Resultados para "Fire" en Literatura y ficción

As an executive assistant at a high-powered company in San Francisco, Vanessa Stewart is used to working right through the holidays, barely pausing to celebrate as she juggles endless deadlines for her exacting boss. But that all changes when she gets a call from her grandmother Mabel, who owns...

A firefighter crew like no other . . . on a mission to claim their mates Whether it's a rogue dragon or just a scared little lion cub shifter stuck up a tree, the firefighters of Alpha Team can handle any emergency. But there's one inferno even these powerful shifters can't fight . . . the fiery...

War rages, loyalties are tested, and love is more perilous than ever in this thrilling and eagerly awaited sequel to the breakout hit Metal Slinger. It's been four years since Jovie betrayed Acker, fracturing their relationship. Her decision to take King Edmond's magic, sparing his life at...

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE HBO ORIGINAL SERIES HOUSE OF THE DRAGON. Centuries before A Game of Thrones, an even greater game began, one that set the skies alight with dragon flame and saw the Seven Kingdoms turned to ash. So began the Targaryens’ bloody rule, with fire and blood. Setting...

Professorn i nationalekonomi, Konrad Iversen, fyller sextio – men födelsedagen utvecklar sig till en mardröm. Ett mystiskt brev från signaturen En vän drar in honom i en katt-och-råtta-lek där insatsen förefaller vara hans liv och familjens säkerhet. Konrad måste navigera genom en...

A woman rebuilding after tragedy and a grieving father searching for hope discover that the past isn't finished with them. After the Peshtigo Fire reduces her teaching dreams to ash, Willow Deeran refuses to let the flames win. She pours her last hope into an audacious plan: opening an orphanage...

Even though she's not one of them, Brynn has spent her life among the Alaha, training to be a guard and waiting for the chance to attend the annual market hosted by the Kenta—the very same people who exiled her adopted community to a life at sea. Going to the market is a rite of passage eagerly anticipated by all young guards, but Brynn does not anticipate breaking a century-long peace treaty while there.

Tras la brutal guerra civil, Rin lo ha perdido prácticamente todo. Pero no piensa abandonar a aquellos por quienes ha sacrificado tanto: la gente de las provincias del sur, y en especial la de Tikany, el pueblo que es su hogar. Al volver a sus raíces, Rin se enfrenta a retos difíciles, pero también encuentra inesperadas oportunidades. A pesar de que sus nuevos aliados de la Coalición Sureña son maliciosos y no se puede confiar en ellos, Rin pronto se da cuenta de que el auténtico poder en Nikan reside en la gente corriente, que ansía venganza y la venera como una diosa salvadora.

Following their successful escape from Androchida Prime’s capital city, Sir Chuck and the rest of the Phantoms find themselves mystified by unsettling news. The leader of the Blood Guard resistance, famed General Cordan, has defected to the AE. But while many doubt the veracity of the development, more pressing intel awaits: the empire is planning to invade the Sci-Rung home world.

From #1 New York Times bestselling authors Andrews & Wilson After a tragic fire kills his wife, Fire Chief Travis Quesada moves his daughter to a small Virginia town to start over. But when a new explosion echoes the past, he realizes some fires aren’t accidents—and some enemies don’t stay...

My grandmother used to beat me while screaming that I was cursed. I never truly believed it, but now? I definitely do. My life has been a series of gut punches. First, my sperm donor did the same before I was even born. Dear old Mom followed not long after my first breath. My grandmother, Hester, hated me and never let me forget it. Still, I was determined to make life better. As soon as I graduated from high school, I moved to Virginia. For a while, I thought things were finally looking up. I met Vector, a man who made me believe I was special. That was until he ghosted me.

Drawing from the author's original, uncensored journals, Fire follows Anaïs Nin's journey as she attempts to liberate herself sexually, artistically, and emotionally. While referring to her relationships with psychoanalyst Otto Rank and author Henry Miller, as well as a new lover, the Peruvian Gonzalo More, she also reveals that her most passionate and enduring affair is with writing itself.

A man treks through the frigid Yukon with his dog. When night falls, the temperature drops to negative 75, and they struggle to keep warm.

Born into the legendary Silversight clan, Rayelin was destined for a life of power, prophecy, and purpose—until the Obsidian Clan’s brutal attack shattered everything. Forced into hiding for over a decade, she survived in the wilds, her dragon form growing fierce and untamed. But fate refuses to let her remain in the shadows. When Nixon, the formidable leader of the Redclaw Clan, discovers her existence, their fates become irrevocably entwined.

The darkness is eternal; the vast expanse of unexplainable umbra swallows me whole. It's how they always start. The nightmares that have haunted me for as long as I can remember—they don't relent. They chase me into the shadows of sleep, and when I'm awake, a new kind of nightmare lives. I...

When young Jamie Chase is kidnapped by his father and made the victim of a radical cult, his desperate mother, whose resources have run out, is aided by a fun-loving and hard-driving elf to get him back

It’s 1837, and immigrating to a small New Zealand fishing village is an opportunity for Ida Lange’s family to build a better future. Yet for Ida, raised in a strict, religious, tight-knit German community, so much is still forbidden to a woman. Yearning for the poor day laborer she shared books with as a child, Ida is now trapped in a dire marriage to a man of her father’s choosing. 

Ursula has forgotten her past. Too bad her past won’t return the favor. Ursula can’t remember a single thing before three years ago, so she has to keep her life simple. All she wants is to earn enough money for rent—and maybe a bit left over for a new pair of boots. But on her eighteenth...

The clock at St. Killian’s chimes as whispers float in the dark staircase above. Snow falls from the black sky beyond the windows, and candles glow - the flames lighting up the longest night of the year. Devil’s Night isn’t the only holiday we celebrate. Tonight, we’re pulling on a different mask. Some call it Midwinter. Others call it Yule. We call it Fire Night.

En un mundo donde nada es lo que parece, con bandas rivales enfrentadas, dos personalidades opuestas se verán condenadas a entenderse. Donde hubo fuego, siempre habrá pecado, prepárate para arder en él.