Résultats pour "Frank" dans Urbain

Beneath the glittering wealth of Calabasas lies something ancient, seductive, and deeply dangerous. When aspiring writer Maxim moves into the guest house of the mysterious Winters estate, he expects inspiration, luxury, and maybe a fresh start in Los Angeles. Instead, he’s pulled into a world of intoxicating parties, fractured relationships, Hollywood excess, whispered rumors, and a woman everyone seems terrified to name aloud.

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.

A brutally cunning serial killer. A relentless mage. When her changeling friends become the next target, the hunter becomes the hunted. Nobody had better get in her way. Undercover Investigator Ember Wright swore an oath to protect the powerless and serve justice in the Magic City. When two changelings bleed out along a gravel road, everyone assumes it was just another sad accident. Everyone but Ember. Armed with her ability to interview the ghosts of the dead changelings, she follows the clues. She finds a pattern. She realizes her friends may be next in the hunter’s sights.

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.

Newly promoted senior investigator Ember Wright is just starting to win over the hearts of her adopted North Dakota home. But underneath the community’s quiet façade, unrest is brewing. When a missing person case comes across her desk, Ember’s the obvious sleuth for the job. The only problem: She’s the reason the three changelings went missing! Somehow, this mage must concoct a plan to keep her darkest secrets buried while solving the case.

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.

What happens when an overbearing family drives a teenage girl into the arms of a mysterious, pale stranger? How can a high-school junior explain having strange dreams of a Nazi concentration camp after being bitten by his neighbor's monstrous dog? And who will win when two iconic creatures of the night clash on a desolate WWI battlefield? Dive into a world of werewolves and vampires with Ordinary Monsters, two stand-alone stories featured in a double-sided novella from author Frank Martin. 

In a world not far removed from our own, a city lies ravaged. Crime overruns its streets, its citizens are helpless. Crime lord Robert Latham, to the world at large a legitimate businessman, holds the city in his sway. Fear and intimidation rule throughout. One man, however, stands above the rest, willing to fight for freedom. That man is The Wraith.

Willkommen im Reich der Hexen, Riesen, Könige und Prinzessinnen! Ob am Lagerfeuer erzählt, am Bett vorgelesen oder in Selbstlektüre - seit Jahrtausenden faszinieren Märchen Jung und Alt auf der ganzen Welt. Sie können romantisch, verzaubernd, lustig, aber auch schaurig, blutig, ja bitterböse sein. Bei den dreizehn deutschen Märchen, die hier erstmalig erzählt werden, handelt es sich vornehmlich um solche der letzteren Art. In Inhalt, Erzählweise und Schauplätzen erinnern sie am ehesten an die düstereren Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm.

Nathanial Woodrow is known on the streets of London as the Beast, leader of the fearsome Lion gang. Since her mother was found dead with the signature slashes years ago, Contessa has wanted nothing more than to see her murderer brought to justice. However, the Beast has been impeccable at maintaining his façade as the high society Mr. Nathanial Woodrow. When the Beast unexpectedly asks Contessa’s father, the Chief of the Royal Police, for her hand in marriage, Contessa and her father hatch a plan to bring him down from the inside.

Alles in Meleks Leben hat sich verändert, nur ihr Problem ist gleich geblieben: Sie weiß weiterhin nicht, wohin sie gehört und auf wessen Seite sie steht. Ihr innerer Zwiespalt verschlimmert sich, als Jakobs Truppe gegen die zerstörerischen Prinzipien der Armee rebelliert und ein Bündnis mit den Faunen eingeht. Denn mit einem Mal treffen die ehemaligen Todfeinde in friedlicher Absicht aufeinander - was Levian gar nicht gern sieht.

Rune Leveau’s life is a carefully guarded secret, hidden behind the facade of her bar. But when a charismatic and lethal corporate cyber-spy arrives at her doorstep, her world is turned upside down. He needs Rune—known in secret as Anna Masterson—to use her extraordinary magical Talent to locate a dangerous fugitive, herself! He believes she holds the key to a mythical computer program rumored to perform impossible feats: casting genuine magic spells.

Das Schicksal ist wie ein Strudel, der dich unaufhaltsam nach unten zieht. Hoffnung ist der Anker, der dich zu retten vermag. Jakob ist der geborene Anführer. Jahrelang wurde er von Veteranen der Talente-Armee auf den Kampf gegen die gefühlssaugenden Dschinn vorbereitet. Als er endlich eine eigene Truppe zugeteilt bekommt, ist er schockiert, denn sein Einsatzgebiet ist nicht etwa seine Heimatstadt Frankfurt, sondern ein Dorf im Nirgendwo. Zudem stellt sich heraus, dass die Dschinn dort ungewöhnlich aggressiv sind.

Kaitlin Mayer is on the run from the father of her baby - a vampire who wants her to join him in deadly eternity. Terrified for her young son, she seeks sanctuary with the hunters' guild. Yet they have their own plans for her son, and her hopes of safety are soon shattered.

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.

Cassie wants out of her magical life, but magic isn’t prepared to let her go—and neither is Evan Blackwood. She owes him her life, making it difficult for her to deny him anything he really wants. And he wants her. She tries avoiding him, but when two teenagers disappear from a local summer camp, they must work together if they hope to find the girls alive.

When a couple freezes to death on a 50-degree day, Cassie is called in to investigate. The couple ran a daycare out of their home, making preschoolers the key witnesses and even the prime suspects. Two of those preschoolers are Cassie's youngest siblings, suggesting conditions at home are worse than she feared. As Cassie struggles to care for her family, she must face the truth about her mother’s slide into depression, which seems to be taking the entire town with it.

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?