Ergebnis für "Burnt Offerings" in Literatur & Belletristik

Ben and Marian Rolfe are desperate to escape a stifling summer in their tiny Brooklyn apartment, so when they get the chance to rent a mansion in upstate New York for the entire summer for only $900, it’s an offer that’s too good to refuse. There’s only one catch: Behind a strange and intricately carved door in a distant wing of the house lives elderly Mrs. Allardyce, and the Rolfes will be responsible for preparing her meals.

Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. But when someone else sets his sights on her prey, she must save them both from the inferno.

In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents) and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her.

A physically challenged cast off girl, a mysterious Greek physician, and a Hollywood party to die for. All come together for a tale of horror, friendship, betrayal, and redemption. The undead Texas Ranger, Sam McCord, travels the world, seeking justice for the murder of a teenage prostitute. The clues he finds takes him to Amsterdam, Jerusalem, and to the hidden catacombs beneath the Vatican itself. Finally, there he must come face to face with his worst nightmare.

A shadow has fallen at the edges of the Empire of Gis. The city of Kulaba is threatened by an enemy that has been pushed too far. They have embraced a dark God only bent on destruction. The Empire sends the Burner Mashda with an army of conscripts to secure the city and stop this evil from spreading. Zizi finds himself as one of the conscripts, pulled from his home, and searching for why they fight. But what they find will challenge the very foundations of their beliefs.

Anita Blake is a vampire hunter. But when someone else sets his sights on her prey, she must save them both from the inferno.