Results for "Just" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

The Howling season is over, but Perry’s domain will soon face its greatest challenge yet. Off the coast, ancient horrors rise from the sea, battering the kingdom’s borders. And nearby mountain clans have decided Perry is a threat best eliminated before he can grow any stronger. With danger closing in from every side, even building new airships and working towards Hydra-soul might not be enough. So Perry delves into Aeternia’s past, uncovering ancient secrets—and unexpected allies.

En 1942, en Dordogne, la ligne de démarcation croise le cours de l'Isle. La ferme des Laborie est à deux pas de la rivière, et Virgile ne refuse jamais sa barque à ceux qui tentent de passer en zone libre. Avec sa femme Victoria, ils n'ont jamais eu d'enfants, et lorsqu'on leur demande de cacher Sarah et Elie, deux gamins juifs perdus dans la tourmente, ils les accueillent sans hésiter, en dépit des risques que leur font courir les trahisons, les dénonciations, les contrôles incessants.

Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power - especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet. Meet the disaster-magnets of St Mary's Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History.

"...it’s compulsively listenable. That’s thanks in part to Sands’ intense narration, whether she’s playing the inscrutable Vera or her wretched mother asking for yet another glass of lemonade." -Vulture "The audiobook narrated by Xe Sands is a genuinely nail-biting listen." - Buzzfeed...

A desperate mother. A dubious escort. And a deranged author who won’t leave them alone. Caroline Lindley is determined that her new romance novel will be her best one yet. Fantasy! Formal gowns! Fencing! And, of course, a twentysomething heroine to star in an enemies-to-lovers plot with all of Caroline’s favourite tropes. But Lady Rosamund Hawkhurst is a thirty-six-year-old widow with two children, her sole focus is facilitating a peace treaty between her adopted nation and her homeland, and she flatly refuses to take the correct approach to there being only one bed. What’s an author to do?

Teena has spent years building her Pittsburgh restaurant from the ground up. Success came through grit, sacrifice, and refusing to let anyone tell her she doesn't belong. The last thing she needs is a distraction—especially one that looks like her infuriatingly talented chef. Zelle hasn't left her apartment in months. A gifted artist trapped by severe agoraphobia, she's carefully shrunk her world into something manageable. But when an emergency forces her outside, she'll have to decide whether survival means staying safe, or finally taking a risk.

After years away, Ludger returns to the capital for business deals that could strengthen the Lionsguard and House Torvares. What should be a political and commercial trip soon turns into something bigger when his first international mission drags him into a dangerous conspiracy. Not the obvious...

Being a small dungeon on the outskirts of town in the backwaters of an unimportant kingdom isn't easy, but Kelsey's done her best to level up and become the best dungeon she can be: Digging a hole of ever-increasing depth and complexity. Creating an undead atmosphere that would make a necromancer proud. Spawning monsters and treasure. Killing adventurers. But lately, things have gotten a bit stale.

Perry’s adventure continues in book 2! Dive into an epic adventure that follows a mage-engineer MC carving out a domain on the frontier. Perfect for fans of Ends of Magic and Bog Standard Isekai!

Mustang Sally has some speedy shoes to fill. This young superhero has waited her whole life to join Just Cause–the premiere team of American heroes. Now she’s hoping her super-speed will earn a spot on the same team to which her parents and grandparents belonged. A chance encounter with the villain who killed her father changes everything. Even though she’s only an intern, Sally devotes herself to finding the man known as Destroyer. With the help of her eagle-winged best friend Sondra and her super-strong love interest Jason, her investigations uncover a sinister plot.

When Perry gets isekai’d into a young noble with newfound magical powers, he must choose between surviving on the Front, a mystical battleground with sky-high mortality, or pledging an oath to become a Magus Dominus. A mage lord. The title sounds nice, but the responsibilities are punishing. Perry must develop and protect a domain in the hostile north. His grasp on magic leaves much to be desired, but with the help of a loyal servant and his half-sister, a tempestuous Storm mage, he has a fighting chance.

One thousand levels gained. Twenty years battling the beast tides. Humanitys strongest warlord from another world is finally ready for retirement. After being transported from Earth to another world, Titus Blackblade lived a life of war, death and tragedy. He only wants one thing after defeating...

After his son gives him a pair of "X-ray" glasses as a gift, Martin Blackstone tries them on just for the hell of it - and all they do is give him a headache...until he sees things he can’t possibly be seeing. Glimpses of things on the other side of a wall or beneath someone’s clothing. He wants to believe it’s just his overactive imagination, but the “X-ray” specs actually work.

When charming slacker Chaddick Questwell is accidentally anointed as the world’s next legendary hero, he figures he can fake it long enough to cash a few quest rewards and bed a few admirers. But the universe—and his infuriatingly loyal paladin sidekick—has other plans. Now, saddled with a glowing sword, a golden retriever in armor, and a dangerously sexy elf who keeps blowing things up, Chaddick must bluff, brawl, and bed his way through destiny before anyone realizes he’s a fraud. Because saving the world is easy.

From a single short story written in 2001 to a sprawling series of more than 20 books, the Just Cause Universe is a superheroic reflection of our times. Encompassing more than 60 years of history, these tales fill in the gaps, tell the side stories, and broaden the depth of the JCU. Although all these stories have appeared in previous publications, this is the first time they have been collected into a single volume.

When P.J. Whistler leaves her Appalachian village of Victoria, New Brunswick in the summer of 1969 to visit her godson's family in south-western Ontario, she isn't prepared for her keen observational skills to be in demand for solving a murder. But when her godson, homicide consultant Inspector Philip Steele, and his mother Lary, who is now running their family farm, the "JUST (e)STATE", as one of the first therapeutic riding schools in North America, ask P.J. to help with the investigation of a young man who fell to his death from a railway trestle, she is happy to oblige.

Being one of the guys isn't all it's cracked up to be. So when journalist Chastity O'Neill returns to her hometown, she decides it's time to start working on some of those feminine wiles. While doing a story on local heroes, she meets a hunky doctor and things start to look up. Now there's only...

With Gaius Stonefist's help, Ludger finally finishes the stone bridge. The moment it's done, he pushes forward and reaches the runic golems labyrinth… but the road to it is already trying to kill him. Along the way, a giant sea monster rises and nearly tears the Ironhand Guild's fleet apart, turning a "professional expedition" into a desperate scramble for survival. An invitation to the capital. A business proposal. Something that could be enormously beneficial… or a trap dressed in silk.

The sparks of revolution set an entire generation ship ablaze in the cinematic conclusion to Mahmud El-Sayed’s Arabfuturist debut The Republic of Memory. The Safina is a city ship trapped in dark space. Two hundred years into its voyage from the ruins of Earth, two hundred years from its...

In Lionfang, Ludger sees the pattern the System won’t let him ignore: trouble never stops coming. So he does what no sensible kid should, he starts building something meant to outlast panic. The Lionsguard guild begins as a hard, practical answer to chaos. Not a tavern guild chasing glory, but an organization that feeds, houses, and trains its people. Word spreads. Coin follows. The guild grows—contract by contract, stone by stone, into the closest thing the frontier has to stability. Then a letter arrives that can’t be ignored.