Resultados para "Chance" en Fantasía

Tudo o que Reyna e Kianthe desejam é abrir uma livraria que sirva um delicioso chá, em um lugar acolhedor, com direito a assoalho de madeira, luzes amareladas e plantas por toda a parte. Mas esse sonho parece estar bem longe de se tornar realidade — afinal, Reyna trabalha na Guarda Real de uma rainha tirana e Kianthe é a Maga mais poderosa que existe.

Each year at the Tournament of Gold, first-blooded and firstborn male warriors battle alongside their massive, otherworldly monsters for fame and power. But when Talia's beloved younger brother is murdered on his way to the tournament—and his beast unexpectedly bonds with Talia—all hope for the Tenth is lost. The powerful, arrogant, and dangerously seductive Fortiss of the First House would never let a woman vie for a seat on the Court of Talons. Desperate for answers and to protect her house, Talia assumes her brother's identity and enters the tournament.

The White Ladies of San Diego are one of the city's supernatural powers, organized and led by Graciela. But now their leader is missing, and the Ladies have hired John Smith, mediator and sometimes-private-investigator, to find her. Which raises some questions: How do you track down a ghost? What if she doesn't want to be found? And if foul play was involved in her disappearance like the Ladies believe, how exactly? It's not like ghosts can be kidnapped . . . right?

Cassie Palmer, once a down on her luck clairvoyant and now the chief seer of the supernatural world, is in the fight of her life. While on a rescue mission in Faerie, she is kidnapped by a king of the fey named Aeslinn. He is her sworn enemy and has every reason to want to kill her, yet instead he offers a trade: her life for that of her lover, John Pritkin.

Cassie Palmer is the Pythia, chief seer of the supernatural world. John Pritkin is a half demon and a legendary war mage. Mircea Basarab is a first-level master vampire and the general of the World Vampire Senate. Each is formidable enough alone. But they recently discovered that, together, they are far more than the sum of their parts. With their power combined through a perilous spell, they are the closest thing left on Earth to one of the ancient gods. That comes in handy, considering that the old gods are exactly what the supernatural community is currently fighting.

John Pritkin has been trying to recover from a demon curse that separated his body and soul and almost killed him. The reunification has left him with a flood of memories to process, some that he recalls from his past and some that he doesn't, as well as wonky magic, fluctuating power levels, and a splitting headache. Something that only intensifies when he finds himself stuck in a city under siege - by his fellow war mages. As the only one not overwhelmed by a massive enthrallment spell, John must find a way to free his fellow mages before they destroy themselves.

A light-hearted ghost-story from 1895, by the author of "The Little Room". A writer is assigned a small ghost as a muse, to help him finish the story he is having trouble writing. Humorous.

St Mary est de retour et rien ne va plus pour le docteur Maxwell. Une fois encore, l'institut très spécial de recherche historique St Mary, qui détient le secret du voyage dans le temps, passe d'une catastrophe à une autre. De la rencontre avec Isaac Newton au champ de bataille sanglant d'Azincourt, rien ne se déroule comme prévu. Mais c'est surtout à Troie, alors qu'Achille et Hector s'apprêtent à s'affronter sous ses yeux, que le destin de Max va se jouer.

Elliran prince Taryd has seldom thought of life beyond his kingdom's walls. When an unknown threat intrudes on his peaceful life, he's sent with the general of a neighboring army on a quest to find answers, and maybe even save his people.

American artist Joseph Hannigan and his alluring sister, Sophie, have arrived in enchanting nineteenth-century Venice with a single-minded goal. The twins, who have fled scandal in New York, are determined to break into Venice's expatriate set and find a wealthy patron to support Joseph's work. Joseph's talent soon attracts the attention of the magnificent Odilé Leon, a celebrated courtesan and muse who has inspired many artists to greatness. But her inspiration comes with a devastatingly steep price.

The story begins in 2004. In Saudi Arabia, Leta, an American graduate student with schizophrenia, forgoes medication so that she may use her "gift" - the ability to experience historic events through merely touching an artifact or treading sacred ground. Her psychotic symptoms emerge when the man she loves lures her into the hands of slave traders.

I never thought I'd miss being a janitor, but at least I knew what I was doing in that job. Now I'm a great and mighty war mage trying to help a team of college wizards win a magic competition, and I'm desperately afraid of screwing up. To make matters worse, my four gorgeous, powerful teammates totally believe in me, none more so than dangerously sexy, unnervingly intense Marcus Winter. Marcus knows he can make me stronger...but only if I'm willing to let him unlock my deepest desires.

Sometimes taking a chance is the only choice. As the public face of Kagan Industries, Sean Reynolds has no interest in pack politics or leadership. But when the rightful next in line wolf shifter abandons the pack, the void becomes an opportunity of a lifetime - in his wolf's eyes, anyway. Not in Sean's eyes. But with the influence of the full moon revving up his primal drives, resisting the lure of power is draining. He needs a distraction. A night out among the humans gives him the diversion he needs...until a sultry blonde captures his attention.

Days before her marriage to the king of the neighboring Sunruta Kingdom, Princess Annabel of Najir is abruptly betrayed by her fiancé and thrown into prison with her magic knight under suspicion of being a spy. After being held captive for months and informed her kingdom is no more, Annabel passes out in a burst of destructive magic, only to awaken as her 12-year-old self, six years before her political marriage. Armed with knowledge of the dark future to come, she now has another chance to bring about a new fate.

Everyone needs a second chance. But not everyone is able to get one. Some are wasted, some are lost, some are cherished. Join Dale as he lives out his Second Chance, and all of those around him who get their own.

I just wanted to ease the suffering of Arimus, a gryphon blinded in combat. He’d lost his first rider, and his will to live. But when he forges a new psychic link with me to be his replacement rider, it brands me as “an affront to the gods” for daring to ride an avatar of the god of man.

In a world where magic is common, Breanna is among the rarest of her kind and highly sought after—by all the wrong men. With a roll of his dice, in steps the God of Chance, who sets her up on a quest to free the Realm from a powerful spell. There’s just one problem. Chance expects her to team up with a wizard—who is also a devilish rake. Her world is turned sideways when everything seems to happen at once. It’s a race to save the world they know, but with magic gone wild, dangerous foes and pesky gods determined to meddle, will they survive to complete their quest?

Vexa has entered the endgame with her lich ancestor, Aethon Tzarnavarus, and the prize for winning is the ability to determine the fate of the world. Only, Aethon’s targeting her family and Cole’s, and it’s only a matter of time before he takes everyone that they love from them. Ethan’s life under the werewolf curse, Cole’s trepidatious but precious love, and Gwydion’s immortal existence are all at stake, and the community Vexa’s built, the family she’s chosen for herself, may fall apart whether she survives to beat Aethon at the death game or not.

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The Tower of Trials awaits those who desire to challenge themselves...The Dungeon Core known as Clay had successfully trained up the local Heroes of Sunfall Island to repel the recent attack by a World Threat, but as he was beginning to prepare for the next Dungeon Adventure Season in his dungeon, something happened to bring his plans to a screeching halt. In short, his little part of the world was unexpectedly invaded by thousands of foreign Heroes.