Resultados para "The Twenty" en Fantasía

When Ray Lilly was 13 years old, a handgun accident landed his best friend, Jon Burrows, in a wheelchair and turned Ray into a runaway and petty criminal. Fifteen years later, Ray returns home after a stint in prison; he's determined to go straight, but he knows he can't do that without making peace with his old friend. What Ray doesn't expect is that Jon has just received a mysterious cure - not only is he out of his wheelchair, he seems stronger and faster than...well, pretty much anyone. 

“The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten…For some time past, vessels had been met by ‘an enormous thing,’ a long object, spindle-shaped, occasionally phosphorescent, and infinitely larger and...

Audrey Hamilton, a young American woman, comes to Paris to seek her fortune as an artist. Lurking beneath the glamour of the city, however, in a nation still recovering from the Great War of 1914-18, is the dark spiritual force of the poet Charles Baudelaire. Evil will rise from the moody old Cemetery of Montparnasse to ensnare Audrey's spirit and drag her to her doom.

Magic is the name of the game for Ivy Morgan, Maddie Graves, Harper Harlow, and Rowan Gray. Love is the most important thing, though. Four magical women, four magical children. Together they will fight the good fight. Apart they will crumble. This group of powerful friends will do whatever it takes to protect their children and each other.

A magical murderer is loose in Alanda. The victims are always women, always lower-class, and the weapon is always a three-sided stiletto, most often found among Church regalia. But the killers are never churchmen, and they always commit suicide immediately after the bloody deed. Tal Rufen is just a simple constable. But he really cares about his job, and when one of these murder/suicides happens on his beat, he becomes obsessed. His superiors don't care. But every instinct Tal Rufen has cries out that he has seen only one small piece of a bigger and much nastier puzzle.

Jules Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. VOLUME 2: We now come to the second part of our journey under the sea. The first ended with the moving scene in the coral cemetery which left such a deep impression on my mind. Thus, in the midst of this great sea, Captain Nemo's life was passing, even to his grave, which he had prepared in one of its deepest abysses.

Jules Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. VOLUME 1: The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and puzzling phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten. Not to mention rumours which agitated the maritime population and excited the public mind, even in the interior of continents, seafaring men were particularly excited.

Lawson Raft finally gets his entry-level dream job at Tales and Tails: Mythological and Folklore Zoo. But it doesn’t take him long to realize the zoo isn’t all it’s chalked up to be.

A society designed to keep people busy so they have no idea what is going on. Sadly, I don't think people will wake up until it's way too late. So, after watching the movie Endgame, I found it interesting that with a snap of his fingers, Thanos can eliminate almost half of us humans for population control. It was a bit scary for the simple fact that it can be real instead of a snapping of a finger by spread a deadly virus.

The Pirate King faces a siren in order to retrieve vital information that could change the course of the war raging against the Emperor. But even hope comes with a price, and he must choose to save himself or complete his mission.

The storm brewing on the beach is no match for the turmoil inside Jenna’s breaking heart. The last time she and her father were on the shoreline together, Jenna decided she was too grown to look for imaginary mermaids in the waves. Now, regret and grief threaten to consume her as she wishes more than anything that there could be more time with her father—who is nearing the end of his battle with terminal cancer. An encounter with a strange piece of sea glass leaves Jenna with an opportunity to have her greatest wish granted…

Ren Lewis doesn't need spells, rituals, or blood. All it takes is a thought. He can slip into your mind like a whisper, rewrite your desires, and turn your deepest convictions into dust. With a flicker of intent, he can bend reality until it breaks in his hands. Presidents, CEOs, crime lords… for Ren Lewis, every mind is a door—and he holds the master key. Sure, every mind he bends hollows out his own soul a little more, but Ren stopped worrying about such trivialities a long time ago.

Vivace has committed murder to help his country win a war. But will he ever be able to live with himself? How can he have a normal life after such a heinous deed? And surely, no one could ever love a monster like him…

Clara and Damien know exactly how to take down the most sadistic man—Taz Kiera. But that doesn’t mean it will be easy. Actually, it will involve solving a series of complex riddles, hunting down magical items, and risking their lives. Oh, and employing a dark magic that could burn out their souls. Luckily, Damien doesn’t have one as a vampire. However, he is quickly learning he will do anything to protect the soul and heart of his partner, Clara Jordan.

Clara and Damien know they must bring down a rogue werewolf to get to his boss. Taz Kiera must be stopped. The mentalist has gone too far—abducting coma patients, siphoning their powers and abusing magic.

Blood-sucking vampires and vegan psychics don’t mix. But to save the world from a magic-stealing madman, they’re going to have to. The Delta Underground Operatives, humanity’s last line of defense against evil threats, only enlist the brightest and the best. Clara and Damien fit the bill. So when a threat like no other can only be stopped by a perfect assassin team, the organization recruits these two unlikely vigilantes with complementary skill sets.

Ren Lewis is back. The world thought he was dead, but to avoid death, he slipped into another dimension. What he found was a lifeless world. And if he doesn’t flee, then there will be no escaping death this time. He needs a way out. Ren needs to return to his world. And only one person can save him. She just doesn’t know that she’s been elected to bring the most powerful man back to her world—his world. Can Ren fight his demons and come back to the world of the living?

The Lucidites, using their vast resources and super powers, have been protecting the world for decades. The problem with that is those who crave power, and are fueled by greed, have never been able to fully succeed....Not with the Lucidites policing the world. It's time that all the powerful Dream Travelers come together, to fight an evil that's grown too powerful, and threatens the planet itself. In this Avenger-like installment, multiple Dream Travelers band together to overcome monsters that seek to erase the future of the human race.

Rook has turned his attention onto the newly formed Kingdom of the Iron Dice. In his mind, Joe has become a nuisance that must be squashed. How will Joe's castle prevail when not one, but two armies march upon it? Joe and Zoya no longer have a shield of ignorance to hide behind. If they face Rook, it will be with the full knowledge of their own true mortal peril. They may be Champions, with near-immortality, but they are still just two micro-sentients facing a godlike being.

In the Hugo Award nominee Forty, Counting Down, computer genius Justin Kloster travels to the past to stop himself from making a terrible mistake. But all actions have their consequences. Then, in Twenty-One, Counting Up, Kloster's college life and romantic dreams are rudely interrupted when the 40-year-old Justin arrives from the future to save him from himself.