Resultados para "Stoner" en Acción y aventura

Two brothers, Alexander and Seb, are well-educated but hunger for adventure. Intrigued by some ancient maps and stories of old, the boys slip off on what begins as an innocent excursion from their home along the shores of a vast lake, Sempersee, to a nearby island. After finding a mysterious stone, their outing leads to a quest to discover the rightful owner of the Flame Stone, an ancient artifact that holds the power of goodness.

Hunting down Mira was supposed to be a simple assignment. She thought she could disappear—cover her tracks, hide behind false names and small towns—but I found her, and I intend to drag her back, kicking and screaming if necessary. But getting Mira home isn't easy. She fights like a cornered animal, desperate to escape the secrets she's hiding. Her defiance ignites something dark and possessive inside me, something that threatens the cold control I pride myself on. The longer we're together, the more I realize Mira isn't just a job—she's an obsession.

¿Será que una mujer moderna podrá escapar al destino de un highlander? Caballos, tiendas de campañas y highlanders… Cuando la agente del servicio de inteligencia británico Danielle Field visita el castillo de Stirling, los preparativos para la recreación de la batalla de Bannockburn están en pleno auge. Allí, una piedra cubierta de runas la envía al pasado, a una batalla que se ve demasiado real. El guerrero de las Tierras Altas Colum MacDonald ha traicionado a su clan para salvar a su reina. Solo logrará restaurar su honor ayudando a Roberto i de Escocia a ganar la batalla que se avecina. Tras confundir a Danielle con un espía inglés.

¿Será que una mujer moderna podrá escapar al destino de un highlander? Caballos, tiendas de campañas y highlanders... Cuando la agente del servicio de inteligencia británico Danielle Field visita el castillo de Stirling, los preparativos para la recreación de la batalla de Bannockburn están en pleno auge. Allí, una piedra cubierta de runas la envía al pasado, a una batalla que se ve demasiado real. El guerrero de las Tierras Altas Colum MacDonald ha traicionado a su clan para salvar a su reina. Solo logrará restaurar su honor ayudando a Roberto i de Escocia a ganar la batalla que se avecina.

Mische lost everything when she was forcibly Turned into a vampire—her home, her humanity, and most devastating of all, the love of the sun god to whom she had devoted her life. Now, sentenced to death for murdering the vampire prince who turned her, redemption feels impossible. But when Mische is saved by Asar, the bastard prince of the House of Shadow with a past as brutal as his scars, she's forced into a mission worse than execution: a journey to the underworld to resurrect the god of death himself.

Tras viajar en el tiempo al siglo ix y haber sido secuestrada y encerrada en una choza hedionda, Ella no ha tenido una buena semana. Luego de escapar de la custodia policial, Channing busca a Ella a través de los siglos y va a salvarla. Con las tensiones en aumento y un invierno apocalíptico que amenaza con ponerle fin a la civilización vikinga, Ella y Channing están en una carrera a contrarreloj por detener el Ragnarök.

When Dylan Stone disappeared in 1983, he left behind a worn journal and an impossible mystery. Eighteen-year-old Dylan Stone and his best friend Bull Eastland set out on the adventure of a lifetime—a summer backpacking trip through Europe with nothing but a guitar, a journal, and Eurail passes. But a chance encounter with a desperate professor on a ferry to France changes everything. She entrusts Dylan with an envelope containing an old skeleton key and a cryptic poem —secrets tied to the long-lost Irish Crown Jewels, stolen in 1907 and never recovered.

The moment she walks into my club—dressed in a stolen uniform, carrying a tray of champagne—I know she doesn't belong. When I catch her in my office, stealing secrets, I give her a choice: tell me who sent her...or find out exactly what happens to those who cross a Volkov.

El periodista e historiador del arte Jaime Azcárate parece tener un imán para los problemas. Por eso cuando durante sus vacaciones las autoridades le piden ayuda para investigar un robo en un museo, su reacción es más de fastidio que de sorpresa. No queriendo verse involucrado, Jaime rechaza la petición de investigar el paradero de una Medusa robada a la que la leyenda atribuye una maldición.... Hasta que alguien intenta asesinarlo y se ve obligado a tomarse el asunto más en serio.

When Nikolai Romanov came looking for my brother, I emptied my savings hoping I could pay off his debt. But I didn't have even close to enough, so the bastard decided to take me instead. I didn't expect a Russian mafia boss like him to be gentle with me...and he wasn't. Not when he spanked me for daring to wear panties under the dress he chose for me, and certainly not when he stripped me out of that same dress and made me scream in his bed.

Vivienne Frost works tables at my club, but she's no ordinary waitress. She's smart-mouthed, dangerously beautiful, and entirely off-limits. She thinks she can outrun the past, hide behind a tray of drinks and pretty lies. But I've seen the bruises. I've heard the cracks in her voice. Her defiance doesn't push me away—it awakens a brutal kind of need in me, something that's been waiting to break free.

Imani has managed to build a stable home for his people, keeping it safe and hidden in the mountains. Now he wishes to upgrade his growing settlement of Silverfall into a Dukedom by recruiting more people and amassing enough strength to defend them all. Unfortunately, forging an alliance with his old hometown proves harder than he expected thanks to greedy leaders, a bubbling civil war, and the town’s instability.

After gaining entrance to Blackstone Keep and recovering the legendary Thinblade, Alexander must seek out the Sovereign Stone, and quickly. Contained within the ancient teardrop ruby is the secret of Wizard's Dust, the source of magic and the one thing that will ultimately decide the final battle of the Reishi War. Prince Phane will stop at nothing to lay claim to the Stone and with it the world.

The desert has been left behind, but Sinner's troubles have not. He finds himself in an elaborate trap—him, and everyone else who failed to go north early. Now he has two options: accept his fate and die along with countless other losers or escape from the trap and pull his friends out. Except to do that, he will have to fight the most terrifying animal ever. Man.

The enemy is strong. There are a lot of them, and they are pressing the attack forward. Me, I don't have enough supplies and weapons for my army. Heck, I don't even have an army to speak of. Corruption is rampant, the government is in free fall, and rioting mobs run free. Thievery is rampant to the point that even my old friend Beko is left speechless. Because it is not his own doing. But the worst of it is they want me to pull out of that unfortunate place altogether—and save face too. Because the Empire never abandons its friends, does it?

Sebastian, a young farmhand living in the Australian mallee, is being watched covertly by Val, a fugitive hiding in the forests on the banks of the River Murray. Val has an official document that confirms his death 14 years ago. There is no official document that confirms his particular skill: assassin. 

A young girl comes to live in the slums of New Delhi. It is a place of danger where street gangs rule. Through the initiative of a blind beggar, she is taken to work in the home of a rich businessman and his dysfunctional son. There, she observes a world of education and privilege - a world that is out of her reach. But danger still stalks her. A kidnap attempt forces her to flee to her childhood home in the tropical backwaters of Kerala - a land of wooden boats, fishing, and elephants. But she cannot hide forever. 

A 4,000-year-old mystery lurks in the hills of Georgia. While investigating a strange series of ancient symbols, an archaeologist vanishes, and a professor he entrusted with the secret is murdered. Former government agent Sean Wyatt learns of his friend's disappearance and the murder. Now he must unravel the clues to the ancient mystery that holds incredible power.

Chelsea is part of an international team of archaeologists who are making the most of a tenuous cease-fire in the Syrian civil war to excavate and conserve the historic remains of the ancient kingdom of Ebla. The dramatic discovery of a new library of clay tablets inscribed with cuneiform writing brings to the surface international tensions between Syria and Israel. Will the revelations in the ancient tablets be hijacked by vested interests?

Chris Norman's dreams of being a commercial pilot are shattered when he crashes his plane in central Australia. His life hangs in the balance—a balance that is swayed by the intervention of an Aboriginal bushman bent on his own murderous mission. The bushman leaves Chris with a mysterious and incongruous legacy, a Celtic cross made of stone. Partly blinded and in deep grief at no longer being able to fly, Chris finds his way to the Hebridean islands off the west coast of Scotland, where he seeks to unravel the secrets of the Celtic stone.