Résultats pour "Helena" dans Fantasy

Helena n'a jamais oublié la beauté de Pandora, la majestueuse demeure chypriote de son parrain, dont elle vient d'hériter. Vingt-quatre ans après y avoir vécu un été inoubliable, elle revient sur l'île, ravie de faire découvrir la splendeur de la mer d'Émeraude et des champs d'oliviers à son mari et à leurs enfants, notamment Alex, son fils aîné si précoce et sensible. Mais quand Helena croise par hasard son premier amour, c'est tout le passé qu'elle croyait enfoui qui resurgit.

Sienna Harris is living in a sunshine paradise on the beaches of North Carolina avoiding the decision of what to do with her life. Trying to live in the human world when you aren’t quite human has its downside and the urge to be near her own kind grows stronger by the day. Ten years after her mother’s mysterious death, Sienna returns to her hometown of Black Paw, Montana, a town full of secrets.

Ivy Wilde, the laziest witch in the West, is still entangled with the Hallowed Order of Magical Enlightenment. That's not a bad thing, however, because it gives her plenty of excuses to spend more time with sapphire-eyed Raphael Winter, her supposed nemesis. And when he comes knocking because he needs her to spy on the latest series of Enchantment, she jumps at the chance. Hanging around a film set can't be hard - or dangerous - right?

Mack might be, to all intents and purposes, a normal looking human, but she lives with a pack of shapeshifters in Cornwall in rural England after being dumped there by her mother when she was just a young child. She desperately wants to be accepted by her surrogate family, not least because a lot of them hate her for merely being human, but for some reason her blood just won't allow the transformation to occur.

You would think December would be Ivy's ideal time of year. After all, festivities abound and witches everywhere are encouraged to put their feet up and relax. That's not quite the case when she has various Order members attempting to finagle her into Christmas activities and a special artifact from the top of the Christmas tree goes missing. Either someone is attempting to sabotage Winter or something very strange is afoot indeed.

You'd think that life would finally be dealing Mack Smith a kind hand. Living in London and with the opening of the new and improved city version of Clava Books mere days away, things appear to be settling down. Other than the terrible nightmares about dragons, that is. Or the fact that she's being constantly tailed by a string of mages, shifters, and faeries, all of whom are constantly demanding her attention. And that's without even bringing the temptation of Corrigan, Lord Alpha of the Brethren, into the equation.

After escaping the claws of Corrigan, the Lord Alpha of the Brethren, Mack is trying to lead a quiet lonely life in Inverness in rural Scotland, away from anyone who might happen to be a shapeshifter. However, when she lands a job at an old bookstore owned by a mysterious elderly woman who not only has a familiar passion for herbal lore but also seems to know more than she should, Mack ends up caught in a maelstrom between the Ministry of Mages, the Fae and the Brethren.

Ambientado en las desoladas regiones del Ártico, el texto presenta la figura de un anciano enigmático —el "matusalén"— que encarna la memoria de un mundo antiguo y olvidado. A través de una atmósfera gélida y melancólica, Blavatsky explora temas como el paso del tiempo, la soledad del conocimiento, la decadencia de las civilizaciones y la permanencia del espíritu frente a la materia. El hielo y el silencio del paisaje polar funcionan como metáforas de la eternidad y del olvido, convirtiendo el relato en una meditación sobre la condición humana y los ciclos de la existencia.

Helena lebt seit ihrer Geburt als Sklavin im Haus-. halt des Lucius Claudius Romanus auf Kreta. Ihr Herr ist dem Mädchen vollkommen verfallen. und lässt sie bei den Gelagen für seine Gäste. tanzan. Eines Abends befindet sich ein Fremder. mit einer faszinierenden Aura bei Tisch. Ihr er-. scheint es, als tanze sie allein für ihn, denn seine. durchdringenden Augen verfolgen jede ihrer Be-. wegungen. Dieser Römer mit dem makellosen. Antlitz übt auf sie eine Anziehungskraft aus, der. sie sich nicht erwehren kann. Sie hofft ihn wieder-. zusehen und ahnt nicht, dass ihr Wunsch schneller.

Sie sind ihre größten Gegner. Doch sie sind auch unwiderstehlich... Um ihrem goldenen Käfig zu entfliehen, ist Helena Kasios fest entschlossen, der nächste Ares von Olympus zu werden. In einem aus drei Prüfungen bestehenden Turnier soll entschieden werden, wer den freien Platz einnimmt und damit einer der Dreizehn wird. Gewinnen bedeutet Macht und für Helena vor allem eines: Freiheit. Doch dann verkündet Zeus, dass der Sieger des Turniers neben Ares' Titel Helena zur Frau erhält. Plötzlich muss Helena alle schlagen, um sich selbst zu retten.

Orphaned at birth, Helena receives eight gifts from eight extraordinary aunts. Her gifts make her beautiful, intelligent, talented - as well as headstrong, temperamental, and bound to fulfill a destiny that involves death. Like Sleeping Beauty, Helena receives a final gift on the day of her sixteenth birthday...and, as a consequence, all in her domain are bespelled by sleep. A broken mirror becomes a portal to a dark day in a distant past that shattered the lives of her family and altered the future of an entire kingdom.

Mack begins her training at the mages' academy in the hope that, by complying, the stasis spell will be lifted from her old friend Mrs. Alcoon. However, once there, she finds herself surrounded by unfriendly adults and petulant teenagers, the majority of whom seem determined to see her fail. Feeling attacked on all fronts, Mack finds it harder and harder to keep a rein on her temper. Forced to attend anger management classes and deal with the predatory attentions of Corrigan, the Lord Alpha of the shapeshifter world, her emotions start to unravel.

In magical 1899 San Francisco, the new millennium is quickly approaching. Of course, new inventions happen every day, some wondrous, some mundane, while the streets produce a new murder every night. Set against this backdrop, a debutante goes missing, and socialite Helena Brandywine takes it upon herself, along with her trusted manservant, to discover what happened. Did the woman run afoul of the Tongs in Chinatown? What horrors might she have exposed?

Aspasia ha diciotto anni e conduce un'esistenza tranquilla e solitaria, circondata dai libri e dai silenzi di suo padre. Dopo aver subìto un'aggressione, ha costruito un muro per proteggersi dagli altri, ripiegandosi su sé stessa e sul proprio amore per le parole. Per questo, pur essendo dotata di una vivida immaginazione, la ragazza intuisce il mistero all'origine dell'universo solo quando l'enigma si svela davanti ai suoi occhi: esiste un mondo parallelo, e un giovane dai capelli bianchi, di nome Septimus, è arrivato proprio da lì per reclamarla.

Hurja Mustarinnan soturi Roke ja kuolleiden mailla Luusuvannossa kasvanut hiljainen Karran ovat kaksoset. Kymmenen vuoden eron jälkeen he kohtaavat lähteäkseen noitasaarelle Vornanmutkaan hautaamaan äitiään, noita Terihania. Periltä he löytävät Sudenmarjan, synkän ja ahdistuneen lapsen, jota kaksoset erehtyvät luulemaan pikkusisarekseen ja Vornanmutkan seuraavaksi noidaksi. Esiäideiltä Karran saa kuitenkin kuulla, että hänestä itsestään on määrä tulla Vornanmutkan ensimmäinen miesnoita. Matkasta kohti velhoutta alkaa Sudenlasten suuri seikkailu.

Rakastetun fantasiatrilogian huikea päätös. Maailma on vääjäämättä kulkemassa kohti pitkää talvea. Vain vanhojen mahtien suojeluksessa oleva perhekunta Ailegais, Arni ja Troi kumppaneineen ja lapsineen voi selvitä talvesta. He ovat kokoontumassa yhteen matkatakseen kotiin, suuren veden taakse Pohjankontuun. Mutta joukosta puuttuu yksi: Troi, jonka ympärille koko sisarusten ja heidän perheidensä maailma kietoutuu.

When the Bloodmoon rose, death came rushing into the world. Now the water is bitter, blight consumes everything, and the Crone haunts the hills. While the Druid of Blackthorn searches desperately for hope, the Ovate returns from the underworld bringing omens of despair. But Idris, the young bard, Keeper of the Sacred Word, will walk through fire and iron to uncover a question no one has ever dared to ask - a question that carries a world of answers on its back, a question that can change everything.

It's a fine line between pleasure and pain. Fast sieht es so aus, als würde es für Mackenzie Smith endlich etwas ruhiger laufen, nachdem sie in London bald ihren Buchladen eröffnet - wären da nicht die schrecklichen Albträume von Drachen, die sie heimsuchen. Oder eine Bande von Magiern, Gestaltwandlern und Fae, die Mack auf Schritt und Tritt folgen und nach ihrer Aufmerksamkeit verlangen. Als eine Dryade dann auch noch Mack um Hilfe bittet, scheint das Chaos perfekt. Dass ihr dabei aber Corrigan (aka Lord Pelzi!) in die Quere kommt, summiert das Ungemach gewaltig.

Protecting innocents in the mortal world is not a job to be taken lightly, and life for the paranormal Younglings is spiraling back to Insanityville. Stranded spirits, violent, rogue vampires and evil demons are bad enough…but now there’s a serial killer on the loose. The cunning vampire ministry will go to any lengths to secure the half-angel’s blood, but can they find out Eve’s identity? A tenacious vampire tracker is determined to locate her, and he’s closing in.

As town greenwitch, Aster's dedicated her life to defending her people from the nightmarish fae of the forest. Yet despite her best efforts, each year a girl is taken as a tithe by the Beast who rules the Folkwood. None ever return. And this year, the Beast claims Aster. Trapped in a cursed palace, taunted by mischievous, invisible servants, Aster despairs of ever making it home. Then the Beast offers her a bargain—if she can restore his rose garden and break the curse on his court, he will set her free.