Ergebnis für "Just" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

Kirk Jensen is living the dream. He was offered his dream job, slapped handcuffs on his nemesis, and is going to get the murder charges hanging over June's head dismissed. Who knows, maybe there will be a wedding in the near future. Everyone who's tried to destabilize the peace on Kodiak Island is going behind bars for a very long time. Now, Kirk has a choice to make. Does he take the job he's always wanted since he was a kid, uproot his growing pack, and move across the country? Or, does he continue to be the best small-town cop Alaska has ever seen?

Intrigen, Magie und verbotene Liebe! Der Palast der Träume soll den neuen Hexen und Wächtern ein Zuhause bieten, doch schon bald muss der magische Rat feststellen, dass sie gegen die Bedrohungen von innen und außen nicht ankommen. Während sich die Neulinge noch einleben, bahnt sich ein Krieg an, der alles zerstören könnte. Schnell wird klar, dass nicht immer die Schuldigen diesem Krieg zum Opfer fallen.

“Come home.” Vera’s mother called and Vera obeyed. In spite of their long estrangement, in spite of the memories — she's come back to the home of a serial killer. Back to face the love she had for her father and the bodies he buried there, beneath the house he'd built for his family.

I'm John Taylor. I work as a PI out of the Nightside, that secret center of London where clocks always read three AM, terrible things happen with predictable regularity, and the always-dark streets are full of people partying like Judgement Day will never come. Now it may have arrived. God's own enforcer, the righteous engine of destruction known as the Walking Man, has come to the Nightside. He's a being whose sole purpose is the elimination of the wicked—and given the nature of the Nightside, he'll just keep on until there's no one left. So the Authorities hired me to stop him.

Kat was a freshly graduated healer from the academy, ready to begin her life as a bronze adventurer with her three best friends. Together, the four of them entered the portal to their new city, ready to delve the beginner dungeons and gain fame and fortune.

Cherished by a Father, coveted by a king, loved by an almost-priest; tormented by demons, tortured by a madman, hunted by a cult, hounded by her father. Mouse has survived it all. Despite Mouse's power, her father always wanted a son - and now, at long last, he has him. And Mouse has a brother, someone else in the world just like her. Hiding among a tribe of the Martu in the isolation of the Australian outback near the edges of Lake Disappointment, Mouse and Angelo have seemingly evaded at least one of the predators hunting them.

When Just Cause hero Orb is murdered using a new kind of nanotechnology, Mustang Sally will stop at nothing to find and bring to justice his killer. Not even her longtime mentor Juice's dismissal from his position as team leader can distract Sally from her mission. A sensational new parahuman named Champion brings old-fashioned morals back to the world, training others to follow in his footsteps and heralding the onset of a new age of heroism. But Champion isn't all that he seems, and there is a sinister side to his organization.

When Helsing XII, the latest in the long and illustrious line of brave demon-hunters dies in combat, no-one would have expected his ring of power to be handed down to an idiot. Least of all said idiot; Brian Trelawney, the most hapless car salesman in the whole of Cornwall.

When half-elf Tristan is paired with the elf princess Cecelia, the task becomes even more difficult. Cecelia sees her partner of 20 years on this harrowing journey as boring, so she teases him once with her elven charms. That tease causes them to miss out on an opportunity to press forward in due time. Now the duo have become far too distracted with their playful tactics, and their existence could be lost if they slip up again. Will they get their heads on right just in time to fulfill their promises, or is their mission be doomed from the start?