Ergebnis für "Ravens" in Historisch

After a nearly fatal blow to the skull, traumatized private detective Ian Cameron is found dazed and confused on a muddy riverbank in Victorian London. Among his effects: a bloodstained business card bearing the name of a master wizard and a curious pocket watch that doesn’t seem to tell time. To retrieve his lost memories, Ian demands answers from Edwina and Mary Blackwood, sister witches with a murky past. But as their secret is slowly unveiled, a dangerous mystery emerges on the darkened streets of London.

Lady Selene is the heir to the Great House of Ravenwood and the secret family gift of dreamwalking. As a dreamwalker, she can enter a person's dreams and manipulate their greatest fears or desires. For the last hundred years, the Ravenwood women have used their gift of dreaming for hire to gather information or to assassinate. As she discovers her family's dark secret, Selene is torn between upholding her family's legacy - a legacy that supports her people - or seeking the true reason behind her family's gift.

A completely re-imagined epic of the man known as Robin Hood from multi-award-winning, bestselling author Stephen R. Lawhead—now with the complete trilogy in one volume. For centuries, the legend of Robin Hood and his band of thieves has captivated imaginations. Now the familiar tale takes on...

Siobhan has just been banned from the country's only magical university. As the unwitting accomplice to the theft of a priceless magical artifact, she has suddenly become a wanted criminal. There are fates worse than death, and if caught, she will face them. Unwilling to give up on her dream of becoming the world's most powerful sorcerer, she resolves to do whatever it takes to change her fate. Even if it means magically disguising herself as a boy and indebting herself to a gang of criminals to pay for university tuition.

Selene Ravenwood, once the heir to House Ravenwood, is now an exile. On the run and free of her family's destiny, Selene hopes to find the real reason her family was given the gift of dreamwalking. But first she must adapt to her new life as wife to Lord Damien Maris, the man she was originally assigned to kill. While adjusting to her marriage and her home in the north, her power over dreams begins to grow. As the strongest dreamwalker to exist in ages, her expanding power attracts not only nightmares but the attention of the Dark Lady herself.

Lady Selene Ravenwood has come into her full power as a dreamwalker just as the war with the Dominia Empire begins. Working with the other Great Houses, Selene and Damien use their gifts to secure the borders and save those devastated by the war. But conflict, betrayal, and hatred begin to spread between the Great Houses, destroying their unity as the empire burns a path across their lands. At the same time, Damien Maris starts to lose his ability to raise the waters, leaving the lands vulnerable to the empire's attacks.

A cold and callous tyrant has taken over Otherworld leaving death and destruction in his wake. The only hope is a prophecy written centuries before. But the woman named hasn’t a clue. How can a green girl from the States come to grips with a destiny she didn’t even know existed?

Forever untangling the branches of her strange family tree, Edwina Blackwood is at a turning point. Her parents’ disappearances still strike her as unaccountably odd. Her sister’s questionable life and untimely death have left her shaken. Spellfire has transformed her home and livelihood to ash. And now a devious stalker is on her trail. With supernatural detective Ian Cameron by her side, Edwina can’t get out of London fast enough.

The Raven and the Crown is a historical fantasy that takes us to the picaresque world of medieval England, but an England where power lingers in ancient stones, light spilling from the faerie kingdoms twinkles in night’s dim alcoves, and dark shadows may be doorways to the grim lands where the dead wander, searching for their final fates. In this England certain people can draw on that power, follow those lights and pass through those doors. Some search the lands beyond for knowledge, others for power.

Scotland, 1026 - Gruoch, descendant of the line of MacAlpin, should have been born into a life of ease. But fate is fickle. Her father's untimely death, rumored to have been plotted by King Malcolm, leaves her future uncertain and stained by the prophecy that she will avenge her family line. Escaping to one of the last strongholds of the old Celtic gods, Gruoch becomes an adept in arcane craft. Her encounters with the otherworld, however, suggest that magic runs stronger in Scotland than she ever imagined.

Llun the smith is an artist at heart, content to make the most beautiful swords, nails, and horseshoes in his city. But when his smithy is visited by the grand inquisitor of the secret police, his peaceful life is at an end. He is offered a perfect job - to be the exclusive smith of the new order. Endless luxury, good food, and the freedom to create - it’s everything he ever wanted. But it comes with a price.

Lord Devonshire Sinclair understands his family’s heightened senses are a result of a long-ago pact between the Sinclairs and the powerful Raven family. "To honor and protect" is their creed. He has also accepted that no woman could live at his side and understand what he is capable of…until now. Miss Lilliana Braithwaite has always appeared a woman of little sense, with a tendency to dress like a colorblind field mouse. Dev had, for two years, ignored her, until one night he finds her on the streets of London, attempting to rescue a child, and thereby hurling herself into danger.

Il fenomeno Romantasy che ha conquistato milioni di lettori in tutto il mondo. Benvenuti nel castello di Re Mida... Auren vive da tempo nel sontuoso palazzo di Re Mida, l’unico uomo capace di tramutare ogni cosa in oro soltanto toccandola. Pur essendo la favorita, la vita di Auren non può certo dirsi perfetta. Le sue giornate si svolgono tutte all’interno di una mirabolante gabbia dorata, dotata di passaggi e passerelle che le permettono di muoversi su un intero piano del castello. La prigioniera si sente protetta e al sicuro nella sua gabbia. Ma da cosa?

Legend says the Sinclairs' heightened senses are a result of a long ago pact between them and the powerful Raven family. To honor and protect is their creed, but the current Duke of Raven doesn’t make their task easy. Arrogant and aloof, James, Duke of Raven, is determined to forge his own path, and to hell with folk tales that his ancestors created. But when the breathtaking Eden Sinclair saves his life by risking her own, their past resurfaces, and with it comes the uncomfortable realization that they are linked by more than history.

Essex Sinclair understands her family’s heightened senses are a result of a long-ago pact between the Sinclairs and the powerful Raven family, but has always struggled to feel worthy of bearing the legendary Sinclair name. Unlucky in love, Essie has resolved to live a quiet, solitary life as a healer and leave passion to the young and foolish. When Max Huntington falls into her herb garden, a bullet hole in his side, her only intention is to heal him quickly and send him on his way. Then she touches him, and from that moment on, fate steps in with dangerous consequences for both.

Abandoned by the sun, shunned by the Father of the Gods himself, the North is a wild place; a brutally cold land, where ambitious lords keep their followers warm with tales of how they will be the one to claim the prized crown of Alekka. Stories woven on stormy nights, sung around blazing fires over cups of ale, tell of the one who will unite the two halves of the broken land. They whisper of the Bear Stone, where the prophecy of that man’s coming was etched two thousand years ago.

Nachdem die junge Dunkelelbin Racalla erfahren hat, dass sie die Auserwählte ist, um Efaeyia vor der Bedrohung durch die grausamen Orcs zu retten, beginnt ihr Training in Silberstrom. Von dort aus macht sie sich auf, Verbündete gegen die Kreaturen zu finden, die den gesamten Kontinent bedrohen.

The Norns haven’t been kind to Bergrún. In a world that scorns ambitious girls from poor families, Bergrún was never given a chance. Bullied, humiliated, and cast aside, she turned to the dark powers of ancient Norse magic not just for revenge, but for justice. To forge a new order from the ashes of the old—a future she would rule—the witch seeks a Viking chieftain to conquer her homeland and crown her queen.

In a Europe devastated by four years of conflict, a platoon of elite Italian soldiers is horrifically and mysteriously slaughtered. Strangford’s arcane ability can uncover the truth behind the massacre, but a violent fate stalks him from the trenches. It’s up to Lily to change its course.

Il secondo capitolo del fenomeno Romantasy che ha conquistato milioni di lettori in tutto il mondo. Auren è finalmente riuscita a scappare dalla sua gabbia dorata nel palazzo di re Mida, ma presto si ritrova prigioniera dell'esercito del Quarto Regno, nel pieno della guerra per il predominio. Tuttavia, Auren conosce il segreto del fascinoso comandante Rip, la cui pelle scintilla e da cui lei sembra essere magneticamente attratta.