Résultats pour "the foxes" dans Dragons et créatures mythiques

From the author of The Last Dragon of the East comes a sweeping fantasy adventure with a dash of romance between a nine-tailed fox and the demon-hunter who captures her, banished to the underworld together and forced to form a reluctant alliance in order to escape the circles of Hell. Yue may be...

Dive into the dark underbelly of England’s most ancient university, where behind closed doors a circle of privileged students enter into a dark pagan ritual—one that holds tantalizing power and comes at a terrible price.​ "Bury me with this book."—Victoria Lee, author of A Lesson in...

Humanity is dying, hunted to extinction by creatures of legend. One boy was born to save them all. That boy just got knifed in the back. He looked a bit too much like Aaron, you see. Now it’s Aaron’s job to step up, lest his death correct that little mix-up. But Aaron’s skills as a street rat run more towards stealing and stabbing than saving. The more he learns of what brought dear dead Markus to that fatal alleyway, the more he has to wonder just what the world’s savior was really up to the night the wrong boy died.

The first book in the brand-new series from New York Times best-selling author Julie Kagawa. Enter a beautiful and perilous land of shape-shifters and samurai, kami and legends, humans and demons...a world in which Japanese mythology and imagination blend together. When destiny calls, legends rise. Every millennium the missing pieces of the Scroll of a Thousand Prayers are hunted, for they hold the power to call the great Kami Dragon from the sea and ask for any one wish.  

My whole life, I've been the perfect daughter: perfect hair, perfect body, perfect grades, perfect career. Of course my mother would choose the perfect fiancé for me! Thank God I wised up in time and dumped the jerk, but maybe I shouldn't have jumped into bed with the first hottie who winked at me. But how was I supposed to resist? Yeah, he's an orc, and he's muscled and tatted and definitely the take-charge kind of guy. Little did I realize, when I snuck out of his bed, that he'd left me with a present.

I am a researcher. I read books, conduct experiments, and live quietly on the fringes of the orc town. All I want is peace, quiet, and a female to satisfy the wild urges of my orc body so they don't distract me from my work. Getting a human wife through the Temple seems like a logical solution—until I bring her home and she starts sowing chaos. She moves my books, cuts my herbs to make bouquets, and replaces the blessed silence with laughter and song. For such a tiny person, she can be very loud. And opinionated.

Half vampire. Half fox-spirit. All trouble. Pawned by her mother to the King of Hell as a child, Lady Jing is half-vampire, half-hulijing fox-spirit and all sasshole. As the King's ward, she has spent the past ninety years running errands, dodging the taunts of the spiteful hulijing courtiers...

Spring has come, and with it the dragons, using tactics they've no right to know. Not without a more experienced mind leading them. As suspicions around King Orin's state of humanity deepen, Aaron steps foot into the wider world for the first time. And oh, there are so many plots to be plotted, out here.

From a kitsune slinking through the mists … to an elven champion tied to every crossroad in the moment of Midnight … to the heir of Underhill ruling the road on a Harley, the mystical and magical intersect nearly unrealized with the world of man. Do you dare to walk among them with open eyes? Do you seek a glimpse of their power? Take care and proceed with soft steps among the folk of magic and moonlight.

Anja Kinzey and her two lovers, biotech billionaire Lucian Miller and former FBI agent Zoe Ananda, are searching for a trove of supernatural lore to fight back against the sinister Sodality, which seeks to purge all magic. But the Golden Library has been lost somewhere in Russia since the death of Ivan the Terrible, and modern-day Russia is at war.

Drei Frauen sind durch ihre gemeinsame Fähigkeit, Drachen zu sehen, zu Drachenschwestern vereint. Sierra ist die Dritte im Bunde der Drachenschwestern. Doch noch immer ist kein persönlicher Drache in Sicht. Insgeheim ist sie ganz froh darüber. Ein rechthaberischer, geflügelter Begleiter ist das Letzte was sie gebrauchen kann, während sie stur versucht zu ignorieren, dass in ihrem Leben einiges schief läuft. Unvermittelt trifft sie ein schwerer Schicksalsschlag und nichts bleibt wie es war. Gezwungen, einen ehrlichen Blick auf ihr Leben zu werfen, macht sie sich daran herauszufinden, was sie wirklich will.

Nine-tailed fox spirit Sunny Cho has spent years running from her destiny, but fate is upon her. Inevitable or not, she doesn’t like it one bit. After a harrowing battle with a dark enemy from her past, Sunny has nowhere left to go but back to the Realm of Four Kingdoms. She grudgingly trains as a suhoshin cadet by day while learning to harness the Yeoiju’s magic by night…to disheartening results. At least throwing herself into training with Jihun and her suhoshin friends keeps her from running to Ethan—a love that can never be.

Nie mehr mit den anderen Drachen um die Wette fliegen? Unvorstellbar! Luna-Maie ist ein ganz normales Mädchen. Nun ja. Zumindest fast. Sie trägt ein Geheimnis mit sich rum, von dem nur ihre Mutter und deren Freundinnen, die Drachenschwestern, wissen. Seit sie auf der Welt ist, kann sie sich in einen Drachen verwandeln. Doch nicht mehr lange. Die Uhr tickt. Der Legende nach verlieren die Drachenwandler ihre Fähigkeiten, sobald sie anfangen, erwachsen zu werden. Kein Wunder ist Erwachsenwerden das letzte, was Luna-Maie will.

In a race to stop an ancient evil from destroying the worlds as they know them, Sunny comes to a startling, heartbreaking realization: if she chooses love—everything will burn. Sunny Cho aspires to be the dullest, least interesting person in any given room, which can be challenging for a nine-tailed fox spirit. So she drifts from city to city—staying clear of any and all attachment—and keeps her fox buried deep inside her. It is better this way. She would rather live as half of herself than risk losing control of her terrible powers.

Within the capital, a thriving metropolis erected by the human race along the southern expanse of Terram, a veteran mining crew finds a mysterious relic deep within the Azuran mines. Believing this to be an omen, commerce sector councilor Merad Mayler will stop at nothing to succeed the role of lead councilor. After seeking the aid of a highly favored speaker, Wynn Reynolds, and an eager commerce guard recruit, Cade Noch, Merad believes he finally has all the pieces needed to put his schemes into motion.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES CONTINUES Return to Megan Scott's world of immortal hunters and forbidden romance with the highly anticipated sequel to The Temptation of Magic. Nicole and Kyan are playing a dangerous game. Nicole is on the run, hiding from The Wake as she attempts to track...

As a bounty hunter, I’ve hunted the supernatural, yet nothing prepared me for the truth about my bloodline. Exiled by a harsh twist of fate, I’m thrust into the cold heart of Norway. Here, amid ancient forests and icy waters, I’m supposed to start over. But shadows from my past cling tighter than ever. A mission that was supposed to be my redemption throws me into the path with him—a man as dangerous and mysterious as he is infuriating. He’s hiding secrets that will get me killed, revealing he’s my fated mate.