Ergebnis für "The Holiday" in Abenteuer

The Christmas adventures continue. The second volume of the holiday tales you never heard growing up! This bundle features Humbug; The Miser; and Ronin.

History is turned inside out when off-world travelers challenge Tyson Reyes and Madi Grace to a real-life game of Temporal Dilemma. Three rounds from the opponents and Hitler takes Europe, Pearl Harbor never happens, a fascist cloud hangs over the postwar United States, and CHRONOS itself is erased from existence. Now Tyson, Madi, and a team of seasoned players must make their moves - in 1930s New York. Jazz and the blues waft from Village clubs. The World’s Fair draws assassins. Madison Square Garden hosts Nazis. And the Manhattan Project never gets off the ground.

Five hundred years from now, ex-corporate mercenary Koko Martstellar is swaggering through an easy early retirement as a brothel owner on The Sixty Islands, a manufactured tropical resort archipelago known for its sex and simulated violence. Surrounded by slang-drooling boywhores and synthetic komodo dragons, Koko finds the most challenging part of her day might be deciding on her next drink. That is, until her old comrade Portia Delacompte sends a squad of security personnel to murder her.

When Laken Wagner is awakened by deafening, predatory pounding on a cracking wooden door, she finds herself in an unfamiliar place, in unfamiliar clothes, with absolutely no memory of how she got there. The man beating viciously on the door, Anton, threatens Laken, and she knows she needs to find a way out of there immediately. She runs into the bathroom, hoping to find an escape route but instead finds herself stopped suddenly in her tracks as she stares into the mirror at a face that isn’t her own.