Resultados para "The Price" en Contemporánea

In 1816, Elizabeth's life had been carefully planned for her. A home, a family, a life that she was trained to fill... and had never questioned if she wanted, until the future she expected was stolen from her. In the present day, Heck's hopes and dreams have been destroyed, the life she was fighting for gone in an instant. Amid the devastation of her plans, she's determined to fight for her dreams.

Tucked away in a quiet corner of North Carolina lies the township of Foster Flat. By every appearance, it’s an ordinary place to lead one’s life, and the humble environs strike most as boring—quite a prodigious misjudgment. The population shares a mutual disapproval of new guests, and the reason for this will soon become clear, thanks to Mimi Rawlins, one resident who’s willing to indulge outsiders. For the whole of its history, Foster Flat has been home to staggering secrets and freakish phenomena. Are these ‘events’ the stuff of folklore? Overactive minds? Or more?

Vicki Nelson, formerly of Toronto’s homicide unit and now a private detective, witnesses the first of many vicious attacks that begin plaguing the city of Toronto. As death follows unspeakable death, Vicki, in an attempt to stop these forces of dark magic, is forced to renew her relationship with her former partner, Mike Celluci - along with another, unexpected ally…. Henry Fitzroy, the illegitimate son of King Henry VIII, has learned over the course of his life how to blend with humans; how to deny the call for blood in his veins.

When Shay reopens Hollywood Lakes Inn, her biggest worry is whether the plumbing in the 200-year-old house will spring a leak. But as she readies for her first VIP guest, she's caught in flashbacks that never happened—memories so vivid she wonders if she's losing her perimenopausal mind. With no time to dwell, she focuses on Porter Nichols, the famous screenwriter renting the entire second floor. He's got a script to finish and a terrible case of writer's block. When an unexpected guest arrives along with some disgruntled muses, Shay suspects his problem is magical in nature.

Since moving to Hollywood Lakes, Shay's life has been full of surprises—like the mysterious crow gifts she keeps finding on her porch and her childhood summer camp turning into a getaway for adults. It's all cocktails and crafts until Color Wars begins, and Shay learns her former nemesis is captain of the opposing team—even meaner now than she was then. Shay's determined to win . . . until word witch duty calls.

Fantastic Fables of Foster Flat returns to the mysterious town of Foster Flat with eight of Bradford's best short stories. While some of the stories are lighthearted and fun, others are hauntingly on the edge of horror. There is a curio in these pages for every listener--a burned-out writer waiting for her muse to strike, a curious museum of masks where things are not as they seem and a Chinese restauranteur with a head-scratching dilemma are just a few of what you're going to discover in this collection.

Tales of the fabled Tomb of the Djinn and its Guardian had fascinated archaeologist Ky Farrar since a visit to the Egyptian Museum in Cairo when he was a boy. The tale of the star-crossed lovers and their battle to save ancient Egypt from the Djinn helped him choose his career. He believes he’s finally found the legendary Tomb - only to discover its Guardian is all too real. And as lovely as she is lethal.

Einfühlsam, berührend und humorvoll – niemand erzählt so besondere Liebesgeschichten wie TJ Klune. Der erfolgsverwöhnte Anwalt Wallace Price kennt nur drei Dinge: Arbeit, Arbeit und noch mal Arbeit. Es kommt ihm daher äußerst ungelegen, als er eines Tages tot umfällt und in der Zwischenwelt landet. Dort erwartet ihn der Wächter Hugo, der Wallace auf seine Reise ins Jenseits vorbereiten soll. Doch Wallace ist noch nicht bereit, und so wird ihm Zeit gewährt, um seine Angelegenheiten zu ordnen. Zeit, in der Wallace den wahren Sinn des Lebens entdeckt. Und die Liebe findet.

The legendary Orion has been hunting monsters for millennia—he's very good at it. That's why they gave him a constellation in the night sky. But that prowess comes with a price. There are many who hold a grudge against him. So when someone starts killing Nephilim in Los Angeles with the style of an old foe, there's no doubt that it's personal.

Love conquers all. But can it stop a war? Selena: My coronation is days away, and then the Great Witch Empire’s future will rest in my hands. Now is not the time for love. But then I meet Mason. I know that the feelings between us are far more than supernatural. We’re in love...even if both our worlds are determined to rip us apart. Mason: The moment I met Selena, I knew she was different. She tells me she has a dark side...but I can see her light. I don’t know what kind of supernatural world she’s dragging me into.

It is the eve of the Great War. An empire on the brink of collapse. Will she be able to use her powers to save our world and hers? The clock is quickly counting down to midnight on All Hallows Eve. Will her wicked sister finally prevail and be crowned the next queen? Princess Selena prepares her army for an epic battle of good versus evil, the greatest war in recorded history. Two dark witches have taken a stronghold on the only remaining empire in the witch's realm that is loyal to Selena.

The final installment of The Blood Court series, has both redemption and heartache. With Nymea kidnapped, Ryker and the guard have to enlist help from the other courts, making finding her a full on operation. And when she is found, the process of healing must begin. Because Mea has lost her fire, and she needs to bond once more to the men that would give their lives for her. In order to save her company, and herself, she needs to take down those that would harm her guard, and her court. Because the Princess of Blood is not someone with whom to mess with.

Genie McQueen never thought she’d be an alpha. She grew up apart from her pack, trying to hone her dangerous magical gifts, while her twin brother Ben stayed home to be groomed for a leadership role. But after proving her mettle to her uncle Callum, the King of the South, she’s suddenly found herself the alpha of New Orleans. As she tries to adapt to her powerful new position—and a blossoming relationship with the werewolf outcast, Wilder Shaw—Genie is confronted with something that only the witch part of her can fix.

When Grace Pembleton inherited her grandfather's business in rural Pennsylvania, she had no idea what else she was in for. She thought life as a bed-and-breakfast owner would be a quiet one, that the only trouble she'd encounter would be making enough coffee for guests. What she gets instead is a violent gnome, a resident ghost, a secret society, and continuous brushes with the supernatural. Even with new friends at her side, she struggles to fulfill her family's legacy of protecting the town. Then a new threat arises, and it wants Grace.

It starts off so simply: Jack is hanging out in Julio's bar when a regular named Timmy asks him for help. His teenage niece has been missing since this morning; the police say it’s too early to worry, but Timmy knows something bad has happened. Jack says he'll put the word out on the street.This innocent request triggers a chain of seemingly coincidental events that lead Jack into the darkest days of his life.Jack is desperate...and the last thing you want to do is make Jack desperate. That's when things begin to blow up and people begin to die.