Ergebnis für "Bittersweet" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Arren Carver: Dir steht die Wut auf der Stirn geschrieben, Rage Girl. Du willst die Welt um dich herum zu Asche zerfallen sehen — ungeachtet aller Konsequenzen. Serenity Sword: Wer glaubt, Rache sei keine Lösung, weiß nicht, was es bedeutet, für sie zu atmen. Geboren als Werkzeug, erzogen zur Marionette, benutzt und verraten von jedem, existiere ich nur noch für den Tag, an dem ich mir endlich alles zurückhole, was mir genommen wurde.

Magic, secrets and longing collide in this sweeping, beautiful fantasy from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals. A CURSED MANUSCRIPT. AN OLD BETRAYAL. A SECOND CHANCE AT LOVE. Lorne St. Clair has spent years hiding from his shadowy past, content to curate magical antiques...

Brought to you by Penguin. One fateful night in Sparta, a young slave girl encounters a mysterious, grey-eyed princess. Melantho and Penelope, though from different worlds, are instantly connected. But betrayal soon tears them apart. Years later, on Ithaca's rocky shores, Melantho is sent to...

"Die perfekte Mischung aus Dark Academia und Romantasy". Die Nacht wartet auf dich – betritt die Tore der Nightwood Academy! Nach dem plötzlichen Tod ihrer Mutter bricht für die 20-jährige Abby eine Welt zusammen. Verzweifelt nach Antworten suchend, beschließt sie, an der Nightwood Academy zu studieren. Dem Ort, an dem ihre Mutter das letzte Mal lebend gesehen wurde. Hinter den ehrwürdigen Mauern der schottischen Universität verbirgt sich jedoch weit mehr als eine elitäre Bildungseinrichtung.

A cursed manuscript. An old betrayal. A second chance at love. Magic, secrets, and longing collide in this sweeping, beautiful fantasy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Divine Rivals. Lorne St. Clair has spent years hiding from his shadowy past, content to curate magical antiques...

The long-awaited companion to the NEW YORK TIMES bestsellers GRACELING and FIRE. Eight years have passed since the young Princess Bitterblue, and her country, were saved from the vicious King Leck. Now Bitterblue is the queen of Monsea, and her land is at peace. But the influence of her father...

When a barrow-wight shows up on Greta and Varney's doorstep one night with an 11-year-old girl who's been newly - and forcefully - bitten and turned, it's up to Greta and her vampiric friends to find out who did this to her, and why.

It's not easy being queen bee of an underworld abuzz with crooks and killers. Wielding my potent Ice and Stone elemental magic will get me only so far - my real secret is my tight-knit makeshift family, a motley crew of cops and criminals, dwarves, and playboys. My foster brother, Finnegan Lane, is my right-hand man, but when his suddenly not-dead relative comes back into the picture, I'm the one on the outside looking in.

In the fantasy empire of Rokugan, when a Crane Clan auditor turns up dead in a soy brewery, all eyes turn to nobleman-turned-detective, Daidoji Shin . . . but not to solve the man's murder; rather, Shin is the suspect. Now Shin must attempt to figure out who killed the victim and, more importantly, who framed him, all while outwitting the authorities on his trail—including a dogged Kitsuki investigator with a score to settle. Caught in a spider's web of intrigue and with his enemies closing in, time is running out for Dadoiji Shin . . .

Kora Meadows leads a simple life working for her mother. Sure, she hasn’t found true love, but she tends to keep busy. When impossible things begin to occur around her, culminating in nightmarish dreams of a woman who walks in the worlds of light and dark, Kora discovers she may be a witch. The only thing scarier is her attraction to the handsome (and deadly) man who crosses her path—and the secret society he belongs to that wants her dead.

Around 200 years have passed since a great cataclysm struck the Earth. A young girl named Canary is part of a settlement attempting to rebuild and learn about the past. While dealing with a human life that seems to have devolved over the long passage of time, Canary desperately dreams of escaping to the stars high above to a mysterious place called Haven. However, her dreams may be her downfall.

Ample sighed. “The last few weeks have been incredible. What with the holidays, Clarence and Elswyth’s wedding, and the… engagement of our daughter to the—oaf. That reminds me, Public, whether in the spirit of Christmas or a Christian one, I am pleading with you to give a present to Houston and his bride, Stephanie. Do you realize she has already given birth to their baby? I even got to hold him after he was born. It made me wish things had been different where we would have had more children.” “So, it is a baby boy?” “Yes, and he looks just like Houston.

Life is a winding road full of twists and turns, one can never be truly prepared for all the unexpected bumps and bends that loom ahead, or the pitfalls that derail us from our path. Vida Calavera is about to learn this first hand when an evening out with her friends turns into a waking nightmare. All of her plans and aspirations for the future will be dashed in an instant, her world will crumble down around her as the dead rise up.

""Artfully written and engaging, Jane in Love is a lively effusion of wit and humor.""—Graeme Simsion, New York Times bestselling author of The Rosie Project A charming, romantic debut novel in which Jane Austen, heralded author, ends up time-traveling almost 200 years in the future. There she...