Résultats pour "Frank" dans Contemporain

Dopo due anni dalla morte della sorella Fiona, la strega Saika è pronta a eseguirne le ultime volontà e a portare i suoi resti ad Ash Gardens. Quando giunge al santuario, perennemente battuto dalla pioggia, viene accolta dal suo proprietario, amante dei cardigan fatti a maglia, un'enorme bestia mitologica di nome Frank, che le offre di fermarsi qualche tempo nella tenuta. Sopraffatta dal dolore, Saika accetta, anche perché ciò significa poter rimandare l'ultimo addio alla sorella.

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.

Was wäre, wenn... Amerika nie erobert worden wäre? Der Fantasy-Thriller "Geistkrieger: Feuertaufe" spielt in einer alternativen Realität, in der die amerikanischen Ureinwohner sich erfolgreich gegen die Eroberer aus Europa zur Wehr gesetzt haben - auch mithilfe der Welt der Geister. Den Kräften der Natur ebenso wie der Welt der Geister verbunden, hat sich die Nation der Powtankaner zur Weltmacht entwickelt. Als dem angesehenen Professor Atius Catori von einer unsichtbaren Macht der Brustkorb regelrecht zerfetzt wird, übernimmt die Sondereinheit der Geistkrieger die Ermittlungen.

South takes place in a USA ravaged by civil war. It's been 30 years since the first wind-borne viruses ended the war between North and South - and still they keep coming. Every wind brings a new and terrifying way to die. The few survivors live in constant fear, hiding from the wind - and from each other. In the harsh Southern expanse, brothers Garrett and Dyce Jackson are on the run from brutal law enforcers. They meet Vida, a lone traveler on a secret quest.

Ember Wright hates high heels, steep staircases, and having to cook for herself. She lives mostly on instant noodles and old western novels. She sometimes chats with dead people. Newly-promoted to Associate Investigator, Ember is sent undercover on her first assignment to rural North Dakota. Mages and changelings have been living in harmony, hidden in plain sight among humans for centuries. But now a shadow is upsetting the balance.

Her changeling friends are imprisoned. To free them, she’ll have to break the laws of magic. Ember Wright managed to save her friends’ lives, only to see them locked up and tormented. With each passing day, the changelings weaken and submit to their interrogators. Secrets start to slip. Running out of options and allies, Ember turns to an ancient, forbidden form of advanced magic. Her reluctant teacher’s warning echoes in her head: Almost all mages who attempt the spell become corrupted by it.

The floodwaters have only just receded. Already, another flood threatens to overwhelm the new Druwish Free Nation. A tidal wave of changeling and mage refugees pour into the Magic City, drawn by the promise of opportunities. Not everyone arrives with good intentions. Inquisitor Ember Wright and her team are enduring skepticism, death threats, and even assassination attempts. Perhaps worst of all, some citizens want her to run for public office.

A Lost Soul awakens in a deserted, war-torn St. Augustine with no memory of who he is or what happened. His only clue to his identity is an engagement ring in his pocket and a mysterious voice which calls out for him through malfunctioning electronics. He must venture into the decimated city to find out what happened and who he is while unholy creatures hunt him down. A terrifying, and action-packed thriller with a twist ending which will make you rethink the concept of memory and history, and what it is to be one of heroic heart.

Katsuk, a militant Native American student, has kidnapped 13-year-old David Marshall - the son of the US undersecretary of state. He and his young hostage flee into the deepest wilds of the Pacific Northwest, where they must work together to survive as teams of hunters try to track them. Even as he struggles to escape, David begins to feel a certain amount of respect for his captor. What the boy does not know, however, is that he has been chosen as an innocent from the white world for an ancient sacrifice of vengeance. And Katsuk may be divinely inspired - or simply insane.

What if you woke up one morning completely transformed into something impossible? What would you do? That's what young Gregory Gourde must decide in Frank Mundo's Different, a fantasy novel for adults that re-imagines Kafka's Metamorphosis and Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Gregory, instead of hiding himself away forever in his room, goes out into the world (and into an alternate reality) on an amazing journey of self-discovery and love.

Im Abschluss von Brian McClellans epischer Fantasy-Trilogie über Magie und Schießpulver müssen ein Söldner, ein Spion und ein General Verbündete finden, um das Blatt des Krieges zu wenden. Die Dynize haben den Landfall-Gottesstein entschlüsselt, und Michel Bravis soll nach Greenfire Depths zurückkehren, um alles zu tun, was er kann, um sie daran zu hindern, die Macht des Steins zu nutzen. Ben Stykes Invasion von Dynize wird zu einem Reinfall, als ein Sturm seine Flotte zerstreut.

Evan broke Cassie's heart two months ago, and she still doesn't know why. She throws herself into family, friends, and her new job at the sheriff's department, but nothing helps. The only thing that finally allows her to heal and move on is the love of a new man, mind mage Matthew Blair. Cassie finds him... irresistible. Matthew may also be the only one who can help keep the non-magical residents of Eagle Rock from going crazy over the murder of a beloved pastor's wife.

Elana Black has the power to make herself fictional. But when she decides to start saving all the people in books and TV shows who die just for the sake of advancing the plot, she quickly learns that she's not the only one with her powers. All Elana wants to do is save people. But these others don't want the stories to change, and they'll do everything they can to stop her.

Cassie Scot is the normal daughter of powerful sorcerers, born between worlds but belonging to neither. She strives to find a place for herself, but living in the shadow of her family’s reputation isn’t easy. All she wants is a nice, normal job, but her dreams of independence from magic are threatened when she stumbles upon the gruesome body of sixteen-year-old Nancy Hastings.

Der Auftakt einer Dark-Romance Trilogie mit enemies to lovers und jeder Menge Spice! Mace versucht nach Kräften, jeden Kontakt zu ihrer Vampirjäger-Familie zu vermeiden. Die einzige Ausnahme bildet dabei ihre jüngere Schwester Iris. Als Iris plötzlich auf mysteriöse Weise verschwindet und es vermehrt zu Angriffen auf Vampire kommt, muss Mace versuchen, beide Rätsel zu lösen. Dafür braucht sie ausgerechnet die Hilfe eines Vampirs: Jake. Attraktiv wie die Hölle, macht er keinen Hehl aus seinem Interesse an Mace. Kann sie seinen Annäherungsversuchen Stand halten? Und will sie das überhaupt?