Ergebnis für "Nora" in Action & Abenteuer

A thousand years ago, Dianna gave up her life in the deserts of Eoria to save her dying sister. She called upon anyone who would listen, not expecting a monster far worse than any nightmare to answer. Now she does what Kaden asks, even if that means securing an ancient relic from the very creatures that hunt her.

Nesta Archeron has always been prickly-proud, swift to anger, and slow to forgive. And ever since being forced into the Cauldron and becoming High Fae against her will, she's struggled to find a place for herself within the strange, deadly world she inhabits. Worse, she can't seem to move past the horrors of the war with Hybern and all she lost in it. The one person who ignites her temper more than any other is Cassian, the battle-scarred warrior whose position in Rhysand and Feyre's Night Court keeps him constantly in Nesta's orbit. But her temper isn't the only thing Cassian ignites.

Der Herzog von Leuenburg, dem nördlichsten Herzogtum im Reich der Herrin, plant eine Expedition ins Wilderland, einem unwirtlichen und ursprünglichen Landstrich in den äußeren Peripherien der bekannten Welt. Tristan, ein junger Leutnant der Stadtwache, wird mit den Vorbereitungen und der Durchführung beauftragt. Pflichtbewusst und voller Tatendrang macht er sich an die Arbeit, doch schon bald werden seine Bemühungen das Ziel von Sabotageakten.

Die Anfänge der Reise ins Wilderland gestalten sich zunächst ruhig und beschaulich. Kaum im Grenzgebiet nördlich der Leue angekommen, sieht sich die Gruppe um Tristan jedoch ganz plötzlich mit einem verwahrlosten, halb verhungerten Mädchen konfrontiert. Linwen, die heilkundige Priesterin der Herrin, nimmt sich ihm sofort an und Dank Shachin wird auch rasch offenbar, was wirklich hinter dem Schicksal des Mädchens steckt. Dessen Geschichte ist jedoch erst der Anfang seltsamer Geschehnisse im Norden.

Eine innere Unruhe hat Taris, den Hauptmann der Stadtwache, seit der Niederlage der Schwarzen Skorpione in Leuenburg erfasst. Eigentlich sollte er froh über die Entwicklung sein, doch der Kriegerinstinkt in ihm gemahnt zur Vorsicht. Angst schleicht sich auf leisen Pfoten in sein Herz, und mit dem Einlass eines verwahrlosten Wagens setzt er schließlich ungewollt verhängnisvolle Ereignisse in Gang, an deren Ende der Untergang einer ganzen Stadt stehen könnte. Als er seinen Fehler erkennt, macht er sich, gemeinsam mit dem Medikus und dem Erlöser der Stadt, daran, das drohende Unheil abzuwenden.

When the magic is up, rogue mages cast their spells and monsters appear, while guns refuse to fire and cars fail to start. But then technology returns, and the magic recedes as unpredictably as it arose, leaving all kinds of paranormal problems in its wake. Kate Daniels is a down-on-her-luck mercenary who makes her living cleaning up these magical problems. But when Kate’s guardian is murdered, her quest for justice draws her into a power struggle between two strong factions within Atlanta’s magic circles.

Kate has come a long way from her origins as a loner taking care of paranormal problems in post-Shift Atlanta. She's made friends and enemies. She's found love and started a family with Curran Lennart, the former Beast Lord. But her magic is too strong for the power players of the world to let her be.

Die Jagd nach den Widergängern in Leuenburg hat begonnen. Alte Geheimnisse, verborgen in verstaubten Schriften, führen Taris und die anderen an längst vergessene Orte der Stadt und damit auf die Spur der Incubi. Menschen verschwinden, und ein alter Bekannter findet sich urplötzlich im selben unheilvollen Strudel wieder, der auch die Herzogstadt in den Abgrund zu reißen droht. Sollte Uriel am Ende tatsächlich Recht behalten und die Wiederkehr in Leuenburg ihren Anfang nehmen? Was weiß Herzog Grodwig darüber, und warum verlässt er derart überhastet den Reichstag beim König?

"Die Töchter der Elemente" - Die große Serie von A. L. Knorr. Ibby arbeitet als Archäologin in einem Museumsarchiv in London. Ihre Arbeit wirkt recht monoton. Nur ihr fürchterlicher Boss sorgt gelegentlich für Aufregung. Darum kann Ibby es kaum glauben, als sie im Museum ein nirgendwo registriertes Artefakt entdeckt. Ein Artefakt, das sich nicht nur nirgendwo einordnen lässt, sondern das Ibby auch seltsame Kräfte verleiht.

Dina Demille may run the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, but she caters to a very particular kind of guest… the kind that no one on Earth is supposed to know about. Guests like a former intergalactic tyrant with an impressive bounty on her head, the Lord Marshal of a powerful vampire clan, and a displaced-and-superhot werewolf; so don’t stand too close, or you may be collateral damage.

For time out of mind, bloodthirsty demons have stalked the night, culling the human race to scattered remnants dependent on half-forgotten magics to protect them. Then two heroes arose - men as close as brothers, yet divided by bitter betrayal. Arlen Bales became known as the Warded Man, tattooed head to toe with powerful magic symbols that enable him to fight demons in hand-to-hand combat - and emerge victorious.

In the early 1990’s, Hellboy, Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapien are drawn into a bizarre case in New York, linked both to Hellboy’s 1980 adventure with Anastasia in Brazil and to The Lobster’s encounter with the Proteus Club in 1933. A strange community of bizarre humans has been living in secret beneath Manhattan for more than sixty years. Now, though, someone is stalking them, murdering them one by one—someone who claims to be the ancient goddess Sem-Karul. With aid from the now elderly Cynthia Tynan, Hellboy and the BPRD must face the Goddess of Manhattan, and the monsters who serve her.

Drafted into working for the Order of Merciful Aid, mercenary Kate Daniels has more paranormal problems than she knows what to do with these days. And in Atlanta, where magic comes and goes like the tide, that’s saying a lot. But when Kate's werewolf friend Derek is discovered nearly dead, she must confront her greatest challenge yet. As her investigation leads her to the Midnight Games—an invitation only, no holds barred, ultimate preternatural fighting tournament—she and Curran, the Lord of the Beasts, uncover a dark plot that may forever alter the face of Atlanta's shapeshifting community.

There is more in our world than you know. Deep in the darkness of a government building, one man needs to find the perfect solution to a vampire’s request that the government satisfy the debt of honor owed him. If he falls short, the failure will be paid in the blood of the military. He needs three uniquely qualified individuals. He can find only one. One woman, dying, might be the ace-in-the-hole he needs to appease the Vampire. But then, she might also be the one person needed to save humanity. If she is accepted, will she willingly change?

For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, Royce returns to Medford with Hadrian but the two receive a very different reception—Gwen refuses to see them. The victim of abuse by a powerful noble, she suspects that Royce will ignore any danger in his desire for revenge. By turning the thieves away, Gwen hopes to once more protect them. What she doesn't realize is what the two are capable of—but she's about to find out.

It starts with a shipwreck following a magical storm at sea. Horace, a soldier from the West, had joined the Great Crusade against the heathens of Akeshia after the deaths of his wife and son from plague. When he washes ashore, he finds himself at the mercy of the very people he was sent to kill, who speak a language and have a culture and customs he doesn't even begin to understand. Not long after, Horace is pressed into service as a house slave. But this doesn't last.

Darkness lurks in the shadows as a betrothed princess wrestles with a dangerous new magic that threatens her bond with her beloved horse—and a forbidden love for the enemy sworn to protect her. Zara has never felt worthy of her title as First Daughter. Though next in line to lead her people...

When Eric Carter helps a friend with a deadly ritual that could determine the fate of the most powerful mage family in Los Angeles he steps into the middle of centuries-long feuds with people who make the Borgias look like the Brady Bunch. Eric's just fine with the murder, soul eaters, and death magic. He's just having trouble adjusting to being brought back from the grave. If he's not careful, somebody's going to put him right back.

Rather than accepting a marriage arranged by his mother, the powerful military matriarch of Westwind, Creslin chooses exile, setting out to find his own identity and developing his magical talents through conflict with the enigmatic white wizards of Candar. What Creslin doesn't know he stands in the way of their plot to subjugate the world.

When a two-thousand-year-old jewel of Cleopatra’s is discovered in a Brooklyn construction zone, Annja, Roux, and Garin team up to hunt for the missing tomb of Cleopatra. From the sand dunes of The Sudan, to the misty avenues of London, and the ruins of ancient Alexandria beneath the Mediterranean Sea, Annja uncovers Egyptian mysteries. The great pyramids on the River Nile have secret chambers, mummies, and tombs full of endless gold.