Ergebnis für "The Book of Curses" in Drachen & Fabelwesen

I've lived in the mud quarter my entire life, watching as the fireguards came every five years to select the prettiest girls to go to the Seat to start new lives. They get it all: husbands, houses without a speck of dirt, and enough food that hunger wasn't a constant pain in your belly. This year, it's my turn. The dragon that forces our kingdom to cower under our magnificent dome and hide behind stone walls hasn't shown any signs of leaving.

I'm a shifter who can never bond with a pack. Not if I want to live. The day I watched my mom's pack destroy her, was the day I knew I had to run from the shifter cities. Mom and I share the same designation, which means we'll share the same fate. For ten years I hide from the cities and the alphas who control them. Until my luck runs out.

Princess Lia of Locris is the unlikeliest person to be Ilion’s defender. Once, she’d have gladly seen the entire adversarial nation burn. But much has changed. Ilion is home to too many innocents, including her sister. Besides, there is no escaping the goddess’s command. Lia is Ilion’s prophesied savior. With that mortal obligation come rules: She must never consummate her marriage to Xander, prince of Ilion, lest she lose her powers of divine magic when she needs them most.

Nova is running out of time. Three days. That's all she has before scale sickness reaches her heart a slow, suffocating illness that will consume her from the inside out if she doesn't stop it. The only way to stop it: bond with her dragon. But Nova has a secret she's kept from everyone, even...

Once upon a time there was a boy with a wicked tongue... Before Cardan was a cruel prince or a wicked king, he was a faerie child with a heart of stone. In this sumptuously illustrated tale, Holly Black reveals a deeper look into the dramatic life of Elfhame's enigmatic high king. This tale...

When Clio conned her way into the Underworld, her job was to steal magic that could protect her homeland. Instead, she escaped with the rebel son of a notorious spell weaver family. And in the process, she exposed his most calamitous spell, putting her people—and all magic—in peril. Now she and Lyre face two impossible feats: recover his creation, and do it before his family catches up to them. But when the spell is unleashed with devastating results, caution is no longer an option.

The princes have lied. The queen controls everything, including the dragons. At first, I just wanted to save my people in the mud quarter, but I couldn't do it alone. I'm not running away; I'm regrouping so I can return to finally free everyone from the dragon's curse. In order to defeat evil, I'm going to have to embrace the darkness and journey into the abandoned mines on the outskirts of the kingdom, meeting the demons themselves. And the princes? If they have truly chosen me, then we will see in time just how much weight a dragon's promise holds.

Cast aside since birth and denied my true heritage, they know me as the bastard prince. For years I played their game, doing allI could to assist my half-brothers shuffle refugees from the castle, while keeping them and the dying Nobles safe in the old mine tunnels. The Prince of Rats, one girl called me.

Years after the curse was broken, Mari discovers that the hardest dragons to tame aren't full-grown princes—they're half-grown teenagers with wings, fangs, and feelings. When a frightened neighboring city brands the fledgling flyers "monsters," Mari must decide whether to keep her new family...

The queen has been cursed, and no one knows who's behind the plot to threaten the realm's fragile peace. Desperate to help, Jocasta hatches a plan to find Circe's Garden, a fabled island where she hopes to discover an antidote. But she can't do it alone. She needs the strong arm and unflinching bravery of the warrior she's loved since childhood—her brother's right-hand-man and captain of the guard, Flynn of Sinta. Together they can do the impossible. Yet with treachery brewing on Mount Olympus, one thing is clear: Thalyria and its new royals are still pawns in an epic game of power.

"Mika was trying to save a gargoyle, not doom the world... "If you enjoyed Magic of the Gargoyles then Curse of the Gargoyles will blow you away!" (Feeling Fictional ) Mika Stillwater isn’t known for her skills with combat magic. As a gargoyle healer, she spends her days mending broken...

Shadow magic is extinct. The Veil Worshippers who honor the shadow god’s wall are hunted for their artifacts, including the Veil shards that break off the wall in Valisea. Brela vows to steal it all back. With the dagger of her people and a Veil shard embedded in her collarbone that has infected her with shadow-cursed magic, she is determined to keep her secrets or suffer a fate worse than death. That was a lot easier when the uptight and infuriatingly handsome Captain Cason Valkip wasn’t hunting her.

The prequel series to The Ghost King comes to an explosive end! Cadderly journeys home to the Edificant Library, hoping to rebuild his shattered life - but the chaos curse has one last surprise in store for him. Failure means the loss of his beloved Danica, success might usher in a new era for the followers of Denier.

“The world of the Hollows is fast-moving, funny, harrowing, and scary, and—the greatest compliment to a fantasy—absolutely real.” —New York Times bestselling author Diana Gabaldon Kim Harrison is a New York Times-bestselling phenomenon, in the superstar pantheon along with Laurel K...

Dusk thought he knew the boundaries of his world - the endless tunnels of the Ronja mines, the cruel whims of his captors, and the crushing weight of a life in chains. But when a hidden cavern reveals an ancient dragon skeleton and a mysterious crystal that seems to whisper directly to his soul, Dusk's world expands in ways he never imagined. Suddenly thrust into a journey towards an unknown fate, he must navigate the perils of a world he barely remembers, all while grappling with an awakening power within him that he doesn't understand.

Mari Al'Marin and Caledan, the unlikely pair of heroes from The Crypt of the Shadowking, return to match wits against the revived legacy of the Shadowking, which threatens all of Faerun.

Her life has fallen apart, and everything she had come to love and cherish has been taken from her. The future she had looked forward to has unravelled with a few words. Mae, a young woman in her mid-20s, finds herself in a state of emotional turmoil. She has been unable to establish a career in her field of interest since graduating from university and is now working a job that offers no sense of achievement. Her life is not at all what she imagined it would be when she was a first-year student with the love of her life by her side, and the world was yet her oyster.

In a realm where magic reigns, a legendary Hero once stood against the encroaching darkness. But with his death, hope dwindled, and the best the world can muster is Harlow Daygon—a thief, magic school dropout, and notorious troublemaker. At nearly thirty, Harlow can't even cast a simple rune...

A God is dead, the Twin Kingdoms are divided, and a demon has cast a curse over one kingdom so that the people transform into werewolves. The remaining kingdom is at risk of the same fate if the heir to the God’s magic and the throne isn’t found. Being a shapeshifter in modern day America is a lonely life. Abandoned as an infant and hunted by mysterious creatures, Ava hides behind a fortress of anger and isolation. Her only friend in the world, a drug addict named Cassie, doesn’t even know her secret.

Celestina, the last moonlight dragon shifter, is searching for a way to escape the slave collar that has tied her to the Beast of Fein, a fierce vampire crown prince plotting to use her as a weapon for his country. She faces a heart-wrenching choice between the vampire family she knows and the dragon clan of her birth who see her as their one chance to emerge from the shadows of myth.