Ergebnis für "Star" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

Powers are determined by geographic birth locations, and only the rich and powerful are permitted access to prized sites. SC is the first person born in space. The punishment for unauthorized births is death. Out of fear, SC keeps his strange abilities as his darkest secret. But when his mother is kidnapped by an unknown organization, SC has no choice but to act.

Amber Benson has no idea what to do for the rest of her life, let alone what major to pick for college. So when she inherits an apartment in Manhattan from a grandmother she never knew, she moves there faster than a New York minute. Her plan to find herself is soon derailed—on the subway, where she’s attacked by demons. Even crazier? She defends herself with something she never knew existed: magic.

Polaris, the North Star, has called the first Constellation Congregation in centuries. Every single one of the Constellations in the night sky will descend on Los Angeles to hold court in plain sight of the mortals in an event disguised as a fan convention. Enemies new and old circle around them, trying to tear the Hunt itself apart.

Engel lieben gefährlich... Hexen aber auch! Nach einem Jahr mit dem Werjaguar Vincent glaubt die Hexe Elionore Brevent ihr Leben im Griff zu haben. Sie trinkt viel Kaffee, verkauft viele Häuser und findet ihr Leben gerade prima. Einzig Vampir Nicolas Deauville, der bei Eli im Garten beharrlich seine neu entdeckten Hexenkünste übt, stört die traute Zweisamkeit der Verliebten und sorgt nach einem schief gegangenen Zauber für erhebliche Aufregung.

River Waterborn is the daughter of a Representative. She was born to immense privilege and is cursed with immeasurable power. For the past eight years, she's been trying to atone for the Incident. No matter how many lives she saves or patients she heals, she'll never truly be able to escape the weight of her magic. One night, she loses two patients, and her control breaks. She runs from the hospital to seek the help of the only man she trusts: Nikhail Galebringer.

Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor. Sometimes it's just best to get the hell out of Dodge. After turning an ancient vampire to dust and stirring the Coven into a mob of pitchfork-and-torch-bearing vampires, Chris Gordon thinks it might be time for a road trip. So, leaving Tanya to calm the troubled masses, he heads south to help a North Carolina pack with some demon troubles.

Eigentlich wünscht sich Eli, die liebenswerte Hexe mit Hang zu Kaffee und Chaos, nichts sehnlicher, als endlich mal ausschlafen zu können und vielleicht davor noch ein wenig zu kuscheln. Oder auch etwas mehr. Doch das scheint ihr nicht vergönnt. Denn die hinterhältigen Vampire träumen von der Weltherrschaft und wieder einmal ist es an Eli, die Welt vor dem Zugriff des Bösen zu bewahren. Und zu allem Überfluss mischen auch die Elfen erneut mit, was auch den mysteriösen Pax zurück auf die Bildfläche bringt.

Mina’s Bollywood extravaganza is a huge hit–especially when a surprise celebrity makes a dramatic entrance. While everyone queues for a selfie, Conrad is wondering why a Fae Princess has descended on him. It turns out she has a problem, and her problem is about to become Conrad’s problem: amidst the dark Satanic mills of Lancashire, something is attacking the Fae.

On Earth, life held for him only the fate of a recluse - confined to daydreams and the lore of ancient wonders but apparently destined never to share them - until he found the formula that let him cross space to the world of the Green Star. There, appearing in the body of a fabled hero, he is to experience all that his heroid fantasies had yearned for. A princess to be saved... an invader to be thwarted... and otherworldly monsters to be faced!

Ivy Wilde, the laziest witch in the West, is still entangled with the Hallowed Order of Magical Enlightenment. That's not a bad thing, however, because it gives her plenty of excuses to spend more time with sapphire-eyed Raphael Winter, her supposed nemesis. And when he comes knocking because he needs her to spy on the latest series of Enchantment, she jumps at the chance. Hanging around a film set can't be hard - or dangerous - right?

Was tun Erdhexen, wenn sie mal nicht die Welt retten müssen? Sie werden romantisch. Es könnte alles so schön sein in Elis endlich einmal geregelter Welt. Ist es auch. Bis ihr das Haus gekündigt wird. Nun gilt es eine neue Bleibe zu finden. Was sich als schwierig erweist. Bei diversen nächtlichen magischen Aktivitäten und einem Kerl, der sich regelmäßig in einen Jaguar verwandelt, sind Nachbarn nun wirklich nicht wünschenswert.

Was tut man, wenn plötzlich ein sehr alter, sehr gefährlicher Drache vor der eigenen Tür steht? Richtig! Ruhe bewahren und einen Kaffee anbieten! Leider ist es mit der Ruhe bald vorbei, denn der Drache fordert seinen Schatz zurück, der Eli hinterhältig entwendet wurde. Gleichzeitig treibt ein schwarzmagischer Ring sein Unwesen im Norden von Deutschland und unsere liebe Erdhexe muss mal wieder zur Rettung Unschuldiger aufbrechen. Außerdem verhält sich Vincent sehr sonderbar und Pax hat ein Auge auf den gutaussehenden Dr. Maxim Stöverbeck, den Drachenwandler, geworfen.

Seven Grigori enforcers have been murdered, lured to their death by a demon, and bearing the faint energy signature of a Fallen archangel no one has seen in over two million years. As the Iblis, it's Sam's responsibility to find the Ancient responsible and bring him to justice, but how can she manage that when she can't even keep her adopted infant angel from repeatedly killing his corporeal form?

Magie, Romantik und packende Spannung erwarten die Leser auch im 4. Band der epischen Fantasy-Reihe aus der Feder von Ina Linger. Die Burg Ezieran, einstiger Sitz sagenumwobener Könige und Zauberer, gibt Leon und seinen Freunden zum ersten Mal seit langer Zeit das Gefühl, sicher und geschützt zu sein. Doch bald schon muss Leon feststellen, dass dieses Gefühl trügerisch ist und auch die dicken Mauern einer Festung keinen Schutz vor Intrigen, Angst und Verrat bieten können.

Ein gefährlicher Kriegerfürst, ein magischer Stein und eine junge Frau, die mit den verschwimmenden Grenzen zwischen Gut und Böse zu kämpfen hat - Im dritten Band der erfolgreichen Falaysia-Reihe warten ein paar Überraschungen auf die Leser*innen. Leon und Jenna machen sich gemeinsam auf den Weg nach Piladoma, um die alte Hexe Kychona zu finden, die ihnen, so hoffen sie, bei ihrer Suche nach den anderen Teilstücken Cardasols helfen und vielleicht einige ihrer wichtigsten Fragen beantworten kann.

Women in 22nd-century sovereign America are expected to be seen and not heard. Caitriona Hayden did not get that memo. As she struggles to make her way in the world after her powerful uncle dies, being "seen" is the least of Cait's problems.

Kyle Riggs is snatched by an alien spacecraft sometime after midnight. The ship is testing everyone it catches and murdering the weak. The good news is that Kyle keeps passing tests and staying alive. The bad news is the aliens who sent this ship are the nicest ones out there.

During a road trip with his two best friends, high school senior David Stone meets Amesemi, the girl of his dreams. Everything is just perfect until the sky turns black. David’s not sure if it’s an attack or a vision, but he sees living darkness around them, consuming them, and then nothing. They wake up miles away with no sign of Amesemi, a bloody handprint on David’s chest, and the inability to account for the past twenty-five hours.

On a fate-laced evening at 7:30 pm, the three cornerstone figures in Malita’s life found her crossing their minds, yet none were present to shield her from Bruce’s malevolent grasp. Amidst grappling with the void left by her father’s absence, Malita’s world plunges into a deeper abyss when a supposed guardian from her family cruelly betrays her trust. This grave violation leaves her wrestling with shame, betrayal, and a tenuous relationship with her mother, all while battling against the engulfing tides of self-pity.

Although Brent's dreams seem so real that they terrify him, he doesn't believe lucid dreaming is possible until his favorite high school teacher, Kaiba, insists that it is. And not only can lucid dreamers control their dreams, but they can also live in them. With help from Kaiba, Brent soon learns that the dream world is actually an alternate reality, as tangible as the real world and just as dangerous. While the bodies of lucid dreamers sleep, their minds and souls awaken in the dream world - called the Ream Realm - with just as much vitality and even greater physical and mental abilities.