Resultados para "Mark Taler" en Fantasía oscura

Professor Ravi Gupta has spent a lifetime guarding the portal he opened as a young man, through magic he never should have touched, and the world of peril on the other side. But the passage is not his darkest secret. That is the woman he left there, and never spoke of again. When his most brilliant student vanishes through the same door, Ravi has no choice but to go back. He returns to that hostile realm to bring the boy home, and finds the world beyond ruled by the research associate he and his partner marooned there decades ago. She has not forgotten what they did.

Giles Chamberlain returns to a snowbound Cambridge after Christmas spent with his girlfriend. Determined to prove himself to her family, he sets out to discover what became of her missing brother. But when he encounters a sinister figure prowling the college’s rooftops, he suspects last semester’s creature was not the only entity to cross into our world.

Some doors in Cambridge were locked for a reason. Working-class and a long way from the Mansfield of his childhood, Nick Wood doesn't belong among the dreaming spires. He knows it, too. But not fitting in becomes the least of his fears the night something steps out of the shadows of his college and attacks him. Something that should not exist.

A runaway in 12th-century York, Quin scrapes together a life from stolen trinkets and constant hope. His knack for survival keeps him breathing after he's nabbed by Leoric of Rensweald, a nobleman with generous intentions and dangerous needs. Quin alone knows Leoric's savage hunger and guards his secret with loyalty born of fear, ambition, and a strangled sense of brotherhood. Richly rewarded for his silence, Quin is content until Leoric adopts a girl named Amarys as his ward. As Quin falls in love with her, his precariously balanced life comes undone.

Rander Belmorn is far from home. He searches tirelessly for the one man who might be able to cure his dying son, but time is running out. The road has led to a frozen waste at the very edge of the world. But what this simple river man never learned on that long, lonely road was the answer to the last question. The only question. How do you kill a witch?

As an apprentice priest to the god Aplu, Leures Vethna learns to read omens. The moment he sees Diomedes of Thebes, Leures knows the Greek mercenary will take him from his Etruscan homeland to a greater destiny. Fate leads them to the farthermost regions of the known world, where he and Diomedes will fight as mercenaries against Alexander the Great's army. But, no matter how far he travels, Leures can't escape the curse he's carried from his youth. Death dogs his heels.

In a shadowy realm of Grim Reapers, a perfect reaper with no memory of his past life unexpectedly rediscovers his humanity through a woman named Lana. Their encounter leads to a rebellion against a memoryless existence, culminating in a bittersweet transformation for the Grim Reapers and a chance at redemption in the realm of death.

'Fast-paced, entertainingly creepy, laugh-out-loud funny, and genuinely moving' Michelle Paver 'Full of magic and delight' Rowan Coleman ‘A rural Ben Aaronovitch!’ C. K. McDonnell The Holly King is coming, and you’re on his list . . . It's December 1940, and Christmas has come to Woodville...