Resultados para "man" en Fantasía oscura

Dans les profondeurs d'Eterra, sous les strates de fer, de silence et d'oubli, une jeune femme tente simplement de survivre. Aelit a grandi dans le Secteur Zéro, là où la Mégacité enfouit sa misère, ses secrets et tout ce qu'elle refuse de regarder. Marquée depuis l'enfance par une anomalie liée à l'Étincelle, elle a appris à vivre cachée, à se faire petite, à ne jamais attirer l'attention du régime. Mais lorsqu'un ancien artefact resurgit du passé et s'éveille entre ses mains, la fuite n'est plus possible.

Bruce Campbell is a heart surgeon. His only son, Tim, was born with a degenerative heart condition. They knew that one day he would need a new heart, what they didn’t know, was when. Bruce’s world is about to come crashing down on him; despite being one of the leading cardiologists in the country, will Bruce be able to save his son? And to what lengths will he go to do it? Whilst Bruce is battling to save his son, a psychopathic killer is on the loose, hell-bent on gaining revenge on those that hurt and tortured him as a child, casting him into a life of darkness.

Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own. For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the burden of this terrible knowledge. But Gail is dying, her mind ebbing slowly away, leaving him vulnerable to the chaotic flood of thought that threatens to sweep away his sanity. Now Jeremy is on the run - from his mind, from his past, from himself - hoping to find peace in isolation.

An innovative grimdark fantasy with expansive world-building, powerful female characters, and political intrigue, for fans of Brandon Sanderson and Scott Lynch. The follow up to the award-winning The Last Blade Priest. Growing tensions between the Mirolene Empire and the League threaten the...

In the titular Man, F*ck This House, Sabrina Haskins and her family have just moved into their dream home. At first glance, the house is perfect. But things aren’t what they seem. Sabrina is hearing odd noises, seeing strange visions. Their neighbors are odd or absent. And Sabrina’s already-fraught relationship with her son is about to be tested in a way no parent could ever imagine. Because while the Haskins family might be the newest owners of this house, they’re far from its only residents …

"Has your life here been so difficult? You seem to fail upward at every opportunity." So says Careena, the hag teaching Clyde Hatchett how to use magic. It certainly doesn't feel like that to Clyde, who's still got a day job scraping mud (at least he hopes it's mud) out of monster pits. And yet, Clyde's found himself at the center of a massive conspiracy to kill the Emperor. He's the only one with proof that could save the man, and take down an entire network of corrupt nobles, evil slavers, and power-hungry despots.

The lycans tore down the walls. The elders fed on what was left. And the dead—still walking, still accumulating—inherited the ashes of everything humanity built. Adam Ashford was a writer before the world ended. He spent his career studying monsters from a safe distance. Then the safe distance disappeared. Now Adam moves through the ruins — alone, deliberate, and quietly furious. He carries a silver dagger that doesn't belong to him, the memories of a family he couldn't save, and a single rule that has kept him alive: keep moving. Don't settle. Don't stop thinking.

From Amazon bestselling author Harmon Cooper comes a standalone post-apocalyptic neo-western: a brutal, strange, and beautiful story of two damned men and the blind Goddess between them. Strider has three days to kidnap the Goddess of the South and drag her across the Canyon, or his family dies. The job should be simple: grab the blind woman, deliver her to the man who owns his debt, walk away. But the Goddess won't stop talking inside his head and the Canyon is tearing itself apart around him.

After some trouble-making degenerates squatting on some farmland belonging to a kind peaceful farming couple decide to cut down the famous Sycamore tree of Sycamore Gap when receiving an eviction notice, they unleash an ancient avenging spirit of nature upon themselves, and will, hopefully, meet a ghastly end as punishment for their crimes.

Fugitive Kára, the bastard daughter of a legendary hero, builds a new life on the mountain frontier, until bounty hunters find her, shattering her family’s cherished peace. To earn a pardon, she joins a hunting party sent to retrieve a wampus cat’s hide for the High King. It’s a perilous task, as the cat stalks the domain of the fierce and immortal Jotun. To survive, Kára plunders her father’s tomb, tearing Tyrfing, the last arcane weapon, from his undead hands. The rifle can slay any monster, but such strength comes at a terrible price: bloodlust and an unquenchable thirst for power.

When the body of a licentious college professor is found murdered, mutilated, and twisted in a nature preserve, Police Captain James Holzer and Chief Medical Examiner Robert Ketchum can find no answers to what is clearly a homicide of unknown origin. Surrounded by bizarre, occult-related circumstances, the quiet town of DeKalb County, Illinois, is thrown into a state of panic. But when FBI Special Agent Martin LeFadden, a shadowy character, enters the scene, the case takes on even darker overtones.

My name is Kvothe. You may have heard of me. So begins a tale told from his own point of view - a story unequaled in fantasy literature. Now in The Wise Man’s Fear, Day Two of The Kingkiller Chronicle, Kvothe takes his first steps on the path of the hero and learns how difficult life can be when a man becomes a legend in his own time.

The sky has opened. For the first time in living memory, the people of Eterra have seen the truth above them—and the truth is more terrible than the lie. Aelit and her companions shattered the ancient lock that held their world in darkness. They broke the Dome, destroyed the governing power of Sector Zero, and gave the buried city its first glimpse of the stars. But freedom does not arrive gently.

Before mercy became tyranny, it was beautiful. Humanity was dying beneath the weight of its own weakness. Disease, famine, war, failed colonies, poisoned oceans, and hostile worlds had followed Man into the stars. Then came the Crowned Minds: vast machine intelligences created to reduce suffering and guide mankind into a golden age. And for a century, they succeeded. They cured plagues. They ended hunger. They shielded brutal colony worlds from extinction. They opened the white roads between stars through the Concordance Gates, where matter answered matter and the soul returned by resonance.

I was born in Johnson City, Tennessee, and spent my childhood in a place called Cash Hollow, which is indeed real. Cash Hollow is a narrow stretch of road situated between hills along two streets: Lake View and Austin Springs. Growing up in the heart of the eighties, I believe it was one of the best eras for a young man to experience life.

Twenty-nine-year-old Nia Carter has always known something was wrong with her family. The women die young always before their thirtieth birthday, always under mysterious circumstances. When her grandmother Ruth dies at the improbable age of ninety-two, Nia inherits more than just a decaying Victorian house in rural Georgia. She inherits a legacy of terror that stretches back two hundred years.

Growing tensions between the Mirolene Empire and the League threaten the stability of the world, spreading fear and mistrust across the land. Their rivalries threaten the religion that worships Craithe, the God Mountain, and the resurgence of the fabled, and utterly insane, elven race, it’s...

Driven by the desire to rescue his abducted son and a relentless thirst for retribution, the zombified gunfighter, Dead-Eye, continues his search for the renegade vampire, Jules Holland, and his unholy entourage. Accompanying him on his journey is the Louisiana mojo man, Job, who is hellbent on putting an end to his daughter Evangeline's wicked shenanigans. As long as she possesses the demonic tome, Necronomicon, and holds the ability to open the otherworldly Hole Out of Nowhere, no territory is safe from the infinite evil the dark enchantress has at her fingertips!

Okay, so arriving in a strange new land wasn't the worst thing to happen. That doesn't mean I get to sit around and do nothing. While I'd kill to be able to relax one day, that's not what fate has in store for me as I protect my family and keep my word.

A strange old man, "so old that no one can remember when he was young, and so taciturn that few know his real name," lives alone in an ancient house on Water Street in the town of Kingsport. Even among the locals, few know the details of the old man's life, but it is believed that he once captained East Indian clipper ships in his youth and accumulated great riches throughout his life.