Ergebnis für "Series 1" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

In seiner Welt war er der letzte Alchemist, einer der wenigen Überlebenden inmitten der Ruinen einer einst großen Zivilisation. Doch er klammerte sich ans Leben, und da er wusste, dass seine Heimat nicht mehr zu retten war, beschloss er, einen Weg zu finden, diesen unwirtlichen Ort zu verlassen. In jahrelanger unermüdlicher Arbeit ersann er ein Ritual, mit dem er sich in eine andere Welt versetzen wollte. Allerdings lief es anders als geplant und endete mit seiner Wiedergeburt.

Ich wurde aus einer technologisch fortgeschrittenen, magischen Welt in eine neue Welt wiedergeboren, in der die Magie noch in den Kinderschuhen steckt. In dieser fremden Welt habe ich den Körper eines jungen Barons angenommen, und mein ganzer Besitz besteht aus einem kleinen Dorf – einem Dorf, das von Monstern und feindseligen Aristokraten umringt ist und am Rande eines jungen, schnell expandierenden Imperiums liegt. Doch ich habe ein Wissen, das alles übersteigt, wovon diese Welt auch nur träumen kann, und nichts wird mich davon abhalten, mein eigenes magisches Imperium zu errichten!

Ich habe Nanomaschinen in meinem Körper und stehe kurz davor, das Licht der Welt zu erblicken. Überrascht? Nachdem ich schon im Mutterleib das Bewusstsein erlangt habe, ist mir eines glasklar: Ich werde die Welt im Sturm erobern! Die Geburt ist erst der Anfang. Mit einem Jahr werde ich einen Universitätsabschluss in der Tasche haben und mit fünf werde ich Milliardär sein. Dass ich weder Erinnerungen noch Erfahrungen habe, ist mir schnurzegal. In dieser magischen Welt voller intelligenter Technologie werde ich den Rückstand im Handumdrehen aufholen, oder?

Als ich starb und ein Weltenreisender wurde, hatte das System eine Störung. Machte mir das etwas aus? Kein bisschen. Immerhin hatte ich mein ganzes Leben davon geträumt, zu verschiedenen Welten zu reisen! Es stellte sich heraus, dass die Fehlfunktion des Systems mir nur Vorteile brachte. Ich hatte nicht nur nichts verloren, ich hatte etwas wirklich Cooles gewonnen. Da mir diese Gelegenheit nun mal in den Schoß gefallen war, wollte ich sie auch voll und ganz ausnutzen und der coolste Typ aller Zeiten werden. Nein, mehr als das — ich würde eine Legende werden.

Der Planet Erde versinkt in nuklearen Flammen. Das System war so freundlich und weise, alle seine kleinen Menschen in eine neue Welt zu transferieren. Jedem wurde ein neuer Name, ein Startbonus und ein kräftiger Tritt in den Hintern mitgegeben. Manche erhielten ein Schwert, manche eine Krone, und ich bekam…. Eine Kartoffel?! Wie soll ich bitte mit diesem Ding die Welt erobern? System, bist du sicher, dass du wirklich so freundlich und weise bist? Die Platte wurde von Magic Dome Books produziert. Aufgeführt von – Alexander Müller. Toningenieur - Dmitrii Musinov. Korrekturlesen – Kseniia Böhm.

Alissa doesn’t believe in magic. Her father’s stories about the Hold, a legendary fortress where human Keepers learn magic from the enigmatic Masters, are just that—stories. But her mother insists Alissa has inherited her father’s magical ability, so she must go to the Hold to be trained. On her way, she crosses paths with Strell, a wandering musician from the plains.

Das Feuer in ihrem Blut brennt heiß! Mackenzie Smith ist anders - schon ihr Leben lang. Als einziger Mensch wurde sie mitten im idyllischen Cornwall in einem Rudel Gestaltwandler aufgezogen. Doch auch wenn sich Mac nicht transformieren kann, etwas Seltsames fließt in ihrem Blut. Ihr feuriges Temperament und ihr Kampfgeist machen sie zu einer kühnen Kämpferin. Und dennoch ist ihre Präsenz in dem Rudel eine tödliche Gefahr für all seine Mitglieder: Denn sollte die Bruderschaft - die die Herrschaft über die Wandler innehat - jemals herausfinden, dass Mac ein Mensch ist, sind sie alle dem Tod geweiht.

Since the moment I was ripped from my mother's womb, I've been an outcast among my own kind. The Sidhe might possess magical Gifts, unbelievable wealth, and unfathomable power, but I don't want a thing to do with them. I ran away from their lands in the Highlands of Scotland when I was 11 years old, and I've never looked back. I don't need a clan. I've got my own family of highly skilled thieves who mean more to me than any Sidhe ever could.

Charley is a cleaner by day and a professional gambler by night. She might be haunted by her tragic past but she's never thought of herself as anything or anyone special. Until, that is, things start to go terribly wrong all across the city of Manchester. Between plagues of rats, firestorms, and the gleaming blue eyes of a sexy Scottish werewolf, she might just have landed herself in the middle of a magical apocalypse. She might also be the only person who has the ability to bring order to an utterly chaotic new world.

Your neighbor is just as likely to be a vampire as they are to be a troll, human, elf, or a werewolf. Amber's parents never forgave her after her brother died. They were young and careless, but Amber left all that guilt in Texas when she fled to the pacific northwest to be a nurse. But when she decides to play hero, her life as a nurse is cut short. Newly turned wolves aren't easily trusted.

Together for the first time, 14 action-packed tales of demons, monsters, vampires, and cosmic horrors too terrible to name - and the men and women who take them all down. Oh, and toss in an interdimensional insurance salesman for good measure.

For millennia, a secret society known as the Bastion has protected mankind from the horrors of the Underskin—malevolent forces lurking unseen in civilization's shadows. Monsters, demons, spirits, lawyers, and Fortune-500 CEOs, the Underskin's fiends pray upon the weak. When these creatures spill blood, it falls upon the rixators—the Bastion's elite warriors—to cut them down. Armed with ancient relics and modern weaponry, altruistic rixators hold the line against chaos. But a rixator's sworn oath of poverty grinds against Lincoln's life.

The first three books in the Immortal Series, in one box set! Book one: Immortal...in the twenty-first century, Adam confronts new dangers - someone has found out what he is... Book two: Hellenic Immortal; an oracle has predicted the sojourner’s end, which is a problem for Adam insofar as he has never encountered an oracular prediction that didn’t come true... Book three: Immortal at the Edge of the World; Adam will have to complete a quest he gave up on a thousand years earlier, for an object that may no longer exist....

At 15, Chance Fortunato has seen more evil than most people ever will. Indentured by his father to the demon count Dulka, he's been taught dark magic and forced to do his infernal master's dirty work for eight years. But now Chance has figured out a way to defeat his master and free himself. His new life with his mother and sister is far from easy, and freedom has its own perils. Normal life is hard enough, but even in a mundane-looking high school, there are paranormal threats from both sides of the mystical fence.

When a man came into my shop in the Great Marketplace at the Crossroads of the Worlds and tried to kill me, it completely ruined my day. Not only did I have to clean up the blood, but disposing of his body made me late to meet my friends for drinks. A nagging little detail kept bugging me, though. As he died, he said he was hired by my mother's family—people I hadn't seen for more than a decade. Then I discovered that assassins had made attempts on my brother and sister as well. As much as I didn't want to, I decided I should find out who wanted us dead, and put a stop to it.

Bilda FOH Smartown has the biggest civilization in Avila. He brings in billions in ad revenue. Everything is branded. For instance, you can partake of a foamy ale in the Troll and Tourniquet pub - sponsored by Texatron Auto-air, the cheapest deals on the best air cars - or pull the lever at the High Summer Hangings - courtesy of Blue Bird Neon. Perhaps you’d like to sponsor a battle and ride with the fiercest centaurs, or hire a bard and seduce a princess. Everything and anything has a price tag in Bilda’s empire. Revenue is king, and coincidently, so is Bilda.

Samuel Branch is a man capable of wielding the energy around him to devastating effect. In another time, he would have been revered and feared as a wizard. In an age of technological miracles, the world has no need of his services. When a dangerous messenger arrives with orders from the ancient and unimaginably powerful Lords and the Ladies, though, Samuel Branch has no choice but follow the trail of a rising darkness.

Nothing is ever as it seems, at least not in Charm Cove, Maine. Moira Wicked moves away in the hopes she can escape her fate, or destiny, or something along those lines. She yearns to lead a normal life. A few years away teaches her one glaring lesson. It's incredibly difficult to be normal when your first name means destiny, your last name is Wicked, and you do come from a family legendary for its witchy ways.

One corpse. Several bizarre looking attackers. Some very strange magical powers. And a severe bout of amnesia. Madrona is not having a great week. It's going to be okay, though. All she has to do is find out who she really is, protect a soap star from being attacked by a stalker, and work out why so many people seem so afraid of her. Because surely she's a good person. Right?

As a fox-shifter, Shayne Davies gets no respect in an underworld run by the fearsome and powerful - werewolves and vampires, sorcerers, demons, and mythical faerie creatures. Even at home, Shayne is still treated like the brat of the pack. All Shayne wants is to prove that she's got what it takes to run with the big dogs, which is why she is constantly hounding Nick Gorgeous to make her an agent at the "Double D", the Detroit Division of the FUA.