Ergebnis für "Arcadia" in LGBT

Shesheshen is a shapeshifter, who usually resides as an amorphous lump in the swamp of a ruined manor, unless impolite monster hunters invade intent on murdering her. Through a chance encounter, she meets a different kind of human, warm-hearted Homily, who mistakes Shesheshen for a human in turn. Shesheshen is loath to deceive, but just as she's about to confess her true identity, Homily reveals she's hunting the shapeshifting monster that supposedly cursed her family.

Farah moves into Liberty House - an arcadia, a community in harmony with nature - at the tender age of six, with her family. The commune's spiritual leader, Arcady, preaches equality, non-violence, anti-speciesism, free love, and uninhibited desire for all. At 15, Farah learns she is intersex, and begins to go beyond the confines of gender, as she explores the arc of her own desires. What, Farah asks, is a man or a woman? What does it mean to be part of a community? What is utopia when there are refugees nearby seeking shelter who cannot enter?

Decades from now, two women sit around a fire on Beltane, May Eve, and reflect on their life stories. Activist Lucy's earliest memories are of living with her grandparents during the 2020 pandemic, and discovering her grandmother's love of birds. Filmmaker Hester, born on the day of the Chornobyl explosion, visits the plant in 2021 to film its feral dog population, and encounters the wilded Exclusion Zone—and a wolf-dog.

Shadow of the Scrolls is a "new adult" spinoff series from the Techromancy Scrolls. These short novellas follow Misty, Ingr, and Shanicia as they get into misadventures as they navigate the transition from teen to adult. The girls escort Shanicia to the Outlands for another meeting with the Junior Regiment in Arcadia, the fledgling realm across the Uninhabitable Lands to the northwest. They are tasked to ferry the former Great Mother, their Gramma Ranelle home after they complete their business there.

Marine biologist Hana Ishikawa is racing against time to save the coral of the Great Barrier Reef, but struggles to fight for a future in a world where so much has already been lost. Seventeen-year-old Judith Holliman escapes the monotony of Sydney Town during the nineteenth century, when her naval captain father lets her accompany him on a voyage. Telma Velasco is hunting for a miracle in a world ravaged by global heating: a leafy seadragon, long believed extinct, has been sighted. But as Telma investigates, she finds hope in unexpected places.

After the war had stolen everything Alexi had known and loved, he withdrew from the world, vowing never to let anyone get close to him again. As a former soldier, he knew how to survive on his own, which is why he decided to settle into a life on the outskirts of a remote Alaskan town. Oblivious to the bear shifter amongst them, it was here that Alexi sought to find a sense of peace in his days by hunting and fishing in the wilderness.

Ethan: Even a shifter needs rest after a grueling operation, but I’m not going to get it. I’ve just been handed a new mission. I’m staring at an image of a British POW in need of rescue and my heart is thumping. How can a simple photograph do that to me? Suddenly, I realize this mission has to succeed.... I’m going to get you out of there James; I promise. And I always keep my promises.

Trent, powerful jaguar shifter, and one of the biggest business names in Chicago, has a lot on his plate. He’s taken on the role as leader of the urban shifters and finds himself at odds with the surrounding rural community. His latest plan to buy land from the country shifters, with the promise of a better future for them, has them up in arms. When they grow desperate enough, the rural leaders call on Ash, a fox shifter with "skills". His job is to take the high and mighty and bring them crashing down from their own hubris and corruption.

Living in the forest outside Chicago, a small village of shifters has made it through the years in their own traditional way. Liam, a deer shifter, has grown up in the village and is, for the most part, happy with his lot in life. Respected and liked by the villagers, he’s well on his way to gaining an advisory role in a few years. His place is secure. All seems well.

I was doing pretty good. Loving family, law school, job experience at a local law firm, and an incredibly handsome wolf shifter boyfriend. Until that same boyfriend decided to dump me, just before Christmas. Now, I’m heartbroken. I have to work with him every day, and we’ve both been invited to the same New Year’s Eve party!

I’ve spent my whole life guarding secrets...but now a warlock crime lord is blackmailing me to protect his own and, not to be cliché, but only the truth can set me free. Well, that or killing the guy, but a bear shifter like me against black magic? Not good odds. Problem is, I’m not even sure I know what telling the truth looks like. Next thing you know, you’re partnered with Alex Miller, as sexy as he is courageous, as moral, honest, and downright good as he is bright, competent and with a smile that can turn your worst day into a vacation...