Ergebnis für "Trust" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

We all want to believe. The truth is still out there. The X-Files have been reopened. IDW Publishing and series creator Chris Carter have authorized new investigations into the weird, the strange, and the mysterious. New York Times best-selling author and multiple Bram Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry brings together some of today's top storytellers for a series of anthologies featuring all-new stories from the X-Files. Scully and Mulder continue their journey into darkness as they face aliens, monsters, shadow governments, and twisted conspiracies.

Trust Issues is a love story about normal everyday folks in some not very normal situations. It’s about the magic of love and the power of trust and two people wielding both. Tony and Jeannie grew up in the small town on Amargosa. They have been in love with each other their whole life. It’s been a power struggle since the beginning, that Jeannie plays better. They have trust issues that are hard to escape from.

The time to descend to the eleventh floor is upon them. Vester and his Party have done their best to ignore the Church of Light's antagonizations and focus on the Quest left to them by Elondolin before the Warden of the Woods was thrown deeper into the Great Dungeon; but the time for...

When the world ended, I came to the Stronghold and joined their military. Even made it to the helmet corps with the best and brightest. Life in the barracks is a nonstop party, everyone living like there's no tomorrow. Let's face it, there probably isn't. When my friends joined a resistance movement against the rich jerks who run this place, we needed a place to meet. The library would be perfect if it wasn't for the librarian being a total snoop. I offered to chat her up for the greater good... and because I can't stop thinking about her. Save the world, get the girl. Win-win.

Ever since I discovered I’m not human, I’ve always believed wolf shifters are monsters, me included. Except the alpha and mayor of Blackwood Creek isn’t a monster at all. He’s my fake fiancé for my own protection. As the prime suspect in a murder investigation, I’ve got no choice but to take sanctuary with Ridge until I can clear my name. But my presence in town means the entire pack in Blackwood Creek are in danger from the hunters who are after me.

Never Trust a Fae is a dark romantasy featuring a strong heroine and her slow-burn enemies-to-lovers relationship with four anti-heroes. This omnibus includes all five books in the complete Hell Fae series.

Juniper Smith is trapped in a prison that seems to be of his own design. Everywhere he looks are bits and pieces of the game worlds he used to make back on Earth. Now, he finds himself on the run from the law and helping out criminals, looking for magical solutions to centuries-old magical spirits trapped in bottles. Can he trust an elf that's been locked away since the bad old days of the Second Empire? Danger lurks around every corner, and trust is hard to come by, even within the party that grows more like family with every passing day.

A world brought up on stories of alien invasions and wars with other planets is asked to open its arms to 300 aliens who are stranded in their crippled mining ship. The eyes of the entire world are focused on the village of Thatcham: the site of the first confirmed contact with an alien species.

At sixty-eight, Oyin has become very good at helping others let go. She preserves the stories, songs, and memories of people who aren't ready to lose—quietly making peace with her own ending in the process. Then Rai arrives. What begins as simple companionship becomes something Oyin thought...

Caleb never wanted to be a hero. That was his brother's dream. Keep it simple, get away clean. Flying a ship packed with explosives into Janus orbit station isn't simple, and there ain't no way he's getting away clean. He knows the Fenrir Nine have sent him on a suicide mission, but he is not about to lay down his life for them. Caleb's not a hero, and he sure ain't no fool, despite what the Nine must think. There's another way, he just has to figure it out before the bomb he's carrying ticks down to zero.

Lorcán Kennedy is a take-no-prisoner vampire whose grit is tested when slain vampires start showing up in his sector. His investigation reveals a blessed weapon was used in the slayings, which leads him to a rogue hunter with a grudge against vampires. Christian Wolfe is a no-nonsense hunter who believes the only good vampire is a dead one, but his code of honor keeps his hatred in check. When his integrity is questioned, he will do anything to defend it, including work with his enemy.

Now that they have an employer - one who is a princess, no less - Mishap's Heroes can look forward to a nice, steady gig smack in the middle of the most civilized city in Southglen. No more running around, scrambling after petty villains. Or so they thought. Vola and the others barely make it to the city before they learn there's treason afoot, and as the Dagger Throne's new problem-solvers, Mishap's Heroes had better come up with a plan quick, before enemies of the Throne take a bite out of the princess's power. Unfortunately, it's not just traitors they have to worry about.

D.J.. Molles' stunning Remaining saga continues in the second novella in the series set in a world ravaged by a bacterium that has turned 90% of the population into ravenous animals. While Captain Lee Harden struggles to fulfill his part in Project Hometown his trusted friend and ally Major Abe...

Nobody alive knew how the feud between Storn and Hammerfell had begun, but that didn't stop the fighting. When Storn's men burned Hammerfell's castle, his infant twin sons were separated, and each grew up thinking himself the rightful Duke of Hammerfell. Conn, raised in the mountains by his father's paxman, continued to fight the Storns. Alastair grew up with his mother in Thendara and planned to marry his cousin, Floria. But when Conn came to Thendara to seek King Aiden's help, and the twins encountered each other, it changed all their lives.

After Lew Alton unwittingly roused the fire demon Sharra, the Sword of Aldones was the only weapon that could lay her to rest again. But only one man could wield the sword, and getting it was an even bigger problem.

WHAT WOULD YOU TRUST? A psychological fiction podcast by Jonah Whitmore exploring memory, identity, consciousness, trust, and choice — and the stories we tell ourselves. Each episode begins with a question: What if you couldn't trust your own memories? Memory can change. Evidence can disappear. Choices can be influenced. And sometimes the truth is the one thing you were never meant to remember. For readers and listeners drawn to psychological science fiction, thrillers, dark philosophical fiction, and thought experiments about what makes us who we are.

The spare becomes the heir and, on his path to the throne, discovers magical intrigue, a secret society pulling political strings, and not one, but two loves of his life. A KING’S TRUST is a fantasy romance featuring a cinnamon roll prince with magic in him, his loyal guard who knows too much, and the brilliant duchess who despises him. If they can work together, they might be able to find lost magic relics and avert a war. If not, our prince might succumb to the same secretive forces that killed his brother. Found family, royal/guard, enemies to lovers.

"Logic bows at the throne of obsession." When Wren discovers a body and Castien in the tunnels on the same night, she's certain she'll never be able to trust him again. But that doesn't mean she no longer needs him. In order to discover the killer taking down their fellow students, Wren is...

Fractured Realms (Eclipsed Souls, Book 2) The truth shattered their world. Now they must survive what comes next. Eryn Holt made the unthinkable choice—she walked away from the resistance and into the heart of Sylith territory. But the deeper she goes, the more she realizes the Sylith’s...

Four unlikely heroes must overcome their differences to help humanity navigate through the darkness of never-ending war in this action-packed adventure. It is a time of Perpetual War. The legions of armored Archengardian warriors and the Noda—powered by dark technology—have been shedding...