Resultados para "The Names" en Urbana

Magical musician Murder LaVoe is tired of running. She's been running for almost 500 years. When you don’t age, people take it personally. She has returned 40 years later to her favorite borough in New York City. Her hope: to finally settle down and hide her secret by taking the identities of falsified heirs.

Alexa has come a long way in her journey to awakening as a super while also getting caught in all of the political intrigue that follows. Immediately, Alexa finds herself drawn into the evil plans of a mad Countess who, at one point, turned her back on her own daughter, only to return now with a vengeance. Alexa is forced to choose between saving the life of her brother and rupturing the family bonds of her now-best friend. From there, things grow only worse.

Police Chief Delaney Reed is good at keeping secrets for the beach town of Ordinary Oregon - just ask the vacationing gods or supernatural creatures who live there. But with the first annual Cake and Skate fundraiser coming up, the only secret Delaney really wants to know is how to stop the unseasonable rain storms. When all the god powers are stolen, a vampire is murdered, and her childhood crush turns out to be keeping deadly secrets of his own, rainy days are the least of her worries.

Nothing lasts forever. Even for a queen. White picket fence? Not for me. I need to be amongst them. The lights. The crowd. My place is here. Where I can feel eight million hearts pounding. The alternative is to be alone with my thoughts. My name is Anne, and everyone I have ever known is dead. This Lady Dreamscapes novella leans into the literary fiction and magical realism strands of the series’ DNA. A mother and daughter, no longer separated by 486 years, struggle to connect in the modern world. Road trips! Ghosts? ...and a centuries-old, forgotten power paves the way.

Steeped in legend, the Pearl of Palawan has a history marked by destruction, vengeance, and love. But more important, the mythical black pearl is rumored to grant a power long coveted by mankind - immortality. It is a power men would risk dying to achieve. Sun, sand, and scuba diving in the Philippines certainly sounded like and ideal vacation. But after a way-too-close-for-comfort encounter with a tiger shark, Annja Creed finds herself drawn into a group of German divers. They are treasure hunters searching for the fabled pearl.

A frigid spring morning at a Native American archaeological dig erupts into sudden and brutal violence, leaving five people dead and one man gravely wounded. And in a hospital, with archaeologist Annja Creed at his side, the last survivor utters his final words to name his killer — a skinwalker. The skinwalker is feared among the Navajo and Apache. It is witchcraft of a most terrible nature that allows a man to take the shape of a wolf — and kill.

Genghis Khan carved out a legacy of bloodshed and conquered kingdoms that has lasted almost 800 years. But while his name and deeds live on in the annals of history, his tomb has never been located... until now. Not everyone is convinced that the diary and the map, said to lead to the great warrior's final resting place, are authentic. Archaeologist Annja Creed is among these doubters. The reality is that the body was lost to history.

Struggling actress Esther Diamond, whose year got off to a rough start (what with incarceration, unemployment, and mystical death curses), finally catches a break when she lands an acting job. She's hired to reprise her guest role as prostitute Jilly C-Note on The Dirty Thirty, a TV crime drama about depravity and corruption in the New York Police Department. Esther's ex-sometime boyfriend, NYPD's Detective Connor Lopez, hates that show with undying passion - especially after Esther convinces her narcissistic co-star to shadow Lopez on the job....

Esther Diamond's year gets off to a rocky start when NYPD's Detective Connor Lopez, who slept with her and then didn't call, shuts down the Little Italy restaurant where Esther works between acting jobs and gets her arrested. Once she's out of handcuffs, Esther takes a small role in a grad student's film project in Chinatown - where her friend, semi-retired hit man Lucky Battistuzzi, is hiding out in a Chinese-Italian mortuary.

A vacation spot picked at random, Thailand is intended to provide relaxation time for globe-trotting archaeologist Annja Creed. Yet the irresistible pull of the country's legendary Spirit Cave lures Annja and her companions deep within a network of underground chambers — nearly to their deaths. The ancient burial sites have slumbered through the ages. Yet no rest is found there — just the voices of the dead. When the dead speak, will they help Annja uncover the perplexing past of a remarkable find or will they call her to join them?

Intrepid treasure hunters believe they have discovered the final resting place of Fantome, a legendary warship that wrecked off Nova Scotia almost 200 years ago. She was rumored to have gone down with an extraordinary treasure. But circling beneath the ocean's surface waits something unbelievable...and terrifying. Some unfortunate divers have encountered a massive, thought-to-be-extinct shark known as the megalodon.

During one of the hottest summers the city has ever seen, someone is murdering mages with fires that burn when they shouldn't, that don't stop when they should. Necromancer Eric Carter is being framed for the killings and hunted by his own people. To Carter, everything points to the god Quetzalcoatl coming after him, after he defied the mad wind god in the Aztec land of the dead. But too many things aren't adding up, and Carter knows there's more going on.

Tired of the tales of vampires, werewolves, and fairies, and her part in them, Allison Petrovsky struggles to find her place in the world of the supernatural. She longs to be normal. With the deaths of family members and friends and a mysterious group on the rise, Allison’s boyfriend, Connor DeSalvo, is implicated in a murder. After Connor is forced to go into hiding while he struggles to prove his innocence, Allison discovers her best friend Scarlett is seemingly dead. Allison isn’t sure how much more she can handle.

It’s Rachel Morgan’s ultimate adventure . . . and anything can happen in this final book in the New York Times bestselling Hollows series. Rachel Morgan has come a long way from her early days as an inexperienced bounty hunter. She’s faced vampires and werewolves, banshees, witches, and...

Cathy has been forced into an arranged marriage with William Iris - a situation that comes with far more strings than even she could have anticipated, especially when she learns of his family’s intentions for them both. Meanwhile, Max and the gargoyle investigate the Agency - a mysterious organization that appears to play by its own twisted rules, none of them favourable to Society. And in Mundanus, Sam has discovered something very peculiar about his wife’s employer - something that could herald disaster for everyone on both sides of the Split Worlds.

Mira, Thaum, Yorgen und Nik wurden dazu verurteilt, ihr Dasein in der Grube von Wounshu zu fristen. Der Versuch, ihr Schicksal in letzter Minute abzuwenden, verläuft nicht wie geplant, und die Freunde werden über die gesamte Grube verstreut. Am Ende liegt alle Hoffnung auf Mira und ihren Grenzgängern: Eine Antwort muss her, wie das große Spiel ein für alle Mal gestoppt werden kann, bevor eine Horde machtgieriger Dämonen die mundane Welt verschlingt.

Dunkle Kräfte unterwandern den hermetischen Orden. Die magische Macht befindet sich im Ungleichgewicht - nichts ist, wie es scheint. Mystisch und hochspannend geht es weiter im dritten Teil von Robin G. Hunters Paranormal-Fantasy-Reihe Im Namen des Ordens - gesprochen von Hans Jürgen Stockerl, Nils Nelleßen und Judith Mauthe. London, 2021. In der magischen Unterwelt brodelt es. Der hermetische Orden ist kein sicherer Ort mehr. Nathan Blake, der Sohn des Protectors, ist plötzlich zurückgekehrt - von den Toten?

Eine ungeheuerliche Verschwörung zieht ihre Kreise bis in die höchsten Reihen des hermetischen Ordens. Wem können Sally und Caleb noch vertrauen? Auch im zweiten Teil von Robin G. Hunters Paranormal-Fantasy-Reihe "Im Namen des Ordens" nehmen die Sprecher Anke Reitzenstein, Nils Nelleßen und Judith Mauthe ihre Zuhörer mit in den magischen Untergrund Londons. Eine Reihe hochrangiger Londoner Politiker wurde aufs Übelste verprügelt. Die Täter? Johnny Depp, die Queen und Albert Einstein - oder wohl eher deren Doppelgänger. Nun hat es sogar den Premier erwischt. Werden die Attacken von paranormalen Wesen begangen?

Mira Sheinfhandril ist eine Elfenprinzessin, die raucht, flucht und im selbstgewählten Exil jeden noch so zwielichtigen Auftrag annimmt, der Geld verspricht. Zusammen mit ihrem Team bestreitet sie ihr Dasein am Rande der Illegalität der Nebula Convicto. Als ein simpel erscheinender Job so richtig schiefläuft und ihr zusätzlich die Häscher ihrer Familie auf den Fersen sind, wendet sich Mira in ihrer Not an Grayson Steel. Der Leiter des neu gegründeten magischen Geheimdienstes, des Obsidian, verspricht ihr schnelle Hilfe, die allerdings ihren Preis hat.

Jennifer Knight, aspiring magic-wielder and recovering kleptomaniac, has been living large ever since accepting her invitation to attend a prestigious wizard college in northern Pennsylvania. But when her goblin boss disappears, the magical portal in her backyard stops working, and her enigmatic shape-shifting protector warns her to avoid wizards at all costs, she begins to worry she’ll never make it to orientation.