Showing results for "Jewel" in Romantic Suspense

Hunter Gray and Lainie Mayes were each other’s first, last and only love. Until tragedy and their feuding families drove them apart. Eleven years vanish when Hunter learns that Lainie has gone missing in the Colorado mountains. Now the former army pilot must pull off his most perilous mission. Can he rescue Lainie and uncover the truth before the woman he loves is once again lost to him…this time forever?

After the death of her husband four years ago, Hartley Watson is finally ready to meet someone - and maybe even have a second chance at love. But then, just as her dating life seems to be getting started, Hartley is struck with a horrifying realization: Someone is watching her. Entering her home. Even knows the intimate details of her life. How else to explain the strange deliveries, or the sudden appearance of mementos from her dead spouse - ones that she had kept for so long in storage?

Clare Ortwein takes listeners on an exhilarating journey through the heart of Cairo, Egypt and the unforgiving expanses of the Egyptian desert. Archaeologist Lily Archer, once a skeptic of legends, finds her life irrevocably transformed when she crosses paths with the enigmatic Malik Al-Rashid. Together, they embark on a treacherous quest to uncover the hidden Jewel of the Nile—a treasure steeped in mystery and power. As they navigate landscapes, decode ancient inscriptions, and confront their doubts, Lily and Malik's initial clash blossoms into a passionate romance.

Club de strip-tease en vogue à Pittsburgh, le Gentlemen's Jewels accueille chaque nuit sur sa scène les plus belles pierres précieuses de la ville. Parmi elles, Diamond, créature blonde qui fait fantasmer la riche clientèle. Mais le jour, Diamond redevient Charlotte, beauté froide au look BCBG, pas vraiment appréciée de ses camarades. Et encore moins de Mason Parker, l'une des idoles de la fac. Ce n'est rien, elle ne les aime pas non plus, lui et son arrogance, lui et son charisme, lui et sa certitude d'obtenir tout ce qu'il désire.

Aric James Monaghan promised Jillian Knight Portland. With a heavy heart and a light bag, she travels to the West Coast for the man she loved. In a blink, her worlds collide, holding her hostage to a past filled with lies, deceit, and revenge. Four caskets. Two bodies. It all started with a boy and a girl — their tragic love story is shared through the eyes of the enemy.

Behind tinted windows a few yards from mourning family and friends, Jessica and Jude Day witness their parents’ funeral - and their own. Stripped of the only life they’ve ever known, the Days say goodbye to San Francisco forever. Six months and two new identities later, the 30-year-old misfits with elite self-defense skills and penchants for alcohol, sex, and trouble arrive like an earthquake to Peaceful Woods, a retirement community in Omaha, Nebraska, that thrives on rules and gossip. Welcome home, Jackson and Jillian Knight.

Voilà six ans qu’Emilia a tout quitté. East Harlem, les siens, mais surtout Ángel Reyes, son ancien grand amour qui croupit derrière les barreaux pour un crime qu’il n’a pas commis. Six ans qu’elle a frappé à la porte de Lowell O’Brien, le propriétaire du Gentlemen’s Jewels. Depuis, elle s’efforce de vivre et d’oublier son passé aux côtés de Marylin, sa voisine, et de ses amies, les joyaux. Mais tout juste libéré de prison, Ángel débarque à Pittsburgh avec la ferme intention de se venger de celle qui l’a abandonné sans même un au revoir.

An unexpected tragedy leaves Professor Nathaniel Hunt a widower alone with a newborn baby. He hires a nanny. She’s young but well-qualified, with a simple life, a crazy name obsession, and a boyfriend she met at the grocery store.

Conspiracies. Corruption. Serial killers. You name it—I'm fascinated by it. My mom always blamed my overly curious and highly suspicious mind on my dad. My incredibly overbearing dad. Mr. No One Is Good Enough For My Daughter has been terrifying my dates since I turned 15. College is my chance to be free from his control and date any guy I want. I'm absolutely certain he would hate Slade Wylder—almost as certain as I am that I do too. Since when have I shied away from trouble?

Are you ready to step into another dimension with this mind-bending romance, a provocative story that pushes boundaries and tests the true meaning of love?

I was an accomplished music professor. Happily single. Perfectly content. Now, I’m unemployed. Pining for a dark, brooding guy named Jack who lives in a garage with a piano. And I’m plotting to seduce a married man because his daughter is responsible for my nephew committing suicide.

Trouble always comes to those who court it. Rose Gardner's ability to see glimpses of the future has gotten her into hot water time and again, but so have her curiosity and her sense of daring. Those very qualities helped her defeat the most powerful man in Arkansas - a man so adept at hiding his crimes there was no way to defeat him inside of the law - but her success came at a steep personal price. Now she's throwing herself into her landscaping business, trying to live a life that's as orderly as one of her gardens.

When several members of a search-and-rescue team die in an accident, followed by several more team members who are murdered, Jace is ordered to sort it out. Working for a large insurance company had always been great for Emily, until she is handed several files all from the same family. Men she knew...intimately. Afraid that there is too much going on in the background, she contacts Legendary Securities for help. As the investigation develops, more bodies turn up, along with jealousy, greed, and insurance payouts that just maybe shouldn’t have been paid.

Armed with a sinful past and an equally sinful body, Jackson Knight absolves his vow of celibacy to pursue Sergeant Monaghan’s unsuspecting older housekeeper. Ryn Middleton, on the cusp of turning 40, with a snarky daughter, a killer dog, and an abusive ex-husband, finds Jackson’s advances humorous and unbelievable. After intense negotiations including Vera Wang, Ed Sheeran, and sex four times a day, Ryn accepts Jackson’s marriage proposal on their first date.

Run. He told me to run. So I ran. It turns out just because you run from something, it doesn't mean it can't find you. He's coming for me. He wants what I hold closest. He wants to lie, manipulate, and use me. He wants me to betray him. Rafael. Leader of the Italian Mafia. Love of my life. Father of my child. He's going to make me do the unthinkable. There is no way out. I'm trapped and about to make the biggest mistake of my life.

We're 13 girls, captive to a man we rarely see. Obedience will become all we know - it is the only emotion we're permitted to feel. When we're bad, we're punished. When we're good, we're rewarded. Our scars run deep, yet we survive because we have to - because he teaches us to. All of us are special, we feel it with everything we are. He has us for a reason, but it's a reason we don't know. We haven't seen his face, but we know that something deeply broken lies beneath the darkness. With every touch, with every punishment, we know it.

Maxon James understands me in a way others can’t. For as long as I can remember, he’s vowed that one day he would claim my wild, rebel heart. God knows I wanted him to try. I wanted the life he promised me in his lyrics. But his assurances couldn’t change the past, and the infamous mafia blood in my veins guarantees my heart can’t be claimed. Somewhere along the way, I slipped. I let myself believe we could have it all. Now a dark, menacing shadow hovers between us, mocking us for daring to hope for a normal future.

From New York Times and USA Today’s best-selling author R.L. Mathewson comes a new standalone romantic comedy with down-to-earth characters that will have you laughing out loud and leave you with no choice but to fall in love.

Scarlet Stone has everything: a doting fiancé, a spacious London flat, and a legitimate job offer. In a single breath, everything becomes nothing, and she finds herself on a plane to Savannah, Georgia in search of the meaning of life. After securing a six-month lease for a beachfront house on Tybee Island, Scarlet changes the way she looks, thinks, eats—basically her entire outlook on life. She needs peace, but what she gets is a housemate who looks like Thor, acts like a warden, and smells her proximity like a bloodhound.

The summer before fourth grade, Colten Mosley moved into the house across the street from mine, and we became inseparable. He played the piano and baseball. I had a penchant for dead things while at the same time imagining what it would be like to kiss Colten. We were filled with curiosity and overly active imaginations. We were also forbidden to be more than friends. But that didn't stop us. Weeks before graduation, he annihilated my heart, and it's been seventeen years since the day I knew I'd hate him forever.