Ergebnis für "Mrs. Midnight" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Niemals wird sie den Tag vergessen, an dem ihre Eltern starben. Die 17-jährige Emma Carstairs war noch ein Kind, als sie damals ermordet wurden, und es herrschte Krieg. Die Wesen der Unterwelt kämpften bis aufs Blut gegeneinander, und die Schattenjäger, die Erzfeinde der Dämonen, wurden fast völlig ausgelöscht. Aber Emma glaubt bis heute nicht, dass ihre Eltern Opfer dieses dunklen Krieges wurden, sondern dass sie aus einem anderen rätselhaften Grund sterben mussten.

Niemals wird sie den Tag vergessen, an dem ihre Eltern starben. Die 17-jährige Emma Carstairs war noch ein Kind, als sie damals ermordet wurden, und es herrschte Krieg. Die Wesen der Unterwelt kämpften bis aufs Blut gegeneinander, und die Schattenjäger, die Erzfeinde der Dämonen, wurden fast völlig ausgelöscht. Aber Emma glaubt bis heute nicht, dass ihre Eltern Opfer dieses dunklen Krieges wurden, sondern dass sie aus einem anderen rätselhaften Grund sterben mussten.

Saleem Sinai is born on the stroke of midnight on 14th-15th August 1947, at the exact moment that India and Pakistan become separate, independent nations. From that moment on, his fate is mysteriously handcuffed to the history of his country. But Saleem's story starts almost 30 years earlier, when his grandfather, Dr Aadam Aziz, falls in love with a woman concealed behind a perforated sheet. That pivotal moment in Kashmir in 1919 sparks a series of bizarre events that will lead to the birth of a boy with an extraordinary destiny.

Für Nell ist bereits bei der ersten Begegnung klar: Mr. Nigh kann nur ein Scharlatan sein. Er behauptet, mit einem Verdächtigen in einem Fall von Bankraub gesprochen zu haben – nach dessen Ableben. Angeblich kann er mit den Toten Kontakt sprechen. Doch als sich einiges von dem bewahrheitet, was Mr. Nigh behauptet hat, nimmt Nell noch einmal Kontakt zu ihm auf. Bald geht es bei ihrem Fall buchstäblich um Leben und Tod. Sie gerät in eine Welt aus Schatten und Licht, voller Geheimnisse und ungelöster Fragen. Nur Nigh könnte ihr jetzt helfen. Doch warum sollte er das tun?

In picturesque Moonlight Cove, California, inexplicable deaths occur, and spine-tingling terror descends to this "edge of paradise". Growing numbers of residents harbor a secret so dark it is sure to cost even more lives.

Frank and his team have their work cut out for them. The club needs new guests, drinks, trophies, and employees, not to mention a good mopping of blood after every shift. Guests love him, but the bounty hunters aren't pleased at all with Frank's success. Hector, their leader, knows just what it takes to knock his former friend down a peg or two. Just when Frank thinks things can't get any crazier, he gets invited to a bizarre nightclub owner meeting. New alliances will have to be forged, and dangerous waters will threaten to swallow him.

The orcs are thirsty. And so are Captain Frank Gerber's swords, but apparently, you can't murder your customers. Stuck with a nightclub after a job gone wrong, Frank has to figure out how to rebuild something he never even wanted. That's just the first of his problems. Frank's blades will have a taste of blood again, but first, he has to party with orcs, barter with gnomes, drink with dwarves, and make shady deals with the scum of Sankta Varath, the greatest city in all of Steelheart Kingdom. And that's just the first week.

'Love, passion, drama, violence, menace and peril, and characters you fall in love with!’ – Santa Montefiore, author of Shadows in the Moonlight The mystery of St Kilda's residents are all revealed in the epic conclusion to Karen Swan's historical series set in Scotland. Jayne Ferguson has...

It's Carnival time and the Caribbean-colonized planet of Toussaint is celebrating with music, dance, and pageantry. Masked "Midnight Robbers" waylay revelers with brandished weapons and spellbinding words. To young Tan-Tan, the Robber Queen is simply a favorite costume to wear at the festival - until her power-corrupted father commits an unforgiveable crime. Suddenly, both father and daughter are thrust into the brutal world of New Half-Way Tree....

When Bethany moves to Windy Falls and into a new house, she doesn't know anything about the weird woman who once lived there or the mysterious cloud that hangs over the gloomy village. Being a born explorer, Bethany seeks the answers to a host of strange events and discovers a magical world in a very unexpected place. She finds a witch in a magical kitchen who teaches her how to cast spells of her own; but is Mrs Etherington-Strange everything she appears to be?

Taken from the wild and thrust into a deadly situation in a strange realm, I have no choice but to accept my role in the prophecy. As new friends and new threats gather, I prepare to say good-bye to loved ones—and, quite possibly, the world as we know it.

Calcutta, May 1916. Lieutenant Peake pauses for breath outside the ruins of Jheeter's Gate station knowing that he only has a few hours to live. Inside his overcoat he is sheltering two newborn babies - twins, a boy and a girl. Peake runs at full tilt to the house of Aryami Bose, to whom he entrusts the children. In 1932 we meet the boy, Ben, and his group of friends the night before they are due to leave St Patricks orphanage.