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.

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.

Dernière vouivre encore en vie, Naesa porte en elle le feu de la vengeance. Dragon de l’ombre et prince de sang, Drake ne vit que pour protéger son clan. Forcés de s’allier sur ordre du Conseil des Clans, leur rencontre est explosive. Il ignore tout de sa véritable nature, s’il le...

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.

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.

Niemand ist einfach nur eine Katzenlady. Kit McCaffertys Leben ist ruhig, unauffällig und voller Katzenhaare. In der magischen Stadt Coldstream, die an der Grenze zwischen Schottland und England liegt, gilt Kit als leicht exzentrisch, aber weitgehend harmlos. Ihre Tage verbringt sie damit, sich...

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?

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.

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.

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.

Reconhecida em testamento como filha e herdeira do conselheiro Vale, um homem importante da elite carioca do Segundo Império, Helena passa a viver na mansão da família com uma tia e Estácio, seu meio-irmão. Enquanto a proximidade entre os dois se torna cada vez mais intensa, Helena enfrenta os desafios de se adequar aos costumes da família e conquistar seu lugar dentro dessa.

Every book in the Society of Scandalous Witches can be read as a standalone. Secrets. Scandal. Hexes. And a desire that refuses to be tamed. In gaslit Victorian England, reputation is everything—and Lady Cynthia Burrows has perfected hers. A flawless hostess. A dutiful wife. A paragon of the...

It's a prick of blood, the bite of an apple, the evil eye, a wedding ring, or a pair of red shoes. Curses come in all shapes and sizes, and they can happen to anyone, not just those of us with unpopular step-parents.... Here you'll find unique twists on curses, from fairy tale classics to brand-new hexes of the modern world - expect new monsters and mythologies as well as twists on well-loved fables. Stories to shock and stories of warning, stories of monsters and stories of magic.

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.

"Exhilarating...A wildly imagined, head-spinning, deeply intelligent novel." - The New York Times Book Review "[W]ildly inventive…[Helen Oyeyemi's] prose is not without its playful bite." –Vogue The prize-winning, bestselling author of Boy Snow Bird, What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours, and...

Plunge into epic mythological retellings where vengeful gods and ancient prophecies collide with fierce mortal defiance. Perfect for your daily commute or a relaxing evening escape, these vivid, atmospheric folklore stories transport you straight to the golden age of heroes. Experience the clash...

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.

Falling for a vampire was never the plan. Surviving might be the real challenge. KEELEY For the first time in forever, my world feels... stable. I’ve got a new job working for a Russian vampire billionaire, my daughter is thriving, and Josh—the dangerously gorgeous vampire I adore—is...

Mai un home ha estat reclòs en una presó més segura, més llunyana i més inexpugnable que Napoleó Bonaparte després de ser derrotat a Waterloo. Tothom sap què li va passar: que el món, fart de les seves ambicions infinites i les destrosses inacabables, va decidir tractar-lo com el que era… Un geni del mal. I la llàntia on el van tancar es deia Santa Helena: un illot de roca a milers de quilòmetres de la costa més propera, infestat de rates i vigilat per l'armada britànica.

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.