Resultados para "The Heroes" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Once part of a dying species, one wolf now harnesses supernatural and godlike abilities as it fights for survival, in this grimdark fantasy adventure. It's been nearly a millennium since wolves prowled the earth. They're only spoken of as mythical destroyers of life. But one solitary wolf, born...

“Witty, thrilling, and...SAVAGE." --Nat Cassidy, bestselling author of Mary and When the Wolf Comes Home "Miranda July meets Stephen King." --Lauren Beukes, New York Times bestselling author of The Shining Girls Hyper-competent Ellie thinks she’s going through perimenopause, but discovers...

«Una magia obligada a servir a personas crueles es una magia herida. Y yo solo pretendo sanarla». Judith Vega ha vencido a la Muerte dos veces y está a un solo paso de conquistar sus dones. Si lo logra, el mundo de los nigromantes cambiará para siempre. Para impedirlo...

Back when things were normal, Orrin the Timid tried saving his best friend, Daniel the Popular, from a runaway truck. But he failed, and the resulting crash landed them both in a world of magic, monsters, and levels. There, Orrin grew from a mild-mannered sidekick into a legit powerhouse, unlocking Administrator-level powers unlike anything else. Still, things are tough for the former zero.

Nobody saw this coming. Not me. Not the elders. Certainly not my dear Hanwarra. Never before have the Dorf people lost an entire clan. A betrayal so deep, those who are left will never forgive, nor forget. It's time for the Dorfs to go to war. Yet somehow it has fallen to me, to lead them. Worst of all, Garnet was prepared. I may be his catalyst, but his plans were already in motion. The wheels of war turn slowly. The enemy is prepared. So it's up to me and my wives to figure out a way to make this work. All under the nose of those we thought buried.

After Dylan moves to Osaka, a strange interaction grants him the power to see demons and monsters from Japanese folklore. Burning with a desire to help the people being harmed by these terrible forces, Dylan finds an answer in the devastatingly beautiful and mysterious Ayane. Through her, Dylan learns there are more sinister and deadly monsters than anyone could imagine. Evil yokai have plagued Japan for centuries and the threat is escalating. But not all yokai are evil. Will his new-found power be enough to protect the innocents and vanquish the spawn of the abyss?

Penelope Hansen has had to share from the moment she was conceived. First the womb, then her parents' attention, and so on—you get the picture. During challenging moments in her life, she used to daydream about her mate, the male who would belong to her alone, the one who would take her away from a pack and a life in which she's always felt second-best. But then her mate turns out to be the silent, widowed, emotionally unavailable Alpha Dominic. Will this be the mating Penelope has always dreamed of? Or will Dominic's unresolved issues with the past break her heart?

"You made me king. I'll make you my queen." It wasn't a vow. It wasn't love. It was her sentence. Her punishment. Bronwen thought killing the first vampire would end it all—the nightmare that stole her parents, her future, even her heart. But Carrow was never truly gone. His shadow is rising...

Iona's magic thrives in ways that defy explanation. The threads of fate pull Iona to Lysander College, an illustrious school for aristocratic witches of great renown. Though Iona is only a novice witch with no ancestral claim to old magic, her anomalous power garners the unwanted attention of imperious witches in her class.

A madman is capturing civilians and locking them in dangerous dungeons. The Boxer is now an official Defender of the City, so he and his team of Knuckleheads must quickly unravel the secrets of the maniacal Dungeon Builder before he completes his mysterious plan. Facing some of his most challenging foes yet, the Boxer will have to train hard with his stunning but shy team leader—a powerful fighter in her own right—to overcome the increasingly treacherous traps and labyrinths. Will he be able to save the day and unmask the Dungeon Builder, or will the city descend into chaos?

I’m not going home. Of that, I am certain. And anyway, who would want to? Folotelyn Kyanite is the best thing that ever happened to me. She’s kind, caring, drop dead gorgeous and with her best friend, and my second wife, Alfofida, the beautiful, intelligent inventor. Well, they make one hell of a pair. The politics of this world be damned. I’ve got things settling in pretty well right now. Except after delivering the badly wounded Kiggaelin to her father. I was sent back with Elder Obsidian to seal the tunnel and cement my permanence on this world. All the while, Kiggaelin was at home, dying.

Violet has lived her entire life in the Mountain Realm and has been in a secret relationship with Calum, the Sovereign of her realm, which is completely forbidden. The rule is clear: Every Sovereign must marry from the royal bloodlines of the Seven Sovereigns. When Calum is sent to the Night Realm to begin his engagement to the sister of the Night Realm's Sovereign, he promises Violet he will find a way out of the engagement and make his way back to her. Violet holds onto that promise until she finds herself in the Night Realm, where she realizes everything isn't as true as she thought it was.

I'm the Shattered Isle princess. I've grown up on horror stories about the four All Plane princes, and now I've been promised to them as their bride in order to usher in peace between our two warring realms. First, I have to earn their trust. Second, I must do what my father raised me to do—kill them all. But the task is almost impossible when each of the princes have an unflinching need to claim me as theirs.

When Aksel Bergstrom ordered me to undress and put myself on display for him the first time, his instruction was sent by text, and he merely observed as I blushed and begged and climaxed. But now this bearded brute is here in person, stripping me bare and spanking my ass red for the slightest hint of defiance before tying me down and using my helplessly bound body shamefully. Because the bastard ravaging me like a Viking of old isn't some mysterious stalker. He's one of the Sons of Odin. And I belong to them now.

Framed by the new master of the organization that he’s risked his life for, Dylan and his companions must prove their innocence before the Lord of the Abyss gains enough power to enter our world. In order to stay ahead of their pursuers, Dylan and the yokai girls find themselves in one of the most remote areas of Japan. While they’re hiding, the group finds themselves fighting an influx of monsters, infiltrating a death cult, and uncovering a sinister plot to destroy the Wheel.

Harper thought retirement meant hanging up his glaive, but when the Dungeon Lord offers him something no adventurer has ever been given—a chance to build a sanctuary from the ground up—he can't resist. Finally, a quest where success means creation, not destruction. What starts as empty land on the tenth floor of the dungeon and desperate refugees becomes something extraordinary. Olivie creates belonging with every warm smile and shared meal while Andrea challenges him at every turn.

Growing up in one of the biggest packs in the world, my life from the second I turn 18 is planned out for me: Find my true mate in the moon ceremony, giving me the power to share the shifter energy that is given to the males of the pack by the moon goddess herself; the power to shift into a wolf.

Being an outcast of the wolves was always something I accepted until I met them. The four alpha wolves of Fall Mountain Pack. They showed me I could be so much more than the rejected wolf they found on a beach and saved. They healed me and made me stronger, fixing what was broken in my soul.

Now that she has come of age, nineteen-year-old Chalondra has caught the eye of the company tasked with requisitioning Kamnian girls like her for use as concubines by wealthy Vionians. But it isn't just her beauty that will ensure she fetches a handsome price when she is sold at auction. Even with her cheeks blushing, her bottom sore, and her body's wet, quivering surrender on shameful display, her eyes burn with defiance her new owner will very much enjoy mastering. Claiming her will be worth every penny, but making her beg for it first will be priceless.

More questions than answers is the story of Claire's life now. Where is she from? Who are her parents? And why was her vision the cost of binding her magic? She survived her first year at the Academy, but someone out there seems determined she won't live to see the second one. Dark magic is calling beasts out of the Elven Forest that haven't been seen since the Great War, and they all seem to have a strange fixation on Claire.