Resultados para "Hades" en Urbana

Charlie Reade parece un estudiante de instituto normal y corriente, pero carga con un gran peso sobre los hombros. Cuando él solo tenía diez años, su madre fue víctima de un atropello y la pena empujó a su padre a la bebida. Aunque era demasiado joven, Charlie tuvo que aprender a cuidarse solo... y también a ocuparse de su padre.

I’m Autumn, an Infernal reaper, and I’m bound to my sexy-as-hell rebel gods by their shifter spirits. When Hades, scorching hot King of the Underworld and savage hell hound, hunts me through the Eternal Forest, I’m caught in his dangerous spell.

Loki vowed that Asgard would burn. Bohdi Patel, latest incarnation of Chaos, wants nothing to do with Loki's psychotic oath. Stranded on the icy world of Jotunheim with Amy Lewis, his friend Steve Rogers, and an unlikely band of civilians, magical beings, and elite military, Bohdi just wants to keep himself and his friends alive - but when you're Chaos incarnate, even the simplest goals are complicated. If Jotunheim doesn't kill them, Odin will. And if Odin doesn't, the secrets they harbor might.

The Greek Gods are dead, but their legacy remains. Kairos, pirate lord of Histria, is concerned. A dungeon on his island turns out to be the last entrance to the Underworld, full of wealth and dangers; while beyond the sea the Poison King Mithridates builds up his forces. Enemies old and new prepare for a new war that will determine who shall replace the fallen Olympians. And Kairos is determined to be on the winning side.

In 1872, dinosaur hunters become embroiled in a battle over the discovery of fossils in Northern Ontario as their excavation crews are driven mad by a bizarre and terrifying illness. Over a hundred years later, Church and his family show signs of the same monstrous affliction. As he begins to unravel his family’s dark history, Church must race to protect the secrets buried deep in bones and blood.

One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it. As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events. Members of a local werewolf pack are threatened into silence.

Murdered contortionists aren't exactly what Vivienne signed up for when she ran away to join the circus. But like most things under the big top, nothing is what it seems. With a past she can't quite remember, Vivienne finds that running away forever might not be as appealing as it once sounded - because forever means something quite different at the Cirque des Immortels.

Alysha Gale's cousin Charlotte is a Wild Power, who allies herself with a family of Selkies in a fight against offshore oil drilling. The oil company has hired another of the Gale family's Wild Powers, the fearsome Auntie Catherine, to steal the Selkies' sealskins. To defeat her, Charlotte will have to learn what born to be Wild really means in the Gale family...

Wenn die Gegenwart zum stärksten Gegner wird. Der Yorker Studentin Lia fällt es schwer, ihr göttliches Erbe zu akzeptieren und nicht zur Figur im intriganten Spiel der Götter zu werden. Auf einen kann sie sich aber immer verlassen: Vesper, den jungen Götternachfahren, der Lias Herz regelmäßig zum Stolpern bringt. Bis er ihr durch einen Hinterhalt entrissen wird. Ohne zu wissen, wem sie überhaupt noch vertrauen kann, macht sich Lia auf die Suche nach ihm. Sie ist bereit, alles für Verspers Rettung zu geben. Selbst wenn es bedeutet, mit dem Gott der Unterwelt persönlich einen Deal einzugehen.

An elder ArchAngel of the host was given a mission. Change the world, while changing the lives of those who could do the impossible. The rub? The ArchAngel Chamuel could only use choice to fail or succeed. In a world that desperately needed clean, renewable energy, Benjamin Reeves created a way to achieve the impossible, but for him, it was merely fiction. On the opposite side of the country, Gwendolyn Murphy found a way for this impossibility to become reality, but for her, it was a matter of applied theoretical physics, in which she was the world's foremost expert.

Der griechische Gott der Unterwelt hat mein Leben völlig auf den Kopf gestellt und nun stelle ich alles infrage, was ich über mein Leben zu wissen geglaubt hatte. Und jetzt weiß ich nicht einmal mehr, wer ich bin. In meine Brust tobt der Krieg, mein Verlangen nach mehr Magie mit dem Wissen darüber in Einklang zu bringen, was diese Kräfte den Menschen im Olymp antun. Was sie mir in der Vergangenheit bereits angetan haben mögen. Ich weiß jedoch, dass meine Gefühle für Hades wahr sind. Der Herr der Toten ist so viel mehr, als ich je erwartet habe, und etwas in mir erkennt, dass ich ihn ebenso sehr brauche wie er mich.

Ich bin von Zeus entführt, in Manhattan aufgegriffen und von der olympischen Gottheit halb zu Tode erschreckt worden. Jetzt werde ich in der Unterwelt gefangen gehalten und gezwungen, in einer Reihe von tödlichen Tribunalen, um die Position der Königin der Unterwelt zu kämpfen. Das würde bedeuten, Hades heiraten zu müssen, den furchterregenden Gott des Todes. Wer zum Teufel möchte überhaupt einen Ehemann, geschweige denn einen, der aus Rauch geschaffen und von Tod durchsetzt ist?

Ich stecke in der Hölle fest, der echten Hölle. Fast alles und jeder hier versuchen mich umzubringen. Sogar der Gott, der behauptet, er habe mich einst geliebt, hätte mir fast das Leben genommen. Mein Glück wird sich aber schon bald ändern. Ich habe es satt, Persephone, Mensch und Außenseiterin in den Hades Tribunalen, zu sein. Es ist mir gelungen, ein kleines bisschen der Göttin in mir wiederzuerwecken, und jetzt habe ich Kräfte, und keine Skrupel, sie zu nutzen. Obwohl ich ehrlich gesagt keine Ahnung habe, wie das gehen soll.

Some oaths are written in blood. Others in magic. After walking away from both, ex-druid Colin McCool finds himself ensnared in a faery queen's web of blackmail and revenge. Rule #1 of being a druid: Never, EVER make deals with the Fae. I'm Colin McCool, and the last time I dealt with the Fae, it cost me everything. Since then, I've been hiding behind scrap iron and protective spells, pretending the supernatural world doesn't exist. No magic. No fae. No exceptions.

Tuesday night in the library started out normal--alone with cheap beer and a murder mystery. Partying, librarian style. Until the god Hades appears. When he abducts me, I try to say he's got the wrong girl--I'm no goddess. At least, I don't think so. Suddenly, I'm in his world, captive. The upside? I live in a castle with a lethally beautiful god who wants to make me a queen. The downside? He's scary AF and also wants me to help him destroy the world.

I’ve screwed up. Big time. A day ago, I mistakenly released the evil Titan Chronos onto the Earth. He’s spreading devastation in his pursuit of ultimate power, and it’s all my fault. The only way to stop him is to fulfil an ancient prophecy and unite with Hades. Problem is, Hades plans to rule in Chronos’ place, spreading the underworld to earth. He wants me to rule by his side, a dark queen to his dark king.

Two weeks ago, I escaped Hades’ fortress. In the process, I turned him against me. So, yeah, he definitely hates me now. But I’m headed back, and I’m prepared for war. My goal? To stop his terrible plan to spread eternal darkness to the earth. To succeed, I must master my magic before it destroys me. Only Hades can teach me, however. He’s willing - as long as I agree to help him.

A dark god rises, and a queen to meet him.... As librarian in the most gorgeous library in the world, I'm living my book nerd dreams. The hallowed halls are my haven, until the specter of a dark god begins to haunt my days and nights. When he kidnaps me, my lethally beautiful enemy gains a name: Hades. That should make me Persephone, but I’m no goddess. So why does he want me? I'll do whatever it takes to foil his deadly plans and escape, including seducing the brooding dark god.

Horseman boyfriend rescued? Check. Vampire screwing everything up? Of course. Two Horsemen down. One to go...For centuries three Horsemen have reigned, their corruption unchecked. Until recently, the entire fae realm was unknown to humans. That is until their wicked ways turned the skies of the human world to ash. The royal Horsemen's iron rule plagued everything they touched. But no longer. With famine and death gone, things have come to a boiling point. The battle between worlds and wills was inevitable.

One soul coursing through two hearts. Three tokens to save them all. Myths and magic collide as Violet risk's losing herself to wake The Lady of The Lake. With the war for the Magical world just beginning, Violet must learn to trust her enemies if she's to save the people she loves. As Violet sets out on her quest for The Pieces of Three, she and Robert learn there's more to magic than they ever dreamed possible. But learning to work together and control their magic will prove to be far more difficult now that Robert's returned with the woman who tried to kill her.