Resultados para "The Tower" en Fantasía oscura

With the winds dispelled and secrets exposed, Jax has to convince those that survive that the best chance at safety is with the Empire. The best way to prove it? Eliminate the deadliest threats hunting them all. Jax, Oracle, and Sehran have survived the scorching desert and conquered the untamed wilds. Now they face their most treacherous challenge yet: unraveling the dark truth behind the succubai within the Tower of Gaij.

Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is the conclusion readers have long...

Niklaus, master swordsman, has not aged a day since being chosen by his mercurial goddess. A slave to her will, he moves from one cryptic mission to the next in the hope of ascending to become her equal. But even a man who has lived for centuries can sometimes find himself out of his depth. When Niklaus is sent to kill a sorcerer of the Tainted Cabal, overconfidence leads to a fatal mistake, and neither experience nor skill with a blade can prevail against the forces unleashed against him.

Betrayed by his own kind, his coven is forced to flee everything he paid for in blood. He will not forget the treachery and all that he lost, especially not those who tried to take what was his. He will have his revenge against everyone who wronged him, and no price will be too high. With two blood-elf princesses, who are as beautiful as they are deadly, and a feared vampire bone witch by his side, he will make everyone who opposed him drown in a sea of blood. Literally.

What stalks the land cannot be, but is. Where magic is outlawed a troll Shaman calls from her deathbed to her heiress, Mirandra Var, daughter of the storm. Mirandra vows to find her missing kin, sort friend from foe, and claim the dangerous secrets guarded by unthinkable creatures. If she succeeds, she will become the leader of her tribe. If she fails there will be no tribe to lead. Please note 18 and up rated. This contains scenes of violence and sexual situations.

Four college friends find themselves being torn between two worlds; a familiar reality and a strange world where they are princes and princesses of fantastical kingdoms at war with each other. This dark war is slowly eroding the mental state of all those involved as they are guided to seek answers and resolutions by a mysterious man who has a deeply troubled past of his own.

Welcome to the Tower of Sephalon... Where Mothers give birth to the gods that walk the land and Sisters devote their lives to their comfort, all against their will... Mother of Succor - and the crushing emptiness of her duties as a flood of Sisters arrive at the Tower, breaking the rule limiting their number to always and only one hundred... Mother of Boots - and his self-sacrificial walk into the Beyond to fulfill a pledge and bring peace to a brother condemned for crimes he did not commit...

The Towers of Nine School of Magic Study and Practice is an institution rich with ancient traditions and secrets. Serafina Stewart has grown up on stories of this place, passed to her by her witch mother. Now Serafina is finally old enough to attend. But getting in is the easy part. And Mother's stories never included ghosts or deadly spiders.

Nachts hört Flo eigenartige Gesänge aus dem Wald, der an das Hotelgelände angrenzt, und es dauert nicht lange, bis sie von lebhaften Visionen heimgesucht wird. Dennoch übt der Wald eine geradezu unheimliche Anziehungskraft auf sie aus. Als sie eines Tages bei einer Wanderung der mysteriösen Frau Gothel begegnet, nimmt ein gruseliges Abenteuer seinen Lauf …

“Zara Ramm's narration is like watching a film, conjuring images of demons and humans alike. It's funny, it's dark, and it's some of Ramm's best work.” — AudioFile (Earphones Award Winner) "Narrator [Zara] Ramm's sensible yet snarky performance immediately gives listeners a sense of...

In his New York Times bestselling The Wind Through the Keyhole, Stephen King returns to the spectacular territory of the Dark Tower fantasy saga to tell a story about gunslinger Roland Deschain in his early days. The Wind Through the Keyhole is a sparkling contribution to the series that can be...

He journeys to the farthest reaches of civilization to vanquish the monstrous creatures conjured by the world of magic. With each strike of his blade, countless minions of darkness fall before him. But even as he becomes a legend in his own right, he is never alone. The death priest Zair and his clever raven Aye Not follow in his wake, tasked with collecting his soul when his inevitable downfall comes, for the evil he has wrought.

Ellis feels the pull of the Tower of Time; it holds the key to his ending the god of Chaos’ hold on the world. But the Tower lies deep in the Lands of the Dead, a place where nothing moves except roaming bands of berserk, spectral warriors who fight a never-ending war. On the outskirts of the Lands of the Dead, Chaos and its evil ways have bewitched, Daylin, Ellis’ best friend. She is enthralled by the Chaos priest Betal, who has entwined her in the political undercurrents of his fellow priests in the Citadel, where only the strong and wicked survive.

She never paid much heed to the land’s gods... until one took notice of her. On the night of the closed Eye, thirteen-year-old Pae vividly imagines a creature designed to defeat a plague of mice-like scavvers. She calls it a draglin — a smaller version of her island home’s fearsome dragin predator.

Phantom of the Opera meets Beauty and the Beast in this gothic-inspired dark fantasy romance. A haunted tower, a mysterious instructor, and the lure of the music of the night...After the death of her father, Aria is left penniless and destitute. To avoid working the streets, she becomes the ward of a Count and moves to a remote town called High Tower. High Tower is a gloomy place with one vivid attraction: The theater. Lords and ladies come from afar to be seduced by a night of unforgettable entertainment.

Life at the Tower can be incredibly exhilarating...Eight-year-old peasant girl Bevenlee sees an aura around fourteen-year-old Princess Ukee and within hours they’re en route to the Tower, where for five centuries one hundred Sisters have attended the precious Mothers who give birth to the gods that walk the land....and eternally unforgiving. As a Sister, Bevenlee learns new skills and makes new and loyal friends, but suffers torment and terrible injuries from Sisters and gods alike.

"An exciting fantasy adventure tale.” –Booklist, STARRED Review Deeply immersive, this penetrating tale of magic, faith and self-determination is the brilliant sequel to Kelly Braffet’s The Unwilling Judah the Foundling chose freedom over betrayal when she leaped from the top of the castle...

After a lousy day leads Anna to the Blackwood Tower Hotel bar, her world is forever altered. Unknown to her, she is pulled into the middle of a century-long feud when a handsome man approaches her. As a result, she comes face-to-face with her worst fear. Forced into a new life, she must adjust quickly if she has any chance of surviving.

Vani Brattle must come to grips with the consequences of her time in the Tower. Ancient wizard Asha Togrim makes a last-ditch effort to cement her power in the new world order.

The fourth volume in the brilliant Dark Tower Series is “splendidly tense…rip-roaring” (Publishers Weekly)—a #1 national bestseller about an epic quest to save the universe. In Wizard and Glass, Stephen King is “at his most ebullient…sweeping readers up in…swells of passion”...