Resultados para "Novelle" en Fantasía

DEMON CLAWS: The battle against the demons has been won. The town of Tibbet’s Brook is enjoying a peaceful winter until the body of local businessman Rusco Hog is discovered on the old Tanner farm, his fatal injuries pointing towards a demon attack. BUTTER COOKIES: For Selia Barren, the Town Speaker, the evidence doesn’t add up. She suspects foul play. Rusco didn’t become the richest man in town by making friends, and it seems everyone in Tibbet’s Brook has a motive.

Book two in the award-winning Mind Sweeper series Jean Luc Delacroix has lived for centuries as a vampire, but after his family was slaughtered, he locked his emotions away. Now he works with his demon partner, Misha, for the Bureau of Supernatural Relations. Their mission: keep humans from...

Lilith has been dying since the day she was born. While she long ago came to terms with her own imminent death, the deaths of everyone she loves are an entirely different matter. As her town slowly withers in the clutches of a mysterious god-cursed illness, she takes matters into her own hands. Desperate to find a cure, Lilith strikes a bargain with the only thing the gods hate more than her village: a vampire, Vale. She offers him six roses in exchange for six vials of vampire blood—the one hope for her town's salvation.

She summoned the storm. It fell in love with her. In a city of humming neon and outlawed magic, witch Corvina Lake lives by one rule: never mix spellcraft with tech. But when she’s hired to contain a volatile experiment gone wrong, she meets Jasper Gentry—and the sentient current living under his skin.

Not every danger comes in the form of a mega-threat like a Titan. Some predators are a lot cozier...more personal. When one such creature threatens an independent tutor, Harry Dresden must shake off the blood and dirt of his most recent battles and rise to the occasion, even when it turns out that the new predator is far more dangerous and connected than first appearances would suggest.

Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan’s most feared assassin. As part of the Assassins' Guild, her allegiance is to her master, Arobynn Hamel, yet Celaena listens to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. In these action-packed prequel novellas - together in one edition for the first time - Celaena embarks on five daring missions. They take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and seeks to avenge the tyrannous. But she is acting against Arobynn’s orders and could suffer an unimaginable punishment for such treachery.

Afro Samurai meets The Sword of Kaigen in this anime-inspired novella. This is no revenge story. I ain’t got time for that. I’ve got errands to run and things to do and barely enough time to make it home before sundown. I don’t care why folks are going around stealing ink. I don’t care why the monks are acting kinda strange. I don’t care that everybody is expecting me to save them. I might be a Sistah Samurai but those days playing hero were back when my knees didn’t ache, and I wasn’t the only one left. So leave me alone.

When a high roller dies in his Vegas penthouse suite, that's a problem. When his ghost refuses to leave, that's a bigger problem. Daniel Faust is the solution. Called in to clean up the casino's mess, the modern-day sorcerer soon learns that the restless spirit isn't going down without a fight. To set things right, he'll have to delve someplace even seedier, even more treacherous, than the Vegas Strip: the Los Angeles music industry.

Lord Rhyan Hart, Heir Apparent to the Arkasva, High Lord of Glemaria, Imperator to the North hates everything about his title. Its length, its pretentiousness, and the fact that it connects him directly to his father, the sadistic violent man he hates more than anyone in Lumeria. The last thing Rhyan wants to do is spend the summer before his Revelation Ceremony traveling across the Empire with him for a state visit.

Shadows are not born, they're made. A boy and his brother want to do more than survive, they want to live, but in a place where even flowers bloom wilted and the ground is dead, that is nearly impossible. Two boys grow up and find love in the darkest places only to have it stolen away in a torrent of traumatic experiences until their only option is to make the ultimate sacrifice to save The ones they will leave behind.

Benedict Sorellin-Lancaster hasn't even broken in his lieutenant's insignia when he's summoned to meet with the Spirearch of Spire Albion himself for a very special—and very secret—purpose. The Spirearch needs Benedict to retrieve a bag he's "misplaced" on the Colony Spire known as Dependence, which has strangely cut off all contact with the outside world. It's a delicate mission at best, a potential bloodbath at worst. To this end, the Spirearch has supplied Benedict with backup in the form of three Warriorborn.

A night of wine and witchcraft turns into a waking nightmare when Elara is torn from her world and thrown into the ruthless kingdom of Towerfall—where magick is power, and she's the prize. Auctioned to the highest bidder, she's claimed by Ronan, the King of Swords—a warrior with ice in his veins and vengeance in his heart. He doesn't believe in fate. He doesn't believe in love. But Elara isn't just another pawn in his deadly game—she's sharp and cutting, a woman who defies him at every turn.

In the glittering city state of Volun, Lorelei Steddart never thought she'd be anything but an office drone—until her family all die under mysterious and likely magical circumstances, leaving her to inherit everything. To figure out what's happened, her uncle marries her off to the city state's top War Alchemist, Nephele Corisande, an intimidating older woman who might just be able to save her.

I never expected to find my Omega, not in this world we had created, but when her lot came up, I knew she would be mine forever… Omegas were useful for nothing but breeding and status. Betas were simply there to make our lives easier but were sold just as easily. Alphas, like myself, were the ones who ruled the world and demanded obedience. That’s the society our ancestors created for us. The one where I found Nyla at an auction, cowering and broken, like the Omega she was. Then I claimed her as my true mate.

In this tale of adventure, murder, snakes, revenge, and zombies, the Royal Governor of Jamaica sends an S.O.S. to London, asking urgently for help in putting down a burgeoning slave rebellion. London replies by sending Lieutenant-Colonel Lord John Grey, with half a battalion of infantry, a company of artillery, and his trusty valet, Tom Byrd.

On his way to his betrothal, young Lord Penric comes upon a riding accident with an elderly lady on the ground, her maidservant and guardsmen distraught. As he approaches to help, he discovers that the lady is a Temple divine, servant to the five gods of this world. Her avowed god is the Bastard, "master of all disasters out of season", and with her dying breath she bequeaths her mysterious powers to Penric.

En dag, när Sveriges kung var ute och åkte i sin vagn, stötte han på en liten by. Han bestämde sig för att stanna ett tag, och besökte byns kyrka. Han bad om att få träffa prästen, men kunde aldrig ana att den enkelt klädda man som tog emot honom var något annat än en simpel bonde. Prästen, som valde att inte avslöja sin identitet för kungen, berättade i stället en historia om en gång då folket i byn hittade ett berg av det renaste silver...

Under en ridtur i skogen stöter ett par och deras nyfödda barn på ett troll. När trollet smyger sig närmare blir hästarna skrämda, och i tumultet slungas barnet ur sin mors trygga famn. När föräldrarna kort därpå återvänder för att hämta barnet märker de att något inte står rätt till. Är det verkligen deras eget barn de tar med sig hem igen? ”Bortbytingen och andra noveller" är en novellsamling som kretsar kring folktro och sägner som har överlevt historiens gång. Selma Lagerlöf för oss tillbaka till en tid då människans vardag var intimt sammanvävd med naturen och dess övernaturliga väsen

"Ju mer hon tänkte på saken desto säkrare blev hon, att det inte fanns någon dag på hela året, som hon hellre ville fira än den, då hennes vän solen skulle strida mot mörkret och efter en härlig seger gå fram i ny prakt och väldighet. Det var inte lång tid till den 17 april, men alltid var det tid nog att hinna få i ordning ett kaffekalas, och när solförmörkelsedagen kom, satt de allesammans och drack kaffe i mörkret.

Livet har inte varit helt lätt för Ruster. I sin ungdom var han populär musiker, men så upptäckte han spriten och sedan dess har det gått utför. Han har svårt att försörja sig och hans härjade utseende gör att människor helst håller sig på avstånd. När det så lider mot jul beger sig Ruster till gården Lövdala för att besöka sina gamla vänner Liljekrona, men gårdsfolket roas inte av hans närvaro och på självaste julafton övertalar de Liljekrona att skicka iväg Ruster ensam ut i den bitande kylan ...