Resultados para "Second" en Ciencia ficción

Casey Pearson grew up with a doomsday-prepping father. At eighteen, tired of living an unconventional life, she left home, vowing never to return. More than a decade later, a mysterious viral outbreak changes everything, including the people it infects, turning them into zombielike creatures. It’s the end of the world, and no one saw it coming—well, except for Casey’s father. With no place left to run and danger lurking around every corner, Casey is forced to return home.

Nev Bourne is a hotshot programmer for the latest and greatest tech invention out there: SavePoint, the brain implant that rewinds the seconds of all our most embarrassing moments. She’s been working non-stop on the next rollout, even blowing off her boyfriend, her best friend and her family to make SavePoint 2.0. But when she hits go on the test-run, she wakes up the next day only to discover it's yesterday. She's falling backwards in time, one day at a time. As things spiral out of control, a long-lost friend from college reappears in her life claiming they know how to save her.

Navy SEAL Damon Hamblin’s life is in turmoil after he’s served with divorce papers during his last deployment. He crashes into a sleepy Florida Gulf Coast town to drown his sorrows and just fade into the background, where no one knows him and he can drink, surf, and lay out on the beach until his insides heal. The last thing he wants is to rebound into another relationship. Martel Long came to Sunset Beach five years ago to visit a friend, and never left.

A strange Christmas letter appears, and Macy Kennedy is forced to go back home to the small town she has avoided for more than 30 years. Despite an oncoming blizzard and in spite of her feelings, Macy packs up to leave on the adventure of a lifetime. She bribes her loyal secretary and the firm’s maid to help drive her through a blizzard to accomplish the sordid ordeal. Little can they ever imagine that a rare, mystical blue moon hangs high in the sky on this Christmas Eve and that magic lives in this enchanted mountain town full of love and friendship.

Second Life: Because the First One is Not Yet Finished tells the story of a love relationship that extends across five hundred years between Emile Chevet, a Benedictine priest, and Justine Foirere, a beautiful peasant girl, who fell deeply in love during the Catholic Church’s brutal 1505 Inquisition. They are found out by the merciless Jean Baptiste Dorembie, Archbishop and Inquisitor of Avignon, taken into custody, and accused of heresy and fornication. Because their love was cut short, they reincarnate five centuries later, determined to explore the promise they made in 1505.

I went after him, there’s a bounty on his head that I wouldn’t be able to deny. But I don’t know if I was going to do everything in my power to make sure that I wasn’t going to let anything stand in my way. As a hunter, I had no choice but to allow things to happen a certain way. I knew what I needed, and I knew precisely what I wanted. There was only one thing that could change the way that I thought and even then, I didn’t know for sure.

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As spiders ended up attacking the village I was in, I honestly thought I was going to die. I kept thinking about all the things that I wanted to do, not wanting to lose like this. But then he came into my life and rescued me. Lian, a strong, handsome Commander with an army at his disposal who might seem cold, but he is actually a sweetheart. He wants to give me the world, whether it is with his mouth or his heart.

Blythe Ramos left her home planet behind years ago, along with a promising career. She told herself it wasn’t a big loss, Earth was on its deathbed anyway, and the moon was a safer bet since she made an enemy out of Earth’s most notorious supremacist group. Parting ways with her chosen family was another matter. None of it was what she wanted, but it was necessary for survival. The sacrifices were supposed to be worth it.

2187. Earth is cold, dead and divided. The rich hide away while the rest will do anything to survive. Humanity have only one hope: crossing hostile alien territory to reach a habitable planet. Jinnifer Blue is on the run. An expert pilot, she apprehends criminals on behalf of the government and keeps her illegal genetic modifications a closely guarded secret. But when a particularly dangerous job goes south, Jinn is left stranded on a prison ship with one of the most ruthless criminals in the galaxy.

Popular stage actress Jennifer Knight just turned 49, and she's fine with her life, thank you very much. Or she was, until her beloved niece accidentally time travels them both to 1988, bringing her face-to-face with her first husband. Computer guru Lance Davies is more comfortable with machines than people. He never knew how to handle his beloved, mercurial Jen. But now, her future self is here in front of him, and he wants another chance. Jen's traitorous body insists that home is in Lance's arms, but her heart has trust issues. When Lance follows Jen into the future, time tangles.

All I could do was run away or I would never be free… But I didn’t know running away could mean life or death. Due to my now ex, I had to board a ship that would take me somewhere. Supposedly it was suitable for humans, but I found myself getting sicker. When I thought I would die, he found me and saved me. Helioxus, a grand warrior general who has been without a mate due to one of his broken horns. I didn’t know he was saving me by giving me his essence. All I knew was that I continued to crave him. But it could all come crumbling to pieces when there are a few who would rather see me gone.

The Tentacle Monsters have always been sentient, but now they can talk in a way humans can understand. Ensign Sandra Tevins of the Star Patrol has signed up to train for the job of harnessing their incredible power to bend space/time to their will. She is learning to handle them—and be handled by them, as monsters have a particular hunger for human sexual submission. Sandra is not new to dominance and submission, having a long-standing D/s relationship in her kinky poly family, but the demands of her training go beyond anything she has experienced before.