Ergebnis für "Assassin of Shadows" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Celaena Sardothien is Adarlan’s most feared assassin. As part of the Assassins' Guild, her allegiance is to her master, Arobynn Hamel, yet Celaena listens to no one and trusts only her fellow killer-for-hire, Sam. In these action-packed prequel novellas - together in one edition for the first time - Celaena embarks on five daring missions. They take her from remote islands to hostile deserts, where she fights to liberate slaves and seeks to avenge the tyrannous. But she is acting against Arobynn’s orders and could suffer an unimaginable punishment for such treachery.

Aliyah Kahn ist eine kleine Trickbetrügerin, die ihrem Gewerbe auf den Straßen von London nachgeht, indem sie Touristen das Geld aus der Tasche zieht. Ihr loses Mundwerk und ihre Aufsässigkeit haben sie nicht nur um ihren Platz an einem renommierten College gebracht, sondern bringen sie auch heute noch regelmäßig in Teufels Küche. Zu allem Überfluss hat sie sich mit einer vermeintlich sicheren Geschäftsidee auf die falschen Leute verlassen und steht jetzt bei mächtigen und sehr gefährlichen Leuten mit einer Viertelmillion Pfund in der Kreide.

The gripping finale to Robin Hobb’s classic Farseer trilogy. Keystone. Gate. Crossroads. Catalyst. Fitz is about to discover the truth about the Fool's prophecy. Having been resurrected from his fatal tortures in Regal's dungeons, Fitz has once more foiled Regal's attempts to be rid of him. Now, back in his own body, and after months of rehabilitation, Fitz begins the painful and slow process of learning the ways of a man again.

Fitz dreams of Red-Ship Raiders sacking a coastal village, leaving not a single man, woman, or child alive. Tortured by this terrible vision, he returns to the Six Duchies court where all is far from well. King Shrewd has been struck down by a mysterious illness and King-in-waiting, Verity, spends all his time attempting to conjure storms to confuse and destroy the Red-Ship Raiders. And when he leaves on an insane mission to seek out the mystical Elderings, Fitz is left alone and friendless but for the wolf Nighteyes.

Fans of Robert Jordan and George R. R. Martin alike have found a new champion of epic fantasy in Brandon Sanderson. And now, in the first of two sequels to The Alloy Of Law, the Sunday Times and New York Times best-selling author returns to the world of Mistborn. It is more than 300 years after the events of the The Final Empire shaped Scadrial. Waxillium Ladrian has returned to the capital city of Elendel from the far-flung roughs.

Die alte Mongolei ist der Schauplatz des neuesten epischen Abenteuers im preisgekrönten Assassin’s Creed-Universum, in dem die Assassine Shao Jun gegen eine finstere Verschwörung kämpft. Die Bruderschaft der Assassinen wurde vom chinesischen Kaiser so gut wie ausgerottet. Es ist keine leichte Aufgabe, den Orden zu seinem früheren Ruhm zurückzuführen, aber es ist Shao Juns Pflicht und ihre beste Chance zu überleben. Als sie erfährt, dass ein alter Feind in den Besitz eines mächtigen Artefakts gekommen ist, mit dem er alle verbliebenen Attentäter in den Tod locken will, eilt Shao Jun in die Mongolei.

Die junge Schattenjägerin Emma Carstairs hat ihre Eltern gerächt, doch sie findet keinen Frieden. Denn aus der Freundschaft zu ihrem Parabatai Julian ist Liebe geworden - und nach den Gesetzen der Schattenjäger hat eine Beziehung zwischen zwei Parabatai tödliche Konsequenzen. Um Julian und sich zu schützen, lässt sich Emma daher ausgerechnet auf Julians Bruder Mark ein. Mark, der fünf Jahre bei den Feenwesen lebte und dessen Loyalität nicht wirklich geklärt ist.

Die Ming-Dynastie wird zum Schlachtfeld für die Bruderschaft der Assassinen und den Templerorden in diesem Actionroman zu einem bisher unerforschten Teil des beliebten Assassin's-Creed-Universums. China, das 16. Jahrhundert. Die Assassinen sind fort. Zhang Yong, der unbarmherzige Anführer der Acht Tiger, schlägt aus dem Tod des Kaisers Kapital und eliminiert alle seine Gegner, sodass nun der Templerorden alle Macht inne hat. Shao Jun, die letzte Vertreterin ihres Clans, entkommt nur knapp dem Tod und hat keine andere Wahl, als aus ihrem Heimatland zu fliehen.

Picking up from A Discovery of Witches' cliff-hanger ending, Shadow of Night takes reluctant witch Diana Bishop and vampire geneticist Matthew Clairmont on a trip through time to Elizabethan London, where they are plunged into a world of spies, magic, and a coterie of Matthew's old friends, the School of Night. As the search for Ashmole 782—the lost and enchanted manuscript whose mystery first pulled Diana and Matthew into one another's orbit—deepens and Diana seeks out a witch to tutor her in magic, the net of Matthew's past tightens around them.

Shadows of the Empire illuminates the shadowy outlines of a criminal conspiracy that exists in the background of the events in the movies, ruled by a character new to us. Prince Xizor is a mastermind of evil who dares to oppose one of the best-known fictional villains of all time: Darth Vader. The story involves all the featured Star Wars movie characters, plus Emperor Palpatine and, of course, Lord Vader himself.

The shadows are in my blood. I can feel them crawling through me, slithering under my skin and taking me hostage. But the darkness within me isn't nearly as bad as the darkness that lives around me. The four Celestial Heirs will stop at nothing to destroy the lives of me and my sister. But they haven't figured out yet, that we're the strongest creatures they've ever known. And when that secret comes out, we need to be ready to face them as well as any other cruel Fae who rises against us. It’s us or them. And it damn well won’t be us.

Scarlett Monrhoe hat den Prinz der Feuer-Fae bis an seinen Hof verfolgt – und ist nun seine Gefangene. Doch Scarlett hat ihre Rache noch nicht aufgegeben. Sie weiß nur noch nicht, wie gründlich sie den Prinzen brechen will, ehe sie ihn tötet. Wenn er nur nicht so verführerisch wäre, sie mit jedem Atemzug, jeder Berührung, jedem Kuss in Versuchung führen würde! Verzweifelt lässt sich Scarlett auf ein gefährliches Spiel ein – ein Spiel, bei dem es am Ende sie sein könnte, die vollständig gebrochen wird.

Star D'Aplièse is at a crossroads in her life after the sudden death of her beloved father – the elusive billionaire, named Pa Salt by his six daughters, all adopted by him from the four corners of the world. He has left each of them a clue to their true heritage, but Star – the most enigmatic of the sisters – is hesitant to step out of the safety of the close relationship she shares with her sister CeCe. In desperation, she decides to follow the first clue she has been left, which leads her to an antiquarian bookshop in London, and the start of a whole new world.

It is now thirty-eight months into the Tribulation. Giant horsemen ride the earth, scorching thousands with their fiery wrath. The believers in Christ, finding sanctuary in safe houses, continue to receive spiritual strength from their leader. But one of the faithful, desperate to hasten events, is secretly planning to assassinate the Antichrist, Nicolae Carpathia.

Die junge Schattenjägerin Emma Carstairs hat ihre Eltern gerächt, doch sie findet keinen Frieden. Denn aus der Freundschaft zu ihrem Parabatai Julian ist Liebe geworden - und nach den Gesetzen der Schattenjäger hat eine Beziehung zwischen zwei Parabatai tödliche Konsequenzen. Um Julian und sich zu schützen, lässt sich Emma daher ausgerechnet auf Julians Bruder Mark ein. Mark, der fünf Jahre bei den Feenwesen lebte und dessen Loyalität nicht wirklich geklärt ist. Zumal Unruhe herrscht in der Unterwelt.

Magic has two immutable rules - every spell requires a sacrifice, and every curse can be broken. Amira Brindonu is a sorceress turned assassin, bound in a curse that forces her to obey her father, even to the point of high treason. When he orders her to kill the future emperor, she fails, but discovers a secret that could bring the whole of the empire to its knees. The archduke is stricken by a curse that could sentence him and his people to damnation, but Amira could be the only key to breaking it.

All in Voramis know the legend of the Hunter. Relentless. Immortal. Death walking. The greatest assassin who ever lived. Pay the master killer his due and the Hunter will execute any target, carry out any contract, no matter how impossible. But when the Bloody Hand crime syndicate harms the innocents under his protection, they foolishly make an enemy of the one man they can't afford to anger. The price of the Hunter's vengeance is high-paid in blood and eternal damnation. Not even an army of crooks, cutthroats, and demonic creatures of nightmare can stand in his way.

From the battlefields of Phall and Isstvan, to the haunted shadows of Terra itself - the greatest war in the history of mankind rages on. While the traitor Legions continue their campaign of terror across the galaxy, preparations are made for the defence of the Imperial Palace and the final, inevitable reckoning that must yet come between Horus and the Emperor....

Rising in the shadows, Rezkin is free from the shackles of power. But the darkness is his home, and there he stalks his foes. His friends, alone and scattered, face the war with an empty throne. Rumors of Rezkin's survival spawn hope and discord on the Souelian. Unable to put Rezkin to rest, Azeria chases answers. In the criminal underworld, she hunts the Raven, willing to extract the truth in blood.

Has Darian’s past finally caught up with her? The Rakshasa queen, Padma, has a score to settle—she wants those responsible for her son’s death to pay and to pay dearly. Darian, Tyler and Xander are all at risk—and Padma’s powers could force them to live the rest of their lives in the madness of the Realm of Illusions. While Darian is taken and is the first to suffer, she’s soon rescued by Tyler, the one man to never disappoint. But what Darian doesn’t know is that her freedom comes at a steep price—Xander’s the King of Shaedes, imprisonment.