Ergebnis für "The Castaways" in Belletristik

Eine kleine Insel im Südwestpazifik, Sonne, Palmen und wunderschöne Korallenriffe – für die Schwestern Erin und Lori sollte es ein Traumurlaub werden. Doch auf dem Hinflug kommt es zwischen den beiden zum Streit, und Erin lässt ihre Schwester nach einem Zwischenstopp alleine weiterfliegen. Eine Entscheidung, die sie bitter bereut. Denn die Maschine verschwindet spurlos, Lori kommt nie an ihrem Ziel an. Erins Welt gerät ins Wanken. Fieberhaft sucht sie nach einem Lebenszeichen ihrer Schwester, ohne Erfolg.

After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American Civil War. Seven thousand miles later, they drop from the clouds onto an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific. Through teamwork, scientific knowledge, engineering, and perseverance, they endeavor to build a colony from scratch. But this island of abundant resources has its secrets. The castaways discover they are not alone. A shadowy, yet familiar, agent of their unfathomable fate is watching.

Set adrift on the tides of fate by the deaths of her parents and left wanting answers, Laura Callaway now lives with her uncle and his disapproving wife in North Cornwall. While wreckers search for valuables along the windswept Cornwall coast - known for its many shipwrecks but few survivors - Laura searches for clues to the lives lost so she can write letters to next of kin and return keepsakes to rightful owners. When a man is washed ashore after a wreck, Laura acts quickly to protect him from a local smuggler determined to destroy him.

A strange and deadly plague, lethal to the Human kindred of New Sylestia, has taken hold in the coastal city of Fairport. While the Militia Commander Velyxi fights alongside the local magistrate to keep the vulnerable seaport quarantined amidst panic and internal forces, her daughter Lorewyn, a young and somewhat unseasoned Elven archer, along with Rhianyn and Shyntiel sail west across the ocean in hopes of finding the distant and mysterious Crown Islands, and the only hope for a cure.