Résultats pour "Hex" dans Fiction

Thalie, 16 ans, vit avec ses parents, Gabriel et Sandrine, dans la Cité de Sainte-Foy au Québec. Nul n’a le droit de franchir le Mur qui entoure la ville et protège ses habitants de la dévastation et du chaos qui sévissent au-delà. Chaque printemps et jusqu’au retour des neiges, Sandrine quitte son amoureux et sa fille pour reboiser le Nord du pays avec un groupe de femmes. Cette année, Thalie obtient le droit de l’accompagner.

After he mysteriously inherits land on Steens Mountain in Oregon, Hector Eladio Xavier—Hex—leaves his home in Los Angeles for a weekend trip to dispose of the property. Weeks later he finds himself saddled with cattle, horses, and frustratingly entangled in the community. As a young urban professional, he’s unequipped for life in a small cow town and bewildered by the culture of the people who live there. Experience as a Latino gang member, Army Ranger, and businessman has to keep him alive to solve a thirty-year puzzle. Mystery, danger and comedy mix with ulterior motives and rural quirks.

Twenty years ago, Sarah, Katrina and Alicia were inseparable. In college, they discovered their affinity for magic and practiced in secret - until their most ambitious spell went horribly wrong, resulting in a catastrophic fire that burned down their college dorm building, and the coven scattered. Now Sarah Nelson has built a life for herself. Working as a luxury realtor, with her doting husband and two children, she could be any other mother in the neighbourhood. Until now, her magic has lain dormant. Then the former coven reunites, and their magic no longer wants to stay hidden.

Bloomsbury presents Hex by Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, read by Jenny Slate. ‘Wise, funny, suspenseful’ JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER 'Sardonic and strange ... With its dark humour and loopy lyricism, it bewitches’ DAILY TELEGRAPH 'Narrated with badass gusto' DAILY MAIL 'Reads like a botanist’s...

One of Vanity Fair's 21 Best Books of 2020 (So Far) A Vulture, LitHub, and PureWow Most Anticipated Book of 2020 "As precise as any scientific observation and far more tantalizing." --Vogue "A sophisticated, surprising take on the campus novel (with a welcome dose of witchery). Knight's writing...

It was a stupid wish. One that's come to haunt my doorstep fourteen years later. When I made a pact with my best friend to marry each other if we were both still single at thirty, I had no idea it would be magically bound . . . by me. Time and circumstance have separated us, and we're no longer...

Witchy bookseller + grumpy professor = the perfect romance Lucy Ansari has a magical life. Literally — she’s a witch, managing a perfect little bookshop. And whenever she's a little lonely, she turns to Charles — her beloved, ageing boss — to keep her company. Disaster strikes when...

The second hint something's wrong in a town that pretends its magic is perfectly under control? A hex mark on your front door. It showed up overnight—burned into the wood, smelling faintly of sulfur and sage. Just another Tuesday in this charmingly cursed town. But when fires start flaring in...

Fall under the intoxicating spell of their hex appeal…In the magical world that lies hidden beneath our own, witches and conjurers play deadly games. They know just the right spell to kill a man with one kiss—or raise him back again. And they’re not afraid to exact sweet revenge on those who dare to cross them. But what if you’re the unlucky soul who falls victim to a conjurer’s curse? And if you had the power to cast a magic spell of your own, would you use it?

Tennessee, Winter, 1838. Melody was a young girl raised by the circus—an orphan of the Great War. Her people traveled the trails of the Great American Shield, entertaining the men of the Union with the seasons, for as long as she could remember. She loved the open road despite the dangers—living free on the edge of the frontier. But the night the shadows of the Mississippi visited the circus, Melody's world began to unravel, forcing her to seek answers to protect her people or lead them to certain peril.

Sabine has spent years tending to her quirky shop and practicing subtle magic, all while haunted by nightly visions of a stranger whose presence fills her with both longing and trepidation. Now, her untamed tiger spirit is urging her to fall for a tall, grumpy, and powerful dragon who makes her feel like she's known him her whole life. Ren Athran is a 1000-year-old dragon shifter with a cold, regal exterior and a tragic past. Once the beloved mate of a fierce witch, Ren retreated into solitude after her death, vowing never to love again.

John Taylor is the name. I work the Nightside. Only in that dark heart of London where it's always three A.M., where human and inhuman can feed their darkest desires, do I feel at home. Probably because I was born there. What I do is find things - people, objects - and in this case, the truth about the origins of the Nightside. That's what Lady Luck has hired me to investigate. But the more I dig, the more I discover, not about the Nightside but about the great question in my life: exactly who - and what - was my long-vanished mother.

Chad Miller never intended on becoming a serial-killing, counterculture hero.... When the American dream turns into the American nightmare, Chad's forced to quit med school and rethink his life. Banks, bill collectors, and bad credit push him over the edge. Becoming a martyr for the poor and working class, Chad gives the rich pigs a taste of their own medicine. Shot guns and sharks and plane crashes, oh my!

Everything's bigger in Texas - including romance, magic, and danger! Katie Chandler has fled fast-paced Manhattan and returned home to a simpler life, working at her family's feed-and-seed store in Cobb, Texas. In a painfully selfless gesture, Katie had left the sexy wizard Owen Palmer to battle his demons in the magical realm–after all, Katie just seemed to attract evil, which only made Owen's job a lot harder.

The Craft for the #MeToo era, this debut unfolds a riveting psychological drama shot through with sharp humor and dark magic for readers of Ninth House and The Power. When Lee, a first year at Smith, is raped under eerie circumstances during orientation week by an Amherst frat boy, she's quickly...

There is never a good time for a witch to lose her powers. But to lose your magic just when you and your friends need it to survive might be the worst timing of all. But even in her despair, Torie Bliss has noticed some strange goings-on in Singing Falls. The supernatural community seems to be at war with itself, and the human inhabitants of the community are not exactly acting like normal humans. Without her powers Torie is at a loss as to how she can help them. But there is one person who may be able to help her.

Boone Fischer and Emily Durand have settled down in the Turks and Caicos—specifically, the picturesque island of Grand Turk. But a chance encounter with a dive boat from a nearby island leads them to pull up stakes again, if only temporarily. The couple take the Lunasea across to South Caicos—The Big South—an island with a rich history...not all of it virtuous.