Showing results for "Noir" in Contemporary

Power built her empire. A secret marked her soul. Starr Knight is the architect of a global empire, ruled by ruthless precision and a cold heart. In her world of glass towers and boardroom wars, emotion is a liability and control is everything. But she cannot explain the crescent-shaped mark on...

Après l’immense succès de "Nymphéa et la Chambre rouge", Margherita Gabbiani revient avec un titre spin-off. Elle est chargée d'assurer sa protection, mais pourra-t-elle le sauver de lui-même ? Depuis les événements qui ont ébranlé la Galerie six mois auparavant, Anton perd pied et...

Elle est coupable, il est victime. Quand leurs chemins se croisent au pied des Alpes italiennes, leur vie bascule. Emilia Innocenti porte en elle un secret inavouable. Voulant échapper aux démons qui la hantent, elle trouve refuge dans le village isolé de Sassaia, niché au creux des montagnes. De la maison d'en face, Bruno l'épie. Marqué par un passé douloureux, il préfère l'isolement et perçoit l'arrivée d'Emilia comme une intrusion. Tout les oppose et pourtant, une connexion inattendue se tisse entre eux.

I'm an omega left behind. I’m damaged, forced to hide my nature, with a scent that can turn alphas violent. I was told there would be no normal, no friends, or dream pack waiting in the distance. But I have one last chance at love. Tomorrow, at the academy ball, my scent blockers will fade. My mates—the ones I was told I would never have—will see me.

Blackmailed and claimed before the whole academy, the Kingsman pack stole me from my mates and kept my scent for themselves. Now, struggling to fit in in class, I only have one friend, and I’m forced to watch, every day, as my mates fall for her. But these alphas’ obsessions sink their claws deep, blurring right from wrong. Dusk, Umbra, and Ransom are flipping the script, and it’s making me wonder the impossible: Did they steal me from my dreams after all?

Freya vit avec sa meute dans les forêts glaciales de Norvège. Maudite par les dieux nordiques, elle est incapable de se transformer en louve. Contre toute attente, le beau Caïn, héritier d'une puissante meute rivale, devient son allié. Mais leur relation bascule lors d'une terrible nuit qui la force à s'enfuir et abandonner les siens. Comme si être une demi-louve ne suffisait pas, la mort de sa mère, son alpha, ne lui laisse pas le choix. Elle doit retourner sur ses terres, affronter Caïn et prendre les rênes de sa meute.

Ravens in the Rain is an unconventional noir love story between a woman with a past and a man with no future where love is no fairy tale, fantasy is foreplay, and sex is had on second dates. Carney and Pru, down on luck and down on love, meet over a game of chance, and the mystery of the other's intentions, compounded by their overwhelming attraction toward each other, compels them into a game of cat and mouse. They ante up and play this game of love or survival that has you wondering who's the villain and who's the hero and how it will all play out.

To the rest of the world, I'm a damsel; rejected by my own mates and bonded against my will. Now, I need them to see that broken omega, so easily underestimated, because it's up to me to save my pack. With threats closing in, time is running out, and if I can't find answers, I might lose Dusk, Ransom, and Umbra—the alphas I've fallen for. Alphas who have already had everything stolen from them.

Ethan - He’s going to pay for what he’s done to me. No matter what it takes, I'm going to find him, and I'm going to destroy him. Jo - I'm not even a person any more, I'm a number, a statistic. Why would anyone do something like that to me? I just want this to end. I want to be normal again. In the shadows of a broken life, what does it take to find love? This standalone novella explores themes of rape, murder, suicide, violence, revenge, and love.

Lia's star in the department is rising. She's made a name for herself as one of the best up-and-coming detectives in the precinct. She's had no problem being undercover before but is shocked when her next assignment requires her to impersonate a profession dominatrix to ferret out some of the most complex and devious crimes the precinct has ever encountered.

"Would you kill for art's sake?" The walls are closing all around rags to riches fiction writer, Victor Casey, as his wife and muse, the lovely Stella, falls for the very detective who is investigating Casey's alleged murders. The detective in question is a stunning concrete blonde, by the name of Megan Lawless, and together, she and Stella are making plans that will destroy Vic if he allows them to happen. 

When a man walks into a police station confessing to a series of gruesome murders, lead detective Devizes Marsh doesn't believe he's telling the truth, until he reveals his true identity. As part of his sick game, the killer gives Marsh 48 hours to save the last victim, a prostitute with whom the wayward detective has become romantically involved. Marsh battles against time to try and save the girl from an almost certain fate, while his public and private lives, and his integrity as a police officer, come under severe scrutiny.

Gwen Turisso's modeling career continues to reach peak after new peak. Her fame is only increased by her improbably wholesome image. Her bubbly yet sheltered public persona has always been one of her selling points. This is all threatened when a mysterious sex tape is released that seems to show her participating in BDSM and submitting to some mysterious, dominant man. On her agent's advice, she goes into hiding and hires a a private investigator, the enigmatic Zack Anson, to help her find the people responsible.

"Il se glisse derrière moi et doucement me sodomise pendant que ses doigts caressent mon clitoris avec adresse. Je fais face à la mer où se reflète la lumière de la lune. Je ne peux m'empêcher de noter la beauté du paysage et cette splendeur ajoute à l'intensité du moment." À Busan, en Corée du Sud, l'ambiance qui règne durant la conférence sur l'environnement rend Alia, grand reporter, excitée, perplexe et énervée. Et si elle s'attendait à de l'action, elle va être servie !

Jess has fallen for yet another loser, but this one is hiding a secret that puts her and her son in a huge amount of danger. He's a killer from across the state line, with a string of grizzly murders behind him, of young and pretty prostitutes. Jack, a sexy private detective with a checkered past, is on the hunt to bring him back, and save Jess from a similar fate. Can he capture the devil himself, and resist falling in love with the damsel?

Christopher - Bone is going to kill again, I can feel it. One little bone at a time until the whole skeleton is complete. Maude seems like such a lovely girl too, perfect for what we need her for. I just hope I can get to her before Bone does. It would be a shame to waste this one.