Resultados para "Sophie" en Paranormal y urbana

Traumatized college student Morgan Mallory has survived the treacherous land of Pandaemonium by evolving into a soul-devouring entity. Now a merciless warrior, she goes by Alice. But her new identity is fractured, and she finds herself hopelessly grasping at the shards of her parallel selves from different timelines. To piece these multiple personas together, she must kill the Demiurge, the world's tormented creator, who has banished Alice to a facsimile Earth.

Sophie is a victim of spousal abuse, but her husband hadn't always been like that. She still loves him and refuses to give up on her marriage, despite his treatment of her.

En esta astuta y deslumbrante fantasía contemporánea, una gumiho, el zorro de nueve colas más famoso de Corea, se alía con el dios del engaño, ahora detective, para frenar a un iracundo demonio... antes de que destruya el mundo de los mortales.

Après l'incendie ayant ravagé La fièvre du samedi soir, mon jardin s'est une nouvelle fois retrouvé envahi par les vampires. Ma stupidité me perdra, j'aurais dû savoir que j'allais encore me mettre dans le pétrin en acceptant de les héberger.

The last semester of classes for Sophie Briggs at The School of Roots and Vines is racing to the end. A confrontation and battle with the Serpent, Azdaja, is fast approaching. The legendary Thicket Hall is dying and no matter what the Defenders do, they can only slow the ancient tree's death, not stop it. Could its end lead to a new beginning?

It's the final year for most of the Defenders at the School of Roots and Vines. It's hard to imagine that Sophie is beginning her senior year and planning her wedding to Marcus the following summer. The group still needs to find their 6th Defender in order to save Thicket Hall and prevent the Serpent from being unleashed.

Everything is changing. It's the last semester of junior year for the Elemental, Sophie Briggs and her friends at The School of Roots and Vines. But will it be for better or worse? Classes take a priority for the teenagers but work and figuring out how to be a Defender is a close second. Both Marcus and Sophie's mysterious new tutor at the EBI have secrets to hide. Will Sophie harness a new curiosity in pursuit of the truth about them both?

Sophie Briggs has made it to her junior year at the School of Roots and Vines, but it isn't all fun and games for the Defenders. Change is coming. Some good and some . . . not so much. Friends are breaking up—will Sophie have to take sides? Sophie and Marcus are struggling, too. Marcus is pushing Sophie and the rest of the gang away, worried that being a Templeton will put them all at risk. He thinks he needs to do this by himself. Does he have to go it alone?

Sophie Briggs will have to fight her way out this time but without her elemental gift of life. It's the spring semester of Year Two at the famous School of Roots and Vines. The National Elemental Skills Trials are coming up, and Sophie and her friends are called to represent the school in faraway Colorado. Dark forces and powerful, all-too-familiar enemies are out to kidnap Sophie and steal her elemental powers. They'll stop at nothing to get their revenge.

The first semester of sophomore year at the famous School of Roots and Vines has begun for life Elemental Sophie Briggs and her friends. Although Year Two brings a whirlwind of change, some things feel straight out of a not-so-ancient past. Sophie and Marcus become Combat Mentors, giving them more time together. Until Marcus's secret internship makes him miss more and more school. Something strange is happening, and things point directly at the ESCB—and Marcus.

A new girl comes to the school and it's not too long before the fabled tree of Thicket Hall is turning against Sophie and her friends and no longer trusts them. Someone new has stepped up, but who? Something's not right and Sophie and her friends are going to have to figure out what's going on or it just might be the end of the school and the old oak tree—permanently. Is the new girl behind this? Is she the new Marcus? Can Sophie figure out what's going on and get her friends to work together to stop it in time?

Sophia Briggs has passed the entrance exam and is a freshman at the famous School of Roots and Vines. The young magical is an Elemental with a twist. She can help everything that grows out of the ground—and then some. Her magic is a kind that hasn't been seen in generations. A secret even to her, but not for long. In the center of the boarding school stands an oversized oak tree that stretches across the campus and houses the classrooms—and is still alive. Even the tree holds a powerful secret that is being protected by a few. 

Cette fois, c'est sûr, je suis née sous une mauvaise étoile. J'ai d'abord découvert les vampires, puis les anges, ensuite les entre-deux, les démons, et maintenant, voilà qu'on me jette des sorts et qu'on accroche des poulets égorgés à ma porte. Il ne manquait plus que ça ! Sans compter que cet idiot de Greg le Bulldozer s'est amouraché d'une griffeuse psychopathe que je ne vois pas d'un bon œil. Il a l'air d'avoir de sérieux problèmes. C'est plus fort que moi, il va falloir que je m'en mêle, même si, à coup sûr, je vais au-devant de sacrés ennuis.

Je n'ai jamais été une grenouille de bénitier, mais je me souviens très bien des grandes lignes de la religion affirmant que Dieu est omnipotent, omniscient, omniprésent et... immense. Sauf qu'à en croire l'individu petit, chauve et rabougri qui se tient devant moi, il doit y avoir erreur sur la marchandise. Dans le cas contraire, si ce type est bel et bien le Tout-Puissant comme il le prétend, il va apprendre de quel bois je me chauffe. Même affronter l'enfer ne me fait pas peur. On n'avait qu'à pas m'enlever l'homme que j'aime.

La plupart des gens ont une famille bien comme il faut. Moi, non. Mon fils a des super pouvoirs, ma tante est un vampire, et mon père est gardé prisonnier en enfer. Si j'avais eu le caractère de ma mère, je serais restée bien tranquille chez moi, mais manque de bol, je suis le portrait craché de mon géniteur. C'est pourquoi je vais aller le chercher au sous-sol, serrer la pince à Satan et lui faire faux bond dans la foulée. Avec un peu de chance, je m'en sortirai indemne. Enfin... presque.

Des fées sorties de nulle part sont responsables du plus grand drame de ma vie. Elles m'ont mise KO, ça, c'est certain, mais il ne sera pas dit que je me suis laissé marcher sur les pieds. Car s'il y a bien un truc qu'il ne faut jamais faire, sous peine de représailles, c'est voler à une femme ce qu'elle a de plus cher. Alors, c'est vrai que je n'ai pas vraiment le profil de la grande méchante, mais je suis quand même prête à leur botter l'arrière-train, même si pour ça, je dois faire face à ce que je redoutais le plus : la trahison.

Sophie Feegle needs a break. Rent is due on her crappy apartment and she's halfway through her last loaf of bread. Sophie doesn't have big ambitions. She only wants a job that will keep her landlord off her back, enough extra cash for whiskey at the neighborhood bar and a bit of free time to hang out with the naughty old lady next door.

With her life turned upside down, it's almost a relief for Hallie to be asked to work a case. She is tasked with helping the Conclave Investigators follow up on a suspected theft, and also help track down one of their own—Special Investigator Girard Abbott has gone missing. But nothing is straightforward. The supposed victim of the theft doesn't seem interested in helping with the investigation. No one seems to know what's been stolen. Girard may not just be missing, but also injured—or worse.

À bien des égards, Nona semble être une personne ordinaire. Elle vit avec sa famille, va à l'école du quartier et n'aime rien tant que les longues balades sur la plage. Mais Nona n'est pas une jeune fille comme les autres : six mois plus tôt, elle s'est réveillée dans le corps d'une étrangère et elle a peur de devoir le rendre.

The second book in Vanessa Nelson's exciting Fractured Conclave series.