Ergebnis für "Angela" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

"Playing Possum": Sookie Stackhouse brings enough birthday cupcakes for her nephew's entire class but finds she's one short when the angry ex-boyfriend of the school secretary shows up. "Dahlia Underground": Venerable vampire Dahlia Lynley-Chivers survives an attack by an anti-vampire terrorist group, only to show them they tried to blow up the wrong bloodsucker.

Samantha Martin is an imp, bound by an angel who allows her to live among the humans...as long as she follows his rules. It's never easy for an imp to follow the rules, especially now that Sam's brother, Dar, has found himself in hot water. He needs her help to retrieve an artifact from the vampires, or the powerful demon he owes a favor to will enslave and torture him for centuries. It should be a simple courier job, but with demons nothing is simple.

The newly fallen angels have quickly adapted and are using their abilities to advantage in their new world. The humans are not happy. The archangels are not happy. The imp is not happy. Sam has not only found herself ruling Hel but also responsible for the demon controlled section of North America, elven labor relations, and Amber’s bachelorette party. The bachelorette party thing is kinda cool, but the bridesmaid dress she’s got to wear isn’t, and neither is the fact that Gabe is going to be the one accompanying her down the aisle.

Mary Alice Brannigan doesn’t believe in the supernatural. Nor does she expect to find that Dreamland, the decaying amusement park she’s been hired to restore, is a prison for the five Untouchables, the most powerful demons in the history of the world. Plus, there’s a guy she’s falling hard for, and there’s something about him that’s not quite right.

Seven Grigori enforcers have been murdered, lured to their death by a demon, and bearing the faint energy signature of a Fallen archangel no one has seen in over two million years. As the Iblis, it's Sam's responsibility to find the Ancient responsible and bring him to justice, but how can she manage that when she can't even keep her adopted infant angel from repeatedly killing his corporeal form?

The ancient demons of Hel have awakened, and one of them is gathering forces for an invasion of Aaru - which is pretty hilarious as far as Sam is concerned. Few know that Aaru is locked down tight after she banished all the angels. Nobody can get in. Nobody. Well, maybe nobody. The one being in Hel that might be able to restore Aaru is the archangels' prodigal brother. But he's presumed dead, having not been seen in over two million years. The remote possibility of an attack on Aaru isn't Sam's only problem.

When Earth is rocked by evidence that extraterrestrials may have seeded human DNA throughout the universe, a one-way expedition into deep space is mounted to uncover the truth. What linguist Meg Dupris and her crewmates aboard the Earth ship Damocles discover on Didet - a planet bathed in the near-eternal daylight of seven suns - is a humanoid race with a different language, a different look, and a surprisingly similar society. But here, it’s the "Earthers" who are the extraterrestrial invaders, and it’s up to Meg - a woman haunted by tragedy and obsessed with the power of communication - to find the key to establishing trust between the natives and the newcomers.

Maintaining the town wards is the only witch-magic Cassandra Perkins performs - well, except for that time she set her ex-boyfriend's pants on fire. But when she gets stuck defending a man who claims to be the son of the devil against assault charges, Cassie finds herself firing up amulets and dusting off her broomstick.

Alice Masters hasn’t lived what you would call "the good life". She’s 23 years old, broke, and alone except for a stray cat named Buddy. She’s been diagnosed with terminal cancer, and if cancer isn’t bad enough, she’s also just contracted the vampire virus. The virus turns a fractional percentage of male hosts into vampires and eradicates all females. Join Alice as she plunges deep into the male dominated vampire underworld and takes no prisoners. In a blink of an eye her race for survival unfolds into a web covering everyone and everything around her.

A Gris-Gris (gree-gree) is a talisman, an amulet, a voodoo charm, a spell, or an incantation believed capable of warding off evil and bringing good luck to oneself or bestowing misfortune on another. AJ’s mother refused to marry his father, Rand. A struggling musician who is never around, AJ barely knew his father. Ignoring his mother’s advice, AJ wants to be a musician. After college, his dream of being a musician takes a backseat to earning a living. A backseat until his estranged father passes away.