Ergebnis für "Rook" in Fantasy

Die coolste, liebenswerteste und witzigste Heldin der Urban Fantasy! "Der Körper, in dem Du steckst, hat einmal mir gehört." Das ist sicherlich nicht das erste, was man lesen möchte, nachdem man aus einer tiefen Bewusstlosigkeit erwacht. Erst recht nicht, wenn man von Leichen umgeben ist und jede Erinnerung verloren hat. Doch Myfanwy Thomas findet sich in genau dieser Situation wieder und ihr bleibt kaum eine andere Möglichkeit, als den Anweisungen der mysteriösen Briefschreiberin zu folgen. Aber kann sie ihr trauen?

Myfanwy Thomas awakes in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, her only hope of survival is to trust the instructions left in her pocket by her former self. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But there is a mole inside the organization - and this person wants her dead.

Simeon Bell just hasn’t been himself. Although he has spent a happy year as a roustabout with the Carnival of Mysteries—accompanied by his beloved, Crow Rapp—lately something has felt off. Maybe he hasn’t been himself because he doesn’t fully know who he is. Abandoned in a foundling home as an infant, he has never known anything about his family and has never met another of his kind. A tiny box found on the carnival midway leads Simeon and Crow on a quest to Simeon’s childhood home in the Victorian slums of London, where he discovers the ability to move through time.

Renata Virdaux is a con artist who has come to the sparkling city of Nadezra - the city of dreams - with one goal: to trick her way into a noble house and secure her fortune and her sister's future. But as she's drawn into the aristocratic world of House Traementis, she realises her masquerade is just one of many surrounding her. And as corrupted magic begins to weave its way through Nadezra, the poisonous feuds of its aristocrats and the shadowy dangers of its impoverished underbelly become tangled - with Ren at their heart.

Arlo Rook has decided it’s time to move out of Garren Castle, home for orphans of all races, magical or not, at 100 years old. It’s not the first time he’s left home, but after a setback that landed the Hedge Witch in the hospital a year ago, he ended up right back at square one.

September, 1940. Three women of the Checquy, the secret organization tasked with protecting Britain from supernatural threats, stand in the sky above London and see German aircraft approach. Forbidden by law to interfere, all they can do is watch as their city is bombed. Until Pamela breaks all the rules and brings down a Nazi bomber with her bare hands. The three resolve to tell no one about it, but they soon learn that a crew member is missing from the downed bomber. Charred corpses are discovered in nearby houses and it becomes apparent that the women have unwittingly unleashed a monster.

In Nadezra, peace is as tenuous as a single thread. The ruthless House Indestor has been destroyed, but darkness still weaves through the city's filthy back alleys and jewel-bright gardens, seen by those who know where to look. Derossi Vargo has always known. He has sacrificed more than anyone imagines to carve himself a position of power among the nobility, hiding a will of steel behind a velvet smile. He'll be damned if he lets anyone threaten what he's built.

Ren came to Nadežra with a plan. She would pose as the long-lost daughter of the noble house Traementis. She would secure a fortune for herself and her sister. And she would vanish without a backward glance. She ought to have known that in the city of dreams, nothing is ever so simple. Now, she is Ren, con-artist and thief. But she is also Renata, the celebrated Traementis heir. She is Arenza, the mysterious pattern-reader and political rebel. And she is the Black Rose, a vigilante who fights alongside the legendary Rook.

When secret organizations are forced to merge after years of enmity and bloodshed, only one person has the fearsome powers - and the bureaucratic finesse - to get the job done. Facing her greatest challenge yet, Rook Myfanwy Thomas must broker a deal between two bitter adversaries: the Checquy - the centuries-old covert British organization that protects society from supernatural threats, and the Grafters - a centuries-old supernatural threat.

Strengthened by her new queen sib, Shara Isador plans to return to her mansion-in-progress for some much needed rest. She especially wants to get to know her new twin Blood and fears she may have made a mistake in taking them. She does not love them. Yet.

Most of the story you hold in your hands takes place in the thirteen hours surrounding the execution of Rooker Flynn. Gerba Whipmarples has won. The prison revolt has failed, the escape plan has been crushed, and the perpetrators have been captured. The headmistress has stolen Nepenthe from Jack, and Rooker has sacrificed his one true love, the Venture Brigand, to save his friend’s life. At long last, there is nothing left for Gerba to do but make sure the greedy pirate pays for his crimes at the end of a noose. Welcome to Rooker Flynn’s final day at the Locke Institute.

He is a body snatcher. He kills by taking over the bodies of his victims, leaving no blood or weapons at the scene of the crimes. Disillusioned by the loss of his Catholic faith, Rook seeks answers to his unique ability and finds that heaven and hell are not what he was taught to believe. Now, in their way, angels and demons seek to head off the calamity that Rook is quickly becoming because for each body he takes and each soul he breaks, he is becoming more and more Fractured.

Astra Ordott is in exile. Evicted from Is-Land for a crime she cannot regret, she has found work in an ancient fortress in Non-Land: headquarters of the Council of New Continents, the global body charged with providing humanitarian aid to the inhabitants of this toxic refugee camp. Recovering from a disorienting course of memory pacification treatment, Astra struggles to focus on her overriding goals - to find her Code father and avenge the death of her Shelter mother, Hokma.

Runa sehnt sich nach einem Neuanfang. Ein Studienplatz am Aconite Institute scheint daher perfekt. Hier kann sie endlich ihre ewigen Albträume und den Streit mit ihrer Mutter hinter sich lassen, die Runa einfach nicht verraten will, wer ihr Vater ist.  Doch kaum in Edinburgh angekommen, werden Runas Träume immer schlimmer – und realistischer. Schließlich erfährt sie von ihrem Mentor, dem viel zu arroganten Kyril, den Grund dafür: Sie ist eine Schattenspringerin und kann die Seelen Sterbender ins Jenseits geleiten.

She never saw this coming.... Brynn Atwood is a low-level Magus whose unpredictable precognitive powers have made her an outcast among her people - and an embarrassment to her highly regarded father. After a frightening vision in which her father is murdered by a loup garou man, Brynn decides to prove herself by finding the killer and stopping them at any cost. Her target is Rook McQueen, the son of a small-town loup garou alpha.

Nyro’s ambitious plan to rescue his brother has failed, and now, every member of the Board sees him as a traitor. But, against all odds, he’s still alive, and while there is breath left in him, there is hope. Now, his goal is to find his brother again and make another plan for escape. He must learn all he can about the Black Court, its weaknesses, and secrets. And while he prowls, he hopes to create enough chaos to undermine the Board from within.

Jaxson Rooks thought it was just going to be another quite night at home with the wife. It is never that easy in the life of a Terran contractor, when they learn that their two daughters have been kidnapped along with his father-in-law. Now it is a race against time as they have to track down the Red Dragon company, who Jaxson has deep ties to, and find where they are holding their family. It's not like anyone would expect a Terran Scientist would bring guns, lots of guns. Not to mention his secret weapon.

I thought my newfound freedom would allow me to shake off the stink of New York City and start a new life somewhere else, a place where nobody knows me as Death Bringer or Britt the Bloody. A place where I’m not associated with ridiculous prophecies. Looks like fate has other plans. When the city is attacked, I find myself on the wrong side of the border. The only option is to take up arms alongside my vampire overlords and fight my way out. My instinct is to fight for myself—for survival—but at some point I realize I just might be fighting for a hell of a lot more.

Living in the White Court is not easy, and Bianca must watch her back at every turn. The risk of being discovered as a Trove is real, and becoming a blood slave is a constant threat. She must survive the intrigue if she is to get her revenge, but the machinations of the White Court prove too entangled for her naive approach.

Das Studium am sagenumwobenen Aconite Institute hat Runa verändert: Sie ist sich ihrer wahren Identität bewusst geworden. Und sie ist ihrem Mentor Kyril nähergekommen. Doch Runas Fähigkeit, als Schattenspringerin die Seelen Verstorbener ins Jenseits zu geleiten, ruft dunkle Mächte auf den Plan: Zuerst wird sie des Instituts verwiesen. Dann verschwindet Kyril auf einer Wanderung durch die schottischen Lowlands spurlos.