Ergebnis für "Siren" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

When Satou Takahiro is swept away from his ordinary life into the world of his favorite video game, a universe of space battles, interstellar colonies, and danger in the vastness of outer space awaits.

Hiro blew them all away—literally—on his mercenary job clearing out a space pirate stronghold. Now, the military and a ton of smaller groups are all desperate to recruit him. Not only that, but a major biotech firm is salivating over his otherworldly DNA! All Hiro wants is to keep flying free with his beautiful companions, but how long can he dodge all the people who want to tie him down?

While scouting possible wedding locations on Presque Isle, Samantha and Kathy cast a spell to prevent a man from driving his boat right onto shore. Shrugging it off as a close call, the sisters return their focus to their lives: Samantha’s upcoming wedding, and Kathy’s struggling personal and professional life.

With their wild vacation behind them, Hiro and his crew finally reunite the count and his granddaughter. Then it’s time for him to get cozy with his new robotic maid! He takes her in for an upgrade, which makes her stronger and sexier than ever. When duty calls, will Hiro and his heavily armed android be able to take down a cybernetic soldier and put the noble feud to rest?

Snatched off the street and drugged, Syrinada wakes strapped to a bed with a predator in the next room. At that moment, a side of herself she never knew existed emerges. While relieved to be free, she finds herself plagued by questions she can’t answer.

“Mysterious, beautiful, and enchanting in the true and sinister sense of the word. You have been warned!” —Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlander A lush, spellbinding tale about a tenacious young woman who must harness her family’s dangerous magic to put a stop...

The game is over for Yoshio. His villagers are gone, all dead as far as he can tell. But just as he is overcome with despair, one final gift arrives from the Village of Fate--a package containing the NPC Carol, and she's clearly a real, live girl. With Carol in tow, Yoshio leaves the safety of his home to travel to Hokkaido, where the developers are located. He will uncover the truth of this mysterious game once and for all!

Moira Wicked is up to her eyeballs in wedding plans, thanks to her nosy but well-meaning family. With every witch and warlock in town invited to witness her fated union with Liam Good, she's resigned herself to destiny's wild ride. She might've wished for a distraction. She didn't mean a siren. When a fishing boat runs aground off the coast, the crew swears they were lured by a woman's haunting song—straight out of myth and legend. Cue the magical chaos.

For as long as Kaori can remember, she has run the spirit realm's only bookstore alongside Shinonome, the spirit who is her adoptive father. But Kaori begins to fear that her bond with Shinonome has frayed. He's keeping secrets from her, and they have something to do with his mysterious friend, the story-seller Tamaki. Worse, Kaori finds herself questioning the purpose of the bookstore itself--what if the stories she and her father bring to the spirit realm are doing more harm than good?

Kai never met Mama. But based on her own abilities, and those who call her kin, she knows Mama wasn't human. Kai finds things. In post-Katrina New Orleans, everyone's lost something, though most can't afford to pay. Kai's latest client, a siren, hires Kai to find her sister. Sirens need both men and water, and can call them. The kidnapped sister is being held on dry ground...while another storm brews off the coast of New Orleans.

A brand new edition of the long unavailable children’s story, written and illustrated by the author of The Hobbit and Letters from father Christmas, with newly scanned manuscript pages and redesigned text. Now available as an audio edition. Professor J.R.R. Tolkien invented and illustrated the...

When Kaori learns that the young wife who lives next door will soon give birth, it should be a joyous occasion. But the mother-to-be leaves Kaori wondering about her own past. How in the world did she come to enter the spirit realm, all those years ago? And whatever became of her human parents?

In Malibu, California, Shannon Saunders becomes an overreaching television news reporter who investigates the mysterious disappearance of her former high school classmate, Raymond Fitzgerald. As she delves deeper into the case, Shannon discovers Raymond's connection to a unique form of therapy involving psilocybin. This gripping tale explores the intersection of memory, trauma, and the power of hallucinations, offering a fresh perspective on healing and self-discovery.

Kaori and Suimei have finally realized how they feel about each other, but their love will have to wait—the bookstore is in terrible danger. One day, a fox spirit called Hakuzousu storms in, screaming, "The spirit realm has no use for such an unscrupulous bookstore!" He blames his daughter's love for a human on the influence of human books. Shinonome can't just shrug off such an insult, and Kaori fears that a fight between her father and the fox will reduce the store to ashes.

In this hotly-requested collection of after-stories, the colorful residents of the Spirit Realm take center stage!

Something wicked this way comes—and it isn't a spirit. A strange fox-masked man has breached the boundaries of the spirit realm, and his designs are as life-threatening as they are mysterious. Worst of all, Suimei suspects that the man is an exorcist, so as a safety precaution, he asks Kaori to move in with him. Neither Suimei nor Kaori expect the spirits to kick up such a fuss over his simple suggestion, but it's plain as day to everyone else that the two are more than friends. Will they understand their feelings for each other before this new threat tears them apart forever?