Ergebnis für "Emma" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

One of the many engineers that keep Beta, the city under the sea, running, Mira only wants to make her family proud and to prove herself worthy. She knows the mysterious city better than anyone and it's her dream to help it flourish. Then, on a solo job in an abandoned section of the city, she encounters a monster of legend: an undine, a dangerous merman from an ancient civilization, long forgotten.

He is temptation, but she will not be tempted. As a child, Selene was left at the foot of the White Tower—given to the sorceresses who train those with magic. Her life has been spent honing her powers. But she can't fully join their ranks until she fulfills a single, impossible task: bring the...

Esther ist 21 Jahre alt - und sie ist alleine. Alleine in einer Welt, die vor einigen Jahren von einem grausamen Virus befallen wurde. Nur wenige Menschen haben ihn überlebt - und niemand weiß wieso. Nun streift sie durch die verlassenen Straßen und versucht zu überleben. Nichts wünscht sie sich sehnlicher als Gesellschaft und Sicherheit, doch sie musste früh lernen, dass Menschen in Extremsituationen nicht etwa dazu tendieren, sich zusammenzuschließen - nein. Sie beginnen, sich zu bekämpfen. Um die wenigen Ressourcen, um das eigene Überleben zu sichern.

Drei Drachen. Eine Frau. Eine pikante Drachen-Fantasy-Romanze, die einem den Atem raubt, man verlangt nach mehr ... Dareena Sellis ist ein Niemand. Die verwaiste Tochter eines unbekannten Farmers schuftet als Magd im Gasthaus Hallowdale. Ihre einzigen Heiratskandidaten ziehen entweder in den...

Elena. Eine einzige Fehlentscheidung bedroht alles, was ich mir mühsam aufgebaut habe. Ich dachte, er würde mir aus Nettigkeit helfen, doch viel zu spät habe ich bemerkt, dass er dabei nur seinen eigenen Vorteil im Sinn hatte. Nun bin ich ihm ausgeliefert, und es gibt nichts, was ich dagegen tun kann. Mein Leben? Auf dem Abstellgleis. Doch dann taucht plötzlich er auf. Viel zu gutaussehend und seltsam interessiert an mir. Was soll ich nur tun? Ich kann ihm mein Geheimnis nicht verraten. Doch ich fühle mich von ihm angezogen.

Als eine der vielen Ingenieurinnen, die Beta, die Stadt unter dem Meer, am Laufen halten, möchte Mira nur zwei Dinge: dass ihre Familie stolz auf sie ist und sich selbst beweisen. Doch dann, bei einem Soloauftrag in einem verlassenen Teil der Stadt, begegnet sie einem Monster – ein Undine. Ein gefährlicher Meermann aus einer längst vergessenen Zivilisation. Arges hat sein ganzes Leben lang für sein Volk gekämpft und plant, Beta ein für alle Mal auszulöschen, um seine Art zu schützen.

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From global bestseller Jasmine Mas comes a brand-new story of obsession that asks… When the hunter is hunted, who becomes prey? SHE IS THE EMPEROR’S ENEMY Knight Mage and Bear of the North Zora Ravenal is her people’s only hope against the ravenous...

This audiobook brings together 13 uproarious short stories and one novella, focused on Ciaphas Cain, Hero of the Imperium. His stories are celebrated as heroic propaganda pieces, but he’s simply trying to stay alive in a hostile galaxy.

She hides from the world. He's the monster who refuses to let her vanish. Rose has spent her life running. From hunger, from pain, from anyone who dared to care for her. Once a street thief, then a reluctant priestess, then a prize in a gladiator's arena, she's learned that safety only comes...

Ihre Heimat wurde erobert. Sie wurde von ihren Geliebten getrennt. Gibt es noch Hoffnung für Dareena und ihre Drachen? Oder ist ihr Reich dem Untergang geweiht? Als es Drystan und seinen Brüdern gelang, ihren wahnsinnigen Vater vom Thron zu stoßen, glaubte Dareena, das Schlimmste sei...

On an Imperial outpost world on the fringes of tau space, the renowned Commissar Ciaphas Cain and his fractious regiment of Valhallan Guard, newly created from the remnants of two devastated units, find themselves in the middle of a war. As the Astra Militarum struggle to contain worldwide civil insurrection, can the wily Commissar Cain identify the real villain before the planet is lost to the Imperium forever?

When Horus the Warmaster rebelled against the Emperor, the ensuing civil war nearly destroyed the Imperium. War raged across galaxy, pitting Astartes against their battle-brothers in a struggle where death was the only victor. But long before that, the Legions struggled with their identities and the demands of the Great Crusade. From battles with alien invaders to conflicts within a Legion, and even dealing with a wayward primarch, these stories show the battles fought as the Great Crusade draws to a close and the Horus Heresy begins....

Shy, introverted Lucy Dennings lives a quiet little life in New York City, working for a nonprofit and keeping to herself. Every afternoon, she goes home to her empty apartment and Edgar, her houseplant, and every night, she loses herself in the pages of her beloved romance novels. Her lonely heart seeks solace in tales of passionate, enduring, all-consuming love, but more and more, Lucy feels she's not just reading for pleasure but searching for a lost piece of herself in the pages. As if she once touched something beautiful, but it's been ripped away.

They handed her a sword and bid her to take a throne... Lorelei is half elf in a kingdom where that bloodline is synonymous with "slave". The Umbra King holds everyone captive with his pet dragon who knows no mercy. She hides in the shadows and steals to stay alive, until a rebel group gives her...

Le troisième tome de la série fantastique "Emma Paddington" est enfin disponible en audio ! La tension monte à Dark Road End. Entre les attaques démoniaques qui se multiplient, les créatures du domaine de plus en plus incontrôlables et son cabinet de psychologue à faire tourner, Emma...

A year after Emma Henson, a young, genius biotech scientist, dies in a covert AI brain-chip experiment, her father, Josh, has nothing left to live for and vows to get revenge on the Silicon Valley CEO responsible. Josh has thirty days to make his homemade bombs and to say goodbye to life. To give himself courage in the countdown, he records daily video messages to his lost "Em." Memories flood him as he searches for the moments in Emma’s short life where he could have been a better father and saved her.

Like a songbird in a cage, Anya has spent her entire life as the General's perfect daughter. He snaps his fingers; she jumps. He tells her to smile; she beams like she is made of the sun itself. But underneath all those games and glitter, she's working to destroy her father and save the city she loves. When an undine sneaks his way into her city, intent on kidnapping her, she lets him take her.

If no one knows that you saved the world, does it really count? Eight years ago the world almost ended and Max lost everything, accused of betrayal and failure. Now working as a Marshal, keeping the city and its people safe from supernatural dangers, Max thinks she's broken all ties to her past...

Commissar Ciaphas Cain and the Valhallan 597th are in the thick of it again, putting down an uprising of Chaos cultists on an Imperial mining world. Though their mission is a success, they find evidence that the corruption might have spread to other planets and that the forge world of Ironfound could now be at risk. The munitions Ironfound produces are vital to the Imperial war effort in the subsector; its safety must be assured at all costs. As battle explodes across the planet, Ciaphas Cain and his regiment come up against allies and enemies old and new in their fight for victory.

She’s trapped in a magical prison. To break out, she’ll make a deal with the most dangerous prisoner of them all. Sentenced for a crime she didn’t commit, Samara is bullied by guards and tormented by the screams of her fellow prisoners. She’s resigned herself to enduring her fifteen-year...