Rebecca Daphne Du Maurier Book Novels & Stories

« Vas-tu me tuer comme tu as tué ton compagnon ?» demandai-je, la voix et le regard fixés. « Seulement si tu te comportes bien, Lune. Tu es ma petite épouse, tu te souviens ?» Il se pencha et me fit descendre une mèche de cheveux dans l’oreille. « Et en tant qu’épouse, tu dois m’obéir, même au prix de ta vie. Alors seulement, je t’épargnerai.» « Et si je ne le fais pas ?» soufflai-je en levant les yeux vers lui pour la première fois. « Et si je te désobéis, Keiran ? » « Alors, les conséquences seront insupportables. » ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Avoir tout ce que l'on désire était l'une des meilleures choses de la vie. Une famille unie, un compagnon aimant qui est aussi mon amour d'enfance et mon loup. Je pensais que cela durerait très longtemps, mais malheureusement, mon bonheur n'a duré qu'un court instant. J'ai surpris mon compagnon en train d'avoir une liaison avec une autre femme, et mon père, l'Alpha de la meute des Lys, m'a annoncé mon mariage arrangé avec l'homme le plus redouté qui ait jamais existé. LYCAN KEIRAN MORENO. Un Roi Lycan mortel qui est aussi le dieu des Enfers. Des rumeurs circulaient selon lesquelles il aurait tué sa compagne la nuit de leur cérémonie d'accouplement. Comment étais-je alors censée épouser un homme aussi dangereux ? Je me suis retrouvée dans son domaine comme épouse, malgré notre énorme différence d'âge. Bon sang… cet homme était mon pire ennemi. Je préférerais mourir plutôt que de le laisser me toucher. C'est dire à quel point je le déteste, et heureusement, c'était réciproque.

Trahie par son mari PDG et manipulée par une rivale ambitieuse, Tiana perd tout après une tentative d’assassinat qui lui coûte la mémoire. Recueillie par un PDG rival, elle revient plus forte pour récupérer son fils et son empire, déclenchant une guerre d’entreprise et une revanche implacable.

Bianca Sinclair a toujours vécu dans l’ombre de sa sœur. Elle et Bridget sont des jumelles identiques, mais tout le monde voit Bridget en premier. Elle est audacieuse, aimée et admirée. Bianca est discrète, prudente et souvent oubliée. Lorsque deux familles puissantes fusionnent pour créer un empire technologique, un mariage contractuel est arrangé. Aaron Fernandez, l’héritier froid et prospère, doit épouser Bridget. Bianca cache sa douleur et les soutient, même si elle aime Aaron depuis l’enfance. Puis Bridget meurt. Le mariage ne peut pas être annulé. La fusion doit continuer. Bianca est choisie pour prendre la place de sa sœur. Elle épouse un homme qui ne l’aime pas. Bianca se dit que l’amour peut grandir. Que le temps changera les choses. Alors elle donne, et donne, et donne — jusqu’à ce qu’il ne reste plus rien d’elle. Puis Bridget revient. Tout ce que Bianca a essayé de construire commence à s’effondrer. Aaron devient distant. Les anciens sentiments reviennent. Des secrets remplissent la maison et l’entreprise. Bianca est mise de côté, blâmée, puis finalement rejetée. Brisée mais pas détruite, Bianca part recommencer sa vie. Quand elle revient, elle n’est plus la même femme. Mais le pouvoir a un prix. La confiance est dangereuse. Et la vérité est bien plus sombre que Bianca ne l’imagine. Alors que le passé et le présent s’entrechoquent, Bianca doit se battre pour sa place, son nom et son cœur. Parce que certains amours ne meurent jamais. Certains mensonges ne restent jamais cachés. Et certaines batailles ne font que commencer.

Once upon a time, in a land hidden where immortals exist, Alessia Condor was killed as Lady Elena, the woman destined to marry the king of Valeria. Reincarnated in modern Philippines, Alessia finds herself again in the world she doesn't belong in--or so she thinks. *** Alessia was applying for a job when she drowns with her sister and wakes up in a strange land where immortality, demons, and monsters exist. To protect herself, Alessia disguises as the boy Ales, who later becomes Elijah Rafael El Valeria's royal doctor-the more than four thousand year-old king of Valeria, the first immortal. In her game of deception and lies, who is bound to lose-Elijah, who slowly falls in love with Ales, or Alessia, who can only watch while her sister, thought to be the reincarnation of Elena, gets married to Elijah to end the curse.

Caroline Rossi was finally happy. Three months pregnant, with loving husbands, the Rossi twins. They knew about her dark past, and she knew about theirs. And they had just accepted each other. But what happens when their ex wife, who had been murdered years ago by the twins enemy, returns, alive?

# Iron Valley Neah is human, living in a world that was never hers. After her parents die in a car crash when she is fifteen, her mother's best friend—the Luna of the Iron Valley Pack takes her in. Neah grows up alongside Caleb, the future Alpha, training with warriors, earning her place through grit and stubbornness alone. She has plans: college, business school, a life built on her own terms. She knows she will never have a mate. She knows she doesn't belong. Then everything shatters. Caleb finds his true mate and Neah is cast aside overnight. Wolves from rival packs show up at the border asking for her by name. A half-dead Alpha from the most powerful pack in three territories crashes into her life claiming *she* is his mate. And a phone call from a voice she buried three years ago delivers an impossible truth—her mother is alive, her father's death was no accident, and someone has been watching her since the day of the crash, waiting for the right moment to collect. Liam Ashford, the ruthless young Alpha of Shadow Peak, never wanted a mate. He watched the bond destroy his father and nearly destroy his pack. But his wolf dragged him across three territories to a human girl with no wolf, no rank, and no idea how valuable she really is. Neah doesn't need a mate. She needs answers. But the closer she gets to the truth, the more she realizes the bond she keeps rejecting may be the only thing standing between her and the people who want her dead. What is it about a ordinary human girl that has every powerful wolf in the region willing to kill or die to claim her?

Riley was always considered a normal girl, until one night she gets kidnapped. What happens when she falls in love with the man who took her from everything?

Kael Blackthorne, héritier du clan des Loups d’Argent, porte le poids d’un destin qu’il n’a jamais désiré. À vingt-cinq ans, il doit épouser Luna Silvermoon, une alliance stratégique qui consolidera le pouvoir de son clan. Mais son cœur bat déjà pour une autre, Helena Hartwell, une jeune femme humaine de vingt-deux ans qu’il a rencontrée dans les profondeurs de la forêt interdite. Fille de Tobias Hartwell, le chasseur légendaire qui traque les loups-garous il y a des années, elle ignore que son père est responsable de la mort de Lyanna Blackthorne, la mère bien-aimée de Kael. Ce que Lysander Blackthorne, le père de Kael, ne sait pas, c’est que la vengeance de Tobias était justifiée. Sa propre épouse avait été sauvagement assassinée par un loup-garou, non pas un membre d’un clan rival, mais Damien Blackthorne, le frère jumeau de Lysander, qui menait une guerre d’ombre pour usurper le leadership du clan. Damien, rongé par la jalousie et la soif de pouvoir, avait orchestré cette tragédie pour affaiblir son frère, sans imaginer que cela déclencherait une spirale de violence et de douleur qui marquerait les deux familles pour toujours. Dans cette danse mortelle entre amour et vengeance, loyauté et trahison, ils découvriront que parfois, les liens du cœur sont plus forts que ceux du sang… mais à quel prix ?

Everyone has a right to smile, love, and find happiness, but that wasn't the case for Hayat Ali. She is a 25-year-old Muslim girl who works as a school teacher. She lives with her loving father, evil stepmother and stepsister. Many will say that there's no such thing as an evil stepmother or even a stepsister but this is because they have read Cinderella or even read this book. Ever since she could remember her stepmother Maryam, hated her because of the love that she got from her father. She and her daughter always try to make life miserable for Hayat when her father isn't at home. All that changed when a young man saw how she treated his son with the kindness and love that he wanted for his son. Aayan Muhsin is a 30-year-old father and widower who is a millionaire. Aayan hasn't believed in God ever since he lost his wife due to cancer four years after his son Azaan was born. He raised his son with the help of his parents. When he lost his wife, he lost everything that he held dear to his heart except his son. Azaan. All that changed when he saw her with his son. Aayan knew that his son needed a mother's love and that he would need her guidance. So when his father told him about her. He accepted it for his son's sake. But what he didn't know was the fact that she would change their lives for the better or maybe for the worse. Trials will make them question their love and loyalty to each other. People would want to keep them apart, will they succeed, or will their love for each other be stronger than any trial that will come their way?

Janet Sanders is at the top of her game and as a result, business has never been better, even with a new killer in town. After all, since her twin brother's murder at the hands of a deranged serial killer, not much can hurt or surprise you. That is, until she finds out that her father, Dan Sanders, may have been the culprit all along. Therefore Janet, now shrouded with an ironclad will, decided to do what she knows she can do best, dedicating all of her time to two things: her ever profitable career as an escort, and making sure that Dan Sanders is sent to the deepest pit in hell, even if it means she has to hand-deliver him to the devil herself. Now that the handsome Antonio has made his way back into her life with the hopes of capturing who the media has dubbed as "The Strangler" along with Janet's heart, she's dead set on sending him packing once and for all as she has seen firsthand the steep price of "love" for the Sanders family