Ergebnis für "Crossed" in Action & Abenteuer

In a world where "witches, vampires, werewolves, and shape-shifters live beside ordinary people" (Booklist), it takes a very unusual woman to call it home. By day, Mercy Thompson is a car mechanic in Eastern Washington. By night, she explores her preternatural side. As a shape-shifter with some unusual talents, Mercy's found herself maintaining a tenuous harmony between the human and the not-so- human on more than one occasion. This time she may get more than she bargained for.

Car mechanic and sometime shape-shifter Mercy Thompson has learned, the hard way, why her race was almost exterminated. When European vampires immigrated to North America, they found Mercy's people had a hidden talent - for vampire slaying. Unfortunately for Mercy, the queen of the local vampire seethe has discovered her true identity. She's also furious when she learns Mercy has crossed her and killed one of her vampires. Mercy may be protected from direct reprisals by the werewolf pack, but that just means Marsilia will come after Mercy some other way.

In the fourth installment of the Star-Crossed Series, we find Eden Matthews a prisoner in the very household she set out to destroy. She is without magic and engaged to the same boy who betrayed her and everyone she loves. With her wedding looming on the horizon, conditions for her people continue to worsen, and her goal of offering her kingdom freedom seems further away than ever. Her brother is free, however, and building a rebellion that hopes to rescue her.

Olivia Jameson sat at her desk in her cozy bedroom, adorned with shelves filled with books and trophies symbolizing her academic achievements. The room exuded an air of studiousness, with its neatly organized desk and the soft glow of a desk lamp illuminating Olivia's focused face. She flicked through the pages of her history textbook, absorbing the information with determination.

Lou Caldwell doesn’t expect to survive this flight. He’s left his faithful dog Rusty with a friend, knowing in his gut that the unbelievable mission to deliver payback in the heart of China can’t possibly be survived. And as the bleak, likely outcome weighs on him and his multi-national crew, Lou contends with something that only one other person knows—there’s a saboteur on the team.

Maggie Soloski knows if she doesn't take a chance and risk everything, she'll be stuck going nowhere for the rest of her life. With nothing but hope and a prayer, she packs up her little dog Toto and points herself at culinary school in Las Vegas. First, she just has to make a hair-raising pit stop to raise the cash.

La regidora predica por el desierto del mediodía contra la gran colonia y la servidumbre simbiótica. Visitará Ciudad Avispero, la ciudad de los mil minaretes y de las mil palmeras, la ciudad de los bandidos y la central del comercio para reunir un ejército capaz de doblegar al hijo de las moscas. Sonarán tambores de guerra, arderán los caracoles, se liberará del yugo a todos los pueblos y se reparará dolor con dolor en justa venganza.

Esta es la historia de una búsqueda que arranca con el canto de los caracoles para viajar más allá del ocaso, de los huertos surcados por escarabajos de tiro, de los refugios de tormentas, los funcionarios simbióticos, los establos de las libélulas, los templos de cristal de los animistas, los círculos de dólmenes de los astrólogos, las cuevas de hielo siete y los bosques de helechos plagados de arañas gigantes. Dejaremos atrás el trazado siempre rectilíneo de las vías del tren que anilla el mundo para rebasar los últimos monolitos y alcanzar unas latitudes en las que nunca ha salido el sol.

Despite its guise as a space pirate, the Dread Remora is still a ship of Her Majesty's Royal Navy, so when Captain Nate Demming and his crew discover a brutally savaged ship, they are appalled. When a second ship appears and attacks, Demming assumes these must be the predators and retaliates. The events that unfold lead to new discoveries for the Dread Remora, including some potential allies - and a ferocious new enemy.

The gruesome death of a brother-in-arms slams Granger Madison like a kick to the gut. After the group's initial tactical retreat, the invasion has been unforgiving to the Acme Ranch residents and their battle-scarred Road Runner leader. But it's the harrowing news that his daughter has been caught in a violent riot back east that puts the first crack in the former Marine's stoic resolve.

Karen Kirkland senses the serpent in the group. After the Acme Ranch group’s initial showing of strength and trustworthiness, the woman’s fears from her past surface when a charismatic member makes secret moves for control. But when the group’s leaders suffer a series of unplanned absences, Karen decides she must build her courage and guide her team through the unthinkable Chinese invasion looming on their doorstep.

The story is set in the heart of California’s Silicon Valley, the playground for all the rich and poor “Flower Children” who flocked to San Francisco during the summer of love. They came to advocate Peace-and-Love as an antidote to the violent backdrop of the Viet Nam War raging into the 1960s and beyond.

Heir to a noble fae house, Trahern is forced to watch helplessly as his twin brother is cruelly changed into a grim - a death dog - as punishment for falling in love with the wrong person. Trahern doesn't believe love exists, but he will do anything to keep his brother alive - even join the Wild Hunt and ride the night skies of the human world. Lissy Santiago-Callahan believes in love but has no time for it. She's busy juggling her career as an academic and her home life as a single mom to a young son with Asperger's.