Resultados para "eden" en Ciencia ficción y fantasía

Aventine Manor holds far more secrets than even the ghosts who call it home are aware of. Mercury Raine intends to harness every last one of them to protect them all from the threat hovering on the horizon. The Forever Flame, a ghost rumored to be both vindictive and worryingly powerful, knows who he is and where he lives and is sending an unending string of bounty hunters to capture him. Failing to thwart the growing threat would mean imprisonment for Mercury and all of his ghosts as well as disaster for Tacey.

As the daughter of the Healer on High, my life was on course to become his successor. That was until a dragon came out of nowhere and claimed me as his ryder. But it can’t happen. I’m an academic, not a dragon ryder. But more than that, I have to figure out where all the magic in the kingdom...

I was trapped in my life, until the day a dragon slammed down in the middle of my village and burned it all to the ground. Taken from everything I’ve ever known and thrust into a world I don’t understand, I discover I was more trapped than I realized. But my family is still all I have and I...

When Rennick was thirteen, the gods bestowed upon him the name of his fated mate—a human girl. As the sole heir to the Mountain Kingdom, magic bound him to his kingdom until he ascended the throne on his twenty-fifth birthday. As a human, she couldn't cross the magical barrier separating the humans from the fae. Heartsore and consumed with thoughts of her, he did the only thing he could and sent her anonymous letters and gifts… Until he crossed the barrier into her kingdom to claim her as his own.

A page-turning adventure about parallel universes and the monsters they hide, in this extraordinary feat from the imagination behind the bestselling Children of Time. "Full of sparkling, speculative invention." —Stephen Baxter, co-author of The Long Earth They thought we were safe. They were...

Phee St. Margaret is a daughter of the Reconstruction, born to a family of free Black business owners in New Charleston. Coddled to within an inch of her life by a mother who refuses to let her daughter live a life other than the one she dictates, Phee yearns to demonstrate she's capable of more than simply marrying well. When word arrives that her Aunt Cleo, long estranged from the family, has passed away, Phee risks her mother's wrath to step up and accept the role of pomp—the highly honored duty of planning the funeral service.

Imagine a world where everything is perfect. Everything. Harmony between all people...between humanity and nature...between people and God. Now imagine yourself transported to this paradise. Just when Carter Friese thinks life can’t get any better - it does. Carter is transported to Gomor, where he gets a taste of what his world (our world) would have looked like if no one ever sinned. Scene after scene unfolds to Carter’s amazement. As he grows in knowledge of God’s original plan for creation, he is satiated with joy and beauty.

Elias traded a perfect prison for a dangerous hope. He chose to "unplug," and with the mysterious priest and his resistance team, he's finally on the right side of the war. Their mission is to save humanity from a digital lie and reclaim a world from the ashes of nuclear fallout. But as they fight through a fragmented reality, every victory feels hollow. Every truth they uncover leads to more questions. Their enemies are ghosts, their allies are untested, and the priest's faith is shaken by a new, insidious enemy: doubt. What if the prison was just a single floor in a tower of lies?

Their world is drowning. Catastrophic rain has flooded Cat and Simon’s once-beautiful valley, forcing them to abandon everything they love. But Cat has another purpose in leaving: to uncover what happened to her parents, Ben and Lila, who vanished in the Canadian mountains. On the road, they encounter a man with a chilling claim: the endless epic storms aren’t an act of nature. They are the result of something far more dangerous, and only with someone’s help can he stop it. In a race against time, their mission becomes one of family and survival against all odds.

At twelve years old, Roman Covington—crown prince of the tropical fae kingdom—met Violet Maekin: a girl with freckles on her nose, a razor-edged wit, and the ability to make him laugh. She made him feel normal in a world that demanded he be anything but. After just a single day and a few scribbled notes, she held his heart in her hands. But when Roman turned thirteen, the gods granted him the name of his fated mate—Vivian. Violet's identical twin sister. Convinced the gods were cruel, mistaken, or both, Roman spent a decade seeking a way to shift the bond from one sister to the other.

She is my muse, and I am her demon of music. A year ago, I witnessed sweet Scarlett Day’s dark side. She’s been my obsession ever since. I was content with being her secret, content with protecting her from afar… until an enemy from my past sets his sights on her. Our families have a deep history of hatred, and Scarlett is caught in the middle. Meanwhile, her mind plays tricks on her. When a panic attack goes horribly wrong, I emerge from the shadows to save her. Now that she’s mine, I can’t let her go. I’ve mastered the darkness. She tempts me with her light.

‘No one is better . . . eden sees Crace at the top of his game’ - Telegraph Trouble has come to the garden. Its inhabitants live an eternal and unblemished life, tending to the bountiful fields, orchards and lakes, and serving their angelic masters. But now one of the gardeners has escaped...

From the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Harvest and Quarantine, a gorgeous, unforgettable retelling of the myth of Eden. The inhabitants of Eden are untouched by death. In the garden they care for their orchards and the land, and give thanks for their good fortune, because they know that...

Earth’s rising oceans contain enormous islands of refuse, the Amazon rainforest is all but destroyed, and countless species edge towards extinction. Humanity’s last hope to save the planet lies with the Virgin Zones, 13 vast areas of land off-limits to people and given back to nature. Dylan leads a clandestine team of adventure racers, including his daughter Jenn, into Eden, the oldest of the Zones. Jenn carries a secret - Kat, Dylan’s wife who abandoned them both years ago, has entered Eden ahead of them.

A sandstorm uncovers a long buried secret in the Iraqi desert, an ancient Sumerian temple dating back at least 6,000 years to the beginning of civilization. An American army patrol sent to investigate the ruins is trapped inside the temple's eroded walls, first by an insurgent ambush and then by another, even more powerful sandstorm. When an enemy mortar shell blasts an opening into a hidden burial chamber, Captain Adam Cadman and his soldiers take refuge deep in the ruins. What they find hidden inside threatens to destroy every belief about the beginnings of mankind.

En la mejor tradición de la ciencia ficción y el misterio clásico de la edad dorada de ambos género en los años 50, "El jardín del Edén" nos muestra un aparente caso de envenenamiento accidental en una finca cercana a Madrid. Sin embargo, el forense encargado del caso pronto descubrirá que el caso esconde mucho más de lo que parece, y que ambas muertes son el preludio de una amenaza invisible que se cierne sobre toda la humanidad.

After a strange day at her new school, Eden Pruitt comes home to a jarring scene. Suddenly, Eden is on the run, trapped in a nightmare with nowhere to turn and nobody to believe her. Except for a mysterious stranger who is as dangerous as he is enticing. Someone who knows more than he should...and might be just as perilous as the truth she's desperate to uncover.

The battle for freedom is just beginning. In the shadows of a fractured world, where celestial and infernal forces vie for dominance, Eden delves into the heart of betrayal, redemption, and the desperate fight for freedom. Eden, a cunning spy burdened by the weight of her dark elf lineage, stands at the crossroads of destiny. As whispers of the enigmatic Darkswan and the apocalyptic Damius Nexus echo across the Abyss, Eden must navigate a perilous web of lies and alliances.

Angie Redlantern is the first to spot the boats - five abreast, with men in metal masks and spears standing proud. As the people of New Earth declare war on the people of Mainground, a dangerous era has dawned for Eden. After generations of division and disagreement, the two populations of Eden have finally broken their tentative peace, giving way to bloodshed and slaughter. Angie must flee with her family across the pitch black of Snowy Dark to the place where it all started.

In Southeast Turkey, where the heads of the four main rivers once met, a magnificent temple created 14,000 years ago is discovered beneath the desert floor. Believed to have been created by lost technology, it is quickly determined by a team of archeologists to be the centerpiece of Eden, a once illustrious civilization and the cradle of mankind. But what if Eden is not the paradise that the texts make it out to be? What if it held dark secrets and unholy terrors instead?