Résultats pour "Twist" dans Fantasy

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.

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...

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.

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. 

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.

As an ex-cop and PI, Robert Hoskins thought he'd seen it all. Then, while working a simple case, his world changed. The next thing he knew, he was battling wizards, demons, and even the occasional dragon. Now, with government agents closing in on him in the human world and the ancient dwarves threatening the Fae lands, he's got to prepare himself for his most daunting task of all: telling his adult children they are the descendants of Greek gods!

In special agent Burgundy Graves' opinion, desk work is for sissies. So what if Surfaeillance Agency exists to regulate faery activity on Earth? Tracking the monsters is a form of regulating. Give her a gun, a dangerous threat to hunt down, no questions asked - and she's in. But when Surfaeillance puts her in a team of wet-behind-the-ears investigators and tasks them with trailing a clueless millionaire, Burgundy begins to seriously consider pulling out - until the millionaire is murdered on her watch.

The day the alphas dragged me to Golden Claw I'd thought my life was over. After years of running from the packs and the shifter cities they ruled over, I finally found myself trapped within their borders. Trapped and surrounded by my scent matches. My fated mates. Four, disturbingly perfect alphas, who claimed me as one of their quintet. Despite my determination to keep them at arm's length, and escape the moment the Alpha Council let their guard down… I find myself completely ensnared.

It’s been almost two years since Christmas elf, Tinsel, joined the Minor Flight Team and started dating Niklas Kringle, Santa’s grandson. But during a practice flight, she unintentionally endangers the reindeer and gets suspended from the job she loves. So when Santa’s age-old enemy, Krampus, threatens a Christmas takeover, Tinsel seizes the opportunity to win back everyone’s trust and her position. For the key to Krampus’ downfall lies halfway around the world in a legendary Silver Reindeer, and Tinsel alone has the talent for reindeer speech.

Even during a truce, I have my hands full as a MASH surgeon to an army of warring gods - especially when Medusa herself turns up pregnant. I frankly have no idea what to expect when a Gorgon’s expecting, but I have an even bigger problem when my presumed-dead former-fiancé sneaks into my tent with enough emotional baggage to fill a tank.

Julie Cromwell is a selfish, manipulative, insecure woman, and those are her best qualities. She sets up a fake kidnapping to see if her husband will pay a million dollars for her safe return. Something goes wrong and she winds up dead. This is the first plot twist, but certainly not the last. Enter lead detective Karl Larkin and his partner, Ted Cramer. They are a team who refuses to let sleeping dogs lie.