Résultats pour "The Collector" dans Fantasy

Raina Bloodgood has one desire: kill the Frost King and the Witch Collector who stole her sister. On Collecting Day, she means to exact murderous revenge, but a more sinister threat sets fire to her world. Rising from the ashes is the Collector, Alexus Thibault, the man she vowed to slay and the only person who can help save her sister. Thrust into an age-old story of ice, fire, and ancient gods, Raina must abandon vengeance and aid the Witch Collector or let their empire—and her sister—fall into enemy hands.

After years in Wonderland, Alice has returned to England as an adult, desperate to reclaim sanity and control over her life. An enigmatic gentleman with an intriguing job offer too tempting to resist changes her plans for a calm existence. Soon, she's whisked to New York and initiated into the Collectors' Society, a secret organization whose members confirm that famous stories are anything but straightforward and that what she knows about the world is only a fraction of the truth.

Choose your power. Grow your family. Slay a goddess. Pryvet came to this land seeking power untold, he just didn't expect there to be strings attached. Now, he must bed as many beauties as he can, or his life itself will be forfeit. Still, it doesn't hurt that his power grows with each new wife he adds to his growing family. Nothing will stop him in his quest for revenge. Not battle elves, not an entire army of valkyrie soldiers, not even the deadly World Forest itself.

“Urban fantasy, unexpected romance, and mythology all collide in King's latest. A must for V.E. Schwab and Katee Robert fans.” –Booklist In this stunning contemporary fantasy novel for fans of V. E. Schwab and Kaliane Bradley, a historian’s dream job in Italy takes a dark turn when she...

Every harvest moon, the Witch Collector rides into our valley and leads one of us to the home of the immortal Frost King, to remain forever. Today is that day—Collecting Day. But he will not come for me. I, Raina Bloodgood, have lived in this village for 24 years, and for all that time he has passed me by. His mistake.

Benedict Shade, a were-cat and collector of exotic and potentially lethal magical artifacts, arrives in Yerba City with his good buddy, Dwayne, to “collect” (some would say “steal”) an unusual dagger that is much more than it seems. Little does Shade realize that the dagger was involved in an assassination attempt with dire consequences.

When a powerful mage slew his parents, Pryvet had nothing left but revenge. Now, a desperate wager with a distant goddess is his only path to vengeance. He'll risk everything for power undreamt. Yet, when he discovers that three gorgeous women need him, he realizes everything includes so much more than just his own life. He holds not only their lives in his hands, but also their love.

Pryvet's making good time on his wager. Three beautiful women, a gorgeous magical companion, and sultry mysterious captive aren't anything to scoff at. Still, they won't be enough to satisfy his debt. And time is always running down. With the elven threat held at bay, Pryvet needs to convince his captive to trust him. Only then will she divulge her people's secrets.

When he accepted a magical Debt, Pryvet didn't expect it to change into his own power. Now, his Debt has transformed into a magical arm, granting him power untold. The mysterious Valkyrie commander arrives on his doorstep, ready to fight to the death. But instead of dying, she reveals her plan to destroy the island's goddess. And she knows that she must give her body to him to grow his power. She'll give herself willingly, all of her.

Bailed out by a mysterious wizard, John Smoke, an ex-con turned bounty hunter, is returned to his home with his life hanging by a thread. Aided by his sharpshooting wife, Sid, they set out on an explosive mission against dragon invaders sent to enslave mankind. Through inter-dimensional portals, savage winged dragon men, ferocious dragons and shapeshifting monstrosities wielding otherworldly magical powers threaten the very existence of humanity. And it will take more than flesh and blood to stop them before they seal the world's fate.

Raina Bloodgood will nur eines: den Frost King und den Witch Collector töten, der ihre Schwester entführt hat. Raina wird in eine uralte Geschichte von Eis, Feuer und alten Göttern hineingeworfen. Sie muss auf Rache verzichten und dem Witch Collector helfen oder ihr Reich - und ihre Schwester - in die Hände des Feindes fallen lassen.

Author's note: The following story takes place in the same world as my novel Blood Song, the first volume in the Raven's Shadow trilogy. I wrote it because I wanted to more fully explore characters who appear in Blood Song and the sequels Tower Lord and Queen of Fire. Readers familiar with my work are sure to recognize a certain pale-eyed, raspy-voiced Sword Master of the Sixth Order, and those curious as to the origins of the Tower Lord of the Southern Shore will find answers here.

After losing her partner in the line of duty, Agent Sidney Shaw is forced to team up with a renegade bounty hunter. And she doesn’t like it. John Smoke—an incarcerated wild card—is released into her custody, only to push her vaunted training to the limits and toss the FBI playbook out. But a vast hidden network of criminals with the terrifying ability to shape-shift into monsters is spreading its supernatural sickness in the very fabric of human society. Innocents end up dead or missing.

Apocalypse is coming to a world of monsters and men. A restless liege, Nath Dragon is bored with his reign and hungry for adventure. So when the fairy empress, Lotuus, entices him to undertake a great mission - a quest to uncover the secrets of his birth by locating the mother he's never known - Nath leaps at the opportunity. But the evil sprite's motives are far from noble.

Der Journalist Peter Adam erwacht im Kölner Dom - ohne Erinnerung daran, was in den letzten Tagen geschehen ist. Ringsum hebt sich der Boden, die Hölle tut sich auf, Menschen stehen in Flammen. Hat die Zeit der Apokalypse begonnen? Selbst der Papst im fernen Rom, der sich Petrus II. nennt, scheint von einem Dämon besessen zu sein und tut nichts, um das drohende Verhängnis abzuwenden. Die letzte Hoffnung der Welt liegt in der rätselhaften Tätowierung, die Peter Adams gesamten Körper bedeckt. Uralte Zeichen, die den Weg zu einem der größten Mysterien der Menschheitsgeschichte weisen. Dem Ursprung des Bösen.

When a prince appears on a witch's doorstep, lost and injured, she lets him into her home...But she is determined that her heart will remain tightly locked, and he will never have the key. In a kingdom where magic evokes both awe and fear, Alma’s rare magical affinity causes the witch hunters to descend on her family, forcing her to abandon all she knows. For a decade, Alma conceals herself, estranged from a world that misconstrues her powers.

The petty, vicious gods demand that Bib the sorcerer lure his friend, the young king, into a losing war. Bib thinks he’s clever enough to arrange things so that the king is defeated yet keeps his throne - and his head. But the king won’t listen until Bib crushes some traitors for him. Faced with rebellious nobles, mystical killers, and allies he can’t control, Bib finds that cleverness needs a sword and some vicious magic to back it up. Because if he fails, the gods have torture, death, and even destruction beyond death waiting for him. They may even point and laugh.

In this final installment, Zoey's strength, determination, and trust are put to the ultimate test. In the fight to protect the people she loves and stop DMG from experimenting on fae, humans, and animals to create soldiers, she learns the reality of how far Dr. Rapava will go to achieve his ultimate mission.

Zoey's life has taken a dramatic turn. Only a few months ago, she was a Collector working for the secret part of the government called the Department of Molecular Genetics (DMG), tracking and collecting fae. Her life had been changing and improving, with a partner she loved and a sister she adored. Now all that is gone - Daniel murdered by a fae, and Lexi killed when the Seattle area was devastated by a powerful, magical electrical storm.

Meet Sam Thornton. He collects souls. Sam’s job is to collect the souls of the damned, and ensure they are dispatched to the appropriate destination. But when he’s sent to collect the soul of a young woman he believes to be innocent of the horrific crime that’s doomed her to Hell, he says something no Collector has ever said before... “No.”