Showing results for "the rose" in Contemporary

“If I catch you, I’ll own you. Now run.” I see a man in a mask with a grinning mouth and crossed out eyes unalive a man. But the mask slips and I see his face. Gray eyes. A scowl. I run. He catches me, and the next thing I know, the Bratva boss has taken me to his country estate, and I’m his captive. I beg, I plead. But he’s stone. I try to escape, but he anticipates my every move. Finally, he gives me a choice.

She left me once. Now she's back—with a four-year-old who looks a little too familiar. Five years ago, Rose Howard walked out of Buckhorn—out of my life. I told myself I was over her. Hell, I tried to be. But when she shows up in town right before Christmas—soft smile, that same...

King I don't rescue damsels in distress. When Luna stepped off that midnight bus into my dying town, I saw her as a civilian. A complication. A potential pawn in the war brewing with the Iron Eagles. Then she refused to surrender. Fierce blue eyes, refusing to back down even with the odds...

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Everleigh Banks has a secret. Living under a false identity, she’s plagued by the lingering trauma of her husband’s cruelty. Hiding in the small town of Hawkthorpe is a last-ditch effort to bury the evil she’s fled. It’s a fresh start, but she didn’t count on three complications carrying their own demons to steal her fragile heart and refuse to surrender it.

This quiet town in Maine becomes disturbed by a missing priest who is eventually found deadFather Thomas, let out of prison early, returns to his former parish when the new priest has a heart attack. The parish is divided between forgiveness and resentment about his return. These feeling are based his hit and run which severely injured a member of the community and resulted in his prison sentence. Nancy is quiet but very fond of Father Thomas and discreetly supports his return. Ron Whitlow is aggravated.

Good girls don't beg to be shared. But I wanted all of them. Now I'm triple pucked with a scandalous secret I can't hide. It started when I sang at a sports bar and my jealous ex left his mark of disapproval around my wrist. But my hockey heroes came to my rescue—with a shocking proposal that...

Gabriella’s journey blossoms into a story of legacy and devotion. Once a woman who wrote of love but hesitated to embrace it, she now stands at the heart of her romance—wife to Richard Faulkner and soon-to-be mother of twins. With tradition pressing in and the weight of family expectations surrounding her, Gabriella discovers that love freely chosen is more than a fleeting promise; it is a heritage that endures across generations.

From the outside, the gorgeous Freya Evandale seems like a quirky bookworm with a taco addiction. Most people would never guess she's a proud drop-out of the FBI's training academy and a highly skilled computer nerd. These days, she's happy as a private detective at Codex, specializing in stolen rare books. That is until an old nemesis with an arrogant smirk and superhero shoulders ends up in her office.

Everyone in this town owes something to the casino. My father owed everything—including his life. Now he's dead, and his debt has come for me. I offer the mob a deal: I'll uncover what the four sons of Titan Wynn Casino are hiding. In exchange, they erase what my father owed. They say yes. But...

He's my brother's best friend. My childhood obsession. And now… my bodyguard. Zach Campbell is assigned to protect me from a stalker. He looks like he stepped off a movie set—smoldering eyes, chiseled jaw, and body made for sin. The kind of man who belongs on a magazine cover. Not in my...

She already has his soul. Now she's taking his name. Which sounds simple... until you add family chaos, unscripted meltdowns, spontaneous sobbing, unhinged group chats, and a whole lot of feelings nobody was prepared to say out loud. What starts as a wedding becomes something bigger—a weekend...

In this deliciously tender, steamy romance, a burned-out musician swaps city life for cottage country only to find that slowing down means a racing heart, thanks to the grumpy guy next door… When Willow Moore’s lifelong dream of music stardom goes bust, she’s burned out enough to need...

Everyone expected Isabella Charteris, beautiful, sheltered and aristocratic, to marry her cousin Rupert when he came back from the War. It would have been such a suitable marriage. How strange then that John Gabriel, an ambitious and ruthless war hero, should appear in her life. For Isabella, the price of love would mean abandoning her dreams of home and happiness forever. For Gabriel, it would destroy his chance of a career and all his ambitions…

As a rose abandoned in the desert, she's made a vow - she'll never go back to the way things were...a promise that was easier to keep before a thorn showed up. (This is not an audiobook centered around a love story).

When prim and proper enchantress Lady Alexandria attempts to bewitch a magic mirror, she ends up cursed -powerless, penniless, dumped in a strange land, and stuck in the body of an old hag. As if that weren’t bad enough, the mirror gives her two tasks: Curse the prince whose arrogant cruelty she once ignored and find her way home - before the Magic Collectors find her and strip her of her powers forever and before the mysterious woodsman who finds her lost in the forest discovers who she really is.

Rose Xu had two passions in her life. One was her boyfriend of many years, Blake Chen, a talented pianist and her constant support. The other was dance. She had grown up dancing from a young age and vowed that she would never stop dancing. Despite injuries and mental issues, she told herself that she would always be the prima ballerina. Unfortunately, one incident in her past tends to haunt her. It's an incident that Blake knows about as well, and he's sworn to protect her at all costs.

Pensé que no lo volvería a ver. Mi primer amor regresó de entre los muertos. Mi secuestrador y tormento. Él tiene mi pasado, presente y futuro entre sus manos con cicatrices. Él es mi dueño. Sin importar cuán lejos corra, mi camino me lleva de vuelta a ese castillo solitario. De vuelta a los brazos de la bestia.

They say the gods will accept no small sacrifice. To appease them you must give your all. I’ve sacrificed everything. Lived through loss, and learned to love. To take the beauty with the pain. The rose with the thorns. This love story isn’t perfect, but it’s ours. We’ll hold onto it forever. And hope our forever is longer than a day.