Ergebnis für "Me" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

Er ist ein talentierter Manga-Zeichner auf der Überholspur. Sie seine schärfste Kritikerin. In ihrem romantischen Fantasy-Roman verbindet die Bestseller-Autorin Liza Grimm Urban Fantasy mit Manga – ein wunderbar emotionales Hörerlebnis! Als die erfolgreiche Manga-Influencerin Toni eines Tages in New York von einer seltsamen Kreatur angegriffen wird, kommt ihr der charmante Hikaru zu Hilfe. Toni ahnt nicht, dass ihr Retter einer der erfolgreichsten Mangaka weltweit ist, denn Hikaru meidet die Öffentlichkeit.

Mia’s biggest nightmare is about to manifest—her mother is coming to town with her husband du jour in tow. Never mind the sorry state of the garden, the hormonal inches insulating Mia’s waist, or the Orca-sized cat that likes to rest her girth on Mia’s head in the middle of the night when she’s too tired to object.

I refuse to spend the rest of my life with my childhood bully for a mate. I may be a cursed shifter, incapable of shifting—but I wasn't desperate. Not till the Alpha Supreme cast me out of the House of Fire and Fluorite for rejecting his son. Now I'm packless. Homeless. No longer under the protection of a House. Until the dark vampire king of Blood and Beryl turns his sights on me. In return for protection from my former House, I have to become his fake mate. I'll be a queen and a fraud. It's a treacherous lie to live—and I find myself forgetting what's real and what's not.

Witch Wynter Dellavale knows that for certain. Because in unfairly trying to execute her, they started a chain of events they're struggling to stop. Needing safety, she flees to Devil's Cradle, the home of monsters. A place for the outcasts, the fugitives, the crazies. A place ruled by the Ancients, seven beings who were once banished by the Aeons. Among the Ancients is the infamous Cain, brother of Abel and embodiment of jealousy - who, on another note, wants her in his bed.

You Let Me In delivers a stunning tale from debut author Camilla Bruce, combining the sinister domestic atmosphere of Gillian Flynn's Sharp Objects with the otherworldly thrills of Neil Gaiman's The Ocean at the End of the Lane. Cassandra Tipp is dead...or is she? After all, the notorious...

»Egal wie stark die anderen sind. Du hast die Kraft, sie alle zu tragen.« Das Volk der Feuergreife hat Kindras Heimatland Peesra mit einem verheerenden Fluch belegt und größtenteils zerstört. Seit Jahrzehnten tobt ein aussichtsloser Krieg um die letzte Stadt, die von einer magischen Blase geschützt wird. Wer außerhalb der Barriere überleben will, muss sich mit einem Ankii, einem magiebegabten Tier, verbünden. Vor Jahren zog ihre Schwester Sheila in den Krieg, und seitdem lebt Kindra vereinsamt in ihrer Wohnung.

Only days have passed since a freak accident granted four college students superhuman powers. Now Jools and her friends (who haven’t even picked out a name for their superhero team yet) get caught up in the hunt for a Mad Genius’ misplaced super-weapon. But when Jools falls in with a modern-day Robin Hood and his band of superpowered Merry Men, she finds it hard to sort out the Good Guys from the Bad Guys - and to figure out which side she truly belongs on. Especially since nobody knows exactly what the Gun does....

Almena Guillory, better known as the Grizzly Queen of the West, has plenty to recommend her for the noose, but US Marshal Apostle Richardson enforces the law, he doesn't decide it. When a posse tries to lynch Almena ahead of her trial, Apostle refuses their form of expedited justice - and receives a bullet for his trouble. Before escaping, however, Almena unexpectedly saves his life by absorbing his wound through the use of dangerous flesh magic.

The Difference Between You and Me is a modern-day comedy of manners, an insider's take on Hollywood protocol and prestige. With her sly yet generous wit, DeMarco illuminates everyday annoyances and disasters that every woman will recognize - office backstabbing, why-won't-he-call frustrations, and the unsettling vacuum that can open up in the middle of the busiest life.

Drew Maddox is a private investigator who believes what his eyes can see. He has very little use for imagination and flights of fantasy annoy him, yet when a naked woman suddenly appears on the road in front of his truck in the middle of a snow storm, it sends his brain tumbling and his life into a spiral of myth he can barely comprehend.

The world ends not with a bang but a hiss. Since the Rise of Magic, soothsayer Journi McCutcheon has faced supernatural sycophants, dated zealous zombies, and battled possessed pediatricians, but when an eccentric client hires her to investigate haunted pickles, her day goes from weird to worse.

What happens when The Firm meets Anita Blake? You get the Halls of Power - our modern world, but twisted. Law, finance, the military, and politics are under the sway of long-lived vampires, werewolves, and the elven Alfar. Humans make the best of rule by “the Spooks”, and contend among themselves to affiliate with the powers-that-be, in order to avoid becoming their prey. Very loyal humans are rewarded with power over other women and men. Very lucky humans are selected to join the vampires.

En un tiempo ignoto (mayo de 2007) y en un Madrid terrorífico, roto en zanjas por las excavadoras y con la población presa del pánico por la gripe aviar, el protagonista de esta historia vaga de cuerpo en cuerpo intentando averiguar su propia identidad, intentando no enamorarse de una muchacha hacia la que sus distintos cuerpos lo llevan, intentando ver una película en la que sorprendentemente se hallan las claves de lo que le ocurre e intentando que no suceda un crimen del que ya ha sido testigo y del que conoce casi todo: el asesino, el arma homicida, el día y la hora. Todo menos la víctima....

David Vandergraff lost his home, his job, and contact with his oldest son, but remains determined to be a good husband and father despite being a dark winter wizard. His resolve is tested when a flyer for a missing girl - who happens to be a summer witch - begins to haunt him. David believes a spell needs to use him to save her, so he follows the magic's command and looks into her disappearance. His teenage daughter Emmy resents him for caring so much about a random stranger.

Ancient folklore and modern myth come together in these stories by author Craig Laurance Gidney. Here are found the struggles of a medieval Japanese monk seduced by a mischievous fairy, and a young slave who finds mystery deep within the briar patch of an antebellum plantation. Gidney offers a gay teen obsessed with his patron saint, Lena Horne, and, in the title story, an ailing tourist seeks escape at a distant shore but never reckons on encountering an African sea god. Rich, poetic, dark and disturbing, these are distinctive tales not soon forgotten.

El esperado final de la saga "¿Tú me ves?" La isla de Roanoke está cerrada por cuarentena y se ha declarado el estado de excepción. El ejército patrulla las calles y la gente se refugia dentro de sus casas, aterrada por esa enfermedad desconocida que va llevándoselos uno a uno. Eloise Carter y su grupo son los únicos que saben la verdad acerca de lo que está ocurriendo. Saben que no es una epidemia, sino la consecuencia de un ritual del que solo conocen una palabra: Croatoan.

There is a mystery afoot. What has happened to Adam Goodman? Compelling mysteries, like any good story, have been around as long as human beings have had the breath to tell them. Lilith: Queen of the Night is the kind of good story that involves mysterious beings, the everyday working Joes (like you and me), the poor dumb clucks, the Everyman, the Willie Lohman types, and in this case, the eternal optimist, Adam Goodman.

Where does a superhero go to find love? After fruitless years of searching, Laurel finally went to an internet dating site to look for Mr. Right. What she found was her own personal superhero.

A heatwave in Southern California is bad news, and when Amanda’s air conditioning unit breaks down, things quickly go from bad to worse. It’ll take a full day to repair, sending Amanda on a desperate mission to keep cool.

Here at Gordon's Pub and Grill, we get all kinds. My policy is that everybody is welcome and should be treated as a friend when they step foot inside my establishment. That policy never changed even when Death himself paid a visit.