Resultados para "Cleo" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

On the outside, Dina Demille is the epitome of normal. She runs a quaint Victorian Bed and Breakfast in a small Texas town, owns a Shih Tzu named Beast, and is a perfect neighbor, whose biggest problem should be what to serve her guests for breakfast. But Dina is...different: Her broom is a deadly weapon; her Inn is magic and thinks for itself. Meant to be a lodging for otherworldly visitors, the only permanent guest is a retired Galactic aristocrat who can’t leave the grounds because she’s responsible for the deaths of millions and someone might shoot her on sight.

Alors qu'ils arpentent le Sentier du Rayon en direction de Calla Bryn Sturgis, une terrible tempête oblige Roland de Gilead et son ka-tet - Jake, Susannah, Eddie et Ote - à s'abriter dans une bourgade abandonnée depuis longtemps par ses habitants. Bercés par la lueur des flammes et les hurlements du vent, les quatre compagnons écoutent le Pistolero lever le voile sur deux épisodes troubles de son passé...

From Jessica Park comes Clear, a thriller, a paranormal, and a passionate romance that crosses genres and breaks boundaries. Stella Ford's grasp on reality is already loose, and it's about to come undone. When the college junior flees Chicago and leaves her toxic family behind, she heads for coastal Maine to find the one person who brought her peace years ago: Sam Bishop. But the Sam she once knew now has painful secrets.

I'm young, carefree, and my job as the assistant to Holt, manager and owner of the Goliaths of Wrestling, means I'm surrounded by half-naked beefcake wrestlers all day. Of course, I'm going to be interested in… getting to know them all better. It would be, like, illegal for me not to lust after them all, right? There's just one hurdle I have to get over first before I can… get to know the wrestlers in the way I want. And that hurdle makes me really, really freaking nervous.

Découvrez le premier tome d'une trilogie de romantasy et plongez dans un univers fantastique, librement inspiré des civilisations précolombiennes. Quand l'empereur Xica apprend que son unique héritier, prisonnier de ses ennemis Mézétains, a été exécuté, il décide de répudier son...

Cleo is a mummy gal holding secrets as tight as her bandages. The glamorous actress and pin-up sensation takes center stage on a mission to evade an arranged marriage to none other than Frank N. Stein, organized by her evil pharaoh father. When Frank’s mean green ex-bride Gigi becomes Cleo’s new gal pal, they will become a ride-or-die team in a high-stakes quest to save Horror Earth, backed by a motley crew of ghoulish pals, and the billionaire bachelor who started it all.

Yokïmi Kikuchi dwelled in what she perceived to be harmony with her family. Her twin brother's madness changed everything. Twisted by his hate and magic beyond his control, he unleashes a violent cataclysm that destroys the family and the castle in which they lived. By chaotic chance, Yokïmi survived, but found herself forever changed. Robbed of everything, she flees from the site of that disaster. But though she survived, terrible Curses have latched onto her. Their effects threaten to ruin her life forever, leaving her no choice but to contemplate Quests to see them removed.

The witches of Coventry are all on edge when the crew of a famous ghost hunting show arrives in town. Coventry has been good at hiding its secrets from the world for hundreds of years, but in the deep dark corners of the web, whispers of a town full of witches and ghosts circulate among those who are true believers of the paranormal. When it's decided that denying them a filming permit would just make them more suspicious, Brighton is elected by the town council to be their official Coventry escort. Her job is to ensure they don't catch any convincing evidence of the paranormal.

John Dalton is America’s best submarine captain. For the moment. In a war where one out of every three American submarines fails to come home, John and USS Razorback are a pair of rare gems: survivors. More importantly, they take the fight to the enemy as the so-called "Freedom Union" gobbles up more and more territory every day. Undersea resources, stations, and enclaves change hands with every battle in World War III, and it’s up to submarines like Razorback to defend Americans and Alliance territory. And Captain John Dalton?

In the city of Klade, where corporations script the weather and edit memory like code, a nameless runner called Hikari lives in engineered bodies and borrowed personas. Forge is a battlefield juggernaut, Velvet is charm sharpened into a weapon, Wisp is a small-frame hacker with teeth, and Scout is the boy who slips through crowds unseen. Hikari refuses to speak the life that came before, the night they escaped Orinox and stole a combat shell to erase the child they once were.

Scyth, known in the Inferno as the tiefling Hakkar, decanus in the worst legion of them all, must gain an audience with Prince Belial to get his hands on the Coals of Hellflame. Alex Sheppard faces the most stressful week of his life, and if he can't handle the pressure, then it might be his last.

Peter Valois is about to make history. A scientist on a hot project, his days consist of recording brains and sending the files into robots for "conditioning". His plan is to use the results to fix their behavior, and then use the same method with humans. Peter's been on the straight and narrow and everything is going well, until problems with his teenage son force Peter out of his comfort zone. His scheme to save his son backfires when his cutting-edge research attracts the interest of someone who will stop at nothing to get what they want.

Life for Cha Ming is a daily grind. A rat race where people don’t make any real decisions. When he asks the universe for something more, fate itself answers his prayer. A talisman brush older than time itself sends him to another world, where magic, fortune, and danger await. Now, the world is at his fingertips. He has a new life, a new body, and can wield the five elements. It’s too bad his new home is a place where might makes right, and immortal cultivators and demons fight at the drop of a hat. But where the divine brush goes, danger follows.

He was ordered to execute the mutant. Fate had other plans. Kali has survived one impossible situation after another, but being infected with a wild werewolf virus takes the cake. Captured by the ruthless pack hunting creatures like her, she expects execution. She doesn't expect Andy. Fiercely loyal to his motorcycle club pack, Andy’s job is to eliminate threats. Kali is the most dangerous monster his family has ever encountered—and the one woman fate insists he cannot abandon.

She was supposed to be just another security detail. Then she became his entire world. College student Sonnet Williams just survived a car bomb meant for her father, only to discover her dad is wrapped up with the city's shifter syndicate. Suddenly, werewolves are real, assassins are hunting her, and she’s forced to cohabitate with a dangerous alpha for her own protection. Babe expected another routine bodyguard job. He didn't expect Sonnet. The moment she steps into his house, his protective instincts turn feral.

In this short story from New York Times best-selling author Jonathan Maberry, a reporter accompanies a special ops team on a dangerous mission against space pirates.

Syd King always wanted a pet, she just didn’t expect him to be a werewolf. Being legal counsel to the most powerful werewolf family in the city comes with its own perks. When she’s given an injured werewolf to look after, she knows better than to question their thinking. It helps that he’s a handsome, young alpha. Joss Gotti is in big trouble. He’s killed a very important man and now he has a giant target on his back. He has no choice but to hide out until it all blows over. Luckily for him, the pack has placed him with a very beautiful, very sexy hostess.

She arrived as a hostage. She stayed as the only person who could see through him. Princess Sera of Velmoor has spent her whole life making herself useful — useful enough that no one would notice she had never once been free. When her father sends her to the court of King Aldric of Ashenveil as the "honoured guest" of a fragile peace treaty, she knows exactly what she is: a political bargaining chip wrapped in diplomatic titles. She comes prepared. She has read every clause, found every weakness, and mapped every seam in the agreement that is supposed to end thirty years of war.

The Market in Arcadian County has always been a minimum-wage purgatory — sour coffee, corporate scripts, and dreams that expire faster than the deli meat. But when a chaotic town event spills blood across the tile, the store’s polished floors become the first feeding ground for the infected.

Australian boxer Perc Morgan is on the canvas. Holed up in a mining town after a disastrous fight, all he can think about is rising to success, sporting or otherwise. However, as he walks the dusty town by day, by night he begins dreaming about water, signaling the start of a latter-day Arthurian quest.