Resultados para "Miles" en Urbana

Jared thought he craved an ordinary life. Clock in, do paperwork, clock out. He gave up magic, joined the Meta Marshal Service, and just wanted to be left alone. Until he found his first girlfriend, Cassie, down on her knees in the wreckage of a prisoner transport vehicle, almost got killed by a bunch of angry Dryads, and met his second girlfriend, Jessalene, after she held a gun to his head. Now he's out to hunt down a missing elf that holds the key to saving Jessalene's clan.

Jared craved an ordinary life. Clock in, do paperwork, clock out. He gave up magic, joined the Meta Marshal Service, and just wanted to be left alone. Until a routine prisoner transport went awry and blew up his entire existence. That was when he found Cassie down on her knees in the wreckage, asking him for help. And he knew in that instant: Magic just wouldn't leave him alone. Now he's on a hunt for an escaped convict and a powerful ancient artifact with the potential to ruin their world for good.

Who is Mercer? Coyote. Soul Smuggler. A body-hopping, phantasmal anti-hero. A disenfranchised spirit doomed to inherit the earth, cursed by both heaven and hell. An enemy of god, but no friend of the devil. Soul Smuggler collects nine Mercer tales.

One day, six towers appear on Earth. Each one stands hundreds of stories tall, and are invulnerable to all attacks. At the base of each tower is a portal, welcoming in all who dare enter it. All sorts of magical monsters can be found inside the towers. Even treasure, magic, and superhuman strength can be acquired. The problem is that the towers aren't a friendly place. Even worse, the towers sometimes release waves of monsters to attack Earth. In the year 2083, there are only a hundred survivors. In one last attempt, they challenge the final floor without regard for their lives.

Jason had it all, and yet he still couldn't prevent his father's death. He didn't even have time to grieve as his mission took precedence over all else. Pressing onward was the only path. But did he possess enough strength to clear the tower, even with Roy and Olivia at his back? The answer was obvious: Only with humanity's best could he stand a fighting chance. Yet as his actions influenced the world, the more things changed. Worse, his secret identity, Index, was in the spotlight for releasing knowledge that couldn't possibly be known.

There's nothing more to say. My escalating feud with my family and my need for sweet revenge leaves a single course of action. Kill the leader of the Family, the legendary, all-powerful Manticore. He's one of the most guarded men in New Angeles, but I have a plan. Too bad it's the craziest, most irrational plan ever, but it's all I have.

Contains the Complete Series: Books 1-3. Old Dark is a viperous dragon lord who rules the world with brute force. For 200 years, he and his dragons have terrorized humanity, forcing it to pay tribute or die. Dark's palace of blood and bone sits on caverns of treasure. He's stockpiled all the world's magic for his own personal use, making him akin to a god. But there is another dragon in Dark's inner circle who wants Dark's power and fortune for himself.

After solving a crime blamed on Vodou in New Orleans’s French Quarter, Vodou priestess turned amateur detective Reina Dumond has returned to her benevolent work as a healer. But when her friend and enigmatic client Evangeline “Vangie” Stiles comes to her for a spell, Mambo Reina quickly realizes what Vangie really needs is a sleuth.

Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond runs a healing practice from her New Orleans home. Gifted with water magic since she was a child, Reina is devoted to the benevolent traditions of her ancestors. After a ritual slaying in the French Quarter, police arrest a fellow vodouisant. Detective Roman Frost, Reina’s ex-boyfriend - a fierce nonbeliever - is eager to tie the crime, and half a dozen others, to the Vodou practitioners of New Orleans. Reina resolves to find the real killer and defend the Vodou practice and customs.

Earth is one step away from a nuclear war, and Paradigm Alpha’s solution to saving what they can of humanity is to upload their brains to The Doomsday System. But while most of the minds are being stored while they sleep, Jeff doesn’t have that option. As the only one who can be uploaded digitally and remain awake, he will be kept alive, as it were, in order to help humanity 10,000 years from now. But thanks to time compression in the system, it will only be a thousand years for him.

In the latest Argeneau novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands, an immortal and her mortal pilot are on the run from hungry vampires...and discover they’re life mates along the way. Jet Lassiter likes being a pilot for Argeneau Inc. Perks included travelling to exotic...

Peter Stone is a poor black vampire who has found undeath isn't all it was promised to be. There's no vast riches, innate cool, or super-sex appeal. No, instead, there's working the graveyard shift at a gas station alongside the highway to Detroit. Oh, and the blood thing sucks, too. Working a second job as the sheriff of the undead, Peter is asked to serve as bodyguard to a famous vampire romance novelist visiting the city. He doesn't go 24 hours before she's dead and he's the primary suspect. There's also evidence it was one of the most powerful vampires in the world.

Devil's Backbone: The Invisible Walls of Seven Mile is a full-cast audio production from the team at Kaiser & Tilly Publishing. Riveting sound effects, original music, and incredible acting by our full cast will transport you to the twisted town of Seven Mile, a small town located along the banks of California's winding Russian River, where the fishing is great and the wickedness is greater.

Joshuas kleine Schwester stirbt an Leukämie, seine Eltern trennen sich und in der Schule wird er gemobbt. Als Joshua glaubt, dass es nicht mehr schlimmer werden kann, erwacht er eines Tages in Orasyen, einer vollkommen fremden Welt, wo er von seinem Schicksal als letzter Torwächter erfährt. Daraufhin begibt sich Joshua auf die gefahrenvolle Suche nach der Aufgabe, die nur er erfüllen kann. Während er immer weiter ins Herz Orasyens vordringt, sind ihm bösartige Kreaturen auf den Fersen, die ein einziges Ziel verfolgen: ihn zu vernichten, um dem Bösen den Weg zu ebnen.

The year 2050: post-collapse. Despite my growing distrust for Deirdre, here I am, still doing my family's dirty work. Capture a billionaire's daughter - alive. They neglect to tell me one small detail - that like me, she's not human. The mission goes south from minute one and then come the lies. Just when I realize there's much more at stake than the freedom of an aristo's daughter, the family kidnaps my sister and holds her hostage!

Anna Walker’s hunt for the Grail Cup—the relic of eternal life—puts her directly in Lucifer’s sights. To force her hand, he threatens the one person she cannot lose: her mother. As Anna races to claim the relic, vampiric zealots rise to steal it, and every path is fraught with betrayal. Through it all, Kincade remains her anchor, fighting at her side and determined to keep her from the dark lord’s grasp. But when an unlikely ally with divine power joins their fight, even his strength may not be enough to protect her.

The race is on to find the Spear of Destiny before Lucifer’s forces can claim it—and plunge the world into darkness. For Anna Walker, the mission becomes personal when her greatest enemy, Azriel, kidnaps her closest ally, demanding the spear in exchange for Kincade’s soul. As Anna battles time and temptation, a new threat emerges: the Knights of the Holy Lance, a faction with an army of engineered dream walkers and a twisted plan for the relic.

When a snake bite ruins my day, the last thing I expected was to learn that I had magical powers. Not only was I a snake shifter, but there was a shadowy group of killers who were already searching for me. Here I thought I was just a disillusioned college student.

After his family was slaughtered by two monsters made from the darkest of nightmares, Logan Blake became a seer, a human who was affected by a strong magical presence early in life. He now works as a contractor, a mercenary working in the Shattered Community.

Hate is a cruel word...but finding out what my mother has done...what she's hidden from me is unforgivable. Add to that, the four men I've let into my life have been keeping secrets from me, too. I have a few truths of my own to reveal that might change everything between us. With the threat of war darkening our world and my ex fated mate on our heels, I don't see how we can survive if we let the past break us apart. Can I find a way to forgive them before it's too late and I lose everything?