Ergebnis für "traveller" in Liebesromane

A boy meets a girl. The past meets the future. A finger meets a trigger. The beginning meets the end. England is forever; England must fall. The Ministry of Time is a novel about Commander Graham Gore (R.N. c.1809-c.1847) and a woman known only as the bridge. As their relationship turns from the strictly professional into something more and uneasy truths begin to emerge, they are forced to face the reality of the project that brought them together.

Former Junior Miss Kentucky Emerson Shaw won pageants using martial arts as her talent and Sun Tzu’s The Art of War as her guide, but a painful secret leads her to the University of York and puts her in the path of tattooed and pierced bad boy Michael Nightingale. Michael is a Traveller, part of an ancient line of mercenary gypsies who protect the world from vicious monsters called the Moktar. When Emerson gets attacked, she has no choice but accept Michael’s offer of protection or face certain death.

You’re never retired until you’re dead. Career criminal Ken Mack knows this more than most. He’s been looking to get out of the business for a while now, but when he’s informed by his underworld boss that there’s a price on his head, he’s sent to a safe house in the Outer Hebrides. There he meets and unexpectedly (rather inconveniently) falls in love with landlady Maggie, who carries a suitcase full of secrets of her own. Meanwhile, as love blossoms, the best contract killer, Aloysius, is heading north to end this beautiful relationship that’s only just begun.

Ich bin einer der wenigen Menschen, die den Kampf gegen die Sethari noch nicht aufgegeben haben. Eher würde ich sterben, als mich den Aliens auszuliefern, die uns Menschen seit mehr als einhundert Jahren versklavt haben. Dann passiert das Undenkbare: Eine andere Rasse Aliens erreicht die Erde und bietet den Menschen einen Handel an. Im Austausch gegen gesunde Frauen vernichten sie die Tyrannen.

Despite past heartache, Sarah Yates is finally marrying her true love, John Needler. But Sarah and John can't pretend they're an ordinary couple. They're time travellers, and where time travel is involved, nothing runs smoothly. One minute Sarah is saying her vows, and the next she is hurtled back in time to a country that is on the cusp of war. But when the past and the present collide, that's when the real problems start....

Sein Name ist Khazaar Drasurq, und er ist anders als alle Männer, die sie kannte. Er ist gefährlich. Er ist unberechenbar. Für Cassie ist er der begehrenswerteste Mann, den ihre Augen je erblickt haben. Für Khazaar hingegen existiert sie nur, um den Fortbestand seiner Rasse zu sichern. Sie ist ein kleines Rädchen in einem großen Plan, den der besitzergreifende Alienlord verfolgt.

"If you need to know men's secrets or if there's something you need to find. If you want to see the dinosaurs or the insides of your mind. If you want to watch the earth begin, or see what the apocalypse will leave behind, you need to thank Alice Anderson, for Alice is the mother of time." That was how the rhyme went. Every time traveler knew it. Everyone that is, except of course, for Alice herself, since she hadn't invented time travel yet. Since returning to London, Alice's life has been turned upside down. She's been accused of murder and lost her position in the scientific community. Her only ally in this journey is a strange man who seems to think that Alice may be about to open up a strange new world of possibilities, but is probably not telling her everything he knows.

Ich bin Talon Delkhari. Ich war der oberste Warlord meines Volkes, bis ich es wagte, meinem König zu widersprechen. Statt mir einen ehrenvollen Tod im Kampf gegen unsere Feinde zu gewähren, hat er mich zu seinem Kammerherrn gemacht. Meine Aufgabe ist es, mich um die Sicherheit seiner Frauen zu kümmern. Seine neueste Erwerbung kommt von der Erde. Er hat sie beim Pokern gewonnen, und ich soll sie sicher in sein Bett bringen. Eine einfache Aufgabe für jemanden wie mich.

Ich bin ein Cyborg. Halb Mensch, halb Maschine. Mein Schöpfer hat mich optimiert, bis ich seinen Vorstellungen entsprach. Ich bin zum unbarmherzigen Kopfgeldjäger geworden, dessen Beute all die sind, die den sicheren Fortbestand der Menschheit gefährden. Versagen ist ein Fremdwort für mich. Mitleid ist nicht mehr als eine Phrase. Gefühle kennt mein mechanisches Herz nicht. Bis mich ein Auftrag an die Seite von Mara führt. Für sie sind Cyborgs kaum mehr als Handlanger, die kommentarlos all das erledigen, wovor die Menschen zurückscheuen. Doch ich weiß etwas über sie, dass mir Macht über sie gibt. Macht über einen Menschen.

Sarah Yates is a thirty-something history teacher, divorced, disillusioned and desperate to have more excitement in her life. Then one evening the doorbell rings and the handsome and mysterious John Needler brings more excitement than Sarah could ever have imagined. John wants Sarah to go back in time trying to make sure people find their happy endings. The question is, will she ever be able to find hers?

Ben Church has never done anything extraordinary in his life -- until now. Now, he needs to fulfil as many of his dreams as possible while he still can. That's why he's standing in front of his favourite painting by Leonardo da Vinci when he should be at work. Vita Ambrose's life of parties and fabulous clothes looks wildly glamorous but in reality it has no meaning. She's seen too much, lived too much and lost too much. That's why she's come back to the gallery, to seek solace in her favourite painting.

When she finds a semi-conscious and barely alive man laying on his side in a snow drift, her life is turned upside down. She nurses the man back to health but the elders are angry and wanting the stranger gone from their community. Linda and the man become fond of each other and as things get tense in the village, a strange twist of fate will bring the stranger into the heart of Amish events, and this could lead to him leaving the village forever, or staying as a hero in their midst and starting a new life with Linda.