Ergebnis für "julianna" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Als wäre sie in eine schräge Version von "Die Schöne und das Biest" geraten, findet sich Ella in der Villa eines reichen Mannes wieder. Statt jedoch mit tollen Kleidern und Schmuck verwöhnt zu werden, soll sie putzen, während ihr Entführer eine Traumfrau nach der anderen mit nach Hause bringt. Welches Geheimnis verbirgt er? Weshalb sind manchmal Stimmen im Haus zu hören, obwohl niemand in der Nähe ist? Und warum gibt es diese seltsamen elektrischen Schläge, wenn sie aus Versehen seine Haut berührt? Ella ahnt, dass seine Hartherzigkeit nichts als Fassade ist.

Princess Aelara Ethelwyn, the last of the fair folk, witnesses the brutal destruction of her enchanted kingdom at the hands of a shadowy force. Forced to flee into the human lands, she disguises herself as a servant in the very castle where she hopes to find vengeance. Within those walls, she encounters Prince Ryderic Blackthorn, a brooding and isolated heir burdened by a dark magical secret – a curse passed down through his bloodline, tying him to the sinister forces that threaten both realms.

In the title story, set five minutes in the future where you not only have a credit score but also a dating score, a woman who’s been banished from all dating apps attends a weekly help group with others who have been “banned for life,” and finds herself falling in love. In “Backwards,” a twist on Benjamin Button, a woman reconnects with her estranged father as he de-ages ten years each day they spend together. In “Welcome to Oxhead,” all the parents in a gated community “shut off” when the power goes out.

Partridge has escaped the safety of his father's empire and left the Dome, where his people - the Pures - have sheltered for so long. He has ventured into the destroyed world inhabited by the Wretches, who live crippled by their injuries. Pressia, a Wretch, is desperate to decode the secrets of the past and, together with Partridge, she must seek out the answers that will save all their futures.

Julian Dawson wakes up in a strange world, one slightly different than his own, with a family he doesn't recognize. When he meets a traveler who leads him to the megalomaniacal Game Master, Julian is thrust into a multiverse of tasks, each more dangerous and destructive than the last.