Resultados para "Taken" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

They found Edie inside the Backrooms. That was the easy part. Getting out alive is another matter entirely. Time works differently in Liminal Space, and the deeper John Doe goes, the stranger it gets. The endless halls of the Backrooms give way to the Backwoods, a sprawling forest filled with creatures that evolved beyond reality. Leprechauns hunt in packs. Sasquatch stalk through the trees. And how do you even escape a place where outside doesn’t exist?

All my life, I've been scorned for what I am: an object of desire, a temptress, a demon. Now my dark and mysterious powers of seduction might be my only salvation. I am living in a nightmare. Rune's voice torments me. Cruel hands offer touch and torture that I cannot refuse. My addictive blood spurs obsession and frenzy, but I am not defenseless. The born vampires can't fathom the embodiment of wrath and vengeance they are forging from sin and blood.

Sadie has spent her life chasing the horizon—working aboard her father’s crabbing boat and laughing off myths of the deep—until Kyros boards their ship. There’s a storm. Blood on his hands. Before she can understand what’s happening, Kyros throws her overboard and leaves her to die. Except Sadie doesn’t drown. She isn’t human. She’s something forbidden.

Caesar, an undercover operative, enters Carmichael with the briefest of orders from his boss and a countdown on his phone. What will happen when the clock strikes zero? Deputy Amelia Miller is dispatched from a nearby city, and a series of events keeps her around much longer than she'd expected. In the middle of the night, something shifts, and the whole town disappears off the face of the Earth. Who caused the shift, and what lies beyond the veil of their settlement?

There are no rules, and to the victor go the spoils, namely one feisty human female who claims it’s all a big mistake. A misunderstanding. What she should’ve said to the brutal warrior who nabbed her was that he had mistakenly abducted the wrong girl entirely. Oh, wait. She did. Taken by one cyborg. Claimed by another. Both powerful beasts believe she is their mate. Thrown over the victor’s shoulder and carted off, Lavender finds herself trapped on another world, another planet, in another star system.

La Academia Nosferatu siempre ha mantenido el más alto estándar de entrenamiento entre los jóvenes novicios de la comunidad vampírica, instruyéndoles en el arte de la guerra y la magia. Desde que solo era un niño, Jungguk fue prometido como el futuro guardián de un príncipe moroi. Puede que su futuro solamente fuera pactado entre adultos, pero el destino les tenía guardado muchas más incógnitas.

Waking up in a strange world should be the strangest thing to happen to Freya. But what's even more surprising are the five princes who barge in claiming to be her husbands, who hate her, and they've come to collect on what they believe she owes them—an heir. Freya My life has never been easy...

Look outward beyond the stars with six stories from bestselling visionary authors. An AI awakens to its purpose. A researcher seeds a thousand new worlds for one more chance at love. A murder rocks the crew of an interstellar ship. With a sweeping sense of wonder, these stories explore the galaxy . . . and the horizons of humanity’s potential.

Eros Takes A Bow is a modern fantasy drawn from the Greek myth of Eros and Psyche. It is the story of Callie Bowen a divorced software engineer with a teenage daughter. It's the story how she fell in love with love, The story of how love fell in love with her And the story of a great many other beings who sought to complicate what should have been a simple story But wasn't.

Prince Aurelius of the Seelie realm has always been the hero, so it's no real surprise to him when a final act of heroism lands him in fae hell with one final task: give Caly's sister, Ana, the rest of her powers and take her to the Fates in Moirai. It is, however, a surprise to learn that Ana isn't the eight-year-old child who died in that car with Caly so many years ago. Instead, she is a full-grown, beautiful woman―with plans to take over the Underworld as soon as she can get the pendant holding her powers from Eli.

THE HIGHEST-FUNDED DEBUT NOVEL IN CROWDFUNDING HISTORY | A science fiction epic about a world where the internet grows from trees. Its rulers control billions without armies; they shape desire itself. One boy never logged in. | Audiobook narrated by Hugo Weaving (The Matrix, The Lord of the...

Nosy, undisciplined humans aren't high on his list. Not until a brilliant, beautiful doctor sets all his senses on fire. Living with his brother Rokul and his human mate Tella was quite enough for Takar. A life in the military taught him to be controlled. Restrained. Rules were there for a reason, even if the humans never seemed to understand. But when a curious human woman bursts into his duty station, he can't get escape his thoughts of her. And when she plunges into danger, he'll ignore his own rules to keep his mate safe. Scientist Daphne is terrible with mysteries.

Sloan Jordan's days are numbered. She has 139 to be exact. In that time, there's a lot to do - a missing friend to find, a wedding to plan, and her own murder plot to overthrow. When a lead takes the crew back to Chicago, the truth they uncover is more shocking than they ever imagined - to fight the enemies of the present, they must first face the demons from the past.

The bond with my fated mate was broken before we ever truly began… Learning that I'm a wolf shifter didn't come as a surprise. I always knew there was something different about me. Finding out that my adoptive parents knew all along, right before they drugged and sold me off to my captors...

The Joining is an ancient ritual, one human woman, allowed to venture into the faerie lands, is given the honor of marrying the third son of the faerie king, joining their people together and allowing magic to flow between the worlds. But Fia doesn't want a prince and certainly doesn't want to be part of any ancient rituals, but her wants have never mattered to her father though, who views the world only through its business opportunity. With no other options, Fia finds herself chosen, swept away into a world she doesn't understand.

With Thera absent and Naylet gone, Obie turns his attention to a string of disappearances in the ultranatural community. As the Keepers uncover clues Holt is the next to go missing. It’s a race against the clock as Obie discovers who’s behind the disappearances. He must find Holt and the other missing ultras before their abductors' plans come full circle.

Six years following his marriage to Jessica and their coronation, Pat learns just how far greedy politicians will go to safeguard their wealth, status, and power. After being taken from his family and home, Pat decides he’ll just rescue himself and ruin their plans while he's at it.

As a princess of the light of elves, their two kinds have been separated since before her birth. When a royal messenger arrives inviting them to a ball hosted by the king of the dark elves, Elvie knows she cannot pass up on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Even after the warnings from her father, Elvie knows this will be a night she’ll never forget. She expected to end the night with sore feet from the endless hours of dancing…not to be engaged to the king himself!

Kat is finally picking up the pieces of her broken heart and moving on when all goes awry at the Arctic Masquerade Ball. Everything Kat has worked for is shattered when she lands in the arms of someone who will divert her path—and her heart—once again. To top it off, Erebus is back in Apollo Beach, and his latest act of evil strikes close to the heart. Now, there's no turning back. Erebus has his sights set on the mysterious energy source, and he needs Kat's help to retrieve it.

I make magic dresses for a living. I'm not rich or pretty enough to wear them, but I love what I do, working out of my family's shop on Carnaby Street in London - until the fae show up. It's a straight-up kidnapping, and before I know it, I'm brought to this wintry place of cold hearts and beautiful nightmares, but that's not the worst part.