Ergebnis für "Nexus" in Belletristik

Following recent sightings of mysterious lights in the night sky, the account of a traumatized woman, and a local suicide, an investigator and a university student are drawn into the heart of the supernatural battle between good and evil, uncovering the connection between seemingly unrelated events as powerful dark forces threaten to destroy them, and their entire city.

A galactic war rages between the Nexus—an artificial intelligence that got its beginning as a virtual reality video game—and the scattered resistance fighting to reclaim freedom. At the helm of the Nexus’s assault on humanity and freedom is the Tyrant, a personality core of the Nexus. From the mythic world of Luminaria, Aetherveil emerges as the galaxy’s only hope for triumph, and she and her assistant Lilyon lead elite Sentinels to halt the Tyrant’s advance.

After two rounds in the Nexus Games, Alex Kellan has developed strange and powerful abilities, but if he wants any chance of winning, he needs more. When the Arbiter offers the teams a challenge round for arcana and magical items, Kellan leaps at the opportunity. Separated from half his team, Kellan has to navigate a deadly maze all while escorting a kid to the finish. When the Nexus residents get involved, the challenge becomes even more complicated.

Special Forces Soldier Alex Kellan has three problems. He’s on forced medical leave, he’s alone on Christmas, and two men are actively stalking his every step. Things get worse when Kellan wakes up in a twisted world, where people have magical abilities, and high-tech weaponry. It turns out, Kellan’s stalkers want him to participate in a deadly competition - whether or not Kellan agrees. Forced to participate in the infamous Nexus Games, Kellan must risk everything to survive the competition, and save the other members of his ragtag team.

After one death-defying adventure after another, he's ready for some well-deserved downtime. So he's gone to a hot beach in Mareta, a sleepy fishing village in southern Portugal. The year is 1964. He hopes only to flirt with bikinied tourists and drink cold Sagres beers. But two things seem to follow Matt wherever and whenever he goes. A chance to help someone in need, and trouble-trouble-trouble.

After 400 years, Technohaven’s dome has finally fallen. Now that Sloan has discovered her ability to interact with the mysterious Data Nexus, she can free Maya from the dungeons. They can begin their lives anew, beyond the border. The two siblings wouldn’t have to defend themselves against controlling automatons or fight prisoners for resources. But Sloan’s dream of peace will have to wait. Cipher’s obsession with power worsened after she entered the maze. He’s determined to command the city, and he needs Sloan to do it.

When college student Rena Collins finds herself nose-to-chest with the campus outcast, she's stunned. Wallace Blake is everything she's ever wanted in a man - except he can't touch her. His uncontrollable strength, a so-called gift from his bloodline, makes every interaction dangerous. And with a secret, supernatural war brewing among his kind, there's no time to work it out. To keep Wallace in her life, Rena will have to risk a whole lot more than her heart.

It was a time when liars were heroes and killers walked free. Jake McBride is a San Francisco assistant district attorney, who watches the killer Johnny Rheingold go free on a technicality. Mr. Melbourne offers Jake a chance to bring Rheingold to justice in the old American West. Jake becomes Marshal Jake McBride from Brinson, Nevada. The adventure begins when silver on the way to the US mint in Carson City disappears from Overland Train 924 outside Brinson. Rheingold arrives in town on the evening stage, and the quest for justice begins.