Resultados para "2 Fear" en Literatura y ficción

Jessica Chamberlain and her search-and-rescue dog, Luke, hunt for lost people in the Tidewater area of Virginia. But that's a side hustle: Jess's work as a private investigator pays the bills. Right now, she's looking for a girl missing for twenty years and the truth about a man's suicide. When someone runs her off the road and her house burns down, she could take the hint and leave—but she won't. Regrouping in a fleabag motel far from her friends, Jess battles loneliness and anxiety. When a rich man in Norfolk asks her to find his runaway wife, Jess happily accepts his hefty advance.

My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me. So begins a tale told from his own point of view - a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man’s Fear, Day Two of The Kingkiller Chronicle, Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time.

Claymore Straker is a fugitive with a price on his head. He's wanted by the CIA for acts of terrorism he did not commit; his best friend has just been murdered; and Rania, the woman he loves, has disappeared. Betrayed by those closest to him, he must flee the sanctuary of his safe house in Cornwall and track her down.

Logan Cobalt rarely dates, but finds himself asking out the elusive waiter at Bailey's Cafe. Sure, he has spent numerous lunch hours chatting up the beautiful man over sandwiches, but nothing has come close to a real date. When Logan finds out Macy's hiding a secret, he will move heaven and earth to keep the man safe. After all, he runs a successful security and bodyguard business, so it wouldn't be hard to issue a protection detail. Would it?

All parties converge on the capital city, Triah - Cinzia and the Odenites to establish their new religion and appeal against a charge of heresy; Knot and Astrid to find answers in the vampire girl's past; and Winter has come to conquer the city, at the head of a tiellan army. But Winter is still struggling with her addictions and anger; Knot's efforts to be reunited with her can only lead to disappointment. Cinzia cannot free herself from a terrible bargain. As the battle lines are drawn, the true nature of the goddess Canta, and the Odenites' final purpose, will soon be revealed....

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Jack Frey and the Black Dogs' worst nightmare has come true. For 700 years, the Black Dogs have kept the nation of Abios free from the flesh-eating demons known as the Nostros. Until now. One stalks the streets of the capital and everyone is its prey. As the body count mounts, mankind's very survival is at stake. Can Jack Frey stop it before it's too late?

The Dominion’s surprise attack was almost a total success. Victoria’s home world was captured. Victoria’s vaunted Second Fleet was annihilated, its Third Fleet shattered. The Home Fleet fought a bitter and bloody rear-guard action as Queen Anne and the space station Atlas fled to Refuge, but now they are trapped there. The Dominion fleet batters at the worm hole defenses and its strength increases every day. The Victorian forces are not strong enough to fight their way out. It is a war of attrition that Victoria cannot win.

All parties converge on the capital city, Triah - Cinzia and the Odenites to establish their new religion and appeal against a charge of heresy; Knot and Astrid to find answers in the vampire girl's past; and Winter has come to conquer the city, at the head of a tiellan army. But Winter is still struggling with her addictions and anger; Knot's efforts to be reunited with her can only lead to disappointment. Cinzia can't free herself from a terrible bargain. As the battle lines are drawn, the true nature of the goddess Canta, and the Odenites' final purpose, will soon be revealed....

Beating fear was once his greatest obstacle. Now he has another. Bestselling author Daniel Wright is finally rebuilding his life—one public appearance at a time. But just as he begins his book tour, a chilling discovery stops him cold: a murdered couple found with a handwritten note, sealed and addressed to him. As more couples turn up dead, Daniel is thrust into a twisted game he never agreed to play. The victims are real. The messages are personal. And the killer is watching. At his side is Nicole, the woman he’s finally allowed into his guarded world.

After years of wondering where she came from and what her story was, Raven received the answers she had been craving: she has a family and is the true heir to the throne of Seolia. The answers she so hopelessly sought only bred more questions. As she digs deeper into her past, she wonders if maybe she should have stayed hidden in the shadows, safe from the pain and agony of knowing her happily ever after may not be so happy after all.

Florida homicide detective Maggie Novak should be celebrating: it’s the start of a new year, and her boyfriend has just proposed. But all she can think about is the alarming news she received earlier that evening - her teammate Detective Clayton Young is missing. With few leads, Maggie heads to the supermarket where Clay was last seen. To her horror, security footage reveals a devastating scene in the parking lot: her colleague has died in fearful circumstances.

In the far Alaskan north, there are places the winter sun cannot reach. Places where light won't shine for months. These are the places we hunt the monsters who feed on fear. So begins the Killing Season. For the next 65 days, we will face the darkness. Some will hunt the aswangs in the ever-night, but I, Ollie Andrews, am here for one purpose: to search for answers to my past. They told us to fear the arctic tundra and the monsters hiding in the deep, dark shadows.

Theo, an anxiety ridden Londoner, wakes up to find his drunken one-night stand has bought them both flights to Japan. Max won the lottery and is spending his winnings on classic cocktails and increasingly self-destructive behaviour. Theo makes it his mission to save Max from himself as they set off on a bender across East Asia.

Dr. Sergei Karlovich - code-named Seagull - is one of the most brilliant, powerful, and dangerous of Russian operatives. He seeks a hideous form of revenge for what Luc Ponti and his SPI (Super Paranormal Intelligence) Team wrought on his daughter, Tamara Carlin, a Russian double agent within the CIA. Should Seagull succeed, it could place the world in jeopardy of falling under Rus­sian global dominance.

What do you do when the brutal system that once kept you safe hunts you down? What price would you pay for freedom? In the acclaimed dystopian world of the Key by New York Times bestselling author Kristin Cast, two young rebels fight to determine their own worth and change the world along with themselves. This set includes The Key to Fear and The Key to Fury.

Victor Tookes and his family are still struggling to survive after a parasite that turns people into zombies wipes out civilization. After reaching the relative safety of the family home in Virginia, the danger only intensifies. Zombies still stalk their every move but now Victor and his friends have another threat to deal with - a rogue military unit whose commander wants Victor's son. When Max is kidnapped, Victor goes on the warpath, moving mountains and destroying everything that stands between him and his son.

Blinded by revenge of her own, she hunted down her enemies, hoping to put her past behind her. Only to find that breaking free isn’t as easy as she’d thought it would be. Blood got shed, lives lost, and now, more lives are at stake.

Foxx Honeywell here. You know those fun stories where nothing goes wrong and everything is happy and joyful…yeah, that is not this book. This book is where everything goes wrong—multiple times. Horribly wrong. Because sadly, there are people out there who hate others simply for existing. But I’m getting ahead of myself.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.

When Dr. Watson returns to London from a weekend seminar, he finds hat Sherlock Holmes has been arrested. Inspector Lestrade refers Watson to a questionable psychiatric hospital where Holmes is jailed for mental incapacity.