Resultados para "Miles" en Fantasía

En la ciudad de High Norland, la joven Charmain Baker pasa sus días con la nariz siempre metida en algún libro. Cuando su familia la envía a la casa de un pariente mago, ella parte emocionada por vivir al fin su propia aventura. Pero a su llegada se topa con un confuso laberinto de habitaciones extrañas, un aprendiz sin maestro e infinidad de criaturas singulares. Para colmo, pronto se ve involucrada en una misión del rey por la que acude una intimidante bruja llamada Sophie.

El sultán Shahriar descubre que su esposa lo engaña y la decapita. Todavía lleno de rencor, cada día desposa a una mujer a la que luego ordena matar por la mañana. Inesperadamente, Sherezade, la hija del visir, se ofrece voluntaria para casarse con el sultán. Durante la noche de bodas, la muchacha inicia un relato que deja fascinado a su marido, pero que interrumpe justo antes del amanecer.

The rules of reality have changed. All types of zombies have appeared with only one goal: Kill the living. Eric and his schoolmates must survive by adapting and growing stronger, but that's easier said than done. The undead get stronger with every passing day, and that's not even mentioning the blood moons. Even worse, the military and police seem to have disappeared.

The city is lost, but the new king lives. After rescuing Prince Thal from certain death, I am one of his few trusted servants. I am his blade in the night and his sworn assassin. Killing is my only skill, and killing has little use when we run from Veylan’s forces and search for a safe refuge. All the friendly doors are shut to us, and the Wandering King is losing support. Those who know he lives wait for a good moment to betray him. He must hide and build his strength, but he cannot do it alone.

Dying is easy. Coming back to life is hard. Miles Vorkosigan should know - having done both once already. Thanks to his quick-thinking staff and the artistry of a medical specialist, Miles' first death wasn't his last. But it does take some recovery, a fact he has been reluctant to admit. When he makes the mistake of returning too soon to duty, he finds himself summoned to face the security chief, Simon Illyan. But Miles' worst nightmares about Illyan are nothing compared to Illyan's own nightmares.

The world ended in November 2019. Fortlet never recovered. Fifteen years later, the Citadel survives beneath the ruins—part fortress, part pressure cooker—where every ration is counted and every promise has an expiration date. Milo is one of the Legion's surface hunters: fast, quiet, careful. He isn't sent out to be brave. He's sent out to bring back facts. General Beckett has a job that sounds simple on paper: scout a multi-level parking structure north of Aurora Station. Raiders have been sighted. Scouts have vanished.

I woke up in a game I never played, stripped of choice, doomed to die. They gave me the Soldier class and threw me into a barracks ruled by elves. No tutorial. No way out. Just drills, bruises, and the creeping realization that I’m not playing. I’m being played. My masters are NPCs who think they’re real. The system says I’m here to fight their wars. But a hunting accident changed everything.

Extreme sub-zero temperatures suffocate the surface. Frozen structures of bygone eras span across massive ice-wastes. And the survivors closely guard any technology rediscovered within them. The only escape from the deadly climate is beneath the surface, but that doesn't mean it's safe... Monstrous machines lurk in the depths. Unhinged demigods war against them, dying over and over, treating it all like a game. The depths themselves shift over time, more contraption than rock.

Princess Mila fights to reclaim her rightful place on the throne. But the road to the crown is littered with peril—wild dragons ravage the countryside, Prince Elon of Ondre marches with steel and fire, and within the palace walls, the cunning Dowager Queen weaves a treacherous plot to seize control of both the crown and the sacred unicorns for herself. Desperate to save her people and unite a fractured land, Mila allies with the Elves of Light and Harmony and receives unexpected aid from the distant realm of Wadom.

The dwarfish, fetally damaged yet brilliant Miles Vorkosigan has more than his share of troubles. Having recently escaped an assassination plot whose tool was a brainwashed clone of himself, Miles has set the clone, Mark, free for a new chance at life. But when he decides to let his clone brother assume his secret identity and lead the Dendarii Free Mercenary on an unauthorized mission to liberate other clones from the outlaw planet of Jackson's Whole, things get really messy.

After recent events, former salaryman Mizuki Ryosuke finds himself the man of the hour! He starts an adventuring business and enters a partnership with the UK government, with Carol's help. Their condition? That he retrieves a broken skill left inside the Omori Dungeon known as "Excalibur." Mizuki's party determines its location, but they aren't the only people on the hunt and a certain familiar face comes to stand in their way. Unluckily for Mizuki, however, there are more threats on this expedition...

Mila has left behind everything she once knew. Fleeing a marriage contract forged by her father and pursued by Queen Ophelia’s elfin trackers, Mila journeys into the wild with the last of the unicorns. Hunted and endangered, the unicorns seek a new sanctuary, and Mila swears to protect them no matter the cost. As they traverse into new lands, Mila battles those who would seek to harm the unicorns. Along the way, she encounters Torena, a mysterious and magical woman with ancient knowledge and a hidden sanctuary of her own. In Torena’s care, Mila finds healing, wisdom, and a new joy for life.

The land of Doln is a realm of wonders, where magic weaves through the air and ancient secrets lie hidden beneath the whispering trees. Between the thriving kingdoms of Terrell and Smolic, Doln flourishes. It is a paradise of glistening rivers, towering forests, and creatures long thought to exist only in legend. But none are more coveted, more powerful, or more magical than the unicorns. For centuries, Doln’s rulers have upheld a lie... that unicorns are extinct. The creature's survival depends on secrecy, for their horns hold power beyond imagination.

Lord of the Underworld, Hades has decided to leave his home and relocate to earth--my home town of Chicago to be exact. This shouldn't have been a problem, except for the fact that cocky Hades is smexy-hot. I don't know if I want to punch him in the face or jump his bones. In some of my dreams, I'm doing both at the same time. This is problematic because I've trained my whole life to eliminate monsters sent by the Gods to destroy humans... and for centuries my family has done everything in its power to stop them. But now I'm the last in my bloodline and a new threat stalks the streets.

Recalled from the front lines to the species melting pot of the Kespian Isle, he is ordered to resurrect Domina 7 and claim dominance in the Grand Arena. A place where gladiators die for coin, power is bought with blood, and three kings vie to rake in the most taxes. To survive, Riko must build an estate of steel, magic, and loyalists… or be devoured by the competition.

By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is chief minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, the king’s new wife. But Anne has failed to give the king an heir, and Cromwell watches as Henry falls for plain Jane Seymour. Cromwell must find a solution that will satisfy Henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career. But neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of Anne’s final days.

Once upon a time, in a parallel universe, there existed the continent of Triton.... The land was filled with beauty, but it was also splintered by war. Out of the chaos grew a conspiracy to reawaken the Beast, a fearsome creature who wrought only tragedy and devastation. The only way to stop him was to fulfill an ancient prophecy: Triton’s four strongest warriors must wed its four most powerful witches, binding all nations together and finally bringing peace to the land.

Future imperfect: Three years after her famous husband's death, Cordelia Vorkosigan, widowed vicereine of Sergyar, stands ready to spin her life in a new direction. Oliver Jole, admiral, Sergyar Fleet, finds himself caught up in her web of plans in ways he'd never imagined, bringing him to an unexpected crossroads in his life. Meanwhile, Miles Vorkosigan, one of Emperor Gregor's key investigators, this time dispatches himself on a mission of inquiry into a mystery he never anticipated - his own mother.

Monster-filled dungeons have recently appeared in our world. When average office worker Mizuki Ryousuke gets transferred to the Japanese countryside, by the time he gets there, the office is gone and a dungeon's sitting in its place! He finds a number of odd things when he ventures inside, like a fairy about to be eaten by goblins and a mysterious skill book that allows him to turn skills—even overpowered ones—into cards so he can use them at will!

Traveling through the strange lands of the Odin, Drakonis and Keith stumbled upon bizarre discoveries in their quest to return back to their people: the long-lost Icon of Stars, an AI from the golden era, possessing all the power and abilities of that time. And an ominous infestation—the...