Ergebnis für "What Blooms Beneath" in Literatur & Belletristik

The first attack occurs in the underwater caverns of the Bahamas. Two professional divers exploring the unknown. A monstrous flesh-ripping predator they never see coming. Now the attacks are coming closer and closer to shore. A sun-soaked playground for sea-loving tourists. A human feasting ground for whatever lurks beneath.

Blair Scott arbeitet als Journalistin bei einem angesagten Londoner Magazin und wird gegen ihren Willen dazu verdonnert, ein Interview mit Keaton Hill – einem langweiligen und verstaubten Wissenschaftler – zu führen. Doch bereits bei ihrem ersten Treffen wird klar, Keaton Hill ist keineswegs verstaubt und unter seiner nahezu perfekten Fassade auch alles andere als gewöhnlich. Schräg? Ja. Irgendwie ungewöhnlich? Ebenso. Aber ganz sicher nicht alltäglich und schon gar nicht langweilig. Nach und nach kommen sich die beiden näher, bis Blair erfährt, dass Keaton das Asperger-Syndrom hat.

For millennia men have strutted their pride over the fragile surface of the Earth, arrogantly proclaiming themselves masters of creation. But now their feeble investigations have disturbed the planet's original rulers far beneath the globe's crust.

When Dr. Paris DeMont lost her beloved Gabriella to the mindless tragedy of 9/11, she lost more than her partner of eight years. She lost her will to love. A successful cardiologist to New York City's elite, Paris now lives a sterile existence on Manhattan's Upper East Side. But Paris finds out that even when one tries to give up on life, life has a way of interfering and forcing you to live it. When Paris returns to Banyon, Missouri, to oversee the repairs to the aging farmhouse she inherited from her grandmother, the barrier she has wrapped around her heart is tested to the limit.

My ruthless husband hunts me across the country and in my dreams. If he catches me, I'll lose not only my freedom but my sanity. I have to stay one step ahead, but he's closing in. So I keep running, straight into the arms of a man who whispers seductive promises of protection and safety. One way or another, this race will end. I'll risk everything for it to be at the hands of the powerful man who revels in my darkness. But should the devil get me first, then death shall be my solace. May the best man win.

When a battle to eradicate the Thirteenth Tribe goes awry, the kingdoms bordering the desert metropolis of Sharakhai see the city as weak and ripe for conquest. Çeda, now leader of the Shieldwives, a band of skilled desert swordswomen, hopes to use the growing chaos to gain freedom for Sehid-Alaz, the ancient, undying king of her people. Freeing him is only the beginning, however. Like all the people of her tribe on that fateful night four centuries earlier, Sehid-Alaz was cursed, turned into an asir, a twisted, miserable creature beholden to the kings of Sharakhai....

From the Hugo Award-winning hosts of the Writing Excuses writing advice show comes a collection of all-new stories of the fantastic, with beautiful illustrations and a behind-the-scenes look at each story’s creation.