Ergebnis für "Dark Life" in Paranormal & Urban Fantasy

Shapeshifter Mercy Thompson has friends in high places—and in low, dark, scary ones. And in this must-have collection of short stories, you’ll meet new faces and catch up with old acquaintances—in all their forms... Includes the new stories... “Silver” “Roses in Winter”...

Rafael De La Cruz has spent centuries hunting vampires with his brothers. With each passing year, his capacity to feel emotions has grown weaker and weaker, until finally there's barely a memory of one left - only sheer willpower keeps him from turning into the very abomination he hunts. But it'll take more than will to keep him away from the woman who is meant to be his and his alone.

"Nowbacks Geheimnisse" - Jede Stadt hat ihre Geheimnisse. Doch in Nowback kann ein neuer Job zum Höllentrip werden. Ben Richards ist auf der Suche nach Arbeit, doch was er findet, zeigt ihm die dunkle Seite der Nacht. Mitten unter den Menschen leben Vampire und Dämonen. Die Ermittlerin Julie Barks folgt einer Spur ins Greenham Viertel und findet sich inmitten eines mörderischen Experiments wieder. Hier werden Retter zu Gejagten und Wesen der Nacht zu Opfern. In Nowback ist nichts, wie es scheint. Eine Stadt voller dunkler Geheimnisse. Humorvolle Mystery.

"Dämonengeflüster". Etwas Böses geht in Nowback um. Studenten verschwinden spurlos. Mächtige Dämonen werden gerufen und blutige Rituale vollzogen.. Ein mysteriöser Mörder hinterlässt Blut, Verderben und Tod. Während sich die Vampirin Julie mit Ben auf die Jagd nach dem brutalen Killer begibt, muss sie mit Entsetzten feststellen, dass nicht nur Dämonen in Nowback ihr Unwesen treiben. Als ein alter Feind unerwartet wieder auftaucht und erneut ein Mädchen spurlos verschwindet, beginnt ein gnadenloser Kampf um Leben und Tod. Humorvolle Mystery.

Seit Jahrhunderten gilt das Siegel der Bocca di Capretto als verschollen. Als die Vampirin Julie Barks den Auftrag erhält nach dem Artefakt zu suchen, wird Ben Richards brutal entführt, um sie zu erpressen. Gemeinsam mit dem Magier Rick und dem Dämon Gordon gerät sie dabei zwischen die Fronten erbarmungsloser Gegner. Um ihren Freund zu retten, führt der einzige Weg in eine gefährliche Höllendimension. Die gnadenlose Jagd nach dem Siegel beginnt.

Teenage delinquent Angel Crawford lives with her redneck father in the swamps of southern Louisiana. She's a high school dropout, addicted to drugs and alcohol, and has a police record a mile long. But when she's made into a zombie after a car crash, her addictions disappear, except for her all-consuming need to stay "alive".

“A stand-alone heavy hitter that’s more in line with recent deviants like Chuck Wendig’s upcoming Wanderers (2019) and Daniel H. Wilson’s The Clockwork Dynasty (2017). Tonally, this lush novel is closer to Scott Lynch’s pirate fantasy The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006), but...

After I’d agreed to do a job for the fae queen I hate, the entire world went to hell - literally. Now, it’s my job to clean up my mess before she creates new nasties with the white grace and kills us all - yeah, my fault, too. It gets better. The legion of angels have put a bounty on my head for the murder of the archangel Vedriel, which was in totally self-defense, but it’s not like they care.

I killed the sorcerer that turned my life into a living hell, yet I can’t seem to escape the ghosts of my past. The servants of a dark god are hunting me for my blood, and I need to stop them before they bring destruction down on us all. To make matters worse, I’ve turned into one of the monsters I feared most. I need to find out why before my family discovers my secret—before my fated mate, Jaxson Laurent, claims me as his own. He’s as hot as sin, and I can barely restrain myself when he’s near, but I won’t let him rule me, and I won’t let the fates determine my path.

Casey McQuiston meets The Secret History in this unmissable dark academia fantasy from New York Times bestselling author Lex Croucher following former childhood best friends who reunite at magical boarding school after years, only to find themselves enemies on opposite sides of the ugly secrets...

No warning. No explanation. Few survivors. Now we're all trying to get by as society collapses around us. Survival is a battle and it's getting worse every day. Food is scarce and the shelves are all bare. Finding medication for my little brother is impossible, and my desperation is growing as my options narrow.

Everything I thought I knew was a lie. The evil vampire spawn I'd hunted my entire life have turned out to be my only allies. Hidden away in Magic City, I've promised to help support Luka as he competes to become king. The problem? I'm falling for him, and he's engaged to be married. To get my mind off of my boy problem, Liv and I band together with our allies to dig deeper into the betrayal of every hunter. What I find shocks me to my core.

Jesse Gil thought it’d be easy running a business healing the sick and raising the dead–just put up an amazing billboard and people should beg him to take their money, right? Results weren’t as expected and when he resurrects Shawn, who comes into his own magical abilities, he feels obligated to take him on as an apprentice. Unfortunately, it seems that his new student’s sole purpose is to mess everything up. Shawn takes it upon himself to raise someone from the dead on his own, so Jesse finds himself facing a nightmarish creature, a body without a soul.

Nikolai and Medea must work together to discover why magic is declining. Their research takes them to America, where Medea struggles to navigate the Mundane world and teach Nikolai telepathy–a school of magic she despises and fears he’ll use against her.

Now no longer that wide-eyed child, Gabe is fresh out of prison, a leather-clad biker answering Grandaddy’s peremptory summons to, of all places, a cowboy bar in Northern Arizona. He is about to find out just how different he is from “most people” - and to meet the stranger with whom he will be sealed: life and limb, blood and bone, conscripted to fight an unholy war unlike any other.

Well, back from delivering the dead to the afterlives, anyway. The political and social landscape of Limbo City has gone through quite the makeover since the Throne of Eternity was broken and the souls in the sea took charge of their own destinies. But progress is a journey on the road less traveled. Which means potholes are inevitable. And who better to pave the way than the reaper who set all this upheaval into motion? Return to Limbo City with Lana and the gang! They'll have a cold ale waiting for you at Purgatory Lounge.

Hex Life: Wicked New Tales of Witchery will take the classic tropes of tales of witchcraft and infuse them with fresh, feminist perspective and present-day concerns - even if they're set in the past. These witches might be monstrous, or they might be heroes, depending on their own definitions. Even the kind hostess with the candy cottage thought of herself as the hero of her own story. After all, a woman's gotta eat.

There's no other way to say it; cancer is a debilitating. When I was 15, doctor's diagnosed me with a rare brain tumor and gave me five years to live. With my death imminent, I made a deal with the devil. Well, not the real devil, but one of his minions for sure. Out of options, I accepted an offer for eternal life. I agreed to become a vampire. And all I had to offer in exchange was one year of service to a Duke named Aldric. What is one year in the grand scheme of things? Especially, when I'd live forever.

My name's Elle. Princess Arielle, for those who know about my past. Cursed by my own father, now I'm banished to Grimm. I'm a siren, killer, and one of the best damned cold-case detectives in all of the bloody realms. I don't stop until I discover the truth. My next case sends me to Wonderland, a harrowing place of madness and dark secrets. I'd rather be landlocked than step foot on that tainted soil, but I don't have a choice after discovering Alice's bloodstained ribbon and a bandicoot's claw covered in blood beside two stiffs at the Charmings' castle.

Anger gives way to vengeance and then war. Rywho, who is now Death, has declared war on the living. What is it exactly he hopes to accomplish? What point is there to fight for those who earned their death? To what end does he intend to go?