Resultados para "Holly" en Aventura

Melanie Winters' battle to stay alive rages on as Solomon & his forces have the one person that she treasures most in his grasp; her mother. The terms are simple - hand herself over in three days or her mother dies. With the stakes even higher than before, Melanie meets allies both old and new to hatch a plan, while her raging powers continue to play havoc on her mind and body.

Melanie Winters has gone from a bright university student to a high class fugitive within months. Now fully aware of the origins of her powers, she has to keep herself hidden in order to stay alive. As she is pursued by Solomon and his forces, Melanie has to fight an unimaginable battle with her rapidly expanding powers.

Lieutenant Commander Crystal Wolf's hatred of politics has never been a secret through her spotless military career. So why is she being sent to Earth to speak at a military hearing on behalf of The Lands and Waters of Neophia Organization? When Crystal's team is tasked with convincing the US military to continue the officer exchange program that first brought Lieutenant Desiree Flint and Ensign Justin Anderson to Neophia to serve on Journey’s first tour, the stakes are already high: If they fail their mission, Flint and Anderson won’t be able to return for the second tour.

It’s been 300 years since humans arrived on Neophia, and the planet’s intelligent species have yet to agree on how much influence humans and their advanced technology should have on the planet. With the threat of war hanging in the air, Lieutenant Commander Crystal Wolf races to finish construction of the mega submarine, Journey, in order to calm political tensions on Neophia and cement her already stellar military career.

All Zoe Antos wanted was to make it home from work in time for date night with her fiancé Cole Wilborn, something her research had been preventing a lot recently. After managing to get out the door on time, all hope of making it home is lost when she is kidnapped by a man trying to steal files from her lab. Zoe is thrown into a world of conspiracy theories as her kidnappers reveal that they are trying to stop The Arrow Equilibrium from going through with their plan to restore balance to the environment—and the only way would be to eliminate the human factor from the scales.

The stakes for the crew of the mega submarine Journey have never been higher. After Teria’s attempt to hijack the ship on Peace Day, the Lands and Waters of Neophia Organization (LAWON) has decided the time is finally right to take action against Teria before President Rank can start the war he’s spent years preparing for. Since the hijacking, Journey has been tasked with patrolling their own waters in an attempt to keep them out of the spotlight for a while.

It's been a long six weeks of leave, and Lieutenant Commander Crystal Wolf is looking forward to a second tour aboard Journey, the mega submarine she designed and built. But on the morning they’re due to report, the ship receives a surprise inspection that threatens the launch. After discovering one of the inspectors has past ties to the man she’s in love with, Crystal faces a tough decision about their relationship and her future on Journey…a future that turns deadly when Journey is hijacked with them on board.

Plug back into the dangerous world of virtual gaming, in the next thrilling novel from the author of Arena. Kali Ling has faced down death hundreds of times for the entertainment of millions. She knows fear—and she knows what’s truly terrifying... There’s a new game in town. A brutal...

A fast-paced and gripping near-future science fiction debut about the gritty world of competitive gaming... Every week, Kali Ling fights to the death on national TV. She’s died hundreds of times. And it never gets easier... The RAGE tournaments—the Virtual Gaming League’s elite...

"Great, near-future sci-fi...A propulsive, character-driven thriller...I really love this book."—Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble and Magic for Beginners In the spirit of Station Eleven and California, award-winning novelist Holly Goddard Jones offers a literary spin on the dystopian...

At odds with Smoke's diabolical brother, Specks, Sid and company battle to protect the only weapon they have left, a jump drive that will lead them to a source of unknown powers and the secret of the Knights of Nigil.

Sidney Smoke—FBI agent turned bounty hunter, retired monster slayer, wife, and mother of two—has made the most of the simple life, but when her husband returns from a mission with his life hanging by a thread, her old instincts are awakened. Through interdimensional portals, dragon-like invaders and shape-shifting monstrosities wielding otherworldly magical powers threaten the very existence of humanity. And it will take more than flesh and blood to stop them before they seal the world's fate.

The exhilarating saga of The Twelve Dimensions continues as Shirakaya awakens within the accursed realm of Pandemonium. She is all alone, and at least one cycle has passed since the Drift Void hurled her into an alternate universe where only chaos thrives. With no stars in the black gulfs of space and no suns to give the light of day, Shirakaya wanders through a nightmarish wasteland devoid of life. To make matters worse, parts of the wretched realm are collapsing, and a mysterious blight is consuming the land. Where is her brother in all this madness? Where are starship and crew?

The death-defying journey of Shirakaya and her eccentric crew - Shadow Mercs - continues in this latest installment of The Twelve Dimensions. Stars are vanishing throughout the universe. Though there seems to have not been any recent attacks caused by the primeval koth’vurians, Shirakaya knows beyond a doubt that the villainous Ashkaratoth is responsible for the destruction of those stars. Yet the pseudo magic within her armor and weapons will never be enough to challenge the koth’vurians.

The world has changed. Gone are the old gods. Nature withers and dies beneath the growing bane of machines and industry. Desperate to prevent their world from dying, citizens turn to science and sprawling cities of steam ruled by the Imperium. Kaimo de Morté has never known another life. He is an optometrist by trade but too poor to open an optical boutique. Forced to work in the mines, Kaimo has no idea how his life is about to change. A chance encounter with insurgents thrusts him into a battle for the very future of mankind