Résultats pour "Rook" dans Action et aventure

He's supposed to protect her, NOT fall in love. Stunning. That’s the first word that comes to mind when I see the brilliant, curvy beauty performing comedy in a club. At the time I didn’t know who she was. With the soul of an artist and the spirit of a warrior, Pippa is gorgeous, quirky, and unique. She’s also my friend’s little sister. After getting fired from my job as a detective and promptly hired by the Cerberus group, my first assignment is to protect Seth’s little sister, Pippa. Someone has been threatening Pippa and her crew. It is my job to uncover the culprit while keeping her safe.

Rookie. Baby-face. Junior. Riley Cruz has heard it all. At thirty-one, he’s the youngest recruit on the force, but his quiet nature and boyish looks make him easy to dismiss. What no one realizes is that Riley isn’t as innocent as he seems. Recruited by powerful players in law enforcement, he’s pulled into a covert team of agents who blur the line between justice and corruption. Now Riley is straddling two worlds—cop and agent, right and wrong—and he may be hiding the darkest secrets of them all.

Nova is a rogue adventurer who needs money - fast - or she'll be hauled to a labor camp. One cargo could solve all her problems, but there's a catch: The goods aren't legal. Now, Nova must choose: cave to criminals or do the right thing and risk being killed?

Humanity is falling. She has little hope of survival. Charlus Vaughn, a teenage refugee on the run from machine judgement and haunted by her mother's secrets. When a rogue data-pirate crew pulls her from the brink of execution, Charlus finds a place to belong, but something far older and far more dangerous is watching. Entangled in the schemes of an ancient arachnid intelligence, Charlus begins to uncover powers within herself that unravel what she's been told. Her past was hidden for a reason.

Willkommen in der Society of Villains! Band 3 der viralen Dark-Mafia-Romance-Reihe von SPIEGEL-Bestsellerautorin L.J. Shen endlich auf Deutsch! Die gehypte Dark-Mafia-Romance von US-Shooting Star L.J. Shen endlich auf Deutsch! Bei diesem Hörbuch handelt es sich um Dark Romance mit einer Altersempfehlung ab 18 Jahren. Im Hörbuch sind Triggerwarnungen enthalten.

When Bodie King, a con man known for (alleged) art thefts, steps into my antique store, I know I’m in trouble. Not only is he charming, devastatingly handsome, and used to getting what he wants, but he’s looking for a priceless chess set. The same one I’m searching for. The race is on and I have to use everything I know about the chess set to get it before him. Too bad he doesn’t play fair.

Most of the story you hold in your hands takes place in the thirteen hours surrounding the execution of Rooker Flynn. Gerba Whipmarples has won. The prison revolt has failed, the escape plan has been crushed, and the perpetrators have been captured. The headmistress has stolen Nepenthe from Jack, and Rooker has sacrificed his one true love, the Venture Brigand, to save his friend’s life. At long last, there is nothing left for Gerba to do but make sure the greedy pirate pays for his crimes at the end of a noose. Welcome to Rooker Flynn’s final day at the Locke Institute.

Aliens and humans alike play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that literally want to eat you. Organized crime runs every franchise, games are fixed, and rival players are assassinated. Follow the story of Quentin Barnes, a 19-year-old quarterback prodigy that has been raised all his life to hate, and kill, those aliens. Quentin must deal with his racism and learn to lead, or he'll wind up just another stat in the column marked "killed on the field."

Aliens and humans alike play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that literally want to eat you. Organized crime runs every franchise, games are fixed, and rival players are assassinated. Follow the story of Quentin Barnes, a 19-year-old quarterback prodigy that has been raised all his life to hate, and kill, those aliens. Quentin must deal with his racism and learn to lead, or he'll wind up just another stat in the column marked "killed on the field."

In 2488, Battle Quest, an arrow shooting, sword fighting, magic slinging live action RPG, is the most popular sport in the universe. Tal works in a trash dump by day and fights in a street samurai pit by night. He dreams of becoming a Battle Quest pro to pull his sisters and grandmother from the slums. Problem is he’s too short, too broke, and his highlight vid-reel has more fails than an ogre’s got warts.

"Matthes" könnte man kurz als eine Mischung aus "Jim Knopf", "Indiana Jones", "Die Schatzinsel" und einem Reiseführer für Aruba beschreiben. Matthes erlebt wie Jim Knopf Abenteuer und reist zu verschiedenen Orten. Er ist ähnlich wie Indiana Jones ein Abenteurer und Schatzsucher. Ähnlich wie in "Die Schatzinsel" handelt die Geschichte von der Suche nach einem vergrabenen Schatz. Die Geschichte gibt als Reiseführer für Aruba zudem Einblicke in die Kultur und Sehenswürdigkeiten der Insel.

Jaxson Rooks thought it was just going to be another quite night at home with the wife. It is never that easy in the life of a Terran contractor, when they learn that their two daughters have been kidnapped along with his father-in-law. Now it is a race against time as they have to track down the Red Dragon company, who Jaxson has deep ties to, and find where they are holding their family. It's not like anyone would expect a Terran Scientist would bring guns, lots of guns. Not to mention his secret weapon.

Joseph Manley, a blue-collar worker from Idaho, loses his job during the 2009 economic recession. A strange turn of events sets him off on a road trip to seek out the fictional sitcom families from Good Times and All in the Family. Haunted inns, abandoned houses, catastrophic weather, quirky couples, gangs, hippies, soldiers, loving dads, strong mothers — even an intuitive stray dog await Joe on his journey.

Deep in the frontier of a galactic empire, on the edges of explored space, a body is found near a remote settlement on an alien world. The body of a child. The victim isn't from the settlement, her cause of death is suspicious, and where she came from is a complete mystery. How did this little girl get to this planet light-years away from civilization, and how did she die? To solve this baffling case, the local settlers call upon the Galactic Rangers, a newly formed group of roving lawmen who are tasked with bringing law and order to the Frontier.

Sophie is literally up to her eyeballs in Albins from every dimension imaginable, the town is in jeopardy of completely disappearing and Walter continues to be cagey about what he knows. Sophie must convince him to trust her in order to fix everything that's gone wrong and then finally, maybe she can go home.

Book One of The Sophie Stearns Adventures is set in a bustling company town, where the everyday is anything but ordinary. Sophie and the G-Man chronicles Sophie's accidental entry into a parallel dimension where she needs to solve the mystery of the device that transported her and the reason it exists in the first place.