Showing results for "The Kill" in Contemporary

After years of successfully hiding, the monster who tortured me for years has me in his grasp again. This time, Matello is even more determined to bend me to his will, to make me obey, to break me. What he doesn't realize is just how close I am to shattering. Not from the physical torment, but from not knowing what became of the three men who would tear down the world for me.

Homicide detective Levi Abrams is barely holding his life together. He’s reeling from the fallout of a fatal shooting, and his relationship with his boyfriend is crumbling. The last thing he’s prepared for is a serial killer stalking the streets of Las Vegas. Or how he keeps getting thrown into the path of annoyingly charming bounty hunter Dominic Russo. Dominic likes his life free of complications. That means no tangling with cops—especially prickly, uptight detectives. But when he stumbles across one of the Seven of Spades’s horrifying crime scenes, he can’t let go, despite Levi’s warnings to stay away. The Seven of Spades is ruthless and always two moves ahead. Worst of all, they’ve taken a dangerously personal interest in Levi and Dominic. Forced to trust each other, the two men race to discover the killer’s identity, revealing hidden truths along the way and sparking a bond neither man expected. But that may not be enough to protect them.

Bennett had the world in the palm of his hands when he was 16, then he allowed his dick to do the thinking for him. That one night changed him forever, giving him a child that would forever alter his life. With the help of his parents, he went into the Navy, becoming the SEAL he always wanted to be. However, with that came a price, a price he wasn't willing to pay anymore once his little girl started to realize why he wasn't there. So he came home and joined the local SWAT team, starting his life anew, just his daughter and him. Then he meets the cute physician's assistant.

JJ has a good life. One where he lives with the people he loves, gets to work in Saintly Sweets with his delicious boyfriend, and takes things a day at a time. Of course, that is until he comes across a broken boy so lost in a nightmare that he vows to do everything he can to help him wake from it. There's nothing Shepard Saint won't do for his JJ. Even help him figure out how to save someone who may be lost to the darkness. He knows this won't be easy, and the deeper they go, the harder it becomes to climb out.

My father has chosen me to succeed him in the family business. But if I want the job, it comes with stipulations. And one of those stipulations is to never mix business with pleasure. AKA, don't sleep with anyone on the job. My father leads by example, and not once have I ever seen him get involved with anyone, not even his beautiful assistant. That was an easy rule to follow...until Axel.

Have you ever walked home at night, keys in hand, ready to throw a punch in self-defence? That’s how it all started. The killing spree, I mean. I sort of tripped into this role. Literally. The first one was following me. That guy from the nightclub who wouldn’t leave me alone. I pushed him, he stumbled, and fell onto his own broken wine bottle. Oops. It was such a waste of a good house white. But now I can’t seem to stop and nor do I want to, I’ve got a taste for revenge and quite frankly, I’m killing it.

Brotherhood is what Bull bleeds and all that he knows. Being the king of the Devil's Dust and surrounded by easy women was his everyday...until having his heart broken rooted him to the bottom of a whiskey bottle. Heartbroken and drowning in lost memories, he's unsure of the direction of his life when the answer - consisting of a terrified Mexican girl - nearly knocks him off his feet. He sees Anahi, and he wants her. But she may come with more baggage than Bull is ready for.

Damons Torrance ist gefährlich und unberechenbar. Als er nach Thunder Bay zurückkehrt, hat er nur ein Ziel: Er will Rache – und das Leben von Winter Ashby zerstören, deren Aussage ihn ins Gefängnis gebracht hat. Doch Winter weigert sich, sein Opfer zu sein. Um zu gewinnen, muss sie sich auf sein düsteres Spiel einlassen, bei dem schon bald glühender Hass und verbotenes Verlangen aufeinandertreffen – und die dunkelsten Geheimnisse von Thunder Bay ans Licht kommen.

A former true-crime podcaster faces three guys--one is a fun date, one will be the love of her life, and one is a serial killer--in this fabulous fun romantic thriller perfect for fans of Tessa Bailey's My Killer Vacation...

Contract killer Jack O’Sullivan has corrupt billionaire Cale Jacobson in his crosshairs—until a woman in red ambushes Cale first, ruining the biggest payday of Jack’s career. To make matters worse, Ava Cavalcante, with her haunted eyes and nothing-left-to-lose fury, isn’t even a rival assassin…she’s just a vengeance-driven ex-librarian with a cute dress and limited impulse control. Jack should walk away. Instead, he recruits her to help him finish the job.

In book one of Steel MC Montana Charter, Josh "Red" Luke, Montana Steel MC nomad, wants to go home. It doesn’t have anything to do with running from something as much as the need to find his place in the world. As a former army medic, he used his GI bill to become a skilled surgeon, which fills his necessity to help. Together with the training from the military to never leave a man behind, his soul feels almost whole.

Er war die Liebe meines Lebens. Bis ich ihn verlassen musste. Jetzt ist er der Mann, der mich gefangen hält. Rylee hätte nie erwartet, als Hauptverdächtige im Keller des Weißen Hauses verhört zu werden, nachdem der Präsident der Vereinigten Staaten entführt wurde. Dumm nur, dass alle Indizien gegen sie sprechen. Immerhin war sie die Einzige, die sich im Raum mit ihm aufhielt, als dieser verschwand. Und das Blut an ihrem Körper entlastet sie auch nicht unbedingt. Doch das ist nicht Rylees einziges Problem. Jetzt soll sie dem Secret Service den Aufenthaltsort des Präsidenten nennen, obwohl sie sich an rein gar nichts erinnern kann.

When she shoots the wrong subject, Micki Vermillion, a free-spirited photographer runs to the arms of Oz Osmond, her ex-lover, an over protective alpha-male cop. She chose to carry on in her father's profession, rather than become the wife everyone expected her to be. Now, she has a second chance at happiness if she stays alive that long.

Aged out of the system and battle worn from unsuccessful foster care, four women on the cusp of adulthood find passion and their paths in life through the help of an anonymous fairy godmother type who calls herself the Benefactrix. College freshmen, Phoebe's new lover is sexy, creative, and willing to let her act out all her dirty fantasies. Unfortunately, Keith's not telling her the truth about who he really is and the secret past that binds them together.

He calls her Honey. She calls him Buddy. Together they try to survive in a world overrun with the undead. By day, they kick zombie ass. By night, they seek an escape from the terrifying world in each other's arms. Honey knows she can't afford to start caring for the sexy American. Sex is sex, but love is dangerous. Love can make you do stupid things, and stupid things are a no-no in this new Dark Age.

Find out what happens when one lie leads to the potential destruction of the crew when Royce enters a death match and the others have to come together to ensure that they all survive as lies are exposed. With so many enemies already, the group needs as many allies as possible. But what happens when their allies turn into enemies? It becomes apparent fairly quickly to the crew that in this game of love and war, it's either kill or be killed.

Murder-by-fire. A catfishing squatter. Will Maggie get her life back before the killer claims the one thing she has left to lose? Junker and former alt-country rocker Maggie Killian tucks tail back to Texas with Louise, the mutt her bull-riding ex foisted on her in Wyoming after he gave another woman his heart. Maggie runs straight to Gary Fuller - her long time best friend-with-benefits and the biggest Texas country music star since George Strait - but arrives too late to save him from dying in a fire.

A hook-up turned lethal. A spurned, angry cowboy. Can rebel Maggie turn the tables before a killer adds her to the list of lost causes? Washed-up alt-country-rocker-turned-junker Maggie Killian is pulled to Wyoming by an irresistible force...former bull rider Hank Sibley, the man who broke her heart 15 years before. When she unexpectedly meets his Sunday school-teaching girlfriend at a saloon, Maggie seeks liquor-fueled oblivion between the sheets of a younger man’s bed.

Ichiro Hayashi has been hired to kill a man whose actions threaten to bring down a political empire, which stretches across oceans. Hayashi, an assassin trained in the ancient art of the ninja, has only one sacred duty...he must carry out his mission, or die trying. The kill should be simple, yet the target is unsophisticated and without protection. These things make Ichiro pause, and he wonders why anyone would want this particular man's life destroyed.

"Kill Me Gently with Passion" is the story of Sheldon and Christina, two successful lawyers who started something during college, but faith kept them apart for almost 10 years. However when they meet up after all this time, Sheldon is 100 percent determined to take Christina back in his life. The re-encounter is way more intense and hot. Still, this time around faith intervenes, but Sheldon is willing to do whatever it takes to not let Christina get away.