Showing results for "Bittersweet" in Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

For one brief hour on a sunny Texas morning, amateur baker Rosie Hart glimpses the life she’s always dreamed about - thanks to a surprise inheritance from the late Miss Alice. But her benefactor is barely cold in the ground when Rosie is accused of her murder. As the only stranger in the tight-knit Airlie Falls community, and the only person with an obvious motive, all eyes turn to Rosie. Especially when more bodies begin to pile up and mysterious letters from the grave start circulating faster than Rosie can pull a tray of cherry nut clusters out of the oven. 

With one look, Brooke knows that she cant fight the desire that pulled them together before, despite the skeletons in both their closets. Leif Montgomery fell hard for Brooke Alder in Paris when they were young, and he thought their fling was just an early taste of what life had in store for him. But life had other plans, and he didn't find that kind of love—or see Brookes face—for years.

A Bittersweet Gay Romance – Heiße Affären, sexy Studenten Ein Professor packt aus! Eine Geschichte von Carina Wage Der junge Professor G. berichtet von seiner schwulen Affäre mit dem Studenten Pay und ihren heißen Liebesspielen. In kürzester Zeit ist der ältere Herr, dem Callboy...

Dr. Will Montgomery had already given in to his temptations. He’d tasted the forbidden fruit again and again for months. Despite the obstacles, he claimed the beautiful Charlotte Pierce and fell head over heels in love. But a stolen love, a forbidden love, comes at a price. And in the aftermath of their affair, Will finds himself backed into a corner, desperate for an escape from the chaos. Chaos that threatens to destroy him and reveal the secrets he’d kept hidden. And if there’s one thing Dr. Will Montgomery should have learned by now, it's that the truth always comes out. 

An up-and-coming ghostbuster and her motley crew tackle a devilish high-wire act, aided (or more often, interrupted) by her rakish ex and the sarcastic reporter she can't seem to shake—from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Spooky Love. Maplemead Castle is crawling with ghosts...

Everyone tells me I need to get out there again. That I can't live my life with a permanent scowl on my face, jaded from my past, and not looking forward to my future. Dating is the last thing on my mind, especially when my beloved cafe can barely stay afloat. That's where Pack Axton comes in with an offer I can't refuse. Pretend to belong to Donovan, Liam, and Hunter. One has a heart of stone, one wears a thousand-watt smile, and the other is obsessed with me. If I can be the doting Omega to the three billionaires, my cafe and everyone's jobs will be saved.

From V.C. Andrews, bestselling author of Flowers in the Attic (the first in a series of Lifetime movie events about the Dollanganger family), comes the tale of a gifted teenager who finds that mastering high school is much easier than mastering her heart. Mayfair Cummings is young, beautiful...

A ghostbuster and her motley crew face the ghosts of Christmas—and the exes of Christmas past—in this haunted holiday rom-com from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Crazy Spooky Love. Melody Bittersweet's Christmases are always more haunted than holly jolly, but even she's not used...

A plucky medium, her fame-chasing ex, and an infuriatingly handsome skeptic reporter make for a complicated love triangle—and that's before the ghosts get involved. From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of One Day in December comes the first novel in a ghost-hunting series full of...

Emma Laurent has always preferred helping others to asking for help. But now, she’s the one in need. Her stepmother is selling her late father’s candy shop, her grandmother’s assisted-living facility has become a financial burden, and the anniversary of her fiancé’s death is quickly approaching. Rather than face her problems, Emma does what she does best - finds someone else to help by offering a mother and son with nowhere to go somewhere to stay.

Home at Greenoak in Hampshire, Texas, transplant Pru Parke joins a society to establish a medieval herb garden near the twelfth-century Hospital of St. Cross in Winchester. But when a flamboyant supporter of the garden who promised a million-pound donation is found hanged, Pru finds herself drawn into more than the study of medieval gardens.

Ben Coleman left his hometown and the family business that should have been his to pursue his true passion: art and tattooing. Coleman Ink has become his world, and he's tailored the business to fit his life the way he wants it, rather than the life that was originally laid out for him. Until early one morning he's woken up by what he thinks is an intruder only to find it's just his new neighbor. His new neighbor, who has no regard for her own safety, wakes up way too early, and seems to have made it her job to tempt him.

USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author Tracy Lorraine brings you this dark bully college romance collection that includes Leon & Macie’s duet: "The Devastation You Reap" and "The Retaliation You Deliver". From the twisted lies that torment them to the dangerous truth that could set them free.

In the quiet town of Lost Trail, Montana, the apparent abduction of long-time librarian Sybil Tombe shakes community to its core. An elderly neighbor reports seeing a gray-haired, bearded man driving up to Sybil’s house the night she disappeared. New sheriff Zak Waller plunges into the investigation, but keeps uncovering more questions than answers.

What can cause an ordinary citizen to become a serial killer? After the death of his wife, children, and grandchildren in a highway accident, which also killed the drivers who were at fault, Barry Wilk has nothing to live for —until he receives a mysterious summons to visit Lark Castle, his former sweetheart and the great love of his life. Lark is dying; it’s too late for them to have a second chance. Forty years ago, during his freshman year at college, their romance had been derailed — accidentally, he’d thought at the time.

Von der Marionette zum Rage Girl. Das ist es, was du aus mir herausgeholt hast, Carver. Du hast mir gezeigt, wer ich wirklich bin. Jetzt ist es an der Zeit, der Welt und meinen Peinigern zu beweisen, zu was ich fähig sein kann. Ich werde nicht ruhen und so lange wüten, bis jeder von ihnen das bekommen hat, was er verdient. Und du, mein neuer Stiefbruder, bist dabei nicht nur mein engster Verbündeter. Du bist mein Schwert. Wut, Chaos und Verderbnis – all das hast du in mein Leben gebracht, als du zu meiner Stiefschwester wurdest. Doch deinetwegen kann ich endlich wieder klar sehen, Rage Girl.

Suspenseful and cinematic, New York Times bestseller Bittersweet exposes the gothic underbelly of an idyllic world of privilege and an outsider’s hunger to belong. On scholarship at a prestigious East Coast college, ordinary Mabel Dagmar is surprised to befriend her roommate, the beautiful...

Establishing her own business as a private detective in San Carmelita, California, karate expert and sleuth Savannah Reid is hired by real-estate broker Brian O'Donnell to find his long-lost sister, but the case soon becomes complicated by murder.

Leah schwört Rache. Nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter ranken sich böse Gerüchte um sie, denen sie endlich ein Ende setzen will. Jemand in Ashriver hat es auf sie abgesehen und hängt ihr ein Verbrechen an, dass sie nicht begangen hat. Mithilfe ihrer Fähigkeiten als Leserin schleust sie sich in die Elite der Akademie ein, um den Schuldigen zu überführen.

My whole life is nothing but a lie—the poor Esme Denver is gone, replaced by the heiress Esmeralda Forbes. I’m torn from my ordinary life and thrown into a world full of money, hate, pain, and unspoken rancor led by a calculating, uncaring father I wished never found me. This new life brings me a brother who hates me on sight and will stop at nothing to have me gone. There is also his frenemy, Caleb, who is as wicked as he is beautiful. They’re both on a mission to make my life living hell—at home and school—where they hold all the power.