Resultados para "Abandon" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

She wakes bound on the back of a horse. The gods are gone. And the world is no longer gentle. Tsunala is carried through a land that no longer remembers mercy—guarded by monsters, watched by a half-breed who should be her enemy, and pulled toward truths she is not ready to name. Power lingers...

The survivors are trapped. Cut off from the rest of the world and quarantined as the virus spreads to every corner of the country, while the combined forces of the naval fleet set sail for deeper waters and leave the UK to its fate. Facing the aftermath of the battle for the island, the groups are separated as the bonds of friendship and camaraderie are violently severed, and they must survive on their own. Every effort to survive is fraught with peril, and those left behind must battle to find some form of safety, no matter how brief that respite might be.

My ex-wife is the only one that can save me. Guess I shouldn't have eaten her favorite Girl Scout cookies . . . You know you've still got it bad when you haven't taken the wedding ring off a year after the divorce. Andy has always been the only one for me. The brawn to my brains. The hot fudge...

Cole McDermott is a jaguar on a mission. Long naps, a willing woman, and a full stomach is usually all he needs when it comes to relaxing after a long day of protecting his pack. Then he meets Anya, and the burn of temptation is silky and tantalizing indeed. When a horror from Anya's past threatens everything she loves, Cole will put everything aside and fight for her family - as well as his own.

From the raging fires, five men emerge with extraordinary new powers. They are humankind's last hope…but they cannot survive this dark, ravaged world alone… Quentin Fielding had everything. Money. Power. Women. But now that civilization is all but annihilated, Quent wants only one thing: Revenge. Harnessing a strange new “gift”; he embarks on a deadly mission to find the man responsible for the chaos and destruction, the man he should have killed years ago: His father.

Leah Pfeifer has spent two years in an isolated cabin in Colorado with her almost three-year-old daughter, Anna, trying to protect the girl both from her inherited psychic ability and from the government organization that would be happy to exploit it. Trouble seems to find them anyway, and a panicked phone call from Leah's younger sister, Rowena, prompts Leah to leave in search of treatment for Anna and to rescue Rowena from the cycle of abuse that Leah herself narrowly escaped years ago.

When an EMP decimates the world’s power grid, society falls faster than anyone could have imagined. For Connor Murray, the fall of the old world only means he’ll have to fight to survive into the new one. As violent militant extremists rapidly overwhelm the city, Connor is forced to fight his way out to safety, using the survival skills passed down to him from his father. But while Connor is fighting his way out, little does he know that his father and sister are fighting their way in to come and save him.

Studying ancient sites on a backwater planet, Archaeologist Nosuma Okande finds more of them than The Institute has on record...On her first day, she digs up an odd statuette, and after she receives death threats, the Institute sends Nosuma to another excavation site. There, she unearths a second artifact and later the same night, stumbles upon a strange ceremony in the village square. Not deterred by this, Nosuma decides to unearth the mysteries the planet holds. But as a deeper truth slowly emerges, can she untangle the enigmatic past of an edifice abandoned?

NYC Detective Michael Pendridge doesn't have to think about all he's lost since the day he put on the uniform eleven years ago. The ghosts are always there, fresh in his mind. It has taken everyone he's allowed himself to care about. It has wrenched compassion from his heart and replaced it with the hard shell of apathy. But justice is in his blood. Even after rubbing a brooch and being sent back to eighteenth century England, one of the first things he witnesses is a beautiful pickpocket who will lead him on a journey where he will find himself again.

The Strongest are Breaking The Queen’s birth was supposed to bring peace, but it only caused animosity between her and her husband’s Mistress. Now, with the Àraid rising in the west, and enemies surrounding her in court, Cerynn is torn between her desire to strengthen her powers, and the...

The madness is calling After a prisoner begs for their life and is granted mercy by The General, his queen is forced to confront her rising jealousy. Jealousy over this prisoner lying for his favor. Jealousy over the Mistress he obsesses over. Jealousy that everyone is more powerful than she is...

“The Darkness Is Coming.” When Alice was captured her life ended. Tortured and broken for thirteen years left her small and afraid, but when the guard assigned to her torture helped her escape she was given a brief glimpse of hope. Until she forgot. Now hiding in a city full of its own...

A Storm is Rising. The General’s experiment worked and he once again has the upper hand. Determined to reestablish his control in his kingdom, The General uses a new, unknown power to remove the threat to his crown. Oblivious to her husband’s manic slaughter, Cerynn seeks out her own people...

The Rules Are Changing As The General teaches his new queen to thirst for blood, a long-lost power scrambles to accept a queen of their own, knowing if they wait any longer they’ll be forgotten forever. One queen embraces her place in a cruel world. The other longs to recreate a world that...

Leia's new life is peaceful and happy, but she fears turmoil may be on the horizon when the king announces that he's revoking special privileges enjoyed by the most powerful dukes in the kingdom. An attempted murder soon proves Leia right, plunging her and her friends headfirst into an investigation. What's more, Eric's younger brother, Prince Dale, seems to be involved...

Steve is the only half-orc of his tribe, isolated up in the mountains of Niflheim. With his parents passing, he feels adrift and uncertain of his future in the tribe. He ventures to the other orkin tribes to understand who he is and what he wants for his future. There are human women out there, and he hopes meeting them might help him understand his origins.

Leia's life is turned upside down after her younger sister claims she's a cruel villain. Leia's fiance breaks off their engagement, leaving her no choice but to throw herself into her saintly duties. But when confronted by the righteous Crown Prince Eric, she finds herself under his scrutiny. He's determined to suss out her true nature, but why does it involve living in the palace with him?!

Having accepted my fate as Agnarr's mate, I'm thrust into Niflheim's tribal politics. Agnarr and I will become the new jarl and jarlin, as Astrid is eager to step down. But the arrival of twelve human women adds complexity. Some elders readily accept us, while others hold prejudiced views, seeing humans as weak and useless. Between this and the insatiable mating frenzy Agnarr and I still find ourselves in, it's all I can do to keep my head above water. I must lean on my fellow humans and mate to navigate this new life.

I'm the next in line for Fyrifirar Tribe Jarl, a skilled warrior, and definitely not good at chopping down trees. But I can't stop thinking about the tiny human female who we'd found near our village with eleven other human females. She's so small, barely larger than an orkin child, and so lovely I can't get her out of my mind. And then I went and nearly killed her while felling a tree to distract myself. Yet somehow, she still ended up in my arms.

Everyone knows you don't mess with the empire. Our tyrannical overlords rule our conquered kingdom with an iron fist. Even after they killed my parents and left me orphaned and ostracized, I've swallowed my resentment. I survive by keeping my head down, scavenging the scraps my neighbors discard.