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121) Driving force
Author
Series
Elite guardians volume 01
Publisher
Sunrise Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Former sniper Christina Sherman has protected uncooperative clients before in her new gig as a bodyguard, but this client is a highly trained military working dog and he's testing her limits. Grey Parker, the dog's owner, is the victim of attempted-murder and the web of lies surrounding his military accident could involve another terrorist attack.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A charming historical fantasy with a tender love story at its core, from the author of Unnatural Magic. Hard-drinking petty thief Dellaria Wells is down on her luck in the city of Leiscourt--again. Then she sees a want ad for a female bodyguard, and she fast-talks her way into the high-paying job. Along with a team of other women, she's meant to protect a rich young lady from mysterious assassins. At first Delly thinks the danger is exaggerated,...
123) The iron wyrm affair
Author
Series
Bannon and Clare volume 1
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Emma Bannon, forensic sorceress in the service of the Empire, has a mission: to protect Archibald Clare, a failed, unregistered mentath. His skills of deduction are legendary, and her own sorcery is not inconsiderable. Unfortunately, they can barely tolerate each other..." --Publisher description.
124) Dearest rogue
Author
Series
Maiden Lane romances volume 8
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she is targeted by kidnappers, Lady Phoebe Batten, who is going blind, is surprised to discover an unexpected tenderness beneath the tough exterior of her bodyguard, Captain James Trevillion, as he tries to protect her.
Author
Series
Sin Eater's daughter volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
For four years sixteen-year-old Twylla has lived in the castle of Lormere, the goddess-embodied, whose touch can poison and kill, and hence the Queen's executioner--but when Prince Merek, her betrothed, who is immune to her touch returns to the kingdom she finds herself caught up in palace intrigues, unsure if she can trust him or the bodyguard who claims to love her.
127) Crowded
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]-
Language
English
Description
Ten minutes in the future, the world runs on an economy of job shares and apps, while crowdfunding has evolved into Reapr: a platform for assassination that's trickled down from politicians, celebrities and CEOs to everyday life and all its petty resentments. A world where anyone with enough backers and the money they contribute can kill anyone else. Like Charlie Ellison, who up until now has lead a quiet, normal life, until she wakes up to find herself...
128) Codex born
Author
Series
Publisher
Daw Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
Description
Five hundred years ago, Johannes Gutenberg discovered the art of libriomancy, allowing him to reach into books to create things from their pages. Gutenberg's power brought him many enemies, and some of those enemies have waited centuries for revenge. Revenge which begins with the brutal slaughter of a wendigo in the northern Michigan town of Tamarack, a long-established werewolf territory. Libriomancer Isaac Vainio is part of Die Zwelf Portenære,...
129) The Diabolic
Author
Series
Diabolic trilogy volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nemesis is a Diabolic. Created to protect a galactic Senator's daughter, Sidonia. The girl who has grown up by her side and who is as much as sister as a master. There's no one Nemesis wouldn't kill to keep her safe. But when the power-mad Emperor summons Sidonia to the galactic court as a hostage, there is only one way for Nemesis to protect Sidonia. She must become her. Now one of the galaxy's most dangerous weapons is masquerading in a world of...
Author
Series
Fritz Malone thrillers volume 1
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
On the Thanksgiving morning in New York City, Fritz Malone witnesses a shooting and chases the gunman. The police stop him and deliver him to the police commissioner, who informs Fritz that someone dubbed "Nightmare" has been taunting the city's leaders for weeks, warning of an imminent attack on the citizenry.
131) The bachelor
Author
Series
Duke dynasty volume 2
Language
English
Description
"Lady Gwyn Drake has long protected her family's reputation by hiding an imprudent affair from her youth. But when her former suitor appears at Armitage Hall, manhandling the heiress and threatening to go public with her secrets, it's Gwyn who needs protecting. Her twin brother, Thorn, hires Joshua Wolfe, the estate's gamekeeper, to keep her safe in London during her debut. As a war hero, Joshua feels obligated to fulfill the assignment he has accepted....
132) The busy body
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It's a dream assignment. Former Senator Dorothy Gibson, aka that woman, is the most talked-about person in the country right now, though largely for the wrong reasons. As an independent candidate for President of the United States, Dorothy split the vote and is being blamed for the shocking result. After her very public defeat, she's retreated to her home in rural Maine, inviting her ghostwriter to join her. Her collaborator is impressed by Dorothy's...
Author
Publisher
Shaye Areheart Books
Pub. Date
©2008
Language
English
Description
Take a slasher-movie actress, a Scottish circus clown, an FBI school dropout, a blind heiress, a junk-food-loving millionaire developer, and a Buddha-quoting bluesman, add a couple of murders in a normally sedate retirement community in south Florida, and you get an irresistible tale that's part Carl Hiaasen and part Gabriel Garcia Marquez. It all goes down as easy as a Key lime pie martini, the signature drink of the Bad Girl's Bar & Grill.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Publishing
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Alex Thorne has been enjoying his retirement from the Secret Service by seeing the world. Aboard the City Of Peking, he saves the life of fellow passenger Rudyard Kipling. Thorne immediately suspects that the incident was not an accident. A high regard between the two men leads to friendship. And after another attempt on Kipling's life, Thorne proposes to act as guardian for the British author on his tour of the American West. Tensions rise as the...
136) The last legion
Publisher
Distributed by Genius Products
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In 460 A.D. Aurelius Antonius finds himself recalled to Rome and is assigned the Commander of new Caesar, Romulus Augustus' retinue of personal bodyguards. Romulus is destined to be crowned the last emperor of Rome. His reign lasts for one day and ends with Rome being run over by the savage Goths. In the resulting invasion, most of Aurelius's men are killed and the young Caesar is captured and imprisoned in the forbidding Isle of Capri. Aurelius,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Marvel Worldwide, Inc., a subsidiary of Marvel Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The world building of Wakanda continues in a love story where tenderness is matched only by brutality. You know them now as the Midnight Angels, but in this story they are just Ayo and Aneka, young women recruited to become Dora Milaje, an elite task force trained to protect the crown of Wakanda at all costs. Their first assignment will be to protect Queen Shuri... but what happens when your nation needs your hearts and minds, but you already gave...
138) Beneath dark waters
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Deadly secrets lie beneath the murky waters of the Louisiana bayou in this pulse-pounding new romantic suspense novel from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Karen Rose. There's no safe place for a child to hide when the danger comes from every direction. Public prosecutor J.P. "Kaj" Cardozo has lived in New Orleans for only six months, and he's already working on a high-profile celebrity sexual assault case that has made headlines all...
139) Devoured by darkness
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Pub
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Laylah, a half-human, half-demon jinn who is trying to protect a child who may be the catalyst in a war between good and evil, binds herself to Tane, a Charon sworn to hunt and kill rogue vampires, who has been hired to capture her.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009
Language
Français
Description
A successful Parisian lawyer travels to defend an elderly widow accused of murder. The defendant's son hires a bodyguard for him, and the lawyer falls for an ambitious TV weather girl who sees him as a means to advance her career. To complicate matters, she was the bodyguard's former girlfriend, and he wants her back
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