Ergebnis für "darkness" in Zeitgenössische Fantasy

Sie hat die Spiele der Götter gewonnen, kann sie gegen die Titanen bestehen? Lyra hat zwar das Crucible überlebt, doch jetzt sieht sie sich einer noch gefährlicheren Prüfung gegenüber – im Tartaros beginnt ein tödlicher Wettlauf gegen die Zeit. Die Fortsetzung des Bestsellers »The Games...

Lass dich in den Bann ziehen! Luisa ist alles andere als eine Draufgängerin. Nie würde sie die Regeln brechen, ganz gleich welche, schließlich hatte sie stets nur ein Ziel: Teil der Organisation zu werden, die alles Fantastische vor den Augen der Menschen verbirgt - der Agency. Und endlich hat sie es geschafft! Seit Kurzem ist sie ein Special Agent der Anderswelt. Aber ausgerechnet einer ihrer neuen Teamkollegen bringt sie mit seinem rebellischen Charakter und seinem entwaffnenden Lächeln immer wieder aus dem Konzept.

Brought to you by Penguin. It's been a year and a half since the Anomaly, when They tried to force Their way into the world from the shapeless void. Nick Prasad is piecing his life together, and has joined the secretive Ssarati Society to help monitor threats to humanity - including his former...

Daniel never imagined that Tenai's memories of her earlier life might be absolutely true. But when he and his daughter are swept up in the plots of her enemies and dropped abruptly into a world of dark magic and darker history, Daniel must find a way to aid Tenai against the all-too-real echoes of her past.

John Taylor works in the Nightside—the gaudy, neon noir, secret heart of London, where it's always three in the morning, where gods and monsters make deals and seek pleasures they won't find anywhere else. He has a gift for finding things. And sometimes what he's hired to locate can be very, very dangerous indeed.

Chicago private investigator Kira Graceling should have just kept on walking. But her sense of duty refused to let her ignore the moans of pain coming from inside a warehouse just before dawn. Suddenly she finds herself in a world she's only imagined in her worst nightmares. At the center is Mencheres, a breathtaking Master vampire who thought he'd seen it all. Then Kira appears—this fearless, beautiful...human who braved death to rescue him. Though he burns for her, keeping Kira in his world means risking her life.

Twenty-five years ago, a destructive enemy ripped his wife away from him. Now that enemy has returned. Can he thwart the evil warlocks’s deadly plans before all humanity succumbs to the darkness? Odd animal deaths. Unexplained bouts of mania. Unidentifiable illnesses. All things that leave the town’s longest living resident, Grayson Buckley, unsettled. Living for centuries has taught him when not to panic. This isn’t one of those times. With his suspicions aroused and all signs pointing to the return of a centuries-old evil, Grayson fears for his life and the lives of everyone around him.

When children go missing, and the Humans have no leads, I'm the one they call. I am their last hope in bringing home the lost ones. I salvage what they cannot. One last salvage and the final battle with Orion and the demon hordes will be upon me. I don't know the name of the person I'm Tracking, or what she looks like so finding her is going to be . . . impossible. But she is the key to defeating the demons.

After months of searching, Ember and her friends have finally located the Sword of Light, the only weapon capable of killing Queen Aneira and ending her rule. This is Ember's destiny. Or so she thought. Now a pact to save the man she loves changes everything.

Magic’s biggest secrets are finally revealed. After weeks of travel aboard the Unlawful, Hannah and Team BBB make it to their destination on the far corner of the known world. New Romanov. The home of the Oracle. And they arrive not a moment too soon as the evil forces bent on Irth’s destruction launch another attack. Hannah’s new enemy is bigger and badder than anything she’s encountered, and it is going to take all the power of her team - and more - to stop it.

Dante's fears have been confirmed. He is part of a massive conspiracy, a project that was made centuries before to create people who could use magic. Now, he's more monster than man to his peers. He stands twice the height of an average man, he can bend metal with his hands, and he's immune to the poisonous blood of the Naga.

In the House of the Dead he has been given a name. That name is Wakim, but Wakim knows that this name is not his true name not the name that he carried with him in life. Wakim has been commanded by his master Anubus to find and destroy The Prince Who Was A Thousand. Wakim leaves the House of the Dead intent on carrying out his mission to destroy The Prince Who Was A Thousand, but he has a second personal mission...to find his true name. And if he does Wakim cannot even imagine how that will change everything.

Ever since I met Adam, life has been perfect. We're recently engaged, and I'm thrilled to begin building a life together. I want to share every moment with him, because as far as I'm concerned, it's all the time we'll ever have... Until we hit black ice during a winter storm and my life is cut short.

Melisande had never felt like she fit in. Being a light fae princess with dark fae inclinations was not necessarily something you advertised to your royal family. When an evil strikes and leaves her comatose, it allows some exploration into the dark magic she is drawn to. Upon waking, it will be time to decide whether she will live a lie or embrace her true self. Ambrose’s life goals were simple. Exist as a foster of the dark realm, ensure the royal family’s comfort and safety, and stay under the radar.

Alexander and the Greystone Guild are expanding their territory. Building up the keep, conquering new lands, and recruiting citizens of all races. And when they've prepared enough, they plan on taking the fight to the minions of the Dark One in their own strongholds. New friends are discovered, and alliances are made. Tragedy befalls one of the group, and the Dark One's identity is finally discovered.

Diana intended to stop by Oldcrest for a pit stop. Catch up with her brother, meet his mate, maybe convince them to name their firstborn after her. She’ll soon learn, as a Helsing, she must pick a side. Before one is picked for her. Mikar has spent centuries following Levi to thank him for saving his life, but when all hell breaks loose, he has to decide whether to get the freedom he’s earned or die with the rest of his friends. Was there even a choice?

Brought to you by Penguin. Since the death of her twin sister two years before Charlies Hudson has drifted through life until the day her classmate goes missing. Drawn to the disappearances by forces she can't explain, Charlie soon finds herself investigating the mysterious, alluring newcomer in...

During a road trip with his two best friends, high school senior David Stone meets Amesemi, the girl of his dreams. Everything is just perfect until the sky turns black. David’s not sure if it’s an attack or a vision, but he sees living darkness around them, consuming them, and then nothing. They wake up miles away with no sign of Amesemi, a bloody handprint on David’s chest, and the inability to account for the past twenty-five hours.

The vampires have always feared the first of their kind and his descendants. Now all immortals know there’s a new Eirikrson threatening their way of life. And they don’t intend to let her. Catherine Stormhale has spent decades trying to crawl out of her family’s shadow. Now they’re calling her back home, to serve their clan against her new friends, and she has a choice to make. Bash used to know who he was. A protector. A provider. A huntsman. After being bitten by a feral vampire and turned into a blood-craving thing, he’s lost everything. Family, purpose, honor.

As a child, dog-loving Brenna Fallon naively invokes an ancient Celtic deity to save her beloved hound - and inadvertently anchors the new-found power at a spring on her family's farm. She doesn't know she's also left an opening for a far more malevolent force. Years later, thanks to the actions of several angry young men, Brenna discovers the terrible potential of that gateway.