Resultados para "The Business" en Paranormal y urbana

Alex - a.k.a. Jack Alltrades - just wanted to play a game and make some money for himself and his family. After a string of incredible luck and a few wise decisions, he finds himself responsible for an entire company based in the game. It's not all rainbows and gold coins, though. Real life threats, angry NPC merchants, and shady deals with the elves and dwarves are giving Jack a massive headache.

Tim Kovak was supposed to be a bad guy, the latest in a line of evil wizards bound by a demon contract, supervised by a six-hundred-year-old succubus named Lydia. With a little magic and a lot of luck, Tim broke the contract and set them both free. Now he’s trying to be a superhero, learning the hard way that you can’t save everybody, and some problems are too big to punch. He thought he had managed to flip the script and beat Hell at its own game, but demons are patient, and all debts eventually come due.

Young witches from Graves Parish are disappearing without a trace, and no one knows why. Pepper doesn’t have the answers, but she’s damn sure going to find them—even if it means risking her own life. As if that’s not enough, her longtime nemesis has turned up dead, and the ghost refuses to leave Pepper alone. Add in a dangerously sexy vampire who’s shadowing her every move, and things are spiraling from bad to cursed.

And then daddy dearest enters stage left. So, I met my father. I beat the crap out of him, but I haven’t killed him yet. Yet being the operative word. I still haven’t made up my mind about that. I had my to-do list before I broke out of Scorchwood and killing him was a major part of my big kill list. I mean, the man framed me, sent me to prison in Hell, then had a mad warlock experiment on me. So, now we are uneasy allies. The fate of two realms is resting on my shoulders. That doesn’t mean I might not still decide to kill him if we manage to pull this off.

Things are going badly for the Clan in this new SF novel of the Merchant Princes, the immensely popular series by Charles Stross. Locked in a vicious civil war for control over the kingdom of Niejwein, their army is bottled up inside a fortress under siege in two parallel universes at once. Duke Angbard, the Clan's leader, has been laid low by a stroke: plotters are already conspiring in readiness for the deadly dance to come.

Ella is tired of crying. She's more powerful than ever before, but her personal life has the wow factor of vanilla ice cream. When Bear asks her to investigate a series of mysterious deaths at the ultra-hip Cauldron Festival, Ella accepts a job as one of the comedy performers but doesn't tell anyone why she is really there, not even her excited sidekick, Vanessa.

AN ACTION/ADVENTURE STORY ABOUT THE FIRST PHASE OF THE FOUNDING OF A NEW WORLDPsychic Stephanie Chaldean is the guru of "Autonomy," a metaphysical commune in Montana's Bitterroot Valley-home to 4 open-minded New Agers who share her dream of a better life. Stephanie has predicted that first Japan...

Heidi Blackwood, the daughter of her pack's alpha, has been sent to work with Aidan and the others in order to hunt down the Sons of Domnall and neutralize the threat they pose to wolves all over the world. When they first lay eyes on one another, they know right away: they're meant to be mates. Although Aidan smells unlike any wolf she's ever met, she doesn't yet realize that he's the one thing she shouldn't look for in a mate: a bear, one of the wolves' natural enemies.

A James Bond-meets-Austin Powers spoof about the gadget maker for a crime-fighting organization run by women. Jane Spyrus likes nothing more than devising new inventions, but even she knows her shrink-wrap prophylactic constraints, spray-on truth serum and her other...rather innovative creations...

FOR EVERY WOMAN WHO HAS EVER LOVED -- AND NEVER FORGOTTEN. Michelle Turner thought she lost everything at seventeen. Her father, a Hollywood legend, had finally summoned her to his Montana ranch. But when he learned of her affair with Sam McPhee, a hired hand, he had Sam fired and destroyed his...