Résultats pour "Twist" dans Science-Fiction et fantasy

Violet Maker is dead. Benjamin Maker is missing. Amethyst Forester is the prime suspect in a murder case. With no choice but to exonerate herself, Amethyst seeks the truth of Violet’s death, but gets caught up in the mystery of giant vortices appearing in the London skies and terrifying the population. Can she stop the devastation of the vortices? And if she can, must she pay the ultimate price?

They weren't in the market for trouble. Well, no more than usual, anyway ... As far as Miriam’s concerned, the Toot Hansell Women’s Institute already has enough on, what with anxious dragons, recalcitrant sprites, and the upcoming summer fête. They don’t have time for investigations, and...

Months after moving to the mysterious city of Cognito, Silver is developing her gifts as a Mage and learning how to live under new laws. She is forced to give up her old life and live in secret among the humans. There is finally hope of leading an ordinary life…until Logan Cross walks into it. Her chance meeting with Cross leads Silver close to discovering the identity of the nameless Mage who once stole her light and discovered the unique power she possesses.

'Some magic sleeps in chains- waiting in darkness. Some love drags it into the light-and wakes it.' Morwin is the last Keeper of the Grove, marked as a traitor and hunted by the empire she once protected. When a devastating Red Plague begins to spread, she leaves her sacred post and enters the wild wetlands of the Fens, searching for allies before the world unravels. Instead, she finds suspicion, hostility —and Jonathan. A battle-hardened warrior with a disgraced past, Jonathan has no patience for outsiders or the danger that usually follows them.

'Scott Brick can be relied upon to deliver intensity in every audiobook he narrates, but he outdoes himself in this story of a family on the run in a world gone mad...This is an audiobook you can't put down' – AudioFile ‘A great storyteller hitting his stride’ – Lee Child, bestselling...

You only have time to . . . run. FIVE DAYS AGO: a rash of bizarre murders swept the country. FOUR DAYS AGO: the murders increased tenfold. THREE DAYS AGO: the President addressed the nation and begged for calm and peace. TWO DAYS AGO: the killers began to mobilize. YESTERDAY: all the power went...

They thought they were fighting a war. They didn’t know it was the end of time. In 1945, war rages across Europe, but deep beneath Prague, another kind of battle is unfolding. It’s a fight not just for land or power but for the very soul of humanity. Kateřina Dubová, a brave journalist...

Still reeling from an unimaginable loss and the revelation of an identity she isn't sure she wants to embrace, Casia has one plan: Try to control the strange magic awakening inside of her. Mastering that magic will take her and her friends on a quest through cursed lands, into the dwellings of old gods, and deep into a Southern empire filled with deadly foes and unlikely allies. 

Gifted. Orphaned. Hunted. I was just another girl waiting for my sixteenth birthday, until my paranormal powers awakened. I had the ability to see the mysterious, ethereal faders, invisible to most. They look like humans but vanish into mist, and there’s nothing human about the things they do. I’ll never know why my father hid this world from me, because one of those monsters killed him. But the faders have an enemy; my new friends at Hilltop Academy. They took me in to protect me, train me and study me. Like all the students, I have the Sight and can see the faders.

Three years ago, Rosalind Courtenay stumbled from the 19th century to the 21st, where she has been trapped ever since, leaving her husband and infant son behind. Now she's found her way back. The problem, of course, is how to explain her absence to her husband. Does he think she abandoned him? Has he remarried? Is he happy in a new life? Rosalind decides to don a disguise in hopes of answering her questions before showing up on his doorstep. Instead, a twist of fate has her mistaken for her young son's new governess.

In a propulsive sci-fi thriller for fans of Andy Weir and Gravity, six astronauts on a one-way journey to Mars stumble across the impossible right beside their ship. Is it a wormhole, mass hallucination...or something far more sinister? Psychiatrist Daniel Richland never had what it took to be...

Former FBI agent Kendra Donovan's attempts to return to the 21st century have failed, leaving her stuck at Aldridge Castle in 1815. And her problems have just begun: in London, the Duke of Aldridge's nephew Alec - Kendra's confidante and lover - has come under suspicion for murdering his former mistress, Lady Dover, who was found viciously stabbed with a stiletto, her face carved up in a bizarre and brutal way.

By day, Violet is a supposed charlatan running a potion shop in New Orleans and catering to drunk tourists who want to take a walk on the wild side. By night, she's a Potion Master, a rare, magical being whose shop straddles the portal to Earth and Hell, slinging potions to magical beasts who only come out at night. She's also the protector of both, a neutral being who carefully navigates the Accords between oblivious humans and the creatures who wouldn't mind snacking on them. Unfortunately for both sides, Violet is terrible at her job.

Mika and Leah Cross tempted the gods with their love. Mika, a female priest, and Leah, a powerful witch, strive for balance in a world gone mad when their two different worlds collide. When the emissaries of evil kidnap Mika and their children, Leah is their only hope for survival. The former wicked queen reverts to her evil ways in order to save her children and the only woman she has ever loved. Will the gods forgive her trespasses done in the name of love?

When your dead grandma starts giving advice, you know life's about to get weird. I thought the worst part of the funeral would be saying goodbye. I was wrong. One flash of rainbow light later, and I can feel other people's emotions and blast my own right back at them. (Pro tip: do not get angry...

Everyone claims her name is Annabelle. The year is 1814 and she's married to Captain Keldon Buchanan, a man who despises her. The more she learns about her life, the more she realizes why she's chosen to forget it. She's a liar and an adulteress. She doesn't understand why she wanted to destroy her marriage when her heart tells her she belongs with Keldon. Keldon harbors his own secrets.

A twist of fate.... A twist of chance.... A twist of journey.... A twist of destiny.... A twist of love....

Not even Blu and Madeline's combined magic can hold against an unknown attacker who threatens the life of Tadric, the sole heir to the Summer Lands. Without him, the Lands will fall into the chaos of civil war, and the life Madeline has fought and suffered for will be lost. Madeline’s magic deserts her when she needs it most. Can she choose between two strangers to find the truth?

A Fae determined to recover her memory and learn her place in the realm discovers that there are no simple answers. With the help of a soldier with secrets of his own, she charts a course between two worlds, a dark forest where no Fae dare set foot, and the capital of the realm, which might end up being more deadly.

For the past 19 years, Rumpelstiltskin has kept his promise to Laila, the miller's daughter. Her son, Tristan, must never know the dark deal they made surrounded by straw and gold. But keeping the truth from a curious Tristan is the least of his troubles. He can't escape the chill of bodiless eyes watching him. Wanting him. Hunting him. When an oracle confirms his greatest fear, she also confirms his greatest hope. A hope and desire he believed long dead. Laila lives.