Showing results for title "Rebellion" in Romance

Ein verheerender Tag für Schutzengel Akashiel. Durch unglückliche Umstände verschuldet Akashiel beinahe den Tod von Rachel, die in seiner Obhut steht. Doch auch für Rachel ist ab da nichts mehr, wie es einmal war. Unbekannte verfolgen sie, ihr Kater kann plötzlich sprechen und ein geflügeltes Wesen erscheint in ihrem Garten. Ohne es zu ahnen, hat ihr Schutzengel Ereignisse in Gang gesetzt, die entscheidend sind für den ewigen Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse – und Rachel steckt mittendrin.

The Lunar Massacre was considered to be one of the greatest tragedies of all time. One man rose through the ranks of the Batiste faith to spread a message of hope and liberation. His name was Fernando Jacquard, and his mission is to inspire the Batiste to make their spirituality the central focus of their lives. Only through faith, he said, could they win this war. But not everyone is convinced that his motives are pure. Jacob is worried that his message could be used against the people, and Elizabeth is too.

Hope's had her eye on Charlie for a long time, for all the good it's done her. He's not even aware of her existence - other than as a fellow agent working Black Ops for the CIA. Her friends, Glory, Honor, and Charity, found men to love, so Hope knows it's possible. But the odds aren't in her favor. Not in a world of normal humans where she's a genetically modified aberration. Hell, even she refers to her kind as freaks. What man in his right mind would want one of those in his bed?

Faith fled her compound one wintry night with four other genetically modified women. Glory, Honor, Charity, and Hope have all found men who adore them. Faith is happy for her sisters, but it's lonely on her own. A man piqued her interest, but she ran the probabilities, and the odds of him ever being interested in her are thin. Tough and forbidding, Reginald was a field surgeon in the Middle East. He eats and breathes medicine. Besides, he's married to the CIA.

Charity's luck never ran strong because her original configuration was unstable. Her handlers designed experiments to fix the problem, but only made it worse. Sick to death of living under their thumb, she jumps at a chance to escape. She's barely settled in as a CIA special operative - a role where she can put her augmented mind and body to use - when her wobbly genetics decompensate.

Honor takes a huge chance and flees her compound one wintry night. A genetically altered woman, she has no memories from before her kin staged a rebellion seven years before. Because of her enhanced physiology, she finds a home working for the CIA alongside four other women just like her. There are still plenty of rules, but they're different, and she's figuring out how to blend in.

After years as a black ops CIA agent, nothing surprises Roy Kincaid, yet his current assignment is close to a bust. How could his target - renegade genetic freaks - drop off the radar as if they never existed? Burnt out and discouraged, he hunches over a meal in a backwater diner when a half-frozen woman with the look of an abused runaway staggers through the door.

Caitleen McNeill's goal was to escape the poverty and starvation of her childhood. Kells Fitzmichael's mission was to own his own sailing ships. However, within minutes of meeting, they were forced into a marriage of inconvenience from which the binds grew as tangled as a Celtic knot. Each had to survive as they traveled across a nation filled with torture, intrigue, betrayal and death as the Rebellion of 1798 broke out and trusted friends became, sometimes, a worse danger than the enemy.

This action-packed dystopian novel by the best-selling author of The 1929 Series takes you far into the future, where freedom and truth no longer exist. After a worldwide pandemic decimates the population, those left alive fall for the promises of a tyrannical regime.

Decades later, no one knows that the world was ever free, save a small group of men and women brave enough to escape.

Susan Mckennan atraviesa una dulce etapa en su vida, tanto personal como profesional, aunque las desavenencias con su familia le impiden disfrutar de ese buen momento. Decide entonces ir a la casa familiar para intentar arreglar esos problemas, pero el destino le juega una mala pasada. En el camino se detiene un momento a sacar dinero de un cajero y entonces es atacada por un delincuente, quien le dispara y la deja malherida en medio de la calle.

Catherine is a teenager who has always been rebellious within her Amish community. She meets a non-Amish boy one farm over and they and a few other teens decide to train hop their way to Chicago. Leaving early one morning, Catherine joins Matt on their big adventure to Chicago. After finally reaching the huge city, things start to happen that make her wish she was back with her family, held safe within her Amish community and that rebellion is sometimes not all it's made out to be.

Das Herz denkt nicht, es fühlt – und doch versuchen wir, genau das zu vermeiden. Das Fühlen. Marinas Leben, geprägt von Höhen und Tiefen, nimmt seinen Lauf. Das Denken geht ihr noch immer leichter von der Hand als das Fühlen. Verunsichert vom Richtig und Falsch, vom Sein und Werden, sucht sie nach Sicherheit durch Kontrolle und strebt gleichzeitig nach Vertrauen. Mehr und mehr versteht sie sich selbst, beginnt, sich in ihrer Unvollkommenheit zu akzeptieren, und verändert sich, wird zu dem Menschen, der sie immer schon war.

Befreit aus dem Palast der Vampire und ihrem Dasein als Blutsklavin, wird Aria von quälenden Erinnerungen an die gemeinsame Zeit mit dem Vampirprinzen Braith verfolgt. Denn Braith—ihre große Liebe—hat sie verraten und ihr das Herz gebrochen. Tag für Tag kämpft sie nun ums Überleben, und Max, ihr bester Freund und Schicksalsgefährte, ist ihr einziger Trost. Er hat zwar keinerlei Verständnis für ihr Gefühlschaos gegenüber Braith, aber er teilt ihre Erfahrungen in Bezug auf das verstörende Leben unter den Vampiren.

Ein zerrissenes Land. Der Kampf um die Krone. Eine junge Frau inmitten der Rebellion... Der zweite Teil der ergreifenden Trilogie um Cromwells Töchter: Ely, 1643. England wird vom Bürgerkrieg erschüttert. Der tyrannische König Charles kämpft gegen sein eigenes Parlament. Nachbar kämpft gegen Nachbar. Als die Unruhen ihr Elternhaus in Ely erreichen, gerät die 19-jährige Bridget Cromwell mitten in den Konflikt. Während der Stern ihres Vaters Oliver Cromwell, Kavalleriekommandeur des rebellischen Parlaments, in ungeahnte Höhen steigt, hegt Bridget eigene Ambitionen für ihr Leben.