Bøker av Elizabeth Knox

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!

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.

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.

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.