Trigger Tess steht unter der Aufsicht des Teufels, während ich hinter Gittern mit meinen Dämonen eingesperrt bin. Das Ass in meiner Tasche bringt Macht und die Versuchung, es zu nutzen, bringt mich fast um den Verstand. Der Geruch von Blut ist eine Droge. Er treibt mich an. Verschlingt mich. Ich bin verloren. Tess Der Teufel hat mich geraubt, doch ich weigere mich, zu jemand anderem zu gehören. Ich bin eine Kämpferin und ich werde tun, was nötig ist, um zu meiner Familie zurückzukehren. Verrat umgibt uns. Der einzige Ausweg besteht darin, den größten Verlust zum größten Sieg zu machen.
Will Toal's sons have been kidnapped by Sam Brown, a brutal desperado who wants revenge for the death of his brother. When Will returns home from a business trip to discover his sons taken, his foreman murdered, and his woman, Beth, already gone after their boys, he heads out after them to set things straight. With a $25,000 ransom on his sons, Will has to think fast--he certainly can't raise that kind of money. But help comes from an unlikely source--a man he's never met, wealthy mine owner John Mackay. After helping Mackay save his mine and men from a devastating fire, Mackay offers to give Will the much-needed money to save his boys. Just as things begin to look up for Will, he discovers that Brown has Beth, the woman he loves, the mother of his twin sons. Can he find Beth before Brown murders her? It's a tall order for one man to face Brown and his evil henchmen, but for the first time, Will realizes he is not alone. He'll do whatever it takes to protect his family, starting with killing Sam Brown. Hell is on the horizon. There will be a SILVER CITY RECKONING...
Ich bin nicht dein Prince Charming, Tess. So wurde ich nicht gemacht." "Prince Charming wird überbewertet, Trigger. Menschen wie wir brauchen jemanden, der genauso kaputt ist wie sie selbst. Das gleicht das Ganze aus." Ich wurde vom Teufel selbst großgezogen. Vom Jungen mit Schrammen wurde ich zu dem Mann mit dem Finger am Abzug. Das Töten ist das Einzige, das den Aufruhr in meinem Inneren eindämmen kann. Ich kämpfe jeden Tag mit meinen Dämonen ... ... doch dann verändert sie alles. Das Problem ist nur: Wenn du Zeit deines Lebens im Dunkeln gewandert bist, ist es dann wirklich klug, ins Licht zu treten? Mit ihrer neuen Devil's-Reach-Reihe über den gleichnamigen Motorradclub schafft J. L. Drake es wieder, ein Netz aus Verrat, Mord und atemberaubender Spannung zu spinnen. Und mittendrin die beiden Hauptcharaktere: Trigger als Präsident des MC, der in seinem Leben nichts anderes kennt als Dunkelheit und Gewalt. Und Tess, die vor ihren eigenen Dämonen flieht. Geradewegs in die Arme des gefährlichen, aber auch anziehenden Trigger.
Alicia Browning is content with her life until she receives the phone call that her husband Moe has been arrested for transporting drugs over the border from Mexico. That call starts a chain of events which leaves her and her three children living in a travel trailer in a shopping mall parking lot. She is ill prepared to battle Cliff Walker, a drug enforcemant officer, who is determined to take everything of value from her. Alicia has to learn to fight back or she will lose what she values the most.
Macbeth is a famously cursed play, fraught with gruesome violence and supernatural evil. Some of Kate Stanley's friends question her choosing to direct its production for the 400th anniversary of its first performance, but Kate's expertise in the little-known secrets and obscure mysteries of Shakespeare make her a natural. However, bizarre ritual objects begin to turn up at rehearsals, and it becomes clear someone is using the production to send a message in the form of very dark ancient magic. The cast is unnerved both by the gruesome pranks and the historical creepiness of this play, and consider abandoning the production. But a local young boy, the namesake of the 17th-century actor who first played the role of Lady Macbeth, is abducted, and the puzzling ransom notes make the boy's survival dependent upon making the play happen. As opening night approaches, Kate digs deep into the obscure and magical allusions in Macbeth, and draws on all her skill and knowledge of occult Shakespeare to decipher the ransom note riddles and save the kidnapped boy.
Dealing with the aftermath from that horrific day, Ashley, Alexi and Gabrielle strive to understand what had gone wrong that fateful afternoon. How could it have happened? When DiMarco and Andrew are reunited, both flee to one of their decadent homes, as far away from Eastern Europe as possible. The Further away from those Russians, General Sokolov and Alexi the better. For now. Sergei Sokolov had not forgotten what Genovese had done. How in hell could he? Recuperating at home in St. Petersburg, Russia, the General made plans on how to exact the ultimate revenge on both brothers. DiMarco and Andrew officially made it to the top of his Most Wanted list. Yet again. To be on that list was hard to accomplish. Who out of the few who were close to Sergei would stand by his plan? The million-dollar question was, Who Would Not?
Set during a period of dramatically escalating piracy, Hostile Seas is a personal account of a mission on board a naval warship in the waters off Somalia. In late 2008, piracy around the Horn of Africa escalated dramatically, threatening the passage of international merchant ships through a critical waterway. Not only were ships carrying goods to North America and Europe affected, but also vessels entrusted with food aid for a Somali population suffering the effects of prolonged drought and civil war. In response, the Canadian government redirected naval frigate HMCS Ville de Québec from the Mediterranean Sea to Somali waters to escort pirate-menaced vessels carrying World Food Programme aid to Mogadishu. Told from the perspective of a ship’s officer, Hostile Seas is a personal account of life on board a deployed navy ship that explores the tension between military imperatives and individual needs as a succession of hijackings brings into focus the reality of Somali piracy.
Charlotte Rochester knows about guarding the vulnerable but this job is more than she bargained for. John Aire, the wealthiest man in town, hired Charlotte to act as a companion to his granddaughter, Adele. Part of her 'companion role' is as a guard to keep Adele safe. Charlie befriends the tweenager. What she didn't count on was a friendship with Aire, an attractive and powerful man. When Adele is kidnapped to be a sacrifice in a twisted religious rite, John and Charlotte must save her. They'll do anything to protect this child from the deadly past that ruined her parents and has haunted John for years. Somehow, along the way, Charlotte needs to decide if there's a place for her among the rich and famous. Is she just the governess that can be disposed of? Or is there another life for her?
Using almost a thousand case studies, both real and fictional, Dr van Hooff provides us with a unique and engaging insight into self-killing in the Graeco-Roman world. The author analyses the methods and motives which lie behind self-killing relating them to ancient popular morality as it appears in the various media and traces the development of the concept of self-murder, as opposed to the original idea of autothanasia, which lies at the root of the Christian abhorrence of suicide.
This book, first published in 1974, is a study of the two states which dominated the northern and western regions of Sudan from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century: the Funj kingdom of Sinnār and the Keira sultanate of Dār Fūr. Until now the history of these two states has been neglected in comparison with that of the western states of the Sudanic Belt. The authors spent years researching the documentation of the period and the present book is a concise survey of their findings, comprising history, literature, politics, economics, trade and religion.
Chariot commander Jehu is anointed king of Israel to strike down the House of Ahab. Drawn from the biblical account of 2 Kings 9 and 10, this fictional narrative recounts Jehu's rebellion from his early years as a charioteer under King Ahab through his anointing by a prophet under Elisha and his assault against the royal house of Israel, told in the voices of Jehu, Queen Jezebel, King Ahab, Elijah, Elisha, Jezebel's daughter Queen Athaliah and granddaughter Jehosheba, High Priest Jehoiada, King Ethbaal I of Tyre, and others. The union of Phoenician princess Jezebel and Ahab of Israel has combined the sea powers of Tyre and Sidon and the land power of Israel--a union that is being extended to Israel's sister kingdom of Judah with the union of Jezebel's daughter Athaliah with the king of Judah. The melding of Phoenicia, Israel, and Judah is reaching its tipping point as a harried prophet rushes into Jehu's army camp and anoints him king of Israel. Jezebel, her prophets of Baal, her son King Joram of Israel, her daughter Queen Athaliah of Judah, and Athaliah's daughter Jehosheba conspire together and against each other as Jehu's rebellion threatens Jezebel's realm.
The Queen ‘neath the Hedge came from nowhere, from out of reed and nightshade. Aged just 22, she conquered two countries, Britain and the Other Realm – home of the mysterious Umbra. She bound the realms together, so that 400 years after her death, every Briton is still mortally bound to an Umbra – every injury, any death inflicts them both – but her treaty is unravelling. Georgian London is preparing for war with France, but its salons and ballrooms are haunted by a different rumour: ‘She’s coming back.’ Everyone will try to stop her but no-one is sure who, or where, or what she is. Arthur knows Amorrie - his Umbra - will be the death of him. He doesn’t know why she is hunted in both realms. Slip inside the most captivating fantasy since ‘Strange and Norrell’.
Spring 1876 . . . . When a bomb explodes and destroys a sawmill in Glenbrook Harbor, the residents and businessmen on the shores of Lake Tahoe are left reeling. Will Toal and his wife, Beth, are caught in the deadly, fiery fragments of the devastating explosion, and Beth is severely injured. Will gets Beth to the doctor and sets out to find those responsible. Once again, he is drawn back into the crosshairs of business barons clashing among themselves while competing for economic and political clout amid the sliver riches of the West. Will’s been in this position before in earlier days, but this time, the big company money is out to get him—and the things just got personal. Will just wants those who hurt Beth brought to justice, but he must find out who’s responsible for setting that blast—the first of many to come, if he figures right. With the timber business leveling the forests around Lake Tahoe, and the silver mines clamoring for the necessary wood, the arsonists could be working for anyone. Those who don’t believe in the deforestation process will go to any length to save the woodlands, but those who need the jobs lumbering provides are just as determined. Ina race against time, Will is forced to work with an old nemesis, private investigator Dale Paris, to try to stop the arsonists and save the sawmills from disaster. Can they stop the bloodshed? At any price, Will is determined to have CLEAR CUT JUSTICE . . . .
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