Résultats pour "Quest" dans Urbain

Jack's always been about finding the answer, the key, to everything, but his riddles and locks were always larger than the people in his life suspected. What holds everything together? How could the ancients' understanding of the elements connect to our modern understanding? If Jack understood that, would it mean he could control them? But answers come with consequences, and knowledge always has a price.

Quinn Larson isn't a hero, he's just a wizard who loves finding new spells, and hanging out with his friends at the local magic folk bar in Vancouver’s Gastown. When he witnesses a fairy murdering a human, and selling the spirit to a sidhe, he can’t ignore it. The fight to save his people starts with a fae plot to wrest power and ends with an ancient prophecy that can’t be ignored.

Rygan is considered a monster by nearly all who meet him. A man of four races he is often met with fear, suspicion and hatred. To make matters worse, his grandfather, the Troll God Turok, wants to lay waste to all nations. All Rygan wants is to find the talismans that make up the Troll God’s prison. He does not need complications like Danielle, an elfin/human Halfling with a knack for finding trouble. Unfortunately, she has one of the talismans Rygan desperately needs. On the advice of her grandfather, who happens to be a wizard, the two set out to find the last remaining Dragon.

The search for the pieces of Charlotte's magical handbook is on, but it's not an easy task. With all the pages torn out and spread throughout the city, Charlotte, Sir Thomas, and Kat will have to track the pages down one by one. That should be easy, right? Wrong. The pages are falling into the wrong hands with dark consequences. But they are finding something on earth they shouldn't be finding—pockets of magic everywhere as well as more and more displaced people and animals from the Ever After.

Summer vacation isn’t all fun and hanging out when you’re a wizard-in-training. For partly reformed warlock Chance Fortunato, it’s even worse. In addition to the constant study and training, he has to prove he’s ready to be a full-fledged apprentice before he starts at the Franklin Academy. Plus, he’s beginning to think someone has it out for him. If things weren’t bad enough with a snooty proctor monitoring his every move and demons trying to capture him, his father finally makes his first attempt to get his wayward son back under his control by trying to frame his mom.

The four Elementals are united behind Maggie Parker and Bernie the Gnome. They stand at the gateway into the heart of the ship. The ship’s maze of passages has been dormant for centuries, and it will take a leap of faith to complete the trials. Puzzles have never been this dangerous. One wrong move too many, and there will be no more chances. Giant boulders chasing after them. Neon dinosaurs. Apelike creatures. Goblins. Would you be brave enough to keep going? What happens if they fail? Maggie learns the truth of just how powerful her Elemental magic can be.

Rebel has the best job in the world. She’s a bounty hunter. And her targets are vampires, werewolves, shifters, and other supernatural entities.Yes, she’s a supernatural bounty hunter. It’s not an easy job, but it’s necessary, and it’s training. Because, Rebel has a quest. One that might kill her. But then, that’s a typical day in the human’s life.

Falling through a portal and becoming a dragon shifter was strange enough. But, when I devoured a demon core and gained access to a forbidden quest system, my life changed forever. Sintar was like Earth in many ways. It had a blue sky, green grass, and air that I could breath. The demon attacks and shifter magic, however, were new. Every man and woman in Sintar had the ability to change their form. And now, that included me. And the gorgeous, silver-haired wolf girl I saved on my first day.

Living side by side with my gorgeous wolf shifter, life in Sintar has almost become normal...almost. Few things in my old life back on Earth could have prepared me for my unofficial role as a Quest Giver. Easy Street continues to thrive, though, so I must be doing something right.

Rescued from prison by a conniving benefactor, she reluctantly accepts a world-shattering assignment: assassinate Emperor Bharata. This vicious ruler has built a vast empire in the east and now sets his sights on the United Kingdom.

Trahaearn, the Arch Druid, longs for the simple times when a battle with vampires was his biggest worry. Now that humans can see the whole of the faerie world, he fears for the very survival of the magical folk. The last time humans saw the fae, it was genocide. This time, Trahaearn must find a way for the two worlds to live together, or both will die in a massacre that will spread like a plague over the globe.

Quinn’s young apprentice, Dionne, needs to be trained, and quickly. Destiny waits for no wizard, especially one with druids, fairies, and social workers knocking at his door. The druids are restless, and they demand that Quinn release Fionuir, his old nemesis, from her prison. The leader of the Rose Fairies has chosen a successor, and she demands that Quinn take the child and teach her.

A budding rebellion among the Sidhe threatens the tenuous peace. Was Quinn’s sacrifice for nothing? Quinn Larson kept the Real Folk hidden, but the cost was more than any man should bear; Cate - the friend who he hoped would become something more - is dead. His sight is still bespelled and his spirit broken. He wants to withdraw and heal, but someone is stealing fairy treasure and their babies. The ancient Druids have awoken with an unknown agenda and lot of power at their command.

succumbing to all-consuming bloodlust. Her most challenging contract yet: restore order to the gang-ridden city of Easy in post-World War 3 America. To succeed, she must manipulate the gangs into turning against each other while grappling with her own demons and a growing attraction to the sociopathic second-in-command of Easy's most ruthless gang.

Subject 336, once a victim of sinister experiments designed to replicate her extraordinary abilities, now grapples with the consequences of her captors' actions. Unbeknownst to them, they unleashed a primal force that laid waste to their facility and left her haunted by the aftermath. Adrift and uncertain, Subject 336 embarks on a perilous journey from the scorching Mexican desert to the lush Colombian Amazon, all while the Third World War rages on.

A third of the human population has been lost. In the 30 years that followed, humankind sought to rebuild itself within the walls of New Oxford. But society had become fractured - humans now live incongruously among Genetic Others, themselves a group of many subspecies. The most dangerous of them all: the vampires. Somehow, these groups have managed a peaceful coexistence under the controlling government influence of the Cabal. But that is all about to change....