Showing results by publisher "Audible studios" in Women's Fiction

Der großer Traum von Angelika Stein scheint geplatzt, als sie mit 15 von der Schule fliegt: Kein Fotograf in Kassel will einem Mädchen, noch dazu ohne Schulabschluss, eine Lehrstelle geben. Doch Angelika gibt nicht auf - und bekommt schließlich eine Chance von einem Fotografen, der vor Kurzem aus der DDR gekommen ist. Zur selben Zeit wird in Ostberlin die hoch talentierte junge Turnerin Christine Magold darauf gedrillt, die DDR bei den Olympischen Spielen zu vertreten. Doch ist das wirklich ihr Traum?

1922: Der Krieg ist seit vier Jahren vorüber, doch für Alexander von Seydell gibt es keinen Frieden. Nachdem er unter Mordverdacht aus Navarra fliehen musste, wird er erneut eines Verbrechens beschuldigt. Auch auf Seydell drängen die Sorgen. Krankheit und Hyperinflation bedrohen die Existenz des Gestüts. Dann erhält Luise eine Nachricht, die alles ändert. Kurz entschlossen reist sie zu ihrem Sohn Robert, der inzwischen in England lebt, und trifft dort nach all den Jahren auf ihre große Liebe Alexander. Finden die beiden endlich zueinander?

1914: Nach einem erbitterten Streit mit seinem Bruder hat Alexander von Seydell seine Heimat verlassen und sich in Navarra eine neue Existenz aufgebaut. Als der erste Weltkrieg ausbricht, scheint ihn das nichts anzugehen, doch wegen einer Verwechslung muss er sich der französischen Armee anschließen. Auch sein leiblicher Sohn Robert muss an die Front, wo seine Vaterlandstreue auf eine harte Probe gestellt wird. Und dann stehen sich Vater und Sohn als Feinde auf dem Schlachtfeld gegenüber.

All Jordan Manning wants is a quiet summer on the Virginia coast with her sons to recover from a near-fatal accident and an abusive relationship. Her plans to find a new direction for her future are turned upside down when she runs into the first man who ever broke her heart...and he's determined to win it back. Rob Tyler thought he'd moved on, but when fate drops a second chance with his first love right in his path, his feelings rush back stronger than ever. Rob is determined to give Jordan the future they should have had years ago, but making up for past mistakes isn't easy.

Macy Hayward always admired the Monroes. Adopting four kids - including the brooding, mysterious Liam - they were an example of the loving family she wanted for herself someday. Now, ironically, Macy’s got an unexpected new tenant in the apartment above her hardware store: none other than Liam. Most of Liam’s furniture consists of weightlifting equipment, since he has no intention of settling in. He can’t wait to run away again, from his brothers and his bitter memories - and from Macy, with her relentlessly seductive curves.

England, 1939. Ruth hat es geschafft - sie hat die nötigen Papiere für ihre Familie besorgt, die endlich nach England ausreisen darf. Zusammen wollten sie alles in Bewegung setzen, um ihre Verwandten noch nachzuholen. Aber dann erklärt England Deutschland den Krieg. Ruth wähnte sich bislang in Sicherheit, aber was geschieht, wenn die Deutschen das Land nun angreifen? Sie setzt alles daran, dass sie zusammen nach Amerika fliehen können. Doch der Krieg droht ihre Pläne zunichtezumachen.

Braxton Monroe’s taking a break from teaching to do some strenuous work on a Civil War-era house, and feeling the strain in every rock-hard muscle. Good thing he has to interview massage therapists for the spa - even if it’s embarrassing to meet a job candidate in his boxers. Cora Buchanan has hands so talented - and a voice so sultry - he wants to hire her before he even lifts his head from the table. But he’s shocked to meet her outside the massage room - with her seeing-eye dog, Heidi the yellow lab.

When I was a kid and I’d lost something, my dad always said, ‘Go back to the place you last had it’. The problem is that what I’ve lost is...me. Kate loves her family more than anything, but recently she has started to feel invisible. Lying awake at three a.m. as her husband snores, panicking about shopping lists, birthday parties and the school bake sale...She finds herself in the kitchen, gulping water, staring at a postcard of the Eiffel Tower from Shannon, her best friend.

Suite au décès de sa mère, Joe hérite d’un courrier lui dévoilant le nom de son père biologique, ainsi que l’endroit où il vit. Esseulée et démunie face à son deuil, la jeune infirmière décide de tout plaquer pour partir en quête de ce père inconnu, un certain Jerry Welsh, propriétaire d’un bar et dirigeant d’un club de moto en Californie.

1932: Ruth hat eine unbeschwerte Jugend. Die meiste Zeit verbringt sie in der Villa des benachbarten Seidenhändlers Merländer. Sie ist fasziniert von den kunstvoll bedruckten Stoffen, lernt Schnittmuster zu entwerfen und Taschen und Zierrat zu fertigen. Hier begegnet sie auch Hans, ihrer ersten großen Liebe. Als die Nazis an die Macht kommen, scheint es für sie beide keine Zukunft zu geben, denn Ruth ist Jüdin. Über Nacht muss sie aus ihrer Heimatstadt fliehen, und lässt ihre Eltern und alles, was ihr wichtig ist, zurück. Und dann kommt der Tag, an dem das Schicksal ihrer Familie in Ruths Händen liegt.

On a miserable November day in 1967, two women disappear from a working-class town on the Fraser River. The community is thrown into panic, with talk of drifters and murderous husbands. But no one can find a trace of Bette Parsons or Alice McFee. Even the egg seller, Doris Tenpenny, a woman to whom everyone tells their secrets, hears nothing. Ten-year-old Lulu Parsons discovers something, though: a milk-stained note her mother, Bette, left for her father on the kitchen table.

I'm an adrenaline junkie, always searching for my next hit. Skydiving, cliff jumping, surfing massive waves - I'll do anything to get my pulse racing. But even freediving the ocean's most deadly sinkholes pales in comparison to the rush I get when I meet Kennedy. And if there's a bet involved? I'm all in. I never turn down a challenge. Especially when the target is prim, proper, buttoned-up...and jaw-droppingly gorgeous. It's enough to make any man want to unbutton her and make her scream all night long.

I don't take no for an answer. Women are the world's most intoxicating prize, and I always win. Money? Check. Charm? Check. Looks? Double check. It's a winning combination, and I never settle. I can't even remember the last time any woman -in New York, Paris, Rome, it doesn't matter - looked me in the eye and turned me down. Until Juliet James.

I've known Caleb Strong for over a year. We have a special kind of friendship - we make crude comments, double entendres, and tease each other mercilessly. But we've never crossed that line. We're just friends. Until we start working together to renovate my childhood home. Seeing him shirtless working out in the sun is making me want something more. The way his corded forearms twist every screw, the way his biceps flex as he swings his hammer... I want to feel what that brute strength can do to me.

They call me a prodigy in the business world. Rich, powerful, and cunning. At 29 years old, I'm running an empire, built from scratch. The political realm is next. I want my voice heard and my name on the ballot. But my character credentials are lacking. I need a woman at my side, under contract. Someone with a pretty smile for the public eye, to make me look like a trustworthy, loyal man. Ann Porter is the woman I want for the job. Her heart is just as violent as mine, her mind sharp and cunning. Her body willing and begging to be broken - ready to bend at my will.

Becky Kincaid ventures out in the middle of a snowstorm to buy a car seat for her unborn baby and never makes it home. When a second pregnant woman disappears, Marissa Rooney and the team at the Holt Foundation fear a sinister motive lurks behind the crimes. Lead investigator Seth Crawford desperately searches for the thread that binds the two cases together, knowing that if he fails, another woman will soon be gone. While Seth hunts for clues, a madman has Marissa in his sights and she carries a secret that could tear her whole world apart.

A city girl can survive. Or at least that's what New Yorker Frances Genovese hopes when she agrees to stay in Morning Glory, Mississippi for a few weeks after her brother's wedding. Though she may not know much about small-town living, she does know a thing or two about the new restaurant her brother's building. But she didn't bargain for a big country boy naysaying her vision. And she darn sure didn't expect to be so attracted to the infuriating contractor.

I've been taking down drug dealers for so long, playing bodyguard to a woman named Shoshanna Lehump sounds like nothing more than a giant pain in my ass - and being partnered with the gorgeous egotistical jerk I never should have slept with in the first place just makes a bad situation even harder - especially when he pursues me as diligently as we're supposed to be chasing the bad guys.... What's a girl have to do to get a happy ending anyway?

Isabell und ihre Großmutter Pauline treten ein Erbe in Köln an - Paulines Geburtshaus. Doch die alte Villa am Rheinufer birgt dunkle Geheimnisse. Bald sieht sich Isabell mit der Frage konfrontiert, ob ihr Liebesglück mit den Geheimnissen ihrer Familie zusammenhängt. Denn ausgerechnet Julius, Isabells neue Liebe, scheint tief in die schmerzliche Familientragödie verstrickt.

Ottila McGregor is 30 years old and has decided it’s time to sort her life out. She's going to quit drinking, stop cheating, and finally find true happiness. Easy, right? Of course not. For a start, there's Grace, her best friend, who believes self-improvement is for people in their forties. Next there's Mina, her sister, who is mentally ill, and it might even be Ottila's fault. And then there’s Thales, the Greek guy who works in the hospital cafeteria. He's probably the best, most dangerous person Ottila's ever met.