Ergebnis für "Ein Kind" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

Zufällig in eine unterirdische Höhlenwelt geraten, wurden die Freunde in den uralten Kampf zwischen den Dunkelzwergen und ihren Erzfeinden den Moles hineingezogen. Dort gelingt es ihnen, das Vertrauen des Zwergenwächters Breetur zu gewinnen und begeben sich auf eine Reise ins Reich des Feindes, um seine entführte Tochter Brenja zu befreien. Dabei stoßen sie an verborgene Orte vor, die nie ein Mensch oder Zwerg zuvor gesehen hat – oder zumindest von dort zurückgekommen wäre, um davon zu berichten.

Luck is its own kind of magic, in this first book in an electrifying new contemporary fantasy series from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Hollows novels. Petra Grady has known since adolescence that she has no talent for magic—and that’s never going to change. But as a...

An ancient enemy stirs once more . . . Seal of the Worm is the tenth and final book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky. The Empire has vanquished its enemies at last, but at a terrible price. With her chief rival cast into the abyss, Empress...

Mary Austin wird vom Geist eines kleinen Mädchens heimgesucht. Nachts steht es plötzlich in Marys Schlafzimmer - die Haut so blassblau wie die eines Erfrorenen - und stößt einen entsetzlich schrillen Schrei aus. Völlig verzweifelt wendet sich Mary an die Sinclair Academy. Die Trainees finden heraus, dass es sich bei dem Geist um das Kalte Kind handelt. Und jeder, dem es bisher erschienen ist, musste sterben. Sind Marys Tage tatsächlich gezählt oder können die Trainees einen Weg finden, die junge Frau vor dem sicheren Tod zu bewahren?

Danger lurks beneath dark waters . . . The Sea Watch is the sixth book in the critically acclaimed epic fantasy series Shadows of the Apt by Adrian Tchaikovsky. A shadow is falling over Collegium. Despite the tenuous peace, Stenwold Maker knows that the Empire will return for his city. Even as...

The holiday season in New York City is supposed to be magical, but it's not yet Thanksgiving, and what's happening isn't that kind of magic. The fairy world seems to be bleeding into the human world. Strange white horses carry people into the Central Park lake. Children are disappearing from their beds. Unearthly snow flurries pepper the air while odd pockets of summer appear randomly in Central Park.

Wenn du dich zwischen Liebe oder Freiheit entscheiden müsstest, was wählst du? Die Abenteuer von Lizzy und Noel gehen in die zweite Runde. Ihre Beziehung wird auf eine harte Probe gestellt, denn Noel muss sich entscheiden, was für ihn das Wichtigste ist. Auch Lizzy hat mit ihrem neuen Leben zu kämpfen. Trotz der gefundenen Heimat fühlt sie sich einsam und nutzlos. Am Ende zahlt jeder für all seine Entscheidungen einen Preis. Ist er dieses Mal zu hoch.

When archaeologist Zoe Miller’s cousin is abducted by a vicious Russian kidnapper, she must come to grips with a haunting secret. Unknown to even her closest friends, Zoe is not entirely human. She is a werewolf and a daughter of the "Fangborn", a hidden race of werewolves, vampires, and oracles. Zoe’s attempt to rescue her cousin leads her on a quest for artifacts - including Pandora’s Box, an object of world-ending power.

Kallix, a morose, laudanum-addicted, unschooled, slightly anorexic werewolf is still on the run. The youngest daughter of the Thane of the MacRinnalch Clan of werewolves, held responsible unfairly for the death of the Thane, and justifiably responsible for the deaths of a great many other werewolves, remains prohibited from returning to Scotland in order to maintain the uneasy peace that temporarily prevails in court, despite the endemic debauchery and degeneracy always threatening to again spiral out of control.

Sword thought it was over. She thought that when she killed the Chancellor and ended the corrupt reign of the Emperor, that everything would get better. That the suffering would end in Ansborn. That the people would be free. But now a new terror has been born. A trio of warriors who live only for vengeance, who know only hate, have set their sights on Sword and on those she holds dear. They are powerful, they are deadly, and they are impossible to kill.

When the high sovereign of the rapidly industrializing realm of Ghavarim is murdered by a mysterious assassin, the rulers of the five kingdoms of the Federation are plunged into a vicious power struggle. Jason Tern, a noble captain from the borderlands, must battle shadowy half-human assailants with limbs of brass and steel while untangling an ever-widening web of lies and intrigue to discover the true identity of the killer before mounting tensions spark a bloody civil war.

Set in a world just around the corner from our own, where Santa Claus really exists and uses your neighbors to keep track of your deeds, Billy Barnaby's Twisted Christmas is a sometimes dark but ultimately uplifting story of how a truly good heart can redeem even the most heartless evil. When teenager Billy Barnaby wins a contest to accompany Santa Claus on his Christmas deliveries, he's delighted at the opportunity to try to turn Santa from his Big Brother-like ways.