jumps on it. It's not enough to live until the end of the universe; he wants to live happily with all his women and his family well beyond that. Will he find the answer he's looking for? Will he upgrade his bond with Ember Black, Lunaticia, Viperka, Petal, and Velvet? Will the Brock Point System finally be abolished? And how will the other ladies cope with his absence over the long weekend?

Wynter is a witch who sought safe haven for herself and her coven in Devil's Cradle. Founded by seven Ancient beings, the Home of Monsters provides protection, shelter, and will never give you up to outsiders...providing you pay the Ancients' substantial fee. Wynter already wears the brand of Cain - the mark that she is in his service and that her soul partly belongs to him. But as their relationship deepens, Wynter has to make a choice from which there's no turning back.

There is something truly wrong at Boucher House on the Old Pearl River. Some hidden evil lurking deep inside the woods. Nothing about their blissful life is what it seems. Because just when they think they have it all, he shows up to take it back....

I’m a Nightmare, a creature that feeds on fear, and I’m capable of boundless cruelty—which is why my services come at a steep price: the life of the person who hired me. As such, the only people who hire me on are those brought to me by fate, like Mina, a woman so desperate for revenge that she’s willing to spend her own life to get it. I don’t usually care why I’m hired. Human affairs don’t matter to me. Food is food, and a job is a job. Mina’s enemies will get what they deserve—and I’ll get what’s mine. Her beating heart.

Dunnington schenkte seinem Sohn ein beruhigendes Lächeln. "Ich habe einen unanfechtbaren Vertrag mit ihm ausgehandelt. Er wird kein Wort über dich verlieren. Zu niemandem. Sonst würde er viel zu viel aufs Spiel setzen." Um Neds Geheimnis zu wahren und seinem Sohn den Medienwirbel zu ersparen, plant Edward Dunnington die bahnbrechende Erfindung der Bioroboter mit Hilfe eines einflussreichen Geschäftspartners der Öffentlichkeit zu präsentieren. Aber kann man Angus McLean wirklich trauen? Warum wacht der alte Lord plötzlich nicht mehr auf? Sein Körper scheint unversehrt, sein Bewusstsein ist jedoch verschwunden.

Lou Cairney's life has never been dull. But through twenty years of ups, downs and really bad hairstyles, Lou has had the best friends a woman could hope for in Lizzy and Ginger. Growing up together, they shared their dreams and their disasters, broken hearts and career crashes and they survived it all thanks to love, hope, a large dollop of humour and cocktails. Until now; Lou needs her friends more than ever. Her past has just caught up with her in a shocking way.

Three very different girls sign up as trainee nurses at a big London teaching hospital in 1934. Dora leaves her overcrowded, squalid working-class home for a better life. But has she got what it takes to keep up with other, better-educated girls? And will her hated stepfather ever let her go? Helen is born for the job; her brother is a doctor, her all-powerful mother a hospital trustee. But will Helen’s secret misery be her downfall? An aristocratic rebel, Millie’s carefree attitude will find her up in front of Matron again and again. Will she ever care enough to make a nurse? Or will she go back to the glamorous life she was born to?

Nightmare Alley is American author William Lindsay Gresham’s first and best-known work. The novel - most admired by noir fiction fans - was published in 1946, adapted into a film in 1947 starring Tyrone Power and subsequently printed as a graphic novel by Spain Rodriquez. During the 1940s Gresham worked as an editor for a genuine crime pulp magazine in New York, during which period he wrote this book; characters range from hustlers to Machiavellian femme fatales in a dark world of show business.

The planet Earth has reformed itself into the one-continent world of Blinkin. God and his devil have given way to a new polarity - to the Night Mare and the Dream Weaver. But the Night Mare has co-opted her opposite, and she now rules the night and the day. Into this nightmare world, where human females are kept as cattle, and licensed as domestic pets - inside the stone-system designed to prevent the enemy's return - Mina, a rogue DreamWeaver, is born in the Off-grid of Winkin City.