Ergebnis für "Nora Roberts" in Urban Fantasy

Grafisch ontwerper Sonya MacTavish is sprakeloos als ze een landhuis erft van haar oom van wie ze het bestaan niet kende. En wat ze ook niet weet, is dat ze niet de enige bewoner van het landhuis is: de geest van een vermoorde bruid is nog altijd aanwezig. Volgens het testament moet Sonya minstens drie jaar in het huis, aan de kust van Maine, blijven wonen. Ze besluit op onderzoek uit te gaan in de hoop erachter te komen hoe haar vader en oom na hun geboorte gescheiden zijn geraakt en waarom dit al die jaren geheim is gebleven.

Just as Fred is settling down in his new abode, he receives word that a favor is being called in, one he promised to a dangerously powerful member of otherworldly royalty. Bracing for danger, adventure, and unknown threats, Fred is instead asked to take on an entirely different role than anticipated. Acting as interim professor at one of the few universities for supernatural entities, Fred will have to navigate a strange environment, eccentric co-workers, and unenthusiastic students. Yet that alone won’t be enough, for this college has more history than the tales in its tomes.

Someone is poisoning San Francisco's foodies. Tony Mandolin, the fog city's only Private Eye with a view into the supernatural, has been retained to find out whom and why. Unfortunately this brings him to the attention of Medb, the Queen of the Unseelie Court and it seems that Tony's only hope of survival lies in the hands of Landau Bain, the alcoholic wizard, and Bain is cranky.

All families come with their own unique problems, but when that family is a clan of Eastern European vampires led by an extremely wealthy viscount living it up in a luxurious, imported castle, only Tony Mandolin can solve the problem. San Francisco's only flatfoot with an eye into the weird runs into trouble with a pregnant werewolf. Tony swears he never laid a hand on her. Now someone's burning the city's more corrupt citizens alive from the inside out. Needless to say, the city fathers are not pleased.