Resultados para "Angela" en Urbana

Still recovering from a recent institutionalization and unable to trust his own mind or magic, Adrien is drawn into the witch hunt as suspicion falls upon those closest to him. The city's inquisitors and witchfinders are losing control, the magicians are growing more and more resentful, and the scars from Adrien's last brush with disaster refuse to fade. To put an end to the innocent deaths, to keep his dearest friends, and to prove himself worthy of a potential new romance, Adrien is forced to confront his own blind spots before he's fatally ensnared by the angel of death's machinations.

Broken-hearted, Stephanie Ray leaves behind her friends in Texas and moves to Louisiana for a new start. Things take a thrilling - and terrifying - turn when she meets the alluring Aidan Bane. Thrust into a mystical world of dark magic, Stephanie finds herself surrounded by evil forces. Aidan offers his powerful protection...but it comes with a heavy price. When Stephanie sees more than she should have, she begins to question the intentions of the man she's fallen deeply in love with. But who really is Aidan Bane?

What peace Helo had hoped for by defeating King on the Tempest is short-lived. Evil doesn’t go quietly, and it’s always hungry for revenge. After his parents are murdered, Helo rejoins the Ash Angel Organization ready to hunt creatures of evil and obliterate the six remaining Dread Loremasters. But terrifying portents from Tela Mirren’s dreams and dire warnings from Aclima hint that crossing darkness incurs a terrible price, and Helo will be the one who pays.

Six months ago, Liss Jemison's life was mostly normal. Then a freaking demon crashed her roommate's party and "normal" was replaced by a chaotic, terrifying world filled with half-angels, demons, and way too much evil. Now Liss is the only powerless human among her friends...which makes her an enormous target. And a certain gorgeous grouch of a Nephilim just won’t shut up about it. As the fiercest Nephilim warrior, Zavier Carranza is doing everything he can to prevent the release of the Titans and the overthrowing of Heaven and Hell.

For five years, Cason Cole has been a chew toy for a god. He walked away from his wife and son and devoted his life to a predator who holds nothing and no-one dear. Now, as the man he loves and hates lies dying at his feet, the explosion still ringing in his ears, Cason is finally free. For centuries, the swarming gods of the Earth were content to lounge in Heaven, forgetting the mortals they left behind; but 30 years ago, the all-powerful "Usurper" ejected them all. Now it's back to the bad old days: cults and sycophants, and the terrible retribution of the gods.

Lucifer's efforts to secure the angel's cooperation are proving unsuccessful until a chance meeting ends with an invitation to attend a forum. There's only one caveat. Violet's presence is required, and she must offer a demonstration of her powers. Lucifer is against it. Clara wants to destroy them all. Dave is . . . Dave. And the enigmatic ruler of the dragons doesn't care about any of it. He's chosen to pursue Violet with a single-minded focus. But whether he wants her for her or her powers remains unknown.

During an escape from the gray men, Justin and Elyssa are stranded in Thunder Rock with a notorious Daemas, Kassallandra. They find a way out, but Justin is separated, thrown through a broken Obsidian Arch, and ends up in Colombia where he'll face his greatest challenge yet.

Twenty years ago, a barmaid in a harbor town fell for a young sailor who turned pirate to make his fortune. But what truly became of Black Edward Tew remains a mystery, one that has just fallen into the lap of freelance sword jockey Eddie LaCrosse. For years, Eddie has kept his office above Angelina’s tavern, so when Angelina herself asks him to find out what happened to the dashing pirate who stole her heart years ago, he can hardly say no—even though the trail is two decades old. Some say Black Edward and his ship, The Bloody Angel, went to bottom of the sea, taking with it a king’s ransom in treasure.

Zan West has a strange power that only works on girls. He doesn't know why he has this so-called “gift”, but it's killing his chances of ever getting a girlfriend. Then he meets an older girl named Austin, and she's strangely immune to his power. Zan can't see her secrets, but he can't see her future, either. There's something she isn't telling him, and it's driving him mad. Zan consults a powerful witch who offers him peace of mind in exchange for his power. What he doesn't know is this so-called peace of mind comes with a big bad heaping of death. The permanent kind.

With the dust still settling from the brutal attack on the Agathos court and Rogue's school, Bo Blackman is forced to live with her new-found status as a celebrity. She's still determined, however, to track down those responsible - and to solve the mystery of Tobias Renfrew, the daemon billionaire who disappeared over fifty years ago. Her investigations will lead her to places as far removed as a military base and the sinister Black Market. One thing is for sure - once Bo's done, nothing will ever be the same again.

Verity Fassbinder thought no boss could be worse than her perfectionist ex-boyfriend—until she agreed to work for a fallen angel. The angel is a jealous—and violent—employer, so she's quit working for the Weyrd Council and sent her family away. The angel has tasked Verity with finding two lost treasures. That would be hard even without a vengeful Dusana Nadasy on her heels. And Inspector McIntyre won't stop calling: the bodies of Normal women who disappeared decades ago are turning up, apparently subjected to Weyrd magics.

An insurance investigation sounds pretty harmless, even if it is for 'Unusual Happenstance'. That's not usually a clause Normals use—it covers all-purpose hauntings, angry genii loci, ectoplasmic home invasion, demonic possession, that sort of thing—but Susan Beckett's claimed three times in three months. Her house keeps getting inundated with mud, but she's still insisting she doesn't need or want help... until the dry-land drownings begin.

Verity Fassbinder has her feet in two worlds. The daughter of one human and one Weyrd parent, she has very little power herself, but does claim unusual strength and the ability to walk between one world and the other as a couple of her talents. A rarity, she is charged with keeping the peace, and ensuring the Weyrd remain hidden. But now Sirens are dying, illegal wine made from the tears of human children is for sale—and in the hands of those who hold to old, dangerous ways—and someone has released an unknown and terrifyingly destructive force on the streets of Brisbane.

Momma always told me, when I find myself in a hole, it’s time to stop digging - but between the Nephilim, cyclops, and dragon, I can’t seem to find daylight. To make matters worse, the blind angel shows up searching for one of his missing brethren, a.k.a. the Great Deceiver. He loves to play the kind of games that cost men their souls.

With help from a mysterious caretaker and a forgotten friend, Stevie barely escapes death. Val wants to rekindle their relationship, but Stephanie has unresolved issues with him, and questions his loyalty. They have to put their problems aside when they discover that Dom and Jeffery are held captive in the Shadow Sphere: a dark, gloomy land inhabited by ghouls. Time is of the essence. Val and Stephanie must rescue their friends before they vanish to another dimension and are lost forever. Can Stephanie and Val save Dom and Jeffery in time?

Stephanie has come face to face with her celestial father, Mustafa. Beautiful and cold, he has his own agenda for someone close to Stephanie’s heart. In the meantime, a heavenly war breaks out, and Val and his army must return to their spiritual form to fight for the greater good, abandoning Stephanie, Jeffery, and Dom with an unlikely ally. Now, Stephanie must pull her boot straps up and get ready for one hell of a fight. But who was the accomplice in kidnapping her, and will Stephanie triumph and bring down the almighty Illuminati, or surrender?

The home of the blues, of course! Quincy Harker has retreated to Memphis to lick his wounds and get started on building a new life for himself. He's determined to be a normal guy (almost) living a (mostly) normal life working as a bouncer in a (not even a little bit) normal bar. But it all goes sideways when someone asks for his help with a little demon problem. Harker knows there's no such thing as a little demon problem. He's right, of course, because his demon problem includes hellhounds, dragons, djinn, angels, artifacts, secret government agencies, and a high school prom.

Nora hält nicht sonderlich viel davon, sich in ihrem ruhigen Alltag stören zu lassen. Der wird jedoch komplett auf den Kopf gestellt, als während eines Schneesturms ein als Krampus verkleideter Mann in ihrem Stall Zuflucht sucht. Es sollte nur für eine Nacht sein, doch der Sturm hält an, sodass er erst einmal bei ihr festsitzt! Unweigerlich muss sie sich näher mit ihrem Gast befassen. Dabei zeigt sich, dass es gar kein Kostüm ist, der Krampus ist echt! Doch wie ist so etwas möglich? Ist er wirklich DER Krampus? Oder sieht er nur so aus? Wurde er verflucht? Und kann man den Fluch brechen?

In 1909, the Arizona Gazette ran a story claiming that two Smithsonian scientists have discovered a mysterious lost Egyptian City in the Grand Canyon. What should have been historical news goes unnoticed and the two men, like the city they discovered, vanish completely. Over a hundred years later, while attending a cryptozoological conference in Sedona, a man collapses dead in front of Annja Creed, setting her on the road to solving an archaeological mystery that stretches back over a century and possibly to a time before modern mankind.

An invitation too irresistible to refuse from the Museum of Cadiz leads archaeologist Annja Creed to the sun-drenched southern coast of Andalucia, Spain. In a region rich in Moorish and Roman ruins, she leaps at the chance to join a dig across the Bay of Cadiz, where she unearths a bronze bull statue that makes the entire trip worth every minute. Until the day after her discovery, when she sees the same artifact beside the body of a dead Spaniard, killed by the estocada, the final sword thrust used by bullfighters to bring down the bull.