Resultados para "Novellen" en Fantasía oscura

When a select group of humans are chosen to police the vampires and shape-shifters in big cities, the Sylphs are the magical beings who give them the powers to do it. With essential superpowers and immortality, the job of protecting humans from monsters is a dirty job, but somebody has to do it. And the payment is eternally priceless.

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.

**In this gripping prequel novella to the bestselling Vampire Wish series, acclaimed author Michelle Madow takes you on a journey into the hidden vampire kingdom of the Vale, where Jacen is turned into a vampire prince and forced to navigate a dangerous new world filled with mystery and intrigue.** Jacen has his life all mapped out for himself. Train hard, win worldwide swimming championships, and go for the gold in the next Olympics.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Brohm è il miglior fabbro del Settore 4, e l'Impero non lascia mai un talento inutilizzato. Notte dopo notte forgia ferro ormai freddo trasformandolo in giunti idraulici per la Legione, mentre il Sincrono pulsa sotto i ciottoli, svuotando i suoi vicini...

Bastard’s Eve is a night of celebration for most residents in the canal city of Lodi - but not for sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona, who find themselves caught up in the affairs of a shiplost madman, a dangerous ascendant demon, and a very unexpected saint of the fifth god.

Niklaus, master swordsman, has not aged a day since being chosen by his mercurial goddess. A slave to her will, he moves from one cryptic mission to the next in the hope of ascending to become her equal. But even a man who has lived for centuries can sometimes find himself out of his depth. When Niklaus is sent to kill a sorcerer of the Tainted Cabal, overconfidence leads to a fatal mistake, and neither experience nor skill with a blade can prevail against the forces unleashed against him.

Some memories haunt. Others hunt. They say time heals all wounds. That memories fade. That the past loosens its grip. His Neverland? Doesn’t believe that. Here, echoes linger. They sharpen. They wait. And at last, they demand to be heard. NEVERLAND IS A RECKONING. THIS IS NEVERLORE. The seasons have shifted, and the past is no longer content to sleep.

When the sky bleeds red and the stars begin to weep, Queen Lyra, one of the last two hundred Wyverns, must defend her world from an ancient, cosmic being. Dredeena, a realm of living cities and ancient magic, has known centuries of peace. But when a crimson star appears, and monstrous horrors rain from the heavens, Lyra’s kingdom is plunged into a war of extinction.

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.

From the Nebula and Bram Stoker Award-winning author comes the lyrical and moving science-fantasy follow-up to A Palace Near the Wind, as Lufeng and her sister Sangshu fight to protect their culture and their world. For fans of Nghi Vo, Amal El-Mohtar, and Kritika H. Rao. Fleeing from the bone...

A slow-burning folk horror novella blending ancestral terror, body horror, and psychological dread, The Wax Mother explores identity, inheritance, motherhood, and the horrifying possibility that blood remembers more than we do.

What dark secrets are held in the castle that sits at the edge of the world? Before becoming embroiled in an infamous conspiracy that changed the course of history and reshaped nations, the Red Wolf and his crew took on an impossible job. In the frozen tundra of the Far North, the reclusive and mysterious mages of the Coldwater Magician’s College practice their strange magics far from the prying eye of civilization.

From John G. Hartness comes a must-listen collection of four Quincy Harker, Demon Hunter novellas: She Talks to Angels, Shout at the Devil, Angel of Harlem, and Sympathy for the Devil. She Talks to Angels: In the fifth part of the Quincy Harker crossover series, Gabby helps hunt down a rogue archangel in St. Louis, learning more about herself, about history, and about that cute doctor's son than she expected.

A six-year-old shiplost girl draws the kin Jurald family of Vilnoc into complex dilemmas, and sorcerer Learned Penric and his Temple demon Desdemona into conflict—with each other. It will take all of Penric’s wits, his wife Nikys’s wisdom, and the hand of the fifth god’s strangest saint to untangle the threads of their future.

Shadrak the Unseen should have known better. Stealing from one wizard on behalf of another was the sort of job he'd sworn never to take. But times were tough and grief had left its mark. The thing that should have really warned him off, though, was that the artifact he'd been commissioned to retrieve was a ring crafted by none other than the Witch Queen of Thogani, the Desecrated City.

Five tales. Five harbingers. And Hell will follow with them. Meet harbinger four: Timur Lesnikov… Timur is the youngest son of five children, born to KGB agent, Yegor Lesnikov, in the final years of USSR. His family, using their Communist Party and mafia connections, build an empire, and in short order, become the most powerful oligarchs in the new Federation of Russia. But Timur, like his only sister, Yulia, cares little for the trappings of privilege.

Michael Cavalcante has one thing on his mind when he knocks on Izzabel Walsh's door at two in the morning, half-dressed and a bit toasted: fix the woman's heater and get back to bed. He vows never to cover for his maintenance tech again, especially after he gets tased and knocked out with a frying pan for his efforts. Izzy thought she was safe. She'd dyed her hair, changed her name, and moved 1,500 miles away, and still, they found her. When a member of her ex's motorcycle club knocks on her door in the middle of the night, supposedly to fix a perfectly good heater, Izzy panics.

Knox Lansbury has a dark secret he’s dying to get off his chest. He returns home during winter break with his best friend and film student Hitch to unload his secret on video. When strange things turn up on the film and unexplainable events take root, they set their sights on The Killing Tree.

Cursed with immortality, driven into a nomadic life on the fringes of society to escape those who hunt her, Amber Hale has learned the bitter lesson that she can never grow close to anyone. Never love. Only once did she break her own rules. And her lover, Kai Warin, paid for her mistake with his life. For decades, she's been numb with grief. Now, confronted by a soul reaper—an agent of one of the most powerful of the Underworld deities—with Kai's face, she must acknowledge the likelihood that he betrayed her…to the Lord of Evil himself.

Cerridwen has been in love with Herne for practically her whole life, but the gruff Daemon Lord of Beasts has never been able to see her as more than a ward to protect. But when her magic emerges on her 25th birthday, Cerridwen knows that what she feels is more than just infatuation. Now, Cerridwen must master control of both her wings and her heart to claim the grumpy Daemon Lord as her own.