Ergebnis für "The Papers" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

Wizard for hire Harry Dresden has to track down the things that go bump in the night in this novel in Jim Butcher's #1 New York Times bestselling series. There’s no love lost between Harry Dresden, the only wizard in the Chicago phone book, and the White Council of Wizards, who find him brash...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Iron Druid Chronicles comes book two of an “action-packed, enchantingly fun” (Booklist) spin-off series, as an eccentric master of rare magic solves a supernatural mystery Down Under! There’s only one Al MacBharrais: Though other Scotsmen...

After solving one impossible mystery, Deirdre Green remains stumped by the remaining clues left by her late father. Every time she makes progress with The Monarch Papers, she realizes his cryptic riddles have only created more questions. As Deirdre begins to walk stranger, more dangerous paths, she finds that dark forces hell-bent on her destruction wait in the shadows....

Book two takes Olivia and Donnie to a world made out of paper. They are far from home and desperate to connect with someone. However, they soon learn of the history behind this world and the great leader that created it. Suddenly, Olivia is on the spot as everyone sees her as an incarnation of that leader. She struggles to accept this while Donnie begins to feel left out. They are soon separated again and the world of paper is in danger of coming undone.

Deirdre Green is no stranger to losing it all. Nearly two decades after her father's mysterious disappearance, her boyfriend, her job, and her London flat all go up in smoke. But when she suddenly inherits what’s left of her family’s publishing business, Deirdre is shocked to discover the cryptic magical conspiracy revealed in its remains.

An intimate portrait of five inextricably linked lives, spanning one calendar year at Kew Gardens - an exquisite, strange and beautiful debut for fans of Alice Sebold, Curtis Sittenfeld, Barbara Kingsolver and Audrey Niffenegger. After the sudden death of his wife, Audrey, Jonah sits on a bench in Kew Gardens, trying to reassemble the shattered pieces of his life. Chloe, shaven-headed and abrasive, finds solace in the origami she meticulously folds. But when she meets Jonah, her defences threaten to fall.

Recently widowed after nearly fifty years of marriage, Gary Muldoon had given up on adventure. Then shaman Joanne Walker climbed into the back seat of his cab, and since then, Gary has trifled with gods, met mystics, slain zombies and ridden with the Wild Hunt.

Never trust magic...or the people that hire you. Fern Fatelli dives back into her job as a "trapper", and is hired to kidnap a girl away from an abusive household - only to find that she’s delivered the child into a far greater danger than she could have ever imagined.

The man who would beat the devil isn’t a hero, but a ruthless madman. Running from his dark past, former Duvalier hit man Charles Redmond is forced to take sides in a battle that has been raging since Exodus: Between a power mad magician named Silas Alverado and Sammael, the Demon Prince of Liars. When Charles’ beloved Voodou is threatened with extinction, he must wager his life between pure evil and the man who could destroy the world.

Fern Fatelli is approached by a desperate father to find his daughter before something bad happens to her, only to find that the job is really a diversion made to have her owe a service to a fae lord. Cobb, the fae lord, then contracts Fern, not as a finder, but as a wizard, and forces her to re-open the Anolyn way. As this is going on, Cobb is deliberately obstructing her research, and, more sinisterly, sending creatures to attack her, all the while expecting results.

Hidden in Your Fear is a story of survival. Renée has an irreverent, down-to-earth voice that asks for no sympathy for herself, yet is filled with love and empathy for others. She calls herself a survivor and a sensitive and shares with readers a harrowing experience that demands all the skills and coping strategies of both.

It’s Scott’s birthday, and Mike LeBonte has big plans for his boyfriend. However, the Pawtucket police have other plans for Mike, and his own past returns with an offer he could refuse - at Scott’s peril.

Stress affects people differently. Then, there’s magic. Mike LeBonte is house-sitting while his sister and her new husband go on their honeymoon. What could happen in two weeks? First, his cousin Becky calls him saying she’s being followed. It could be the mafia. Or it could be the church she’s trying to separate from. Then his boyfriend tells Mike his ex is coming to visit. Then Mike meets his parole officer - a Knight of the Rosicrucians, the very people who put him in prison. With all this stress, it’s no wonder that Mike resorts to magic to cope. But like any drug....

Michael LeBonte is set free after five years in magic prison. All he has to do is stay on the straight and narrow path for the rest of his life. However, because he summoned demons to “take care of things”, it’s easier said than done. Now his plan is to make a new life for himself. His sister has welcomed him back, he’s met a cute guy, and he’s found a nice job assisting the local private investigator. But his expertise does not go unnoticed, and he gets pulled back to do what got him sent to prison in the first place.

Fern Fatelli is a private investigator, specializing in more shady activities than finding children. The situation that launches her deeper into the uncertain realm of Magick is Fern being hired to expose Hervald Thensome, a prominent businessman in Halifax, Nova Scotia, as an adulterer. From this point on, Fern's situation spirals deeper into the realm of magic and danger. Attacks by a mysterious man, and her own contracted adventure with kidnapping a general's family keep Fern walking a tightrope between her own concerns, and those around her, and her past.

You can tell a lot about a person by looking at the people in their life - Mike LeBonte is no exception. Who is Ritter, and why is he so important to Mike? Who is the Grey Man in the Atheneum? And what is Chevalier to the Rosicrucians? Did Reverend Greene really escape? Whatever happened to Becky? Also included in this collection is the first case that Grimaulkin has with his new apprentice, Ash. Re-enter the world of Grimaulkin, where magic is real.

First Magus Brent Rogers of the US Army stationed in Afghanistan is ordered to return home on furlough. Considered a war mage, he is trained to find enemies at a distance, to blow up their bombs, and to alert his men of danger. None of this is needed in the city of Worcester, his hometown. Brent has to learn to relax, to not see threats in every corner, and to let his family welcome him home. But if he relaxes his vigilance for even a second, who knows what could happen.