Resultados para "The Tempest" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Gargoyle incaricati di proteggere l'umanità, demoni ribelli e una ragazza con un segreto esplosivo. Il primo romanzo di una nuova trilogia, collegato alla serie "Dark Elements". Anche se sta diventando cieca, Trinity Marrow può vedere fantasmi e spiriti e comunicare con loro. Il suo dono, però, è parte di un segreto così pericoloso che è costretta a vivere nascosta in un luogo isolato, sorvegliata a vista dai Guardiani, gargoyle mutaforma incaricati di proteggerla. Perché se le creature degli Inferi scoprissero la verità sul suo conto la divorerebbero.

In a world where communication with parallel Tangent Earths has brought a disruptive influx of new beliefs and scientific innovation, college student and fangirl Corazon Kagami continues to discover astonishing new facets to the abilities she’s unexpectedly acquired in the accident that transformed her into Tangent Knight Caprice, the foremost of a growing ensemble of armored super-warriors very much like the heroes and villains of her favorite tokusatsu shows. Revelations about her technology magnate mother and her cyborg security team have put Cory on the side of Matrix. 

With the amulet still stuck around her neck, Addie must outwit her powerful captors who will do anything to get to the power held within the ancient artifact. If they find out she doesn't know how to use it, she's dead.

Six months ago, Teia Carthan seized the throne against all odds. She sacrificed everything—her morals, her friends, even the spark of love—to hear the whisper of her new title: Highness. Now, Teia sets sail across the Dark Sea to warn her cousin, the Shaylani emperor, of a threat that could doom the Five Kingdoms: Cornelius Lehm lives, and he's planning to raise the Serkawr. But as she begins a furious journey across Shaylan, Teia knows she needs help to defeat Lehm—even if it means working with the very rebels she betrayed to claim her crown.

"Non sarà sempre così" dissi a me stessa. "Più tempo passerai da libera, più diventerà facile." Un giorno mi sarei svegliata da un sonno senza incubi, avrei camminato per strada senza timore. Fino a quel momento, mi tenevo stretta il mio pugnale sottile, desiderando sentire il peso sicuro dell'acciaio Grisha nella mano. Ricercata per tutto il Mare Vero, perseguitata dal senso di colpa per le vite spezzate a causa sua nella Faglia d'Ombra, Alina, la potente Evocaluce, sta cercando di ricostruirsi una vita con Mal in una terra dove nessuno è a conoscenza della sua vera identità.

After years on the run, Adelaide thinks her lonely and dangerous life as a thief is finally over. But her world is upended when a witch steals her away to a faraway kingdom to perform an impossible heist. If Adelaide fails, her newfound family would be sacrificed to a beast. To complete her mission, she’s forced to assume the role of a noblewoman and enter a royal competition. The prize is the hand of the elusive crown prince. Elimination means certain death.

One week. Five contestants. One prince. A devastating decision. Before, she avoided elimination. Now, she must win. Chosen as one of the final five in the bride search, Ada has one last chance to find the golden lamp and save her family. Yet with Cyrus no longer her partner-in-crime, but her target, her plans unravel, tearing her between duty and desire. Now she has one week to pass three increasingly difficult tests fit for a queen.

Danielle Danshov has wanted to be a warrior for as long as she can remember. At 18, that dream is within her grasp–if she can get through her final year of training, master her Fae magic, and work with the enigmatic new trainer who challenges her as no one else has.

Ember must stop the apocalypse from happening, but at what cost? The Angels of destruction have arrived, and only Ember stands in the way of their mission to carry out God's wrath and annihilate his enemies. When the barrier between celestial creatures and humans beings is broken and Angels descend to Earth, Ember soon learns there's a fine line between good and evil. As she faces a world full of monsters and magic, a terrifying darkness rises and threatens to destroy everything she's fighting for.

King Raemon of Medeisia is slaughtering tattooed scribes and mages, forcing them into hiding. All marked and those associated with them are destroyed. The people are desperate. Months after challenging Raemon, the marked rebels of Medeisia must rise against their bloodthirsty king or chance being annihilated. Sixteen year-old Drastona Consta-Mayria is the prophesied phoenix of peace, desperate to be a leader for her people despite her reservations.

In Julie Cross' Tempest, the year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he's in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it's not like the movies—nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there's no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors—it's just harmless fun. That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps.

In Tempest Rising, Tempest chose to return to the sea, following in her mother's footsteps and forging a relationship with the selkie Kona. Now many months have gone by, and she yearns to see her family again. Life under the ocean is full of rigorous training to eventually take over the throne, which leads to Tempest's powers growing and manifesting in new ways. When Tiamat, Tempest's power-hungry nemesis, attacks Tempest's brother Moku on land, she returns to his side, which also brings her back to her old flame, Mark.

Half-mermaid Tempest Maguire is trying to have it all: fulfilling her duties as second-in-line to the merQueen Hailana while periodically returning home to the California coastline to be with her family and longtime boyfriend, Mark. Living under the sea and rebuilding Coral Straits is grueling work, while being back home reminds her of everyone she loves and misses. But when her old flame Kona arrives bearing news that Hailana has died and Tempest is now officially merQueen, she returns permanently to Coral Straits - even though it devastates her family and rips her apart from Mark.

In Tempest Rising, Tempest chose to return to the sea, following in her mother's footsteps and forging a relationship with the selkie Kona. Now many months have gone by, and she yearns to see her family again. Life under the ocean is full of rigorous training to eventually take over the throne, which leads to Tempest's powers growing and manifesting in new ways. When Tiamat, Tempest's power-hungry nemesis, attacks Tempest's brother Moku on land, she returns to his side, which also brings her back to her old flame, Mark. But was the attack calculated to get Tempest out of the way?

Cette meuf, faut pas l'emmerder. Ou bientôt vous le regretterez ! Grandir avec cinq frères aînés m'a appris à encaisser les coups. Cela est très utile car ceux que je prends en tant que druidesse me font regretter les bonnes vieilles bagarres, les écorchures et les querelles avec mes frères. On ne peut plus reculer et honnêtement, je ne le ferais pas si je le pouvais. Dans une ville où les vampires, les mages et les hobgoblins me détestent, j'ai du mal à me défendre et à mener le bon combat. Mais j'ai été choisie pour porter la marque des Fianna pour une raison. Je suis Fiona-fecking-Cumhaill.

Cette meuf, faut pas l'emmerder. Ou bientôt vous le regretterez ! Ma vision de la vie n’est pas compliquée : chaque jour qui passe sans que personne n’essaye de me tuer ou de blesser quelqu’un que j’aime, je me considère chanceuse. Mais ces derniers temps, les bons jours sont rares... Depuis que j'ai totalement ignoré l'avertissement de mon père il y a trois mois et que j'ai pris l'avion pour l'Irlande pour embrasser notre héritage ultra-secret, je vois le monde d’une perspective différente, une perspective mythique et magique.

Cette meuf, faut pas l'emmerder. Ou bientôt vous le regretterez !Depuis que j’ai été désignée comme héritière des pouvoirs druidiques, j’ai été poignardée, kidnappée, mise sur liste noire, torturée, prise pour cible et accusée d’avoir provoqué tous les accidents magiques qui ont frappé Toronto. Pour certains, je suis une nuisance, pour d’autres une rareté et pour d’autres encore un problème à éliminer. Les rageux vont rager. Mais lorsqu’une vague de dangers s’abat sur ma famille et mes amis, il n’y a rien d’autre à faire que de répondre à l’attaque et de se battre. Qui agit dans l’ombre ?

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