Bøger af Elizabeth Knox

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She's too beautiful, naive, and inexperienced for a killer like me... AMBROSPretty, innocent Xava catches my eye at a mafia wedding. I can't resist temptation, especially with a sweet girl like her around. She ends up in my bed... and I can't stop thinking about her. I take every opportunity to be near her. I can't stay away. But rumors are circulating about a new child in the mafia, and when I find out it's her, it's almost too late. Someone is after Xava. I will protect her life with mine, even if it takes controlling her every move. XAVAIt isn't like me to have a one-night stand... especially with a gorgeous, cruel criminal. My life shatters when I find out my entire family is a criminal organization. I'm part of it, willing or not. I don't know what to pursue, but I do know I should stay away from the irresistible Ambros. But my new ties to the mafia mean I'm in danger. Ambros will do anything to protect me, but I have doubts about trusting him. Especially when I find out he is a contract killer... Wounded Angel is book five of The Umarova Crime Family dark mafia series of interconnected standalone, full-length novels. Dive into this spicy, twisted romance world now!

There are a million reasons not to date the Russian mobster... I forget all of them the moment he touches me. LOM Pretty Emily won't leave my mind after our make out session. My brother might kill me if I try something with his girl's cousin, but I don't know if I can hold back. Especially when she makes me so jealous, so possessive, it's impossible to stay away from her. I shouldn't be focusing on her. I should be thinking about the family, the money, the blood I have to spill. But every thought revolves around sweet Emily. I'm losing my mind... EMILY I want the happy ending my cousin has, but something tells me I won't find it in the arms of a Russian mobster... But I'm happy to ignore that nagging voice, as long as Lom keeps touching me. We've done things. Things I want to regret, but I don't, because I only want more. When someone close to me threatens me with blackmail, I know Lom could help me. But asking him means exposing our relationship. Is it strong enough to withstand this? Delicate Angel is book two of The Umarova Crime Family dark mafia series of interconnected standalone, full-length novels. Savor this darkly delicious mafia book!

All this will ever be is an arranged marriage between two crime families. Until it becomes so much more. SANTOS Eset said she'd marry me, sight unseen. It's just a political connection, nothing to do with love. That is, until I meet her. Our relationship could be platonic, but I don't want that anymore. From the moment I lay eyes on the stunning girl, I want to possess her. But she stands against everything my family does. She's gorgeous, but she's also vindictive, dangerous, and unpredictable. Eset has it in for my family... I'm the only one who can stop her-by making her mine. ESET Santos is just like the men I've been surrounded by my whole life-dark and dangerous. He's also irresistibly handsome and charming, making me want to forget all about my plans for vengeance. But I made a promise I have to keep, and if it means bringing down my fake marriage to a mobster, so be it... Until I get caught in Santos' web and my feelings turn from cold and detached to fiery and committed to the one man I'm supposed to hate. Vicious Angel is book three of The Umarova Crime Family dark mafia series of interconnected standalone, full-length novels. Dive into this spicy, dark mafia tale today!

Trix I've lived my life in the dark since the very day I was born, but that's what happened when you're abandoned in front of a fire station at two days old. I was put into the state system and eventually after no interest, I was transferred to an orphanage. It's where my life became hell until I was old enough to age out of the system. Since then, I've made a life for myself. It wasn't easy, but I did it. I persevered, went through some tough shit, and made it through. I assumed I wouldn't have any more tough conflicts in my life, but the moment the Sons of Gods MC made it their mission to knowingly keep the truth from my best friend, I lost it. I told her the truth and while I know the club's intentions were good, I couldn't let them lie to her. Not when she'd already been through so much. Only, as I stood up for telling the truth to one of my friends, I was faced with a hard decision with another: keep my growing relationship a secret, or tell Gemma I was sleeping with her brother. I didn't want to lose her, and I didn't want to lose him. Pan I never intended on being with Trix, but she was a spitfire I couldn't keep my hands off. She pushed me at every point and argued with me just as much. She was a woman who didn't bend her will to appease others, and I respected that the most about her. We went from hating each other for a while to being each other's resident bedmates. I couldn't imagine another woman in my bed and I didn't want to. At the same time we were creating something between the two of us, things with the club were blowing up. Our Prez was shot, the man responsible evading us at every turn, and our sales were down. We all knew who was responsible for it and we just had to find him. We'd find him one way or another, and when we did, the entire club would have vengeance for what he did. I don't know who's a bigger threat: Thorn, or Gemma.

I didn't know temptation until I met her... Another mafioso's plaything. NAZYR It's nothing but a business deal... until my customer's slave walks into the room. He offered her to me as a treat, and I can't deny Mona is exactly my type. Gorgeous redheads with ivory skin are my weakness. But I don't pay for attention. Never had to. I don't like the scars on Mona's pale skin, telling me my business partner is not as passionate or caring as I'd be with her. She's clearly mistreated by the mob boss. I can't walk away from her. I'm not leaving without Mona, even if it means risking my life. MONA I was trusting once. Happy. Before he took me, I was innocent and naïve. But my captor made sure to change all that. It's been years since I was kidnapped. I may be the mafia kingpin's most prized possession, but I'm still just a house pet at most. My only hope walks into a business meeting where I am presented as a perk of his business deal with my owner. Nazyr could be the one to save me. If I play my cards right, he will bring me and my daughters to safety. I just have to remember not to trust him. He may be handsome, mysterious and make my knees weak with one look... But deep down, he's just the thing I hate most... a villain. Tormented Angel is book four of The Umarova Crime Family dark mafia series of interconnected standalone, full-length novels. Start this sinfully dark romantic journey today!

A bewitching epic fantasy about a revenge killing, a mysterious scroll box that has survived centuries of fires, and the book that changed everything "Intricately plotted and gorgeously written, The Absolute Book is a cinematic tale that is by turns dark and dreamlike, yet ultimately hopeful." --Deborah Harkness, New York Times bestselling author of A Discovery of Witches

A small community on New Zealand's Tasman Bay is suddenly overwhelmed by a bloodthirsty madness.There are fourteen survivors.Trapped in by a strange force-field called the 'no-go', cut off from the world outside, they must pull together, bury the dead and face their fears. Because whatever caused the insanity is still at large. And it hasn't finished with them yet.Wake is a riveting tour-de-force. A book about extreme events, ordinary people, heroic compassion - and invisible monsters.

Laura comes from a world similar to our own except for one difference: it is next to the Place, an unfathomable land that fosters dreams of every kind and is inaccessible to all but a select few, the Dreamhunters. These are individuals with special gifts: the ability to catch larger-than-life dreams and relay them to audiences in the magnificent dream palace, the Rainbow Opera. People travel from all around to experience the benefits of the hunters'' unique visions. Now fifteen-year-old Laura and her cousin Rose, daughters of Dreamhunters, are eligible to test themselves at the Place and find out whether they qualify for the passage. But nothing can prepare them for what they are about to discover. For within the Place lies a horrific secret kept hidden by corrupt members of the government. And when Laura''s father, the man who discovered the Place, disappears, she realizes that this secret has the power to destroy everyone she loves . . .In the midst of a fascinating landscape, Laura''s dreamy childhood is ending and a nightmare beginning. This rich novel, filled with beauty, danger, politics, and intrigue, comes to a powerful crescendo, leaving readers clamoring for Book Two.Dreamhunter is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children''s Book of the Year."It is like nothing else I''ve ever read." -- Stephenie Meyer, The Twilight Saga

Stranded by a South Island storm, six people usurp the stillness of an old house. As they tell the fragments of their story, a seventh voice responds: a young New Zealand serviceman who died in 1920, soon after his return from France. As the storm deepens, the hauntings of the mind and the hauntings of the house become one.

Sixteen-year-old Canny Mochrie's holiday takes a turn when she stumbles upon a mysterious and enchanting valley, occupied almost entirely by children who can perform a special type of magic that tells things how to be stronger and better than they already are.

Both of them are drawn to Xas without knowing his secret - that under his shirt he hides the remnants of great snowy wings that set him apart from humankind, and that he is destined to wander the earth forever, always hearing the beating of feathers behind him, threatening him that his dark brother has found him again.

In the spring of 1903 a ship explodes as it docks on the island, drowning many of the passengers and crew in the icy waters of Stolnsay harbour. Young, strawberry-blond-haired Billie Paxton is among the only survivors. Clumsy, illiterate and suddenly alone, Billie will not say why, before the explosion, she jumped from ship to shore.

Village life goes on, meanwhile, with its affairs and mysteries, marriages and murders, and the vintages keep improving - though the horror of the Napoleonic wars and into the middle of the century, as science marches on, viticulture changes, and gliders fly like angels. Longlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction.