Résultats pour "Emma" dans Science-Fiction et fantasy

One of the many engineers that keep Beta, the city under the sea, running, Mira only wants to make her family proud and to prove herself worthy. She knows the mysterious city better than anyone and it's her dream to help it flourish. Then, on a solo job in an abandoned section of the city, she encounters a monster of legend: an undine, a dangerous merman from an ancient civilization, long forgotten.

Maketes has always been the jokester. No one takes him seriously, and if they do, it's only because he was born violent. But then he starts talking with a human through droids and finds a kindred spirit in them. When he's given an opportunity to find out who this human really is, he takes it.

Mes parents ont été brutalement assassinés quand j'avais cinq ans. Leur meurtrier a passé ces vingt-cinq dernières années en prison ; mais en ce qui me concerne j'ai toujours des questions sans réponses. Je suis le phénix. Il m'est impossible de mourir. Je reviens à la vie dans les flammes et dans le soufre – encore, et encore, et encore. Je ne sais pas d'où me vient ce don étrange et personne n'est capable de me renseigner. Et voilà qu'un autre meurtre a été commis dans le village où sont morts mes parents.

Un assassin loup-garou. Un meurtre surnaturel. Combien de fois Emma Bellamy pourra-t-elle encore tromper la mort ? Il ne me reste plus qu'un seul stage à effectuer avant de devenir inspectrice dans la police londonienne. Malheureusement, juste avant l'obtention de mon diplôme, ma dernière affectation me fait atterrir dans la Brigade du Paranormal. Mais ce n'est rien comparé à ce qui arrive ensuite. Brutalement assassinée par un agresseur inconnu, je me réveille douze heures plus tard à la morgue – et bien vivante. Je ne sais pas ce qu'il s'est passé ni pourquoi. Je ne sais pas qui m'a tuée.

Tous aux abris ! Emma Paddington et les créatures déjantées de Dark Road End sont de retour ! Dans ce deuxième tome de la saga d'Urban Fantasy francophone la plus loufoque du moment, retrouvez les personnages atypiques et attachants qui ont fait le succès du premier opus : Les trois Djinns au caractère bien trempé, le dragon télescopique et la sorcière-patrouilleuse, évidemment, mais aussi quelques nouveaux-venus, comme le Père Lawrence, un vieux curé qui passe son temps à s'évader de sa maison de retraite pour traquer le crocodile à deux têtes...

Alys Fairweather has always loved the sea. So when her father gets the opportunity to build a city beneath the waves, she is the first in the submarine with him. She never expected to discover an entire species of merfolk living there. And she certainly didn't expect to find one of them so captivating. But the song of the waves is one she has never been able to deny, even when that temptation comes in the form of a battle-scarred merman.

Une disparition inexpliquée, une ville où la magie gronde, et une louve prête à s'allier à un vampire pour découvrir la vérité. À l'abri des regards et des jugements, je vis en paix à Glenwood, un village où personne ne s'attarde sur ma différence. Louve malentendante, j'ai l'habitude d'être mise de côté, considérée comme trop fragile pour appartenir pleinement à ma meute. Mais cette tranquillité vole en éclats le jour où Sam, mon meilleur ami, disparaît sans laisser de trace, emportant avec lui des secrets que je suis loin d'imaginer.

Ella pensait avoir touché le fond avec la Rogha, mais le plus dur reste encore à venir. Élevée au rang de Seann, elle doit désormais endosser ses nouvelles responsabilités… et surtout dompter l'obscurité grandissante qui menace de la submerger. Mais Ella n'a pas le temps de se morfondre : son ennemi se fait toujours plus insaisissable, et l'avenir de son peuple est désormais entre ses mains.

Like a songbird in a cage, Anya has spent her entire life as the General's perfect daughter. He snaps his fingers; she jumps. He tells her to smile; she beams like she is made of the sun itself. But underneath all those games and glitter, she's working to destroy her father and save the city she loves. When an undine sneaks his way into her city, intent on kidnapping her, she lets him take her.

As a child, Selene was left at the foot of the White Tower—given to the sorceresses who train those with magic. Her life has been spent honing her powers. But she can't fully join their ranks until she fulfills a single, impossible task: bring the Demon King, Lust, to his knees. Lust has ruled his kingdom for centuries. He is the reason his people live without remorse and indulge in their senses. Life is mundane and boring… until he runs into a dark-haired enchantress with eyes the color of the night sky. With one whispered sentence, she changes everything. I'm the beginning of something new.

Ella, jeune Faoladh exilée à Boston, jongle entre une vie humaine compliquée par ses TOCs et son héritage surnaturel. Loin de sa meute irlandaise, elle trouve refuge dans une amitié sincère avec Johan, son meilleur ami. Mais un appel de sa sœur la ramène à Madadh qu’elle avait décidé de quitter 6 ans auparavant pour vivre une vie aussi normale que possible. Entre traditions ancestrales, amours contrariées et menaces surnaturelles, Ella doit se réconcilier avec sa véritable nature pour trouver sa place, quitte à remettre en question tout ce qu’elle croyait savoir.

Astrid has survived her entire life by staying silent. As a veiled priestess, she advises a nobleman who makes every decision for her. But when a letter arrives claiming her long-lost sister is alive and captured by the trolls, Astrid is ready to risk everything. What she didn't expect? Her nobleman is in debt. And he's decided to pay it with her body. Traded to the gladiator pits beneath the kingdom, Astrid is handed to a brutal troll warrior known only as the Bull. Massive. Silent. Deadly. He's everything she's been taught to fear, and the only one who might help her escape.

Que faire d'un vieux manoir à la sale réputation et complètement délabré ? C'est la question qu'Emma Paddington se pose, en découvrant la propriété que sa tante Bree vient de lui léguer au fin fond de la Californie.

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Carina is a widow whose only focus is raising her young son. The last thing she needs is adventure. But when a mysterious bard comes to town, that is exactly what finds her. Because while he seems to hold the entire town in a spell, the Piper's focus is entirely on her. Just because adventure is the last thing Carina needs doesn't mean it's not what she longs for. And whether it wants her or not, it is coming for her. Because where the Piper goes, danger follows . . .

Back in San Francisco, Mika is working on bringing the Marshall greenhouse back to its full glory, despite her sister constantly breathing down her neck about the Matriarch ritual. Claire tries to force Mika's hand, but she refuses to give her sister the power to control her, or Audrey's life. To her sister's fury, Mika challenges Claire to the title of Matriarch. There hasn't been a witch challenge in centuries, and Mika isn't sure she is stronger - but it has to be worth the risk. But if one does not yield, both will die. Can Mika survive the challenge without exposing what she is?

Magic is forbidden throughout the Five Provinces; those born with it are hunted and killed. Sable doesn't know her music holds power over souls, not until, at age nine, she plays her flute before the desert court and accidentally stops her baby sister's heart, killing her. Horrified by what she's done and fearing for her life, she flees north, out of Provincial jurisdiction and into the frigid land of exiles and thieves, known as The Wilds. There, Sable lives in hiding, burdened by guilt, and survives as a healer. But now, 10 years later, someone, or something, is hunting her.

Als eine der vielen Ingenieurinnen, die Beta, die Stadt unter dem Meer, am Laufen halten, möchte Mira nur zwei Dinge: dass ihre Familie stolz auf sie ist und sich selbst beweisen. Doch dann, bei einem Soloauftrag in einem verlassenen Teil der Stadt, begegnet sie einem Monster – ein Undine. Ein gefährlicher Meermann aus einer längst vergessenen Zivilisation. Arges hat sein ganzes Leben lang für sein Volk gekämpft und plant, Beta ein für alle Mal auszulöschen, um seine Art zu schützen.

After Lufbery, everything changed. Still reeling from the trauma of their last mission, Marcus and Jane idle in a holding pattern, testing trinkets for possible magic effects far behind the danger of the front lines. But though they’re removed from the action, violent magic picks at the security they once enjoyed. A new mission calls them to Ireland, and their sense of honor and loyalty faces challenges like never before. For one of them, it’s harder than ever to comply with orders.

Mika took the title of Head Witch with blood and told the world about a sub-class of witches they thought were long gone. Now she has to deal with the Angel of Death, the Council, and somehow keep everyone she loves safe while they prepare for a potential war. Where it will come from though, that's the real question. Can Mika use her new powers to keep everyone safe, or will Death finally find her?