Showing results by publisher "Audible Studios" in Action & Adventure

Un tueur à gage tombe amoureux de sa cible... Logen, ville de la déchéance humaine. Ville dans laquelle les sirènes de police ont remplacé les chants des oiseaux, où les gangs s'affrontent sans relâche au milieu d'une population pauvre et sans défense, ou presque. Soit t'y nais et tu te bats, soit t'y crèves. La drogue, les armes sont mon quotidien. Tout est une question de calculs, de fric, de choix. Un contrat signé : tuer l'autre pour de l'argent. Facile, tellement fait et refait que ça sera rapide. Mais cette fois-ci, la nana à liquider me plaît. Son nom ? Amyliana.

Jan Storms Leben als Landarzt läuft in ruhigen Bahnen. Doch als der Sommer sich dem Ende neigt, häufen sich merkwürdige Vorkommnisse: Ein Mann wird unter ominösen Umständen auf der Jagd erschossen und Patienten entscheiden sich statt Arztbesuch für Wunderkristalle und Kräutertees - die sich allerdings als giftig entpuppen. Als die junge Witwe seines in Afghanistan ums Leben gekommenen Freundes ihren Besuch ankündigt, stürzt Jans Welt endgültig ins Chaos. Denn Andrea hat offensichtlich ein Geheimnis. Bald stellt Jan fest, dass es in Brodersby um weitaus gefährlichere Dinge als alternative Heilmethoden geht.

Anno Domini 1095. Cresciuta all'estremo nord del Sacro Romano Impero, Viridiana è abituata a viaggiare ed esercitare l'arte della guarigione. Fino a quando re Jonas dei Naconidi irrompe nel suo villaggio e la reclama come ostaggio in cambio della pace, ammaliato dalla chioma di fuoco e dallo spirito fiero che la contraddistinguono. Perché proprio a lei è toccato in sorte un simile sacrificio? Jonas è un sovrano arrogante e un guerriero spietato. Non c'è limite alla sua forza, né al suo desiderio di proteggere il figlio Andreas, unico vincolo con il suo perduto amore.

"Come sono finita in questo guaio?" questa la domanda che gira in testa a Daisy Devreaux, dolce e volubile ragazza che si trova a un bivio: finire in prigione o sposare il misterioso uomo che suo padre ha scelto per lei... E dire che, al giorno d'oggi, i matrimoni combinati non esistono più!

Adam Stone è cresciuto nella polverosa e arida città di Blackwater, circondata dal deserto, un luogo fuori dal mondo dove nessuno può dirsi veramente libero. Non desidera altro che fuggire da quella prigione e trovare un'esistenza di libertà e di pace. Ma c'è qualcosa che Adam rincorre ancor più della libertà: l'amore dell'affascinante Sadie Blood.

Una doctora en busca de la felicidad, un médico destrozado por un trágico suceso. Ambos buscarán reescribir su vida. Volverán a renacer gracias al amor en un pequeño poblado africano. Cada día es un nuevo comienzo. Sarah Collins es una cirujana enamorada de su profesión, pero nunca ha contado con el apoyo de su familia, que pertenece a la alta sociedad americana.

Paris in 1816 is reeling from the Battle of Waterloo, and relations between the British and French are uneasy at best. So it’s hardly a surprise to British attach and Intelligence Agent Malcolm Rannoch when he and his wife Suzanne, soon to give birth to their second child, become the target of violent threats. Malcolm is certain that the secrets of his past have caught up with him - but he’s unaware that Suzanne has more than a few secrets of her own…

For ten years, Anthony Westfield, Viscount Somerton, hasn't been able to forget the woman with whom he spent one scandalous night. When their paths cross again, he's shocked to discover Victoria Seaton is an accomplished pickpocket. But Somerton leads a double life of his own. Working on an undercover assignment, he makes Victoria a proposition: pretend to be his mistress or risk ruin. Yet soon he's tempted to turn their charade into reality - and surrender to an explosive passion.

Manon d'Epinay is on her way to Paris to wed one of the most powerful nobles in France, an adviser to King Louis. But en route, her coach is attacked by marauding revolutionaries. To save her family, Manon strikes a devil's bargain with a seductive highwayman that will seal her fate. For revolution is about to tear France apart - and transform her life forever.

In the wrong place at the wrong time. Amber Larkspur is on a cruise ship headed to the Caribbean when she witnesses an abduction. The target is a powerful Washington senator who is a friend of her father's and a member of the president's inner circle. Then Amber is abducted too. Terrified that she's going to die, she is shocked to be rescued by the seductive stranger who shared her bed a year ago. But Michael Adams hasn't come to save her.

Kathy O'Hara and Brent McQueen were wild kids whose high school romance segued into the perfect marriage - until sudden tragedy drove them apart, leaving Kathy a single mom raising their daughter, Shanna, on her own. But when Brent is rumored to have been aboard a yacht that exploded in fire, leaving no survivors, Kathy grieves for the celebrated rock musician she still loves. Except Brent isn't dead. And now his family is in mortal jeopardy.

Determined to find a husband for his stubborn daughter, Shona MacGowan’s father has called to his castle Scotland’s most eligible clansmen. But for Shona, only one stands out: the stranger, Dugald Kinnaird. His raw, masculine power entices Shona, and when he sweeps her into his embrace, she knows her vow to never marry will soon be broken. But Dugald’s true mission is not to marry the bonnie Scottish lass, but to uncover her as the traitor he believes she is. If playing the suitor will get him what he needs then he’ll pretend to be eager to wed this high-spirited beauty.

Picking pockets as her only means of survival, Octavia Morgan realizes that she has made a terrible mistake when she targets Lord Nick, the most notorious highwayman in England, who vows to ensnare Octavia's passions.

From the extraordinary pen of Jane Feather, nationally bestselling author of Valentine, comes a bewitching tale of a beautiful bandit who's waging a dangerous game of vengeance--and betting everything on love...

Masquerading as a widowed French comtesse, Gabrielle de Beaucaire returns to England to destroy the man responsible for her lover's death and sets out to seduce Nathaniel Praed, Britain's greatest spymaster, into letting her become a secret agent.

Duping unwary nobleman out of their fortunes in the gaming halls - a dangerous game she plays in order to raise money to avenge her father's death - Judith Davenport finds herself under the scrutiny of the honorable Marquis of Carrington.

Margaret, a resourceful midwife, is living with the insufferable relatives of her third husband, Gilbert de Vilers, known as Gregory. She is carving out a life for herself and her daughters despite the hostility and greed of her in-laws. But when Gregory is captured in France and held for ransom, Margaret knows she must take action - her in-laws are too tight with money to be of any use - so she teams up with her old friends Mother Hilde, the herbalist, and Brother Malachi, an alchemist on a quest for the secret of changing base metals into gold.

Fleeing a fiery inferno, beautiful, aristocratic Bryony Paget falls unconscious into the arms of a handsome stranger. She awakens with no memory of her proud aristocratic past - only the stirrings of desire kindled by her mysterious rescuer. American patriot Ben Clare has no time for romance - or for the dark-haired beauty who interfered with his midnight raids for liberty. But he cannot resist Bryony's innocent passion - and together they steal joy amid the strife of bitter war. Too soon the cruel discovery of Bryony's true identity forces her to choose between the Loyalist father she adores and the rebellious man she could never live without.

Saddled with Chloe Gresham, his beautiful and irresponsible young ward, Sir Hugo Lattimer, a man driven by dark memories and a tormenting despair, has no intention of caring for her - until he falls in love.

A Tocoloché inizia e finisce il mondo: così pensa Antiocou Cassola, che da lì e dalle sue pecore mai si é allontanato. Ma Virgilio Ventosu, "Matematicu", ha una missione: portare Antiocu nella nuova epoca, nelle maglie della Rete. E per quante resistenze il pastore faccia, c'è una tentazione a cui dovrà cedere: ottenere l'amore di una donna, la bella Andriana, scaltra navigatrice negli oceani di Internet. Ora che il pastore è nella Rete, avrà trovato la terra promessa o dovrà scovare un modo per fuggirne?