Ergebnis für "The Odyssey" in Literatur & Belletristik

Nyssa Blacksea is a wanted woman. The Empire she once served now hunts for her and her unlikely new companion, Quinn. It's only a matter of time until the two women are found and executed. Desperate and with nowhere to turn, Nyssa and Quinn hatch an insane plan—offer the Empire its oldest enemy in exchange for their freedom. But the path to their freedom is fraught with assassins, heart-breaking betrayal, strange gods… and a dangerous queen who demands Nyssa to submit.

Nyssa Blacksea is tired of running from the Imperial regime that wants her dead. With a royal bargaining chip in hand, and freedom for her and Quinn finally within reach, Nyssa's ready to take the fight to the Empire's doorstep. She's armed with a desperate plan and a dangerous weapon: hope. But that hope is shattered when Quinn's nemesis, Ceril Anelos, strikes. Always a step ahead, his traitorous intentions soon become clear—master forbidden magick that has been locked away for centuries.

The United Races have become stronger in the centuries, after losing their greatest beacon of peace and gentleness. Olympus has moved the palace and capitol City Tree of Alfheim into the citadel in case the Jotunn reach the Olympian's host world. The daughter of Queen Jania Sure Step, the All Mother of the Ljósálfar and Dökkálfar elves, is at a crucial juncture in her life as she becomes an adult. She must choose from three paths before her, yet she feels none of those are her calling.

A new novel, funny, wise, moving, true, as only Lisa Alther can write ("she had me laughing at 4 in the morning" --Doris Lessing), set on a cruise ship, about a woman, a doctor in charge of the ship's clinic, recovering from the loss of her longtime female lover, a much-admired writer, and...

The Amiran Steppes. An untamed land of vicious beasts and mythical dangers. Few know this better than Shandra the Wild Wolf. Born frail and cursed, the young woman proved herself time and again, against all odds, through many battles and trials. Yet, even the wandering warrior could not anticipate the bloody homecoming that awaited her.

A steamy LGBTQ+ erotica, futa-adjacent adventure set in a re-envisioned timeline of Greek mythology. Book one sets our stage beginning half a millennium after the "Godly War". A time when Gods and Titans fell after nearly destroying the world in a global flood. What remains is elitist rule by the eldest living goddess, Queen Annum Joli, daughter of Dyke and Eros. Humans are considered intelligent cattle, and a food shortage is causing upheaval and rebellion among them.

Twenty-three centuries ago the second most powerful man in the world chose life as a vampire over the uncertainty of death. His childhood friend and later his lover was none other than Alexander the Great. Afflicted with AADD, Hephaestion's narration as told through his writer, Stefan Pride, is at times historically accurate, often funny, sporadically sad, and liberally peppered with some of the most visually inspiring gay erotica to ever disgrace an audiobook.