Автор - Iris Johansen
No Red Roses
Автор: Iris JohansenЖанр: Иностранная литература
When singer Rex Brody took Tamara Ledford in his arms, he knew suddenly that the lady he'd been singing to all along was no longer just a hopeful fantasy. But could he convince her that his feelings were as sincere as the powerful desire that swept her from a small-town life into the public spotlight where he lived? Tamara's psychic Aunt Elizabeth had predicted that with Rex she would share the beautiful music only true lovers may hear. But Tamara rebelled against his need for her. Then Rex showered her with blossoms that symbolized longing and tenderness – and broke her heart… for there were no red roses…
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Pandora's Daughter
Автор: Iris JohansenЖанр: Иностранная литература
The number-one blockbuster bestselling author delivers her most explosive and compelling novel yet, in which a woman must unlock the secrets of her own mind before she loses her life.She has a gift of unspeakable power…He must control her or destroy her…For as long as she can remember, successful young physician Megan Blair has tried to silence the voices in her head--voices that bring her to the edge of madness and terror. Megan possesses psychic powers that have been dormant for years, hidden deep in the past she's tried so desperately to forget. But now everything has come to a boiling point--someone is trying to kill her, and others are trying to use her, including the deadly and seductive Neal Grady. Shocking secrets about her life and her mother's death bombard her as she fights to take control of her heritage and save herself and everything she believes in. Grady holds the key to understanding her future, a future in which Megan's life will never be the same.If she survives to have a future.A fast-paced thrill ride, Pandora's Daughter is Iris Johansen as you've never read her before.
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Quicksand
Автор: Iris JohansenЖанр: Иностранная литература
Returning from Johansen's New York Times bestselling thriller, Stalemate, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still obsessed with finding her daughter, Bonnie. No stranger to looking for clues where there seem to be none, Eve enlists the unique skills of the mysterious Dr. Megan Blair to help bring Bonnie's elusive killer to justice. The tension and danger escalates as Eve and Joe Quinn go on a hunt that can either bring them the revenge and closure that Eve has long sought or the destruction of everything she holds dear.
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Quinn
Автор: Iris JohansenЖанр: Иностранная литература
Former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows how dark the shadows of the soul can turn. But when he met Eve Duncan a decade ago, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose torment was matched only by her dual desires to bring her missing daughter home and reveal the truth of her disappearance, no matter how devastating it may be. Eve's fateful first love, John Gallo, seems to hold the key to the mystery of young Bonnie's fate. With Joe's life hanging in the balance at the hands of Gallo, justice may never be served – unless CIA agent Catherine Ling, who owes her child's life to Eve and Joe, can outsmart Gallo at his own game. Emotionally charged with one shock after another, readers discover for the first time how Joe and Eve met and fell in love against a backdrop of haunting tragedy, gaining new insight into the characters they've known and become invested in for more than a decade. Soon to follow: the mind-blowing conclusion to Iris Johansen's trilogy: Bonnie.
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Segunda Oportunidad
Автор: Iris JohansenЖанр: Иностранная литература
Nell Calder era una mujer tímida y amable, una esposa que intentaba contentar a su ambicioso marido, una madre que amaba a su hijita con pasión. En suma, no era el tipo de mujer capaz de inspirar envidia, deseo ni pasiones asesinas.¿Quién iba a querer hacerle daño?Pero ocurrió una tragedia: una noche, en una exótica isla del mar Egeo durante una elegante reunión en la que su marido esperaba culminar su fulgurante carrera en el mundo de las finanzas, y que fue interrumpida por el estruendo de los disparos y la afilada hoja de un cuchillo.El ataque fue despiadado. La niña murió, y ella quedó terriblemente desfigurada.Sin embargo, la pesadilla convierte a Nell en una mujer distinta. La mejor cirugía le de un rostro de exquisita hermosura; la posterior rehabilitación, un cuerpo ágil y esbelto. Y Nicholas Tanek, el misterioso desconocido que suscita en ella temor y fascinación, le da una razón para seguir viviendo: la venganza.Preparar su venganza s lo único que la mantiene viva. El asesino de su hija no puede seguir viviendo. Ella le dará muerte… con sus propias manos.
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Silent Thunder
Автор: Iris JohansenЖанр: Иностранная литература
Hannah Bryson is a marine architect who's been given a fascinating assignment. A Russian nuclear submarine called The Silent Thunder has been purchased by the United States for exhibition in a museum. Hannah must create a schematic of the sub to check for hazards and design seamless modifications to make it safe for the thousands of expected visitors. Her brother, Connor, acting as her assistant, knows how much this work means to Hannah. But Connor discovers something on the sub – a mysterious message hidden behind one of the panels. And then in a brutal assault on the sub Connor is murdered and the chase is on for Hannah to find her brother's killer. Soon she discovers that she's being used as bait. Because what she doesn't even realize she knows could end her life as well.
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Śmiertelna Gra
Автор: Iris JohansenЖанр: Иностранная литература
Główną bohaterką jest Eve Duncan, rzeźbiarka sądowa, doskonale odtwarzająca twarze zmarłych na podstawie kształtu ich czaszek. Tym razem otrzymuje propozycję pracy przy identyfikacji wykopanych w Georgii szkieletów. Podejmuje się bez wahania, przypuszczając, że jeden z nich może być szkieletem jej dawno zamordowanej córki, której ciała dotąd nie znaleziono. Właśnie na zaangażowaną Eve w sprawę Georgii liczy morderca. Obserwuje bacznie jej każdy krok, zadręcza dziwnymi telefonami, aby w odpowiednim czasie zadać cios. Ten bezlitosny psychopata, przekonany, że zawsze wygrywa, nie skończy swej śmiertelnej gry, póki nie osiągnie zamierzonego celu, którym jest życie Eve.
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Stalemate
Автор: Iris JohansenЖанр: Иностранная литература
From Publishers Weekly In the latest Eve Duncan forensics thriller from bestseller Johansen (Killer Dreams), the Atlanta-based forensic sculptor with an international reputation finds herself attracted, not always convincingly, to a sleazy manipulator. Duncan, who specializes in reconstructing facial features from skulls, has buried herself in her work since the disappearance and presumed death of her seven-year-old daughter, Bonnie, years earlier. That still-open wound is probed with sadistic skill by Luis Montalvo, a shady Colombian arms dealer, who offers to solve the mystery of what happened to Bonnie if Duncan agrees to attempt a reconstruction from a skull Montalvo believes was his late wife's. Despite the misgivings of her former husband, an FBI agent, Duncan accepts, and soon finds herself dodging bullets in a war between Montalvo and a drug lord rival in the Colombian jungle. Despite a shortage of the sort of meaty science that, say, a Kathy Reichs thriller typically provides, Johansen's faithful audience should be satisfied. From Booklist Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is a complicated woman. She has survived her years in the school of hard knocks, although not without scars. And she has suffered the worst event a parent can, losing a child to abduction. Now she helps other stricken parents by reconstructing skulls so that victims can be identified. In this, she is one of the best. In addition to her work, she has Joe, a wonderfully understanding man with many military and government connections. But all this abruptly changes when Eve gets a phone call from Montalvo, a drug lord in South America in need of her services. Eve initially refuses to make the journey, but after he promises to use all his resources to find her daughter's killer and her body, this scarily single-minded and stubborn woman agrees to go, despite knowing that she will most likely be killed. Eve is then simultaneously repelled by and attracted to Montalvo. Johansen strikes again, creating both a nonstop thriller and a character study about an individual who has long seen the world in black and white, and now perceives only shades of gray.
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Star-Spangled Bride
Автор: Iris JohansenЖанр: Иностранная литература
Years after Gabe Falkner saves her life, photojournalist Ronnie Dalton is determined to return the favor, and to break down the cold, hard barrier he has erected around his heart.
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Sueños asesinos
Автор: Iris JohansenЖанр: Иностранная литература
En una noche oscura, los terrores del pasado volverán a la vida de Sophie Dunston. Reconocida especialista en terapias del sueño y creadora del tratamiento REM-4, la científica ha visto cómo sus hallazgos se vuelven contra ella al ser utilizados para controlar la mente de los pacientes y convertirlos en crueles asesinos. Para salvaguardar su seguridad y la de su hijo Michael, durante años ha luchado con todas sus fuerzas denunciando las oscuras prácticas de Robert Sanborne, su antiguo jefe, aunque todo ha sido en vano. Esta vez, los sicarios del magnate farmacéutico están más cerca que nunca, pero Sophie no está dispuesta a que ganen la partida.Amenazada de muerte, su única opción será encomendarse a Matt Royd, un soldado calculador y enigmático que ha podido rehabilitarse de la manipulación causada por el medicamento. Pero ¿podrá confiar en él? Sus peores pesadillas, convertidas ahora en realidad, no han hecho más que empezar.Su vida corre peligro…Sophie Dunston nunca podrá perdonarse el hallazgo de la fórmula para controlar las pesadillas. No mientras ésta se encuentre en manos de Robert Sanborne, el despiadado empresario que ahora la utiliza con el propósito de crear un ejército de asesinos. Sus intentos de denuncia han sido en vano, y la científica empieza a entender que esta guerra que ha iniciado no la podrá luchar sola. Prisionera de su propio hogar y atrapada por los sentimientos de culpa, necesitará todo su ingenio y valentía para proteger su vida y la de su hijo Michael de las oscuras intenciones de Sanborne y sus secuaces, estableciendo un arriesgado juego de confianza con la única persona que parece dispuesta a ayudarla……y no sabe en quién confiar.Matt Royd ha sido entrenado para matar. Miembro del grupo de operaciones especiales del ejército estadounidense, es frío como un iceberg y experto en manipular gente. Sin embargo, en su vida se esconde una historia mucho más oscura, un experimento que le transformó en lo que es en la actualidad. Decidido a saldar cuentas pendientes con aquéllos que le convirtieron en un asesino, en su camino se cruzará con la bella Sophie, y hará todo lo posible por protegerla.
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The Beloved Scoundrel
Автор: Iris JohansenЖанр: Иностранная литература
Now, from nationally best-selling Iris Johansen comes a thrilling tale of abduction, seduction, and surrender that sweeps from the shimmering halls of Regency England to the decadent haunts of a notorious rogue…She was a hostage torn between passion and loyalty…Marianna Sanders realized she could not trust this dark and savagely seductive stranger who had come to spirit her away across the sea. She possessed a secret that could topple an empire, a secret that Jordan Draken, the duke of Cambaron, was determined to wrest from her. In the eyes of the world the arrogant duke was her guardian, but they both knew she was to be a prisoner in his sinister plot-and a slave to his exquisite pleasure.He was the fabulous rake they called the Duke of Diamonds…For years, brilliant, deadly Jordan Draken had schemed to destroy the emperor who threatened everything he valued most in the world. Now that he held this defiant woman who was the key to his final triumph, he felt a fierce sense of satisfaction…and the first stirring of desire. She was only supposed to be a pawn in his plans, but once alone with his captive, Jordan realized she was a prize he could never surrender.
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The Treasure
Автор: Iris JohansenЖанр: Иностранная литература
An ex-harem slave…A reformed assassin…A race to find the most powerfulreligious artifact of all time…New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen returns with her first historical romance in a decade, a new novel of passion and exotic adventure that leads two unlikely and unforgettable treasure hunters on a perilous journey – and into the heart of one of the most captivating mysteries of all time.Lady Selene Ware had been nothing more than a harem slave when Kadar Ben Arnaud – a man once trained in the black arts of death and seduction – helped her escape to the safety of her native Scotland. But even a world away she still wasn't safe from the sheikh who claimed her as his stolen property – and who now forced both her and Kadar to return with a chance to win their freedom. There is, of course, a catch. First they must find the legendary religious relic that men of power have searched for from King Arthur's time to the present.For Selene and the ex-assassin, it is a dangerous odyssey that begins in erotic captivity and leads to an encounter with the mysterious and reclusive Tarik, who now possesses the treasure. But the truth is far more explosive, the stakes far more deadly, and the closer they come to discovering the secret, the closer they will come to losing each other – and their lives. For even as Selene grasps the key to this age-old mystery, Kadar may have to step over the fine line separating the dark path from the light to save her.
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