Ergebnis für "The Unexpected" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

On her first day at Roanoke Academy for the Sorcerous Arts, thirteen-year-old Rachel Griffin uses the secret gift she inherited from her mother to venture into a forest where she finds a statue of a winged woman. Nowhere in the books or legends of her world is there any mention of a woman with wings. When she goes back, the wings are gone. Not vandalized. Gone as if they had never been there. Where the wings had been, moss is growing on the statue’s back.

Why did an ancient, magical tattoo choose me to save all magic and the magical world? I didn’t even believe in magic until I stumbled across a weird party where that tattoo latched onto me like a tick and made me the Prime Mage. Who knew that was a thing? Now I must save magic because you know that’s what Prime Mages do–refill the Source of magic every few centuries so magical peeps won’t die. But this time, the Source is draining faster than ever, magical beings are vanishing, and someone keeps trying to kill me. And unbelievably, Merlin is somehow involved.

Female alphas are unheard of in werewolf society, and the Sapphire Pack is no different. So when Lena's father dies, no one is more shocked than she to discover that his alpha powers have transferred to her. Lena has her hands full protecting her pack from hunters and rogue wolves, while simultaneously facing prejudices and power-hungry males who want to mate with her just to steal her title.

Before coming to Roanoke Academy, Rachel Griffin had been an obedient girl - but it is hard to obey the rules when the world is in danger and no one will listen. Now, she's eavesdropping on Wisecraft Agents and breaking a great many regulations. Because if the adults will not believe her, then it is up to Rachel and her friends - crazy, orphan-boy Sigfried the Dragonslayer, and Nastasia, the Princess of Magical Australia - to stop the insidious Mortimer Egg from destroying the world. But first, she must survive truth spells, fights with her brother, detention, Alchemy experiments, talking to elves, and conjuring class.

All her life, Rachel has wanted to visit Beaumont Castle in the kingdom of Transylvania, the last known location of her hero - librarian-adventurer “Daring” Northwest. Only, falling out of the land of dreams onto her face was not how she had expected to arrive. Now, the castle is right there, looming over her. Only her best friend, the princess of Magical Australia, does not want to go in, so as to avoid an international incident. But what if the castle holds some clue as to her hero’s final fate?