Resultaat voor "Miles" in Stedelijke Fantasy

Jared craved an ordinary life. Clock in, do paperwork, clock out. He gave up magic, joined the Meta Marshal Service, and just wanted to be left alone. Until a routine prisoner transport went awry and blew up his entire existence. That was when he found Cassie down on her knees in the wreckage, asking him for help. And he knew in that instant: Magic just wouldn't leave him alone. Now he's on a hunt for an escaped convict and a powerful ancient artifact with the potential to ruin their world for good.

In the latest Argeneau novel from New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands, an immortal and her mortal pilot are on the run from hungry vampires...and discover they’re life mates along the way. Jet Lassiter likes being a pilot for Argeneau Inc. Perks included travelling to exotic...

The witch known as the Patron has been controlling Tessa since childhood with compulsion and pain magic, but she's come to realize that she isn’t the only one. Tessa now knows that if she fails and dies before she can stop him that there may never be another detective good enough to find him, which would leave thousands of victims enslaved to him forever. But with the weight of his magic ripping her mind apart, Tessa may already be too far gone to keep fighting. Will she have the strength to give her all one last time, or will she fall and take the Hidden down with her...?

Joshuas kleine Schwester stirbt an Leukämie, seine Eltern trennen sich und in der Schule wird er gemobbt. Als Joshua glaubt, dass es nicht mehr schlimmer werden kann, erwacht er eines Tages in Orasyen, einer vollkommen fremden Welt, wo er von seinem Schicksal als letzter Torwächter erfährt. Daraufhin begibt sich Joshua auf die gefahrenvolle Suche nach der Aufgabe, die nur er erfüllen kann. Während er immer weiter ins Herz Orasyens vordringt, sind ihm bösartige Kreaturen auf den Fersen, die ein einziges Ziel verfolgen: ihn zu vernichten, um dem Bösen den Weg zu ebnen.

In The Buzz Kill by Kevin Hearne, Oberon the Irish wolfhound, and Starbuck the Boston Terrier sink their teeth into a new Meaty Mystery when they discover a body underneath a beehive in Tasmania. It’s been badly stung, but the bees aren’t at fault: This is homicide. The hounds recruit the help of their Druid, Atticus O’Sullivan, and the Tasmanian police to track down the killer in the interest of a reward - but this time, they want more than food, and justice.

Jared thought he craved an ordinary life. Clock in, do paperwork, clock out. He gave up magic, joined the Meta Marshal Service, and just wanted to be left alone. Until he found his first girlfriend, Cassie, down on her knees in the wreckage of a prisoner transport vehicle, almost got killed by a bunch of angry Dryads, and met his second girlfriend, Jessalene, after she held a gun to his head. Now he's out to hunt down a missing elf that holds the key to saving Jessalene's clan.

Roseline Enescue didn't ask to become an immortal, to have all of the guests at her wedding slaughtered, or to be forced into marriage with a man whose lust for blood would one day ignite the vampire legend. Willing to risk everything for a chance at a normal life, Roseline escapes to America. But her transition into the human world isn't easy. Mortal men flock after her while cutthroat girls plot her demise. Yet she remains relatively unfazed until she meets Gabriel Marston.

A Long Day in Lychford is the third audiobook in Paul Cornell's increasingly popular Witches of Lychford series. It's a period of turmoil in Britain, with the country's politicians electing to remove the UK from the European Union, despite ever-increasing evidence that the public no longer...

Anna Walker’s hunt for the Grail Cup—the relic of eternal life—puts her directly in Lucifer’s sights. To force her hand, he threatens the one person she cannot lose: her mother. As Anna races to claim the relic, vampiric zealots rise to steal it, and every path is fraught with betrayal. Through it all, Kincade remains her anchor, fighting at her side and determined to keep her from the dark lord’s grasp. But when an unlikely ally with divine power joins their fight, even his strength may not be enough to protect her.

Anna Walker’s quest for the Holy Relics grows more dangerous by the day. Pursued by Azriel, tormented by a destroyer angel sent to lure her into darkness, and bound by her deepening feelings for Kincade, she struggles to hold on to the light. But when the Prince of Greed demands she destroy her own family—or forfeit her soul—Anna must confront the shadows within herself. Her only hope lies in recovering the Staff of Moses, but every step draws her closer to damnation.

The race is on to find the Spear of Destiny before Lucifer’s forces can claim it—and plunge the world into darkness. For Anna Walker, the mission becomes personal when her greatest enemy, Azriel, kidnaps her closest ally, demanding the spear in exchange for Kincade’s soul. As Anna battles time and temptation, a new threat emerges: the Knights of the Holy Lance, a faction with an army of engineered dream walkers and a twisted plan for the relic.

University life can be a real grind, and for twenty-two-year-old Dane Staley that means long hours in the library and not a lot of time for a social life. Not that he’s complaining. As a self-confessed bookworm, the library is a place of comfort for him. That is until he goes in search of research materials in a little used section of the lower level and his life changes forever.

Devil's Backbone: The Invisible Walls of Seven Mile is a full-cast audio production from the team at Kaiser & Tilly Publishing. Riveting sound effects, original music, and incredible acting by our full cast will transport you to the twisted town of Seven Mile, a small town located along the banks of California's winding Russian River, where the fishing is great and the wickedness is greater.

Peter Stone is a poor black vampire who has found undeath isn't all it was promised to be. There's no vast riches, innate cool, or super-sex appeal. No, instead, there's working the graveyard shift at a gas station alongside the highway to Detroit. Oh, and the blood thing sucks, too. Working a second job as the sheriff of the undead, Peter is asked to serve as bodyguard to a famous vampire romance novelist visiting the city. He doesn't go 24 hours before she's dead and he's the primary suspect. There's also evidence it was one of the most powerful vampires in the world.

After his family was slaughtered by two monsters made from the darkest of nightmares, Logan Blake became a seer, a human who was affected by a strong magical presence early in life. He now works as a contractor, a mercenary working in the Shattered Community.

When Donald Gardner's parents tell him they’ll be taking an exciting road trip through Kansas, he openly cringes. He is sure it will be a boring summer vacation. But at one of their final roadside stops on the way home, they are approached by a poor woman offering to sell a curious item—an antique silver shoe. 

Haitian-American Vodou priestess Mambo Reina Dumond runs a healing practice from her New Orleans home. Gifted with water magic since she was a child, Reina is devoted to the benevolent traditions of her ancestors. After a ritual slaying in the French Quarter, police arrest a fellow vodouisant. Detective Roman Frost, Reina’s ex-boyfriend - a fierce nonbeliever - is eager to tie the crime, and half a dozen others, to the Vodou practitioners of New Orleans. Reina resolves to find the real killer and defend the Vodou practice and customs.

After solving a crime blamed on Vodou in New Orleans’s French Quarter, Vodou priestess turned amateur detective Reina Dumond has returned to her benevolent work as a healer. But when her friend and enigmatic client Evangeline “Vangie” Stiles comes to her for a spell, Mambo Reina quickly realizes what Vangie really needs is a sleuth.

Earth is one step away from a nuclear war, and Paradigm Alpha’s solution to saving what they can of humanity is to upload their brains to The Doomsday System. But while most of the minds are being stored while they sleep, Jeff doesn’t have that option. As the only one who can be uploaded digitally and remain awake, he will be kept alive, as it were, in order to help humanity 10,000 years from now. But thanks to time compression in the system, it will only be a thousand years for him.

There's nothing more to say. My escalating feud with my family and my need for sweet revenge leaves a single course of action. Kill the leader of the Family, the legendary, all-powerful Manticore. He's one of the most guarded men in New Angeles, but I have a plan. Too bad it's the craziest, most irrational plan ever, but it's all I have.