Ergebnis für "The Hurricane Wars Teil 1 The Hurricane Wars" in Alle Kategorien

Sie sind Todfeinde - Und die Einzige Hoffnung für ihre Welt. Talasyn ist ein Findelkind und kannte bisher nur den alles verzehrenden Krieg gegen das Nachtimperium. Als einzige noch lebende Lichtweberin kämpft sie mit ihrer Magie an vorderster Front. Eines Tages kreuzt sich ihre Klinge mit der von Alaric, dem Kronprinzen des Nachtimperiums. Obwohl sie erbitterte Feinde sind, springt ein Funke zwischen ihnen über und beide schrecken vor dem letzten tödlichen Schlag zurück.

Talasyn was left on the steps of a Sardovian orphanage as a baby. All she has ever known are the Hurricane Wars, as her people fight for freedom from the tyranny of the Night Emperor Gaheris. But are they her people? Talasyn dreams of one day finding where she comes from – her true place, family, and the source of the Lightweave magic that flows through her veins like sunlight.

Monate sind seit den Ereignissen um den Elder-Klan und den Mörder Damien Nitzinger vergangen. Jetzt im Februar überzieht Frost die Stadt Hurricane. Die neue Polizeichefin Pam Turner glaubte für Ruhe und Sicherheit gesorgt zu haben. Doch im Verborgenen funktionieren Korruption und Verbrechen weiter. Hopper, des Wirt des zwielichten Etablissements Two Sins, das einst dem Elder-Klan gehörte, plant die Produktion der Droge Arctic Diamond wiederaufzunehmen.

Die Stadt Hurricane in Alaska. Hier leben anscheinend aufrechte Bürger ebenso wie entwurzelte Existenzen, die von den Schrecken ihrer Vergangenheit verfolgt werden. Alles verläuft in streng geregelten Bahnen, bis der Sohn des Polizeichefs aus purer Lust zwei Touristen ermordet. Sein Vater begeht einen verhängnisvollen Fehler, indem er versucht die Tat zu vertuschen. Skrupellose Elemente streben nach der Macht. Die Stadt zeigt ihr wahres, bisher nur notdürftig verborgenes Gesicht. Nur die Polizistin Pam Turner stellt sich dem Chaos entgegen. Bis sie feststellen muss, dass sie fast niemandem vertrauen darf.

All Talasyn has ever known is the Hurricane Wars. Growing up an orphan in a nation under siege by the ruthless Night Emperor, she found her family among the soldiers who fight for freedom. But Talasyn is hiding a deadly secret: light magic runs through her veins, a blazing power that can cut through the Night Empire’s shadows, believed to have been wiped out years ago.

Una terra devastata da tempeste e predatori. Un'alleanza impossibile tra due acerrimi nemici. Una guerra che ha inizio tra un battito del cuore e l'altro. Talasyn è stata abbandonata da piccola sulla soglia di un orfanotrofio sardoviano. Nella vita non ha conosciuto altro se non le Guerre degli Uragani e la lotta disperata del popolo che l'ha cresciuta per liberarsi dalla tirannia di Gaheris, imperatore della Notte.

Mare Barrow learned this all too well when Cal's betrayal nearly destroyed her. Now determined to protect her heart - and secure freedom for Reds and newbloods like her - Mare resolves to overthrow the kingdom of Norta once and for all... starting with the crown on Maven's head. But no battle is won alone, and before the Reds may rise as one, Mare must side with the boy who broke her heart in order to defeat the boy who almost broke her. Cal's powerful Silver allies, alongside Mare and the Scarlet Guard, prove a formidable force.

During missions as a CIA assassin, Fortune Redding saw and overcame most every obstacle, but Sinful, Louisiana, keeps producing new challenges for her. When a hurricane blows through, it brings a shower of counterfeit money raining down on the tiny bayou town. When the money is linked back to Ahmad, the arms dealer who issued the kill order on Fortune, everyone is worried that her nemesis is far too close for comfort.

Das Hurricane ist eine berühmt-berüchtigte Bar in New Orleans, in der nicht nur die Prominenz der Stadt verkehrt, sondern auch der kriminelle Untergrund. Welten vermischen sich, die Polizei schaut weg. Als eines Nachts die Leiche des Besitzers der Bar gefunden wird, werden Frost und Payne von dessen Witwe angeheuert, den Mörder zu finden und werden dabei in einen Strudel aus Korruption, Verrat und Eifersucht gezogen. Zeitgleich trifft Cecilia Payne in der Stadt ein, um ihrem Ex-Mann und dessen Partnerin Druck zu machen. Die Suche nach ihrer Tochter soll intensiviert werden, koste es, was es wolle.

The Witch is dead. And the discovery of her corpse - by a group of children playing near the irrigation canals - propels the whole village into an investigation of how and why this murder occurred. Rumors and suspicions spread. As the novel unfolds in a dazzling linguistic torrent, with each unreliable narrator lingering on new details, new acts of depravity or brutality, Melchor extracts some tiny shred of humanity from these characters that most would write off as utterly irredeemable, forming a lasting portrait of a damned Mexican village.

Rick Ross is an indomitable presence in the music industry, but few people know his full story. Now, for the first time, Ross offers a vivid, dramatic and unexpectedly candid account of his early childhood, his tumultuous adolescence and his dramatic ascendancy in the world of hip-hop.

Herzklopfen hoch drei: Am Tag unscheinbare Studentin, abends schillernde Nachtklub-Tänzerin: Lenny James lebt ein gefährliches Doppelleben. Um ihr Geheimnis zu wahren, trägt sie tagsüber nur unförmige Männerkleider und lässt niemanden zu nah an sich heran. Das gilt ganz besonders für den Frauenschwarm Creed Parker, in den sie sich gegen ihren Willen verliebt hat. Als Creed eines Abends in dem Nachtclub auftaucht, in dem Lenny arbeitet, und einen privaten Tanz bei Lennys Alter Ego "Daisy" bucht, ist sie so durcheinander, dass es entgegen aller Regeln zu einem heißen Kuss kommt.

Emily McCarthy is living in fear of a dark and dangerous past. A gifted mathematician, she is little more than a hollow, broken shell trying desperately to make ends meet long enough to finish her degree. Through an unlikely friendship with the ageing, cantankerous owner of an old boxing gym, Em is thrown into the path of the most dangerous man that she has ever met. Cormac 'the Hurricane' O'Connell is cut, tattooed and dangerous. He is a lethal weapon with no safety, and everyone is waiting for the misfire.

Dar and Kerry are redefining themselves and their priorities to build a life and a family together. But with the scheming colleagues and old flames trying to drive them apart and bring them down, the two women must overcome fear, prejudice, and their own pasts to protect the company and each other. Does their relationship have enough trust to survive the storm?

Has any war in history gone according to plan? Monarchs, dictators and elected leaders alike have a dismal record on military decision-making, from over-ambitious goals to disregarding intelligence, terrain, or enemy capabilities. This not only wastes the lives of civilians, the enemy and one's own soldiers, but also fails to achieve geopolitical objectives and usually lays the seeds for more wars down the line.

Action thriller by the classic adventure writer set in the islands of the Caribbean. Ferocious Hurricane Mabel is predicted to pass harmlessly amongst the islands of the Caribbean. But David Wyatt has developed a sixth sense about hurricanes. He is convinced that Mabel will change course to strike the island of San Fernandez and its capital, St Pierre. But nobody believes him, and the hurricane is only one of the problems that threaten San Fernandez....

With Category 2 Hurricane Ethel expected to make landfall on Gansett Island, residents are scrambling to prepare for a direct hit. Meanwhile, Piper Bennett is on her way back to the island to help Laura Lawry at the Sand & Surf Hotel and runs into her months-long crush, RI State Police Lt. Jack Downing, on the roughest ferry ride of her life. Sparks have been flying between the two of them for months. Will the storm help to move things along or will confessions from Jack’s past derail their fledgling romance?

I'm the charming brother. The playful one. Damn good at my job, but I never take it too seriously. Life and death were just like playing cards dealt around a poker table. And the new job I accepted was just like any other. Until it wasn't. My course changed the moment I met Arryn Lauder, an absolute hurricane of a woman, and my client's daughter. But when the job goes wrong, and she becomes the new target on the underworld's hitlist, I do the one thing that could end us both. I take her.