Ergebnis für "Exile" in Abenteuer

Two irresistible forces are rushing together to crush the planet Grayson between them, and only one woman, uncertain of her capabilities, weary unto death, and marked for murder -stands between her adopted planet and its devastation.

Both Alberich's skill and secret served him well in the army of Karse, and when Alberich became one of Karse's youngest captains, he received a special gift - a powerful white stallion "liberated" from the enemy. But this honor was merely a distraction, for the Sunpriests had laid a trap that even Alberich's strange foresight could not predict....

Mars, Sandraffinerie der Sandsky Corporation, 2102. Als der Kolonist Jimmy Ray einen Harvester vor einem Sturm in Sicherheit bringen will, erleidet er einen von fremden Erinnerungen verursachten Zusammenbruch. Nur dank des beherzten Einsatzes seiner Kollegin Malika El Alami kann er überleben.

Andrew Wiggin is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but instead the 12-year-old chooses to leave his home world and begin the long relativistic journey out to the colonies.

In the Stars Wars galaxy, evil is on the move as the Galactic Alliance and Jedi order battle forces seen and unseen, from rampant internal treachery to the nightmare of all-out war. With each victory against the Corellian rebels, Jacen Solo becomes more admired, more powerful, and more certain...

Nach ihrer spektakulären Flucht vom Mars sind Malika, Jimmy und Alfred in Marokko untergetaucht, doch die Ruhe währt nicht lange: Häscher ihres früheren Arbeitgebers eröffnen die Jagd nach den dreien. Erneut müssen sie fliehen, doch wohin, wenn es auf der Erde keinen sicheren Ort mehr gibt? Ihnen bleibt nur die Konfrontation, aber wie besiegt man ein Firmenimperium mit schier unendlichen Ressourcen? Die Antwort scheint in Jimmys Erinnerungen verborgen zu sein, die man vor seiner Marsmission überschrieben hat. Er begibt sich auf die Suche, doch was er dabei herausfindet, verändert alles.

Following Talon of the Silver Hawk and King of Foxes, here is the third exciting volume in the Conclave of Shadows trilogy from the acclaimed author “in the forefront of contemporary fantasy adventure” (Library Journal) Tal Hawkins has succeeded in wreaking revenge on Kaspar, the evil Duke...

Two sisters. Two irresistible aliens. One deadly planet where love is the most dangerous risk of all. Kenzie will do anything to save her sister—even if it means trusting Mad, a sinfully gorgeous but dangerous alien who makes her heart pound and her body burn. He’s as much a criminal as anyone on Guerran, a planet full of exiles and outlaws, but he’s also her only hope. Their attraction is instant, and impossible to ignore. But while Kenzie dreams of escaping with her sister, Mad is trapped on this world forever.

When her search puts her in Mad's path, she isn't sure whether she should kiss him or stab him. He's as handsome as the devil, and practically a giant with a huge...axe. The aliens on Guerran are criminals and she can't trust him. But she needs a guide and Mad is her only hope. She certainly can't fall for him. No matter how much he makes her yearn. Guerran is the dumping ground for Kru'dari criminals and Mad has been ekeing out a life there for six years. But when Kenzie appears, suddenly he's thinking about the future, and one word keeps ringing in his head. Mate.

Help isn’t coming. When Carise wakes up on an alien planet, running is her only chance at escape, even if being caught means death. She’d rather die than face whatever her captors plan to do to her. Guerran is no safe place for healing, and every moment is fear. Until Jaek, a gentle giant of an alien, makes himself her protector. But when their fragile bond is tested, Carise knows she must find strength within herself to become brave enough to survive Guerran. This time she won’t let herself be taken. And she’s not leaving her mate behind.

Liam Hoffen is used to straightforward missions going off the rails. But when he emerges from a crash-landing, one look tells him he’ll need more than a simple repair job. Having spent years inadvertently trapped in stasis, life has done more than pass him by...it’s dumped his entire team into an alien revolution. Stranded on a rugged world hundreds of thousands of light years from home, Liam and his crew are immediately swept up in incomprehensible planetary politics. Choosing the wrong side to defeat a fresh menace could be the difference between life and death.

This stand-alone novel in the Valdemar series continues the story of prickly weapons-master Alberich. Once a heroic Captain in the army of Karse, a kingdom at war with Valdemar, Alberich becomes one of Valdemar's Heralds. Despite prejudice against him, he becomes the personal protector of young Queen Selenay. But can he protect her from the dangers of her own heart?

The last remnants of humanity escaped the Death as Earth was destroyed. Among the survivors is James Ursidae, a fearsome warrior whose despair now outweighs his expectations for the future. After months of drifting through intergalactic space, Ursidae and what humanity remains have found a spark of hope on the planet Lintalla and in the company of its native Illani. Unfortunately, starting anew comes at a price, and even in a strange system, violence and war are a constant. A new enemy, the Tarin’Tal, holds the system’s inhabitants in a vicelike grip that continues to tighten.

Sebastian reveals himself to the world as its lost Sovereign, but the usurper still sits on his throne, high above the clouds. Before he can truly rule, he must fight, and win, the final battle. Along with Moira, his vampiric love, and Jessi, their warrior companion, they’ll finally ascend to the home Sebastian was forced to flee to escape his own assassination. But first, a cryptic message arrives. A dear friend’s life is in peril, an ally who will be crucial in the battle to come.

Phix has spent lifetimes traveling through humanity’s history, searching for the moment everything went wrong. He thought it was the rise of the machines. He thought it was the war that burned entire galaxies to dust. He was wrong. Something else has been erasing humanity before the war even began. Lagrange-4 station vanishes without a trace, its crew wiped from history like they never existed. Earth is next. The correction is accelerating. If Phix doesn’t find the first rewrite, the entire species will be erased—not just from the future, but from all of time.

Once, telepaths almost wiped out humankind. Centuries later, a brotherhood called the Gentle Hand lives to keep it from happening again. But war is coming, and they are not prepared. Langston Wheeler survives the first strike in an interstellar war. The young telepath comes home to warn his fellow Gentle Hands of a shadowy threat already at their door. But his message falls on deaf ears, not least because everyone remembers his infamous dalliance with a woman he should never have loved. Cleo Sable endured nearly six years of exile before the call came, summoning her back to Earth for the war.

Exotic tales from the vintage pages of Doctor Who Annual, brought to life by a host of Doctor Who voices. In the title adventure, The Cloud Exiles ensnare the First Doctor and hope to steal his body for their own purposes, unless he can persuade them otherwise. In Death to Mufl, the Second...

The Archon Dominion crushes all dissent. Mercy Hail wants change, no matter the cost to herself. But freak accidents keep happening around her, and she can’t explain why. So when she lights the fuse on an uprising, it’s not exactly a surprise when everything goes wrong at once. The Dominion sends Dante Matter to Mercy’s world with a simple set of orders: Find the girl with emerging telekinetic powers and put her to work for us. Nobody warned him she’d be beautiful, though. Nobody warned him her gifts would be greater than his own.

After the fall of Earth, the surviving humans colonized other worlds and formed the Hyperion Empire. At the Empire’s center: the planet Lintalla. The rest is comprised of human clans and alien civilizations. Although the Empire has enjoyed peace for many years, the threat of war with the bear-like Tarin ‘Tal and other enemy tribes is never far away. During a routine diplomatic visit, a courtship between the Empire and potential new members, James Ursidae - son of the legendary warrior and founder of the Emperor’s elite guard known as he Hammer - senses that tensions between some of the Imperial factions are approaching a boiling point.

Lidia has one job: to convince the psychiatrist at the center of her criminal case that she really is telling the truth about her past lives, outside the scope of present-day New York. If she fails to win him over, the world as they know it will be overtaken by the influence of a fugitive from another dimension, capable of corrupting the minds of countless innocent people in its bid to destroy existence. If Lidia's story doesn't strike a chord with the doctor, the whole world may pay the price.