Résultats pour "Crazy" dans Science-Fiction et fantasy

The beloved King Ik is dead, and there was barely time to check his pulse before the royal throne was supporting the suspiciously shapely backside of an impostor pretending to be Ik's beautiful, long-lost daughter. With the land's heroic hunks busy drooling all over themselves, there's only one man left who can save the kingdom of Jenair. His name is Dungar Loloth, a rural blacksmith turned innkeeper, a surly hermit, and an all-around nobody oozing toward middle age, compensating for a lack of height, looks, charm, and tact with guts and an attitude.

Anastasia Esposito Romano’s family moves in the highest echelons of Alpha-Prime society, yet she is content with her position at one of the planet’s most exclusive galleries. When her iron-fisted uncle orders Ana to chase after her wayward younger sister, she has no choice but to follow the trail to Earth—where she also hopes to find the mysterious artist whose paintings are the talk of the planet.

Riding her Soul Horse, Danny, Deirdre Buford relentlessly pursues the men who took her sister through an America wrecked by the Great Virus, endless civil war and a collapse of the global order called the Breakdown. She’s forced by circumstances to ally with a nomadic photographer. His gentle decency moves her to the core, but her mission leads her away from the man she’s falling in love with and toward a confrontation with the people who hold her sister. To defeat them, she’ll need the help of the powerful Nations, a league of indigenous tribes.

Ella's always heard voices and because of them, she ends up institutionalized at a young age. Zane just wants to enjoy his usual blood buffet; instead he runs into a wisp of a woman who makes him feel emotions he thought long dead. Rescuing her from the insane asylum, he brings her home, determined to seduce and feed from her, a plan that is foiled by ghostly voices determined to keep Ella untouched. But not even poltergeists can stand in the way of a vampire in love.

One of their own has become a plaguer. Can a family find a vaccine before the Afterworld destroys them? When someone dear is bitten by a plaguer, Eugene is desperate to keep his loved one alive–even if it means using that person for research in Sanctuary. Yet his decision has unexpected consequences. When faced with the sight of a dear friend in a plaguer lab cage, painful flashbacks surface for Zed. The line between past and present becomes dangerously blurred.

Eliza Herman (a.k.a. The World's Worst Cupid) has spent her entire life carefully avoiding her calling as a Descendant of Eros. After all, happily-ever-afters are nothing but a myth. But when a family crisis requires her to fill in at the local Cupid-for-hire shop, Eliza finds herself enchanting couples under the watchful eye of her assigned mentor, Jake Sanders...the one man she could never get out of her head. Before long, Eliza is rethinking her stance on romance - until things start going terribly wrong with her enchantments.

Ellie Gleason has protected the town of Samford, Alabama, for decades. It's not as glamorous as her glory days as the WitchLight Hub, but it keeps her active during her golden years. Life is good. Well, it's okay. It could be bloodier with a smidge more gore, but retirement is meant to be low-key. It's not like her fragile bones could handle the strenuous hunt for monsters anymore, even if her current duties are dull as dishwater. But when her great-nephew shows up on her doorstep in tears, begging for help, Ellie straps on her beloved shotgun, Bam-Bam, and gets the coven back together.

"Ardath Mayhar is a neglected writer, and that is criminal. She is one of those born storytellers and natural writers who has done so much so well that it is easy to take her for granted. Trust me, as the spider said to the fly: read Ardath's work. Be captivated by her worlds. They will never let you go. Promise." - from the Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale

Ruby Palmer finds herself on an entire planet surrounded by the things she hates the most: robots. Besides taking everything she says way too literally, the robots have problems of their own. A myriad of technical glitches are, on the cosmological scale, quickly destroying them. Ruby has the programming knowledge and skills that matter to them, but can she overcome her fears and find it within herself to help? Her survival, along with the survival of all of humanity and robot kind, depends on it.

In a world where magic is mundane, soothsayer Journi McCutcheon's love of black lipstick and sarcasm is the oddest thing about her. Being clairvoyant isn't glamorous, but it pays the bills. Mostly. When an ordinary sooth goes awry, however, revealing that a child's life - and maybe the entire city - is in danger, it's up to her to save them.

Edwin Windsor, Efficiency Consultant for Supervillains, attempts to tame a rage-fueled Crazy Psycho Murder Tree hell-bent to revenge itself on meat-kind. He delegates much of the job to his most recent hire, underdog, defense attorney, and literal little guy, Talmadge Haggleblat. But when Talmadge finds himself caught between the highly privileged social justice vigilante "The Lynx" and the Crazy Psycho Murder Tree itself, will he be crushed in the undergrowth, or will he find a way to succeed in evil?

It's hot demon chicks vs. angelic babes! Ian and his succubus Alaria make their way to a gleaming city on the sea where multiple dangers await: a goblin mob boss. An underworld of thugs. And roving packs of vicious demons. Most dangerous of all: Alaria's tendency to bed every hot chick she sees. Drama ensues and the couple's future is in question, when in walks the most beautiful angel Ian's ever laid eyes on. Literally. She has wings, a halo, the whole bit. Can a sex demoness and a holy roller learn to get along? Relationships. Sometimes they're heaven…sometimes they're hell.

"Леран - планетарная жемчужина курортного отдыха, и мы никогда не забудем время, проведенное там...." Именно так я говорила подруге, когда уговаривала ее полететь со мной в отпуск. А по факту я опоздала на рейс, потеряла не только туфли, но и саму подругу, а еще познакомилась с совершенно невыносимым типом.

Ella is back, and she's not too happy someone is threatening her happily-ever-after. Being the vampire queen can be lonely, but consorting with a djinn? Unheard of. Yet, Felicia can't help but wonder what would happen if she ignored the rules. Rules she helped make. She craves something more in her life. However, now isn't the time for distractions. A spell is unraveling and about to unleash a deadly menace onto the world.

Stories of the vengeful ghosts, psychotic vagrants, zombie dogs, junkies, musicians, traumatized veterans, road-tripping vampires, church socials that go demonically wrong, and shady antiques dealers, all of whom haunt the backroads and small towns of Vermont.

Psychologist Kate Holly's own life has become the stuff of intensive therapy. She's divorcing her gorgeous firefighter husband, she has an eccentric secretary, her mother and aunt have erected a vaguely sexual sculpture in her front yard, and her psychiatrist ex-boyfriend won't stop calling to find out what color panties she's wearing. Now, Kate's being bombarded with mysterious threats, and the only person who can help her is the one man who always makes her lose her mind - and heart.

One silly boy and a crazy girl with rats beetles and worms for Thanksgiving Dinner.

Max is a normal kid with normal ambitions: Do good in school, have a nice life, get the girl. But when he asks out the seemingly ordinary October Autumn, his life takes a turn for the crazy: The McDonald’s restaurant she works at turns out to be a giant robot engaged in a battle for the palate of the American people. Sucked into this world, Max is called upon to join the Franchises in a battle to save this dimension from a version of Joseph Stalin who merged with Skynet before he died and holds the keys to an army of space orcs summoned from the depths of Mordor.

Regel Nummer Zwei der Wall Street: Zeige niemals Schwäche. Ein Alpha muss sein Rudel beschützen. Schwäche ist keine Option. Genauso wenig wie der hübsche Mensch, der meine Welt auf den Kopf gestellt hat. Doch ich bin besessen von ihr. Ich werde sie nicht gehen lassen. Ich bin wild vor Verlangen, sie zu besitzen. Sie zu verzehren. Wenn ich mich mit einem Menschen paare, würde das alles zerstören, wofür ich gekämpft habe: mein Unternehmen, mein Rudel, meine Familie.

In this short story from Beneath the Skin, Sam tackles another case worthy of his particular skill set.