Ergebnis für "Bloodlands" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Mackenzie Smith hat nun endlich ihre wahre Wyr-Form gefunden - und das ist kein Zuckerschlecken! Ihre Gefühle, ihre Herkunft und Fähigkeiten sorgen für ordentlich Verwirrung. Zudem obliegt ihr eine riesige Verantwortung: Sie muss den fragilen Frieden zwischen Wandlern, Magiern und den Fae bewahren, um den tödlichsten und furchterregendsten Gegner der Anderwelt zu Fall zu bringen. Dass ihr Seelengefährte, sie bis aufs Blut hasst, macht die Sache nicht leichter.

In the immense city of Varangantua, life is cheap, but mistakes are expensive. When Probator Agusto Zidarov of the city’s enforcers is charged with locating the missing scion of a wealthy family, he knows full well that the chances of finding him alive are slight. The people demanding answers, though, are powerful and ruthless, and he is soon immersed in a world of criminal cartels and corporate warfare where even an enforcer’s survival is far from guaranteed.

The chaos god Asag has been quiet since the destruction of the City of Monsters, but Monster Hunter International know that he is still out there, somewhere - plotting, waiting for his chance to unravel reality. When Owen and the MHI team discover that one of Isaac Newton's Ward Stones is being auctioned off by Reptoids who live deep beneath Atlanta, they decide to steal the magical superweapon and use it to destroy Asag once and for all. But before the stone can be handed off, it is stolen by a mysterious thief with ties to MHI and the Vatican's Secret Guard.

Poppy ist eine Auserwählte. Wenn sie den Segen der Götter erhält, wird sie die Einzige sein, die ihre Heimat vor dem Angriff des Verfluchten Königreiches retten kann. So will es die Tradition. So will es das Gesetz. Das Leben einer Auserwählten ist einsam. Niemand darf sie ansehen, geschweige denn mit ihr sprechen oder sie berühren. Eines Tages wird der attraktive Hawke - mit den goldenen Augen, dem frechen Grinsen und den provokanten Sprüchen - Poppys Leibwache zugeteilt, und sie merkt, dass es in ihrem Leben so viel mehr geben könnte als nur ihr Amt.

In a world where vampires have conquered mankind, Turner West is the only thing they fear. Threaded with silver through his body, he is a Bonemaker - a rare human who can Unmake vampires with a single cut of his blade. Crossing the prairie of what was once the United States, Turner will face a blood-crazed cult, a governor who wants power more than life itself, and a trio of beautiful women who will help him toward his ultimate goal: ridding the world of bloodsuckers. But Turner's exploits have attracted a vampire so old, his very existence threatens what remains of the human race.

For twenty years, Sciona has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fuelled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry at the University of Magics and Industry. When Sciona finally achieves her ambition and becomes a Highmage, she finds her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues are determined to make her feel unwelcome – and instead of a qualified lab assistant they give her a janitor. What neither Sciona nor her peers realize is that her taciturn assistant was not always a janitor.

Turner West is a busy man. After killing the vampire lord Silas, he hoped to build a safe haven to protect his people and his women from danger, but the land has other plans. New undead killers have emerged, and something unholy has been born - and it wants blood. With his women, his knife, and his will, he will fight against a danger that far surpasses all that has come before, and this time it’s using nature itself to hunt him down.