Ergebnis für "We Hunt The Flame" in Literatur & Belletristik

Keith has died 12 times. After making a deal with a mysterious immortal, he was sent to a new world in hopes of gaining the offered reward - a chance at a better life with his family. However, Keith failed to realize that this deal did not come with an expiration date, no matter how many times he died. After dying for the dozenth time, Keith renegotiates with the immortal. This new deal will see him sent to the world of Raiah - a world filled with monsters, cowardly monkeys, and a system of magic very similar to the fantasy roleplaying games his brother used to enjoy.

In ihrem luxuriösen Teehaus empfängt Arthie Casimir, Waise und kriminelles Superhirn, tagsüber die Reichen der Stadt – und gelangt dabei an so manches brisante Geheimnis. Nachts jedoch verwandelt sich die Teestube in ein illegales Bluthaus für die verachteten Vampire. Als ein geheimnisvoller Fremder das Teehaus bedroht, muss Arthie einen unmöglichen Job annehmen: Sie soll ein Buch aus dem Athereum stehlen – der verführerischen Unterwelt Ettenias, die von mächtigen Vampiren beherrscht wird. Zusammen mit ihrem engsten Vertrauten Jin stellt Arthie eine ungleiche Crew zusammen.

Desire fuels a new journey of self-discovery. After a betrayal, an abduction, and a rushed rescue mission, the wayfarers reach the Ashen Dome only to find that the enemy has beaten them to it—Fjorna Daro is about to take command of the mask of bovids. Thick-armored half-beasts inhabit the dome, hesitant to form an alliance with Lago-Sterjall and his companions. The horned warriors are proud to display their culture and might, but there is one pivotal secret they are not yet revealing.

Koraine always dreamed of seeing the world and escaping the confines of Morwen, the water kingdom she grew up in. Finally, that wish was coming true—at a price. She was being forced to marry the prince of their rival kingdom, Abelon, the kingdom of fire. Bellamy always knew one day he would become king. He spent every day trying to prove himself as a prince to a father with impossible expectations. Never once had he questioned the king's demands—until his marriage was announced. Being forced to marry a nobleman's daughter from his rival kingdom had never been a part of his plan.

Maeve, daughter of Lord Sean of Sevenwaters, was badly burned as a child and carries the legacy of that fire in her crippled hands. After ten years, she’s returning home, having grown into a courageous, forthright woman with a special gift for gentling difficult animals. But while her body’s scars have healed, her spirit remains fragile, fearing the shadows of her past.

August Porter is a lucrative investor, admired for his ethics and respected for his success. Engaged to a beautiful businesswoman, his life looks like the American dream. But August has a secret. His nights are spent fighting for his life—trying to escape talons that drag him into darkness, fleeing monsters promising an end to his future.

Summer has come to Krynn, a summer unlike any before. The sun bears down on land and sea, searing the world with relentless light and heat. Clouds and rain are nowhere to be found, and even the darkness of night brings little relief from the strange and oppressive day. Meanwhile, those who commune regularly with their gods are uneasy. Every day, their deities become more distant, more difficult to reach. Clerics' prayers go unanswered, and magic goes awry.

As a motorcycle club member and firefighter, Ian Walsh is used to riding the line between the good guys and the bad. He may owe the club his life, but his heart rests with his fire station brothers - and with the girl he's loved since they were kids, Rory Sorenson. Ian would do anything for Rory. He'd die for her. Kill for her. Defend her to his last breath - and he may just have to.

One woman's deadly obsession with a haunted archival film precipitates her undoing in Black Flame, from the USA Today bestselling author of Manhunt, Gretchen Felker-Martin. “[Narrator Dana] Aronowitz's skillful portrayal of Ellen's breakdown will lead listeners to ponder if she can possibly...

The last thing Jonathan "Tilly" Tillman remembers is the thunderous crack of a flame-engulfed building collapsing as he tried to save a little girl . . . Until a system administrator offers him a new life on Nephesh, the realm where ideals, myths, and legends clash endlessly for supremacy in the hearts of men. Carrying all the trauma and regrets of his decades-long career as a first responder, Tilly must start from scratch—without a tutorial—in a system-governed universe. To make matters worse, on day one he finds himself facing off against a cosmic force bent on corrupting the entire realm.

Simon Kingsley is in desperate need of a wife. After years of searching, he finally found love. Unfortunately, she wed another, and now, it is time to settle for someone with whom he can share his life. A friend, a companion, a helpmate. Love is no longer an option for a man whose heart is irrevocably broken. Mina Ashbrook longs for a loving marriage but accepts that at the age of 30, she is unlikely to find it. Facing a lifetime of being the spinster sister living on her brother’s charity, Mina considers something she never thought she would - a marriage of convenience.

Ten-year-old Solvei and her tribe of fire elementals, the áed, are on the run from those who hunt their kind, when an encounter with a Titan—a monster larger than mountains—leaves everyone but Solvei dead. Now alone, she makes her way into unknown lands where the skies pour down a fire elemental's greatest weakness: water. Between a dark fog that swallows cities; tall, bearlike people at war against technologically superior humanoids; and worst of all, the ocean, the world beyond the fire elementals' dry wastelands is anything but welcoming.

The tenth installment of Bernard Cornwell’s New York Times bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. Britain is in a state of uneasy peace...

Magic is the key...but will it save them, or consume them? For Natalia, there is no choice. Trained as a battle mage, she has the potential to be the most powerful spellcaster the family has ever produced. Yet their price is too high. Meanwhile, Athgar's life is about to change forever. On the day his village is burned to the ground, his magical potential is released by the very fire that nearly consumed him. He is driven by revenge until he learns he may not be the only survivor.

Duty before love; legacy before life. Six months have passed, and Tallora’s nightmares are haunted by memories of Solvira and the woman she loves - Empress Dauriel Solviraes, seated on a throne a thousand miles away. But war waits on the horizon, and when rumors of her kingdom’s coalition with Moratham surface, Tallora fears her small kingdom will be destroyed between the two warring empires. With the help of new friends - a merfolk prince and a mysterious sea witch - Tallora must return to Solvira in order to stop the rising tides of war.

Als Leibwächter der Drachenkönigin erhält Celyn, der Schwarze, auch mal den einen oder anderen ungewöhnlichen Auftrag. Jetzt soll er ausgerechnet Elina Sheszakova beschützen, jene Menschenfrau, die er nach einem Mordanschlag auf seine Königin höchstselbst ins Gefängnis befördert hatte. Elina ist nicht nur wenig begeistert, ihn zu sehen (Menschen sind eben nachtragend), sie zeigt sich auch noch von Celyns Charme völlig unbeeindruckt. Doch so schnell gibt der stolze Drache nicht auf - er wird alles dafür tun, die Flammen der Begierde in Elina zu entfachen.