Resultados para "anita" en Ocultismo

Due famiglie legate al mare e alla terra. Tre donne unite da una maledizione. Salento, primi del Novecento. Alla vigilia dell'Immacolata, Cosma Guadalupi perde il marito in una notte di tempesta. Mesi dopo nasce Minerva, la loro ultima figlia, che tutti chiamano Mina. Fin dal principio, Mina si dimostra diversa dalle sorelle, poiché porta in sé i doni della nonna masciara, Nilde, la strega alla quale il paese si è sempre rivolto per guarigioni e malefici. Ribelle e oscura per natura, Mina è esclusa dalle altre bambine e allontanata da Cosma.

Manche Häuser finden keinen Frieden. England, 1917. Noch erschüttert vom Tod ihres Verlobten nimmt Stella das Angebot ihrer schwangeren Schwester Madeleine an, gemeinsam in deren imposantem Landhaus Greyswick zu wohnen. Als Stella dort ankommt, findet sie ein Haus vor, das von einer...

Il conte Neville, aristocratico belga decaduto, è costretto a vendere il suo magnifico castello nelle Ardenne. Prima di uscire di scena, per celebrare l'onore della famiglia, decide di organizzare una lussuosissima festa di addio. Ma nei giorni che precedono l'evento Sérieuse, la sua figlia più giovane, fugge di casa e si nasconde nella foresta. A trovarla è una misteriosa chiaroveggente e sarà costei, dopo aver avvertito il conte del ritrovamento della ragazza, a fargli una spaventosa profezia: "Durante il ricevimento, lei ucciderà un invitato".

Quando Iola Anne Poole, un'anziana signora dell'isola di Hatteras, muore nel letto della sua abitazione, Tandi Jo Reese viene incaricata di risistemare la casa della defunta che è anche proprietaria del cottage in cui lei abita. In fuga da un matrimonio oppressivo e da un passato tormentato che continua a perseguitare anche il suo presente, Tandi è scappata insieme ai suoi due bambini e ora vive di fronte alla splendida e sontuosa villa vittoriana della signora Poole. Anche se le due donne non si sono mai conosciute, è stata proprio Tandi a ritrovarla, ormai morta, nel suo letto.

For the first time in trade paperback: the fifth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Laurell K. Hamilton. When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave 'four unsolved murders' it doesn't take an expert to realize that all is not well. But luckily for the locals, Anita Blake...

For the first time in trade paperback: the fifth novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Laurell K. Hamilton. When Branson, Missouri, is hit with a death wave 'four unsolved murders' it doesn't take an expert to realize that all is not well. But luckily for the locals, Anita Blake...

Anita Blake has been asked to raise the dead-but the results aren't going to make everybody happy...

My name is Anita Blake. I'm a vampire hunter and necromancer, and I'm about to learn that evil is in the eye of the beholder. I've never seen Damian, my vampire servant, so vulnerable. He's being bombarded with violent nightmares and blood sweats, but now is the time I need him most. The ruthless vampire who created him might be losing control, allowing rogue vampires to run wild and break one of their kind's few strict taboos.

When Anita Blake meets with prospective client Tony Bennington, who is desperate to have her reanimate his recently deceased wife, she is full of sympathy for his loss. Anita knows something about love, and she knows everything there is to know about loss. But what she also knows, though Tony Bennington seems unwilling to be convinced, is that the thing she can do as a necromancer isn't the miracle he thinks he needs.

In this fast paced, supernatural mystery/suspense novel a young artist, Margo, with a penchant for truth, sets off to find the identity of a missing ancestor. Unknown to her, she ends up discovering something far more significant—a key stone to a dark secret. Though she doesn’t realize the importance of the hidden message inscribed on it, the heavenly forces do. Stirred by her finding, a host of angelic beings resume an age-old struggle to reveal the truth about the town of New Coven, formerly New Covenant.

When a vampire serial killer sends Anita Blake a grisly souvenir from Las Vegas, she has to warn Sin City's local authorities what they're dealing with. Only it's worse than she thought. Police officers and one executioner have been slain – paranormal-style. Anita heads to Vegas, where she's joined by three other federal marshals, including the ruthless Edward hiding behind his mild-mannered persona. It's a good thing Edward always has her back, because, when she gets close to the bodies, Anita senses 'tiger' too strongly to ignore it.

I'm Anita Blake and I kill monsters. The last thing I want to think about though when I get home after a night out is work. But someone has abducted a wereleopard from the Narcissus in Chains club. It's a dark world out there with shapeshifter crime and were-creature struggles. I may not have seen Jean-Claude, the Vampire Master of the City, for six months, but I need his help now, whatever the consequences. Someone is targeting the lycanthropes and we have to save them.

You don't volunteer for slugfests with vampires. It shortens your life expectancy. And you don't fall in love with a werewolf. It interferes with your work. Especially when you're a preternatural expert, like me. My name is Anita Blake. My business brings me up close and personal with all shapes and sizes of monsters. And not all of them want to kill me.

Anita Blake is small, dark and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St Louis. Her job – reanimating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear – her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy ...