Ergebnis für "Blood Sacrifice" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

All's fair in blood and war…Talk about wedding crashers from hell. Keira Kelly and her sexy vampire king, Adam, are about to tie the proverbial knot-sort of-when an uninvited blood relative shows up to cast a long, dark shadow over the happy occasion. Adam's brother Gideon comes bearing the one-size-fits-all gift of bad news: an ancient, convoluted Challenge thrown down upon the entire Kelly clan. It seems the dreaded forces of the Dark Fae have declared war on Keira's family, and at stake is the land that is rightfully theirs.

Michael Warren isn't your ordinary detective, he's a werewolf. With his partners, Tabitha and Sam Edwards (she's a witch and he's the I.T. guy), Michael takes on cases where the supernatural is the norm and it pays to be more than human. When his partner's niece, a talented witch named Samara, is kidnapped, Michael must journey to England to try and save her. He discovers more than meets the eye as a fanatic tries to use Samara's special magical abilities to bring an ancient goddess back into the world.

Lass die Magie fliegen! Nachdem sie den Klauen von Corrigan, dem Lord Alpha der Bruderschaft, entschlüpfen konnte, versucht Mack sich nun auf ein ruhiges Leben in der ländlichen Idylle von Inverness. Weit weg von allem - insbesondere fort von den Gestaltwandlern. Als Mack dann noch einen Job in einer kleinen Buchhandlung ergattern kann, scheint das Leben perfekt zu sein... für einen kurzen Moment! Denn die Besitzerin des Ladens - eine rätselhafte ältere Dame - scheint nicht nur ein Faible für Kräuterkunde zu haben, sondern weiß auch mehr, als sie vorgibt.

Das Feuer in ihrem Blut brennt heiß! Mackenzie Smith ist anders - schon ihr Leben lang. Als einziger Mensch wurde sie mitten im idyllischen Cornwall in einem Rudel Gestaltwandler aufgezogen. Doch auch wenn sich Mac nicht transformieren kann, etwas Seltsames fließt in ihrem Blut. Ihr feuriges Temperament und ihr Kampfgeist machen sie zu einer kühnen Kämpferin. Und dennoch ist ihre Präsenz in dem Rudel eine tödliche Gefahr für all seine Mitglieder: Denn sollte die Bruderschaft - die die Herrschaft über die Wandler innehat - jemals herausfinden, dass Mac ein Mensch ist, sind sie alle dem Tod geweiht.

Mack might be, to all intents and purposes, a normal looking human, but she lives with a pack of shapeshifters in Cornwall in rural England after being dumped there by her mother when she was just a young child. She desperately wants to be accepted by her surrogate family, not least because a lot of them hate her for merely being human, but for some reason her blood just won't allow the transformation to occur.

Magisch, kämpferisch, leidenschaftlich – eine Romantasy wie ein Rausch Yeeran ist die jüngste Colonel ihres Elfenvolkes, doch der erste Einsatz endet in einer Katastrophe. Die Strafe lautet Exil. Der treuergebene Kommandant Rayan folgt Yeeran gemeinsam mit ihrer jüngeren Schwester Lettle in die Wildnis. Auch wenn Lettle die Kunst der Prophezeiung beherrscht – niemals hätte sie vorhersagen können, dass sie dort auf die Fae treffen würden. Seit mehr als Tausend Jahren gelten sie als ausgestorben und leben nur in Legenden voller Magie und Grausamkeit fort.

You'd think that life would finally be dealing Mack Smith a kind hand. Living in London and with the opening of the new and improved city version of Clava Books mere days away, things appear to be settling down. Other than the terrible nightmares about dragons, that is. Or the fact that she's being constantly tailed by a string of mages, shifters, and faeries, all of whom are constantly demanding her attention. And that's without even bringing the temptation of Corrigan, Lord Alpha of the Brethren, into the equation.

After escaping the claws of Corrigan, the Lord Alpha of the Brethren, Mack is trying to lead a quiet lonely life in Inverness in rural Scotland, away from anyone who might happen to be a shapeshifter. However, when she lands a job at an old bookstore owned by a mysterious elderly woman who not only has a familiar passion for herbal lore but also seems to know more than she should, Mack ends up caught in a maelstrom between the Ministry of Mages, the Fae and the Brethren.

Mack begins her training at the mages' academy in the hope that, by complying, the stasis spell will be lifted from her old friend Mrs. Alcoon. However, once there, she finds herself surrounded by unfriendly adults and petulant teenagers, the majority of whom seem determined to see her fail. Feeling attacked on all fronts, Mack finds it harder and harder to keep a rein on her temper. Forced to attend anger management classes and deal with the predatory attentions of Corrigan, the Lord Alpha of the shapeshifter world, her emotions start to unravel.

An evil being has been sealed away for centuries in a sarcophagus never meant to be opened, waiting patiently for his chance to rise again. Now, the seals and spells that imprisoned him chipped away from his discoverers, he has reached forth to claim the minds and souls of Toronto’s unsuspecting citizens. For Henry Fitzroy, it begins with terrifying images of the sun, a marker of death for a vampire. Fearing for his sanity, he turns to his sometimes-lover, private investigator Vicki Taylor, for help.

Vicki Nelson has received the call that no daughter ever wants to receive - that her mother has died. Marjory Nelson’s coworkers at the Queen’s University Life Science Department told her that she suffered a heart attack, and that they’d be waiting for Vicki to arrive in Kingston to make the funeral arrangements. But what begins as a personal tragedy turns into the most terrifying case of Vicki’s career, when her mother’s body disappears mysteriously from the funeral home.

Magically compelled by bad guys, Arwen Forester shot her half-dragon ally in the thigh. She longs to make amends to him, but she’s busy with a new quest: Get rid of the tattoo that lets dark elves control her.

Jane Yellowrock is back on the prowl against the children of the night. The vampire council has hired skinwalker Yellowrock to hunt and kill one of their own who has broken sacred ancient rules - but Jane quickly realizes that in a community that is thousands of years old, loyalties run deep.

Welcome to the world of Kara Gillian, a cop with a gift. Not only does she have the power of "othersight" to see what most people can’t even imagine, but she’s become the exclusive summoner of a demon lord. Or maybe it’s the other way around. The fact is, with two troublesome cases on her docket and a handsome FBI agent under her skin, Kara needs the help of sexy, insatiable Lord Rhyzkahl more than he needs her. Because these two victims, linked by suspicious coincidence, haven’t just been murdered. Something has eaten their souls.