Ergebnis für "Lou" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Horse trainer is an odd job for a lion, but Lou prefers his horses to most people, even when they talk back and fuss because he didn’t bring them sugar cubes. After mucking stalls and mending fences, he deals with Pride politics over a beer and a game of pool. He also teaches the mated lionesses how to line dance, keeping the peace and marriages together.

Detective Lou Giroux has always been good at keeping secrets—especially his own. As a werewolf working for the New Orleans Police Department, Lou’s job is more than solving homicides. He’s a peacekeeper between the human world and the supernatural forces that lurk in the shadows of the Crescent City. But when the body of a young woman is found beneath the Crescent City Connection, it kicks off a series of chilling events that threaten to unravel the delicate balance Lou has fought to maintain.

1867. Ancien esclave et sorcier vaudou, Sam espère réaliser ses rêves après avoir accompli assez de missions pour l'agence Silverton , dirigée par Allan Pinkerton et Victor Hugo. Il peut compter sur les loas, divinités qui murmurent à son oreille et l'aident à affronter les spectres… selon leur bon vouloir. Sam doit aussi faire équipe avec la fratrie O'Reilly : Linus, soldat coincé par un enchantement dans un corps d'enfant et adepte des explosifs, ainsi que Sinéad, rescapée d'un asile aux puissants dons de médium qui lui permettent de voir les fantômes.

Mit Hilfe eines besonderen Rubins gelangt Trevor in eine Fantasiewelt, in der sich mächtige Männer Harems zulegen, attraktive Fuchsdamen ihre Schwänze schwingen und es echte Magie gibt. Der Clou: Trevor ist ein waschechter Rubinmagier, der seine Feinde in Schutt und Asche legen kann.

CLICK! is a series of video games rigged in life by our game-master, based not on truth but on the lie that our make-believe roles are only make-believe. Can we hack our game-master till he self-destructs, then starting from childhood have our counter-game cure our earlier mistakes, or will the TNT of repeated adolescence blow up the therpaist?

Pre-med student Coral is on vacation in Idaho when something terrible happens. The black cloud is followed by a wildfire and searing heat that lasts for days. She survives deep in a cave but emerges days later to find the world transformed, with blackened trees, an ash-filled sky, and no living creatures stirring - except for her. So begins her desperate journey to find water and food and other survivors...and the answer to the mystery of what happened.

Henry Stasik, an Internal Affairs agent for the globe-spanning Coalition, is no stranger to crooked agents or scandals. He's a truth-junkie. An addict. But when international celebrity Anastasia Danicheva specifically demands his presence at a police station, everything changes. The Coalition, which has brought peace through uniting the world under a single banner, wants her dead. But none of their case against her adds up.

It’s 1867 and three close friends; the immortal magician Celwyn, the automat Professor Xiau Kang, and Bartholomew, a scientist and widower from Sudan, set out on another adventure as they travel to Singapore to fetch the professor’s wife. Prepare to explore a world reminiscent of our own yet filled with magic and steampunk! Their private, magically enhanced train, the Elizabeth, is carrying them through the countryside when they witness the purposeful crash of a hot air balloon next to them.

Through twenty years of prosperity and progress, King Everson and Queen Allegra have lovingly nurtured peace between the once mortal enemies, Indira and Mano. The war which nearly drowned both worlds in chaos is merely a memory. But peace can be fragile... Unexplained tremors beneath the ground can no longer be ignored. They grow stronger each day, impossible to miss. Some claim it's nothing. Others, that it foretells the apocalypse. This new and unforeseen threat opens old wounds and creates fresh fissures within the palace, throwing the court into a maelstrom of palace intrigue.

It is 1876. Three close friends—Jonas Celwyn, the automat Professor Xiau Kang, and Bartholomew, a scientist and widower from Sudan—set out on another adventure. Celwyn has been wounded and all that keeps the immortal peyote-eating magician alive are the skills of an old enemy, his half-brother Pelaez. After Celwyn is taken aboard the submarine Nautilus by his companions, they must journey to Thales, the healer of the immortals. Even for the intrepid Captain Nemo and his fearless crew, the adventure will prove deadly.

Richard Shaw, an insurance investigator from Lloyds of London, arrives in Rio de Janeiro in 1851. He is there to discover why so many of the great sailing ships of the world are disappearing in the south Atlantic, never making it to or from the Pacific Ocean. From each side of the continent, two ships set sail: one helmed by Captain Peech to hunt for treasure and the other ferrying passengers like Cassandra Coulter, who only hopes for safe passage. Both ships encounter murder and supernatural forces. When the survivors unwillingly rendezvous in Cape Horn, they run straight into Richard Shaw.

Comme le disaient Mozart et Shakespeare : "Il est très agréable de jouir d'un don exceptionnel, mais il ne faut pas oublier que c'est une source inépuisable d'embêtements." À douze ans, Lou partage absolument cette opinion. Au prétexte qu'elle est en mesure de faire tomber immédiatement les pires calamités sur la tête de tous ceux qui la contrarient, on l'enferme dans un endroit secret en compagnie de militaires haut gradés pour qu'elle devienne une arme absolue capable de mettre en échec les plans malveillants des ennemis du pays.

While on a mission to avenge the death of his lover, the immortal peyote-eating magician Celwyn is hired to deliver an automat, Professor Kang, to a priest. But Celwyn quickly learns that everything he's been told is a lie. Now his ship, the Zelda, is stuck in a horrific storm and Celwyn knows he must reconsider his allegiance if he is to steer his vessel in the right direction and continue his quest.

In a Kingdom where descendants of the Nasinreth tribe are exiled or put to death, three sisters survive secretly in plain sight until the day they are forced between choosing guilt in freedom, or fight and be branded as traitors to the crown. Sirien, Amalie and Davina, each born with “ Blessed Blood”, hold a gift of the Nasinreth: Visionary, healer, wisdom beyond reason, and defender. Forced to adapt and survive, they suppress and hide their gifts from the world, and even one another.

When Chief Whip Esme Kanha learns of the sudden death of the Minister for Personal Information, she bitterly regrets missing his desperate calls the previous evening. Unconvinced by the verdict of suicide, and suspicious that corrupt colleagues played some part in the man’s death, she decides to investigate—but she must tread carefully in a near-future world dominated by technology, where "what can see, watches, what can hear, listens, and what can be followed is tracked."

Is it still revenge if you kill the innocent? Fast, furious, and with an iron will - Louie Thorne is the woman they fear. Crime lords the world over go to great lengths to escape her retribution. But with her terrifying gift and relentless drive, there is nowhere in the world they can hide. For Lou it’s personal. When her father was murdered by drug lords, Lou survived not only because of her supernatural ability to be anywhere at any time, but because she found a reason to live: Revenge. She vowed to destroy those who carelessly destroyed the lives of others.

Louie Thorne is good at only one thing. Killing. She knows peace only when she kills and this relentless thirst drives her to hunt the world's worst crime lords. But when her cancer-stricken aunt makes a dying wish, Louie is torn between her own dark nature and a promise made to the only family she has left.

The Cursed world is back. The Northline pack has been compromised. Louvette Blackwood isn’t sure who she can trust. The one thing she know is her pack and Arsen Whitecreek are on her side. On top of that, her Gift is turning out to be more of a curse than she realized.

Chris Astor is a man in his early forties who is going through the toughest stretch of his life. Becky is Chris's fourteen-year-old daughter, a girl who overcame enormous challenges to become a vibrant, vital young woman - and now faces her greatest obstacle yet. Miea is the young queen of a fantasy land that Becky and Chris created when Becky was little, a fantasy land that has developed a life of its own and now finds itself in terrible, maybe fatal trouble.

In an age of augmented reality, love is found in the most dangerous places. Stranded on Mars, megacorp programmer Derek Tobbit drowns his sorrows in augmented reality sex - only to have his drug-fueled midlife crisis hijacked by a conspiracy that threatens the solar system. It will take all his hacker skill, the friendship of a rogue AI, and the redemptive power of an impossible love to save them.