Ergebnis für "The Dress" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Stacy Dee Haverly, nicknamed Dagmar, is navigating an even greater grief than the sudden loss of her father. This time, it is the inevitable loss of her mother. Her grief affects her and her estranged grandmother Helena deeply, but Dagmar has four friends she grew up with who have been there for her far more than her distant grandmother. We follow Dagmar in her grief before returning to an earlier time, when Dagmar, Adrian, Iona, Sam, and Rodney all went to school together and grew up as friends.

Cambrian Bijou has skillfully played a fashion-conscious prince at his father's court for over 300 years. However, the game changes when wind-ship Captain Kimberlite - Constance, to her friends - agrees to assist with his latest investigation. Can their carefully cultivated romance survive the combined stresses of court life, a military inquiry, and helpful relations? Friends, foes, and family all weave their way into the tapestry of Dress Blues, but it's help from an unexpected source that may save the season.

Living in Sunnyside, Texas, and working nine-to-five at her brother’s chiropractic office, Jennifer Cloud’s life appears to be perfectly normal. But when the moon is full, she’s a transporter for the World Travel Federation, going back in time to help stop the Brigands from stealing the keys to the vessels that time travelers have been secretly using throughout history. Jennifer is on a mission in 1602 Scotland with fellow time traveler and current flame, the green-eyed Caiyan.

Chelsea Welling is a completely normal 15-year-old girl…well normal except for the pesky fact that she thinks she is going crazy. Either that or she really is being transported to a magical world known locally as Amar. However when Chelsea is transported to Amar with her friend Easton, she knows beyond a shadow of a doubt that these little trips are more than figments of her imagination. Then the unthinkable happens. Chelsea, Easton, Chelsea's brother Clint, and their mutual friend Bobby are all stranded in Amar.

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When she was a child, Mika Devalieur was introduced to her grandmother's most precious possession — a priceless and mysterious painting that she simply called The Lady in the Blue Dress. Upon Adele St. Clair's death, the painting is left in the care of her granddaughter with only one stipulation. Mika must hand over the family heirloom to a total stranger.

Witty and realistically sarcastic; full of self-redemption and the dark, cosmic inner-workings of life and death. Comically sharp yet lighthearted, Death Dresses Poorly is the bittersweet tale of a young man’s journey through the discarded baggage of his childhood.

""A charming fantasy...Leda Cassidy is something else. An unusual mix of myths and legends from around the world, this feels like a classic-in-waiting."" —The Guardian A Scottish governess arrives in Singapore to take up her new post, only to find a host of problems await that require her very...

'Now touch the mirror, and I will take hold of you.' Collinwood in the 19th century is a lonely place. While her brothers experience the world, the young Judith Collins must stay and tend to her grandmother, Edith. Judith, though, has secret dreams of romance. She sees herself dancing in a beautiful dress with a dashing stranger. But the man of her dreams is becoming increasingly real. Soon Judith must fight for the man she loves.