Resultados para "The Business" en Paranormal y urbana

Destroyer of Peace, Scorcher of Lives, that’s what they called me. All I wanted was to enjoy my treasure hoard, as any dragon would, but King Balan simply couldn’t allow me to live in peace. Now he’s sent me to this strange new world of Chicago, but what he didn’t expect was for me to thrive in here. With the help of a few unlikely human friends, I will conquer the business world and rebuild a new hoard of money, status, and women.

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.

There’s Dangerous Business afoot, and it’s about to land right outside Chloe Mayfield’s front door. A wizened wizard with tales of slumbering gods and secrets no longer safe. Two gardeners are in need of rescue, pursued by ghostly wraiths who threaten more than just their lives. Dark...

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.

München, Sommer 1987. Der Vampir Daniel jagt seit Jahrhunderten seinesgleichen. Sein Ziel ist radikal: alle Unsterblichen auszulöschen – und damit auch sich selbst. Tagsüber betreibt er eine schäbige Bar, nachts geht er auf die Jagd. Gemeinsam mit einer Gruppe Vigilanten bekämpft er einen von Vampiren geführten Menschenhandelsring, wohl wissend, dass er sich damit auch seiner eigenen Vergangenheit stellen muss.

'As irresistible as a faerie bargain, this book is riveting, magical and wonderful! I absolutely adored it!' Sarah Beth Durst, New York Times bestselling author of The Spellshop 'I adored this one . . . its like cosy fantasy meets snarky fae dimplomacy, and I'm here for it' Reader review...

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...

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.

Rediscover this thrilling paranormal romance from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham. Fiona MacDonald and her sisters share the mission of maintaining peace in New Orlands, where vampires and shapeshifters hide in plain sight among mankind. As a vampire keeper, is Fiona’s duty to...

The story of the worldwalkers just got stranger in Charles Stross's The Merchants' War. More worlds, more surprises. And there's a war going on ... Miriam Beckstein is a young, hip, business journalist in Boston. She discovered in The Family Trade and The Hidden Family that her family came from...

The third book (after The Family Trade and The Hidden Family) in the saga of the Merchant Princes by Charles Stross, in which Miriam gets into deadly trouble. Miriam Beckstein has gotten in touch with her roots and they have nearly strangled her. A young, hip, business journalist in Boston, she...

The Merchant Princes is a sweeping new series from the hottest new writer in science fiction! The six families of the Clan rule the kingdom of Gruinmarkt from behind the scenes, a mixture of nobility and criminal conspirators whose power to walk between their world and ours make them rich in...

A bold new fantasy, The Merchant Princes is a sweeping series from the hottest new writer in science fiction! Miriam Beckstein is happy in her life. She's a successful reporter for a hi-tech magazine in Boston, making good money doing what she loves. When her researcher brings her iron-clad...

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.

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...

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...

A dissident faction of the Clan, the alternate universe group of families that has traded covertly with our world for a century or more, have carried nuclear devices between the worlds and exploded them in Washington, DC, killing the President of the United States. Now they will exterminate the...

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...