Resultados para "Duke" en Fantasía

Victoria risks everything to leave a dangerous marriage and gain a second chance at life. But when her escape goes awry, she finds herself caught in the embrace of a mysterious siren, forced to choose: temporary salvation or immediate death. Five years later, Victoria is alive—and the world’s finest ship captain. But her debt to the siren looms while her conniving ex has demanded a king’s ransom as the final price of her freedom. Victoria refuses to cause her family to suffer any more on her behalf, and is determined to make things right before her time is up. But that time is cut short.

Elle a vendu son âme à un homme-sirène... et il vient réclamer son dû. Victoria a pris tous les risques pour quitter un mariage malsain, mais s'est retrouvée piégée dans les bras d'un mystérieux triton, un homme-sirène, auprès de qui elle a dû passer un pacte. Cinq ans plus tard...

Duke's not alone in his own head...but does the voice sharing it want to help or hinder? Duke Grandfather has refused to tell the story of where he got his famous gun. Now, he relents and tells the tale from start to finish. But it's not as cut and dry as it seems. Duke didn't just wake up and find it one day. First, he had to endure sharing his head with a mysterious voice. One that's nice to him, as long as he does what it wants. Add in an overly large orc who won't leave him alone, and it's all Duke can do to survive, let alone retrieve a magic item. Will it be worth it in the end?

True loyalty is revealed in difficult times. When trouble comes again to the court at Kingfountain, it is trumpeted by Eredur's defeated foe, Lord Devereaux. He was the ally of Queen Morvared who nearly vanquished Eredur at the fog-choked battle of Borehamwood. Now, he has seized the fortress of Averanche and plans to hold it at all hazards and unite disaffected countrymen under his battle flag.

Truth isn’t a light that guides you home. It is a fire that consumes everything it touches. For Arthur Pendergast, a near-fatal brush with death strips away the social conventions keeping the modern world together. Granted an unwanted, supernatural foresight, he suddenly sees human nature unvarnished: luminous neon bars that rise, fall, and flicker with the weight of every hidden lie. Trapped in a collective delusion where he is the only one who can see the board, Arthur watches the pillars of his life crumble.

The tyrant is dead. The tournament for the throne has begun. With Richard gone, the Gold Star Duchy has collapsed into a "soft" civil war. Greedy cousins and ambitious generals are tearing the region apart, and the chaos threatens to spill across every border. Reinhardt is recalled to the capital to fight in front of the entire realm. In the arena, the rules of war apply.

Duke's life has changed a lot over the last year. He's still the number one Nuisance Man in Capital City, but now, only chases down those whose guilt has been proven. A new attitude that doesn't always sit well with the other Nuisance Men, or the old guard of the Watch. He's firmly tied to the beautiful and deadly necromancer Lilly, who, as it turns out, comes from a fabulously rich family. Oh, and someone is out to get him.

Duke Odwolfe of Manterra is known to his friends as Wolfe, and to his enemies as Duke the Destroyer. When his prized bull goes missing, he sets out to find it. It has been stolen for a sacrifice by the druids who are conducting their pagan ritual in the forest, within the circle of standing stones. And when he finds he is too late to save his animal, he demands one of the druids come to his castle as his servant in exchange for his loss. Rae-Nyst is an elemental of the earth, better know as a dryad. She has both fae as well as human blood in her veins.

Eighteen months ago, Tarik Jaso, Duke of Arles, would have been thrilled if Sander Fiala, Duke of Roses, sank beneath the waves along with his stupid boat. That was then.

Jasmine is finally going to get her dream wedding that she has always wanted since she was a little girl. Duke was going to make sure of it, but as things start to unfold and old enemies come around, will the wedding happen, or will the darkness finally be able to separate Duke and Jasmine, leaving her without another mate?

When Montana first started playing in iNcarn8, his new game life, he just wanted to be one of the good guys for a change. But despite his impressive stats and incredible heroics, even his followers are just plain scared of him. Trouble keeps pouring down Montana, even in the remote, supposedly safe holding he's building into his dukedom.   

A beautiful girl, in love with books, and a vain, self-centred duellist in bustling metropolitan Shirragg, seemed an unlikely couple, and yet Lissadora Ganafreo and Jerrakiyan Savanake were destined to play a part in the great game of the gods, as the rumour of war rumbles across the great plains of Toxandria.

A headstrong young man, a wealthy duellist with his pride expressed through his sword, meets a beautiful bookish girl with barely a penny to her name, as their nation stands on the brink of war. In a conflict between rival gods as well as a war between kingdoms, magic and prophecy play a vital...

In a steam-fueled world where vampires once ruled the aristocracy, a dangerous conspiracy threatens to topple the queen, and the duke of Malloryn knows his nemesis has finally returned to enact his plans of revenge. Malloryn can trust no one, and when incriminating photographs surface - of an enemy agent stealing a kiss from his wife - he is forced to question just why his wife, Adele, trapped him into marriage. Is she an innocent pawn caught up in a madman's games, or is she a double agent working against him? The only way to discover the truth is to seduce her himself....

In a land where a cruel and jealous god holds sway, the currents of history converge to pluck one young girl from obscurity and thrust her blinking into the maelstrom of world events. Stilitha Zandravo, daughter of a priest, had led a quiet and uneventful life on the island of Eudora in the religious state of Vhanakhor. A member of the ruling classes, she had nevertheless always felt a curious affinity for the conquered people who laboured in the nearby valley and a curious distance from the society that she had been born into.

Adala Radagorian, innkeeper’s daughter, seems an unlikely pawn in the great game played between those rival gods who contest the fate of the world and whose machinations have influenced the course of human history since time immemorial. Possessed of wit, beauty and an education uncommon in her class, she finds herself bound up in events where the fate of empires lies in the balance. An equally unlikely love imperils the foundation of her world, tears her away from the simple circumstances of her upbringing and thrusts her into the heart of imperial politics.

Eve is a survivor. Kidnapped and genetically enhanced, she wakes in an alley with the ability to level up. As a Player, her life now belongs to the Game. Deadly Trials offer fantastic and powerful prizes, but as she fights against both alien monsters and other Players, Eve knows she would do anything to escape the Game. She may have to risk more than just her life to gain the power to control her own destiny...

We call ourselves the Bright. Most of us look like you. We live next door and shop in the same stores. We laugh and cry and work, just like you. There's only one difference between us... Magic. When Nora Grayson grudgingly took a premarital counseling job for a pair of socialite werewolves she never expected to unearth secrets about her own family. Her life in upheaval, Nora tries to piece together the truth after her so-called caretakers have gone on the run, stealing not only answers, but every cent Nora had saved.

The King of Tresterville is a tyrant and no one has felt his wrath more than his music-loving daughter Lilinova. When the Dark Duke, the mysterious ruler of a neighboring kingdom, invades Tresterville, Lilinova is accidentally killed in her father’s place, learning a terrible truth and catching a glimpse of the Dark Duke himself before she dies. Except somehow, Lilinova wakes up from death, three days before the start of the Dark Duke’s siege. Armed with this knowledge, she disguises herself as a traveling musician, steals a horse, and rides off.

Merellis is turning heads among the members of high society, but the threat of war looms overhead as political relations between Tasmeria and Rimmel start to crumble. At the same time, serious accusations have been brought up against House Anderson—Merellis's own family! If General Anderson falls from public favor, a war would be inevitable. Merellis sees just one way to avoid this: it's time to disguise herself as a soldier and step onto the battlefield to secure victory.