Resultados para "Families" en Terror

Kaya Thornton killed her best friend. On the run since the tender age of thirteen, she left the safety of her Community’s magicked walls and tried to disappear in the human world. Four years later, she’s found and dragged back kicking and screaming by Auden, her best friend’s older brother. The second Prince of the Wardwell line is antagonistic and unforgiving, but surprisingly gentle as he forces her home to face the judgement of his father and the Council. She expected hatred and bitter punishment, not private training with a hot and cold Prince and…demonology courses?

Still reeling from the loss of Shane and with their twins due any day, Gwen is willing to ally with any force needed to put her family enemies in the ground, before they can touch her children. The strength of her vampire keepers is no use when Fannie and Lewis remain in the between, waiting to strike, and Dmitry seems resistant to helping as he is distracted with royal affairs that have him rattled.

In the shadow of the Berkshire Mountains, ancient curses don’t sleep — they wait. When James Leonard inherits his father’s remote cabin following his suspicious death, he’s forced to confront more than just his grief. Kelli Hart, daughter of a local bookstore owner, arrives at his door seeking help in finding her missing father. Together they unearth their families’ twisted connection to Johanna Logan, an Irish witch burned alive in 1784 alongside her mysterious black cat.

Fresh from uncovering the buried secrets of the Forgotten City, Ethan is taking control of his destiny. He’s leaving Viridus behind, to go off in search of Terranova–and answers. The great hub of humanity and technology may have what he seeks, but to get there he’ll have to pass through a land of undead and brave the monster-infested seas.

New witch Samantha Sinclair is in over her head. There isn't a healer alive who can teach her how to use her magical gifts. When she unearths an ancient grimoire that belonged to a magical practitioner from the lost colony at Roanoke, she decides not to look gift cougars in the mouth. But the more she reads, the more Sam realizes that the similarities between herself and the long-dead healer aren't mere coincidence. It's like she's reading about her life. One son who became alpha. Check. Two dominant shifters vying for her attention. Check. A lost community never to be heard from again? Uh oh.

"Sandheden vedrørende den afdøde Arthur Jermyn og hans familie" er en novelle i den fiktive horrorgenre. Den er skrevet af den amerikanske forfatter H. P. Lovecraft i 1920. Temaet i historien centrerer om adelsmanden, Sir Arthur Jermyn, som søger at give sin slægt oprejsning, efter at slægtsnavnet er blevet tilsmudset og vanæret gennem generationer. Under Sir Arthur Jermyns forsøg på at afdække sine forfædres hemmeligheder, afsløres skæbnesvangre detaljer, som aldrig burde have været kommet til hans kundskab.

Die Fakten über Arthur Jermyn und seine Familie ist eine Kurzgeschichte von H. P. Lovecraft, die im jahr 1921 erstmals veröffentlicht worden ist. Sie handelt über die englische Familie Jermyn und ihre Verbindungen zum Kongo. Im 18. Jahrhundert führte Sir Wade Jermyn Expeditionen und Forschungen im Kongo aus, in deren Folge er in seinem Buch Betrachtungen über die verschiedenen Teile Afrikas Theorien formulierte, nach denen im Kongo uralte weiße Hybridwesen – halb Mensch, halb Affe – in einer grauen, vergessenen Stadt lebten.

Nexum should be a paradise. A world where a radiant Goddess cures every illness, her Chosen enforce peace, and monsters can be tamed into powerful Familiars. But for Ethan Bishop, a fun-loving doctor ripped from Earth, paradise has a pulse… and it’s not healthy.

My name is Jack Steen. That name shouldn’t mean anything to you, unless you’re about to die—and then I’m your bloody guardian angel. I work as a night nurse in the Asylum for the Criminally Insane.

They locked up a healer. What came out was something far more dangerous. Doctor Ethan Bishop has been exposed. Since arriving on Nexum, he’s gained power and enemies in equal measure. Healing a dying friend put him in the Church’s crosshairs, and now he’s paying the price. But Ethan isn’t done fighting. To uncover the Church’s secrets he’ll make any sacrifice, even if it means fighting under the banner of his greatest enemy.

Das kleine Städtchen Coventry in New England hatte schon tausende Schneestürme erlebt... aber noch keinen wie diesen. Menschen gingen in das weiße Gestöber und kamen nie mehr zurück. Jetzt, zwölf Jahre später, zieht ein weiterer Sturm auf und die Bewohner von Coventry erinnern sich an diejenigen, die sie im Schnee verloren haben. Ein Fotograf trauert um seinen kleinen Bruder. Der Tod seiner Frau hat tiefe Narben im Leben eines Gelegenheitsdiebs hinterlassen.

Once upon a time, there were Nazis...this story, however, has a happy ending and takes place in 1994. Born in Paris, Laura Rue celebrated her first birthday on the day the Nazis invaded the city. Most of her family escaped, and as an adult in New York, Laura teaches seventh graders about the environment. Shortly after her French grandfather dies, Laura's French grandmother, Simone, claims she is having repetitive dreams about an angel named Oleo, who insists that she and Laura must hire a captain to sail them around the world, so they can live happily ever after.

L'autore di questo audiolibro, Maurice Leblanc, ha scritto la fortunata serie di Arsenio Lupin, ma in questo ascolto il ladro gentiluomo fa solo una breve comparsa, mentre la trama si sviluppa autonomamente, tra suggestioni gotiche, superstizioni, fantasmi del passato che perseguitano l'eroina, Veronica, e suo figlio Francesco. Fino alla fine un susseguirsi di colpi di scena, e non manca il consueto gusto umoristico dell'autore. Cornice musicale dello sceneggiato francese del 1979.

Questo romanzo, pubblicato nel 1851, viene presentato dall'autore come "romance" e non come romanzo. Così l'autore mette le mani avanti e si permette di spaziare nelle fantasie suggerite dalle novità dei suoi tempi: il mesmerismo, lo spiritismo, l'idea, insomma che potesse esistere il modo di comunicare con esseri disincarnati e che essi potessero influenzare gli eventi della nostra vita.

Thirteen years ago, Jori Trahan’s boyfriend vanished without a trace. Now, after moving back home to Alabama to care for her ailing grandmother and autistic brother, she comes face-to-face with the deadly mystery behind his disappearance. Jori has a rare form of synesthesia, meaning she can “hear” colors; to her, tones of voice are as unique as fingerprints. With the help of this ability and a sympathetic cop, Jori comes dangerously close to uncovering the truth. But those responsible will go to any length - including murder - to keep their dark secrets buried.

Reformed party girl Meg Ashley leads a life of privilege, thanks to a bestselling horror novel her mother wrote decades ago. But Meg knows that the glow of their very public life hides a darker reality of lies, manipulation, and the heartbreak of her own solitary childhood. Desperate to break free of her mother, Meg accepts a proposal to write a scandalous, tell-all memoir.

Althea Bell is still heartbroken by her mother’s tragic, premature death - and tormented by the last, frantic words she whispered into young Althea’s ear: Wait for her. For the honeysuckle girl. She’ll find you, I think, but if she doesn’t, you find her. Adrift ever since, Althea is now fresh out of rehab and returning to her family home in Mobile, Alabama, determined to reconnect with her estranged, ailing father.

In the deep woods of East Texas, Henry supports his family by selling bootleg liquor. It's all he can do to keep his compassionate but ailing mother and his stepfather - a fanatical grassroots minister with a bruising rhetoric - from ruin. But they have no idea they've become the obsession of the girl in the woods. Andoned and nearly feral, Eve has been watching them, seduced by the notion of family - something she's known only in the most brutal sense. Soon she can't resist the temptation to get close.

When Lady Seliah Phel wakes from a drugged sleep to find herself abandoned by her newly bonded wizard, she vows revenge—and to hunt him down. Tracking him through the familiar wilds of the marshlands of her home is the easy part–learning to use her nascent magical skills is something else entirely. So is facing the vast, uncaring society of the Convocation in a time of brewing war.

Ein Wintereinbruch hindert Serge dUrfe an der Fortsetzung seiner Reise. Im Haus der Familie des alten Gortscha findet er Schutz vor den Wölfen und gefallen an der schönen Zdenka. Der Hausherr selbst ist vor Tagen aufgebrochen, um den berüchtigten Vampir Alibek zu töten. Zuvor hatte er seiner Familie eingeschärft, ihn keinesfalls mehr einzulassen, wenn er nach einer festgelegten Frist komme, da er dann selbst zum Vampir geworden sei. Mit Ablauf der Frist begehrt Gortscha Einlass in sein Haus ...