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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

After two years of brutal captivity, Portia Lamont has escaped and returned to her family's Vermont horse farm - only to find her parents gone to New York to try an experimental treatment for her mother's cancer, and her childhood friend Boone Hawke running the farm. The man Boone has become frightens her to near paralysis, but she's too traumatized and physically devastated to put up a fight.

Grace may have problems, but Anderson Rockwell loves his sassy, spicy, and slightly unfaithful wife. A recovered heroin addict who's now struggling with sex addiction, Grace tries her best to control her inner demons. She's relapsing less often. And when she does, she always calls. Always comes back home. Until this time.

Affairs aren’t permitted between staff members at St. Michael’s Asylum, but Carmen and her handsome young psychiatrist find a way to sneak in a kiss or two in empty storerooms when no one’s looking. It doesn’t take long for her suspicions to rise, however, as she gets to know some of the patients. Why are some kept locked in their rooms, doped to the gills? And where are the two dozen patients whose names appear on the med lists, but whom she’s never met? Moreover, what’s so forbidden about the ancient passages snaking beneath the two-hundred-year old monastery?

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

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.

Welcome to the LOVE YOU TO DEATH multi author short story collection! Love and Valentines related stories to make your heart race and your spine tingle! There’s a fine line between love and hate. Come listen as these main characters struggle to find love, keep love, or survive love. Josephine is the woman to go to for jilted lovers. From lacing chocolates with laxatives to knowing where to hide a body, she has the skills.

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.

Cameron. Eigentlich wollte ich nie nach Nebraska zurückkehren, doch ich muss das Haus meines verstorbenen Vaters verkaufen. Hoffentlich laufe ich Jordan nicht über den Weg. Immerhin ist er der einzige Mann, der mir je das Herz gebrochen hat – und der erste, den ich ausgeraubt habe... Jordan. Ich weiß genau, dass Cameron nach dem Tod ihres Vaters zurückkommen wird. So herzlos, nicht aufzutauchen, ist nicht einmal dieses Miststück – und ich werde auf sie warten. Rache ist süß, sagt man. Nach all der Zeit sollte sie noch süßer schmecken als Cameron selbst.

Shane. Ihr Bruder hat uns beauftragt, sie zu beschützen – nur ist Ryanne der Meinung, unseren Schutz nicht zu benötigen. Ich weiß nicht, ob ich sie lieber erwürgen oder küssen möchte, damit sie ihr vorlautes Mundwerk hält... Brann. Ryanne stellt meine Geduld auf eine harte Probe. Eigentlich halte ich mich immer an das Motto "Erst die Arbeit, dann das Vergnügen", aber Ryanne bettelt förmlich um eine Lektion. Außerdem merke ich, wie Shane sie ansieht. Ich wäre eifersüchtig, wenn ich nicht wüsste, dass wir stets brüderlich teilen.