Ergebnis für "obsessed" in Literatur & Belletristik

Die sehnsüchtig erwartete Fortsetzung von Fourth Wing und Iron Flame. Bist du bereit, der Dunkelheit zu trotzen? Nach fast achtzehn Monaten am Basgiath War College weiß Violet, dass die Zeit für theoretische Übungen vorbei ist. Die Zeit für Unsicherheit ist vorbei. Denn der Krieg hat begonnen und mit Feinden sowohl innerhalb als auch außerhalb der Mauern ist es schwer, zu wissen, wem man vertrauen kann. Violet muss jenseits des Schutzzaubers in unbekannten Ländern nach Verbündeten suchen.

I wanted him from the moment I laid eyes on him and from that point on, the question wasn't if I'd have him but when...Thirty-five-year-old Matias de la Vega is good at one thing and one thing only. Though he doesn't officially carry the title of killer when it comes to his role in an underground vigilante group, he's got no problem getting his hands dirty if it means getting justice for those who can't get it on their own. Such is the case when single dad Sam Wittier is confronted by a stalker bent on murder....

Laura has a husband, children, a home in a city she loves. She thinks she can be happy, despite her past. Until someone walks back into her life who she knows will shatter everything. Alexis was her first love. A love so exhilarating, it is impossible to resist. Then Alexis is found dead, and the police are knocking at Laura's door. They're asking her questions and she's telling them lies. Someone wants Laura to pay for what she's been running from. Someone with an obsession that they can't let go.

I rejected my fated mate, and didn’t regret it for a second. Until now. Shipped off to Ravenscroft University, a graduate school for the supernatural elite, I have a lot to live up to. As heir to America’s most powerful pack, I was locked away. Not to be protected, but because I was born broken. A disappointment. A wolf who couldn’t shift. This is supposed to be my fresh start, but my past won’t leave me alone. Not when he’s here.

When a stalker ruthlessly targets people she loves, a woman flees her old life, creating a new identity as Serena Remington. Her plan to escape the madman and lead him away from family and friends worked for three years. Now he's back.

Independent jewelry designer Ivy Marlow had it all - the man, the security, and the ring. Now all she has to her name are a broken engagement, the crushing worry of a flailing business, and the haunting feeling of complete betrayal. The last thing Ivy expected to find attending a posh New York art show was him. Jax Walker is everything she doesn't need but can't resist. He's gorgeous, brazen, unapologetic, and powerful. He becomes the escape Ivy has been craving and longing for.

Sam returns home from a business trip a day before his son's 13th birthday and is looking forward to being with his family when his world is cruelly shattered in one fell swoop. Initially he thinks he can cope with the loss but finally seeks the help of Cynthia, an experienced therapist, to regain his equipoise. What he does not know is that Cynthia herself is trying to cope with a debilitating divorce and the sinister shadow of her ex-husband over her daughter....

I’ve loved Bree my whole life. We were each other’s firsts when we were young and inexperienced, and I totally screwed up. I disappointed her, causing her to cry and run away. But over the years, I’ve learned, I’ve perfected, and I’ve dreamt of one day getting another shot with the love of my life. When I finally get the chance never in my wildest dreams did I think Bree was like this. The girl who used to wear yellow sundresses is no longer Bree, she’s Brianna, my new mistress. I’ll do whatever needed for her forgiveness, even go to my knees and grovel.

I'm being sold to my father’s biggest creditor to pay off his debts. Why the heck did I agree to such a thing? Because they promised to spare my sister, and I made a deathbed promise to my mom to always keep her safe. So, I’m resigned to my fate. As long as I get to spend one last weekend at my late Grandma Jo’s little mountain cabin—the place where I felt closer to my dreams than I’ll ever be again. Four days of peace and solitude, before my life is no longer mine.

kill people for a living, but I'm really not a bad guy. At least, I don't think so. I'm just taking out the trash; the fact I get paid to do it is a happy coincidence. Normally, I'm a pretty unemotional guy. I fear nothing and no one, and I get things done without regret or ever looking back. But like Superman, I have my own kind of kryptonite, and her name is Sidney Lopez.

I’m not a guy who likes to leave the forest much. But I’m driving my grandad’s bus route, while he’s having a hip operation. If I don’t, he’ll lose the career he's loved for 50 years. I’m happy to help the old man out, but it’s a pain in my ass…endless hills, the bus wheezing and spluttering…whining customers…. Then she clambers on, and I know why fate threw this good deed my way.

I’m stuck on a wilderness hiking trip with my sister and her bitchy besties. That’s okay, I can deal. As long as we don’t get eaten by a bear. But when they break into the cabin of a celebrity who’s gone all crazy-mountain-man, I want no part of it. Which is just too bad, because I’m the one he catches. He’s all fierce and scary. And naked. But the look he gives me is not so much angry, as...fixated?

Stephen Friedman is just inches away from everything he could ever desire. It's Los Angeles in the early 70s, and Friedman is living the groovy southern California life of a real estate wheeler dealer. He's making money hand-over-fist and has long given up hope of finding the family he's lost in worn-torn Poland. But when a deceased woman's papers reveal that she possessed a priceless religious relic, and that she may have been his mother, Stephen becomes hungry for answers. A hunger that may kill him.

Independent jewelry designer Ivy Marlow had it all - the man, the security, and the ring. Now all she has to her name are a broken engagement, the crushing worry of a flailing business, and the haunting feeling of complete betrayal. The last thing Ivy expected to find attending a posh New York art show was him.

Voices slam through the corridor of his wounded mind. The words of his dead sister cry out. His parents' taunts fill the silent room where he sits and waits - waits for the murderous rage, filling him with strength, driving him to kill, to touch the cold flesh, taste the warm blood - to feel alive again.... A witness has seen him, but his killing only turns her on and now she wants to protect him. His wife suspects him, but the private detective she hired cannot stop him. Joe MacAree fears nothing - except that he may no longer be human.

I have sinful thoughts about one of my students. Every night. I picture her in my bed. In my shower. Underneath me. Right up against the chalkboard. I'm especially fond of that one. In my defense, I know her thoughts are as sinful as mine. She's begging me with her beautiful blue eyes. She's daring me to cross the line. No, I'm not a good man. And I'm done pretending to be. I know exactly what I'm going to do to her as soon as she walks into my office hours.

This is a deadly tale of ultimate obsession. Stephen Friedman is making a good living in good times. He's just an ordinary guy...or so he thinks. But one day, an extraordinary piece of information tells him differently. It's a clue from the grave of a Holocaust survivor—a clue that makes him heir to an incredible fortune.

Nevaeh Moore was born with a gift, a psychic ability to see things that the average person can't. But after witnessing the traumatic death of her parents a few years ago, she is unable to distinguish faces in her visions. Things are complicated enough between raising her teenage nephew Caleb on her own and fighting off the unwanted advances of her lecherous boss, when her best friend Sarah Cannon disappears under suspicious and clearly bloody circumstances.

Rahmeek finds himself infatuated with Kenya, who's sexual expertise rivaled that of an A-list adult actress. Rahmeek, a certified gangsta and hustler out of Hillside, Queens, becomes consumed by this hypersexual woman. He's armed and dangerous as he searches the New York and Connecticut streets high and low, leaving no rock unturned and no crevice untouched in pursuit of Kenya's sweet nectar.

A controlled and highly disciplined billionaire that travels the world doing business and living the life most of us only dream of discovers at auction something that rocks his world, and eventually threatens his very stability and the safety of a country.