Ergebnis für "Hearts" in Science Fiction

Kaelen Varrus survived a Protectorate labor camp and clawed his way to captain of The Void's Heart. Now he hunts the artifact that can expose the men who betrayed him and destroy the empire that left him to rot. Zara Cross doesn't trust anyone, especially not the ghost from her past who just showed up hunting the same prize. She's tracked this artifact for months, and she's not letting him take it. When their collision forces an uneasy alliance, proximity becomes warfare. Every glance is a calculation. Every word, a weapon.

Kendra and Aiyana's world is as vibrant and rich as ever in this new collection of thirteen pieces of short fiction. You might think their world runs on fusion power, or antimatter plants, or maybe even warp drives. But it doesn't. It runs on emotions and relationships and heart. What happened after Kendra's near-disastrous Christmas party? You're not going to believe it!

One day, I was a mild-mannered designer for a premiere superhero magazine. Turned down for a promotion yet again, I let loose years of repressed anger. That's how I got fired. Lesson learned. Now my career is as successful as my love life. But it's hard being upset when I storm out of the office and into the huskular man of my dreams. Sebastian is successful, confident, and the way he fills out those pants, it's basically a crime. Working as the art director for a rival magazine, I beg for him to look at my . . . ahem, portfolio. 

Arthos, the Infinite City, is a place of alien wonders and indescribable beauty—and, most importantly for Samantha, it’s also halfway across the universe from her abusive ex-fiancé. She came to the city desperate for a fresh start, but she finds herself downtrodden on a world of aloof alien beings with little hope of finding her place—and a good chance of being kidnapped or killed before she can even settle in.

Chicago 2056. Marci, eine junge Haushaltshilfe, ist völlig verzweifelt. Ihr Ehemann ist spurlos verschwunden und sie weiß nicht, wie sie sich und ihre beiden Jungs in den Slums durchbringen soll. Jack, ein zwei Meter großer Kampfroboter, hat vom Krieg die Nase voll und desertiert zu den Rebellen. Auf den ersten Blick haben er und Marci wenig gemeinsam. Aber beide verbindet ein skrupelloser Feind mit einem tödlichen Geheimnis. Um sich selbst und die Menschheit vor dem Untergang zu retten, müssen sie Seite an Seite eine gefährliche Mission erfüllen.

Wir haben Nachrichten ins All geschickt, um herauszufinden, ob dort jemand ist, ob jemand zuhört, und vor sechs Jahren kamen die Trivatoren auf die Erde. Sie wollten die Erde in die Allianz der Sternensysteme aufnehmen, aber weltweit kam es zu gewalttätigen Panikreaktionen auf den unerwarteten Besuch, so dass die Trivatoren schließlich gezwungen waren, die Kontrolle zu übernehmen. Es läuft nicht so gut.

Bold, queer and utterly thrilling, Hell's Heart is a speculative, spicy, slow-burn adventure from the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material, Alexis Hall. Earth is dead. Which leaves humanity stuck living under domes on planets that will kill them if they run out of fuel – fuel harvested at...

Larkin has spent almost a year hunting the monstrous kraken in the hope that they knew the whereabouts of her missing brother. Her efforts finally come to fruition when she and the other rangers capture three of the beasts—but the reality is nothing like the stories they’ve been told, and the kraken are not the monsters she expected.

A grumpy demon warrior who doesn't want a mate. A secret spy mission to a mysterious outpost. One pretend mating to protect me from human-hating savages.

Genius computer geek Wren Traynor prefers her high-tech comp lab to socializing with people, and she definitely prefers it over crawling through the bowels of the huge Eon warship she's hijacked. When Earth's Space Corps blackmails her into this deadly mission, Wren will do anything to help her beloved sisters and save the Earth from invasion by the insectoid Kantos aliens. That includes entering into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the tall, hunky, and seriously enraged Eon war commander who captains the Rengard.

Asset X: Massive, deadly, and a little terrifying to say the least. A devilish warrior, and a killer. Captured on a hellish world after attacking a military campsite and now imprisoned in a state-of-the-art cell inside one of the military’s top bases, Lazris. Lana has been assigned to "study" him; to learn his secrets and gain his trust, if he is ever allowed to set foot out of his cell. Asset X - or Xerus as he is called - won't give up his secrets easily. He is difficult, elusive, and dare she say, unfathomably alluring.

Mein Leben ist ein Scherbenhaufen. Ein engelsgleiches Wesen hat mich aus den Klauen meiner bösartigen Familie befreit–doch sie konnte nicht bei mir bleiben. Nur die Hoffnung auf ein geheimnisvolles Schicksal gab sie mir mit: Eine Aufgabe, der ich mich eines Tages stellen muss. Entwurzelt, ziellos und allein gerate ich vom Regen in die Traufe. Wieder nehmen mir brutale Männer die Kontrolle über mein Leben. Zu schwach, um aufzubegehren, bin ich kaum mehr als eine Sklavin. Als Angreifer aus dem All plötzlich über die Stadt herfallen,scheint das Ende der Welt gekommen.

Paz is tired of being the only single human on the planet. Ready for an alien mate of his own, he secretly ventures from the village to find the Maeleons who left on a "quest", only to discover that word has a very different connotation on Eukaria. When Paz is caught in a hunting trap and confronted by an aggressive Maeleon, he’s forced to put his diplomacy skills to the ultimate test—before the hottest alien he’s ever seen eats him alive.

Die Profi-Surferin Mikki Tanaka wollte ihr geliebtes Hawaii niemals verlassen, die Wellen des Ozeans oder die faszinierende Tierwelt der Meere, die sie mit vollem Einsatz beschützte. Aber ihre Protestaktionen und aggressiven Taktiken vertrugen sich nicht mit dem Gesetz, und sie fand sich hinter Gittern wieder. Sie hatte die Wahl: Zehn Jahre Gefängnis, oder ein Leben als Interstellare Braut. Da sie das Abenteuer noch nie gescheut hatte, beschließt sie, ihr Glück in den Sternen zu suchen—mit nicht nur einem, sondern gleich zwei feurigen, sexy Alpha-Kriegern auf der Kolonie.

I've never spent a day without my mate since arriving on the ice planet. I'm happy and in love, and we have a beautiful child together. All that changed when the world shook. My mate nearly died. He wakes up from his coma...and he can't remember me. Or our son. Every memory of the past two years is gone. And that changes everything between us. How can I love someone that doesn't remember me? How can I not, when I know he's still my mate underneath it all?  

On Tartarus I was born... Soaked in power and secrets, Tartarus is a city for rebels, exiles, and criminals. As a messenger, every shadow is my friend. I know all the secrets of this place. Or, at least, I thought I did. When my best friend, Kida, goes missing, I don't waste any time assuming her identity to draw her or whoever took her, out of hiding. On Tartarus I will die...

Winter's Orbit meets Ilona Andrews in this sexy enemies-to-lovers romance. “Constance Fay...wildly combines heart-stirring romance with a high-stakes adventure in a wonderfully deep space odyssey. This passionate story is a heady mix of suspense, romance, and intrigue, all set within an...

When his mate is threatened, nothing burns hotter than his wrath. Against all odds, Arcanthus found Samantha, his beautiful, sweet terran mate. His fated one. Her love shattered the barriers around his heart. After defeating a ghost from his past, Arc thinks he and Samantha are safe to move on with their lives. But she has a past of her own, and it refuses to let her go.

A city that became a benevolent Empire, spreading its knowledge across the world. But all that remains are myths and legends. A bedtime story. For after the great cataclysm that almost destroyed the entire human race in ages past, the world was sent back into darkness and no evidence has ever been found of the lost city’s actual existence.

Is my hot orc neighbor my crush, or is he actually my soulmate? My hunky orc neighbor, Vrok, who I'd love to get to know better, keeps ignoring me. But when he overhears me reading the draft of my steamy romance novel out loud, he tells me he has ideas to make the male point of view better. Yeah...