Resultados para "Dahlia" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Ex-cop. Graduate of the Magic Academy. Mage. I used to carry a badge for the NYPD. Now I carry wards stitched into my coat and a pistol loaded with rounds nobody admits exist. My old partner calls me to the High Line for a triple homicide. Three bodies. Chests crushed. Claw marks cut too deep to blame on a pit bull. Magic residue clings to the concrete. Somebody wanted the city to notice. The moment I say yes, Manhattan’s hidden world starts circling.

Un fatídico viernes 13, el anticuario Reidar Folke Jespersen decide poner orden en su vida: se niega a vender el negocio familiar por una importante suma de dinero, contradiciendo así la opinión de sus hermanos; telefonea a casa del amante de su mujer, en el momento en que sabe que ambos...

Chaos. Magic. Love. Three elements to my life that have brought me to this point—traveling to the God realm. I know we can handle whatever the fates decide to toss our way. Yet between visiting Queen Titania's court and learning far more about my demi-gods' past than I could have expected... I just hope we can retain some semblance of sanity by the end of this. And what happens when I finally meet the man, the myth, the... well, god, obviously—Set. My father. What has Isis been hiding from me? Secrets are unraveling nearly as fast as things are heating up between my men and me.

Cricket Wakefield had a bright future. A life filled with love and dreams of dance. A future that was shattered the night she was brutally murdered. But the dead don’t always stay dead. And the living moves on without them. A year later, Cricket is awoken by a necromancer’s magic with no choice but to join the woman’s carnival, to hone her newfound skills amongst others like herself. When the Carnival arrives at her old town, Cricket learns that more victims have been discovered. Victims decorated with black dahlias just as she had been.

When calamity destroyed most of humanity, the Four Cities survived by carefully predicting and meticulously controlling everything in the survivors’ lives—even love. As part of this new normal, every four years the citizens face down Tabula Rasa, a process that wipes away their memories of each other.

After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors form a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. Everything is carefully planned and controlled: the seasons, the weather - and the residents. To prevent mankind from destroying each other again, its citizens undergo a memory wipe every four years in a process called tabula rasa, a blank slate, to remove learned prejudices. With each new cycle, they begin again with new names, jobs, homes, and lives. No memories. No attachments. No wars.

"Dahlia" erzählt die Geschichte eines Mythos - dass ein aus den vier Ringen unterschiedlicher Clans gefertigter Ring Unsterblichkeit und somit unendliche Macht bringt. Diese Überlieferung hat seit längst vergessener Zeit einen unaufhaltsamen Krieg zwischen den vier Clans - der Tempelwächter, der Wölfe, der Fürsten und der Krieger - auf Leben und Tod entfacht. Dahlia ist als Kronprinzessin der Tempelwächter die Hüterin des Tempelwächterrings. Sie lebt nach einem Unfall mit Amnesie bei ihrem Retter, der auch Hüter eines Rings ist und sie fortan beschützt und sich in sie verliebt.

After the Last War destroyed most of the world, survivors formed a new society in four self-sustaining cities in the Mojave Desert. To halt extinction, everything in the Four Cities is carefully predicted and carefully controlled … even love. But how can you control love and freedom? In the engrossing prequel to Reset, Preset weaves the tales of Eleanor, the Crone, and Eli, the Planner, before and after the creation of the Four Cities. Much has changed in the world and their relationship, but there are some truths that have yet to come to light.

Descendant of Chaos. Daughter of Magic. Two titles that I had been called time and time again, but neither of them truly fit. As I had found in the God realm, I was so much more than that—an anomaly. And because of who I was and how I came to be, I was now part of a prophecy—one with world-ending aspects I wasn't a fan of. Unfortunately, I couldn't avoid the situation forever, and while the Horde was an amazing place to do exactly that… I quickly found there was something so much larger at stake than my pride or my anger at what Isis and my birthmother had done.

My father is a serial killer. No big deal. I promise. Me? Upset? No. Never. In fact, it would be really easy to pretend that the man never existed in the first place… if it wasn't for the bodies. What bodies? Only about 200 of them. Like I said. No big deal. What is even worse? He has had a dual purpose for killing them, and it isn't just because he's a sadistic monster. No. It is far worse than that. And if all of this wasn't enough to deal with… I had eight men in my life. Yes. Eight.

Stay away from mages. It was a singular phrase my father had ingrained in me from the time of my birth. Sorry, Dad. I have a feeling that is going to be a problem. You have to understand… my life has been bland at best. Everything in my life, every single day, has been scripted, organized, and neat. Calm, cool, and collected. The problem? It wasn't real. I wasn't like the other witches in my father's coven. I had a chaotic storm growing inside of me, and the moment these mages stepped into the picture, it began to escape. The perfect image of my life was shattered.

Did we need to hold a Halloween party? No, of course not. Was I going to anyway? You better freakin' believe it. I didn't even feel bad! We needed a break! Even if it was for a day, a healthy work-life balance was essential…even if it was holding a bloody Halloween party and the work was determining who was sucking the magic out of people like goddamn juice boxes.

My parents were fated mates—two who should have completed each other beyond eternity. Fate is fickle, though. That eternal bond ended and took my parents with it, victims of their own natures. When an Incubus comes to seal our bond, I wanted no part of it—determined not to fall the way my parents had. When two more appear to claim their right as my mates, it becomes harder to ignore the instinct to be theirs.

Making a pact with the underworld isn’t a problem...but change the deal and hell breaks loose. Dahlia’s world was turned upside down as a child and her innocence taken. But she chose to fight back with her own blend of magical mayhem. Levi has been let down by every person he’s ever loved. He’s betrayed, lost, and about to end it all. London, 2019. Our star-crossed lovers meet along the Thames. Big Ben looks the same, but weirdness reigns, invisible energies flood the streets, and strange happenings are spiking. Dahlia’s dark spirit is begging for blood.

Dahlia has spent her entire life in Lila's shadow. Being the quiet twin, Dahlia shied away from sports and never excelled in any of the ways her sister did. Yet, thrown into the glitch-filled world of Puatera, her sister is no longer there to protect her, forcing Dahlia to uncover hidden strengths or be buried by her weakness.

Laytham Ballard once protected humanity as part of the Nightwise, a secret order of modern-day mages dedicating to holding hellish supernatural forces at bay, but that was before a string of sadistic ritual murders shook everything he believed in - and sent him down a much darker path. One that has already cost him most of his soul as well as everything he once held dear.

Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee - and into her new life at Harper House and In the Garden nursery. She isn't intimidated by the house - nor its mistress, local legend Roz Harper.

In einer Zeit, in der virtuelle Welten die Realität durchdringen und echte Beziehungen auf die Probe gestellt werden, wollen zwei enge Freund*innen – Kim und Luki – eigentlich nur einen gewöhnlichen Tag miteinander verbringen. Doch ein unerwartetes Ereignis erschüttert ihr Leben. "Seele.exe" ist eine packende, unterhaltsame, aber auch traurige Geschichte über die Suche nach echter Verbindung in einer vernetzten Welt. Das Werk lotet die Grenzen zwischen Mensch und Künstlicher Intelligenz aus und stellt die Frage: Kann der Mensch als emotionales Wesen ersetzt werden?

For Naomi, every day begins the same way: She awakens in a strange garden with a box of unopened letters. Will the letters contain answers or reveal unbearable truths? Naomi wanders the garden every day but can't remember how she got there. An ever-present and mysterious box of unopened letters calls to her. Even though these letters might provide the answers, she can't bear to open them.

In a world that promises you the best of yesterday, today, and tomorrow, things are not quite exactly as they seem. Eager to finally be working his dream job at his dream company, Ryder soon discovers that this is much more than just your average theme park.