Résultats Éditeur "Spoken Realms" dans Fantasy

Freedom was the goal. Falling on an elf was just a side quest. Princess Esther Valedara didn’t mean to set her life (or half a forest) on fire. But when her “escape for freedom” spell drops her face-first into a band of adventurers—featuring one brooding elf, one chaotic half-elf, and...

Ewan Torringford is the last unattached member of Manifold, and as far as he's concerned, that's advantageous. A Nephilim, he cannot love as he is denied the emotion that created him. Knowing it wouldn't be fair to a woman that is looking for it (because he just can't fake it), he spends his time searching for the one thing that can keep him even and from going dark side, the essence of the pure. A chance meeting with a one-night stand from his past could mean the difference between staying in the band or having a complete lifestyle change.

Whether she was a woman or a devil, we will never know for sure, but when she stood before him in all her awful beauty, all thoughts of love and honor fled from his mind, and he arose to answer her call to embrace the blossom of fire.

It's been weeks since Angelina has left Neverland. James Hook is desperate to follow her off the island and find her in this notorious town called London when he makes a grave mistake. The consequences alter the life of his once-arch-enemy, Peter Pan, in a way no one could have foreseen. The boy who wouldn't grow up swears revenge, and what better way than by stealing Hook's love? Through a shower of falling stars, a loop around the moon, and then a hard left at the Clock Tower...

Although Angelina McFarland loves reading fairytales, she never dreamed of falling right into one. Literally! But who is this flying boy who saved her? And why doesn't he want to grow up? Desperately trying to find a way off this cursed island, Angelina runs into a ruthless pirate. Hook captures her and keeps her trapped on the Jolly Roger to lure the flying boy out of his hiding. But is James really the heartless man she heard about? The more time Angelina spends with him alone, the more she starts to wonder who actually is the bad guy in this story... and who isn't?

Twelve years ago, my mom picked her volatile boyfriend over me, and I was gifted with an unwanted stay in a London children's home. But in six weeks, I'll be eighteen...and free! Unfortunately, one ridiculously pilfered sweater—puts me in front of a judge. And my absentee mother decides to make an appearance, too. And then somebody whispers that she has cancer. The Judge sentences me to spend some 'quality time' in France with her, and so I'm stuck laboring in the vineyards of some unknown relatives now. My escape from France, however, isn't quite as easy as I thought. Because of him. Julian.

The Seven Conundrums is seven different short stories. A mysterious man employs three desperate entertainers who have financial problems. The three accept his work proposal, not knowing if they are on the side of good or evil. As they work for the mystery man, they don't know if he is a thief, police, or both, making them spies, guardians, protagonists, and victims of curious adventures. After all, conundrums do not necessarily have a right or reasonable solution by their nature. In the end, however, all becomes known to the trio.

When the mischievous Cupid fires an arrow through the heart of Lord George Hell, that disreputable peer, desperate to win the love of sweetly innocent young Jenny Mere, obtains from fashionable mask-maker Mr. Aeneas a saintly mask of true love to disguise his own wicked features; and in this hypocritical disguise, Lord George finds a new life and a new morality.

In these wonderful short stories, Washington Irving created two of the earliest, most endearing and enduring characters in all of American literature. Rip Van Winkle and Ichabod Crane (not to mention the Headless Horseman) will keep you smiling as they wrestle with the strange and fantastic forces, characters and events that baffle and terrify.

"The Mermaid's Husband" is a poetic short story by Lord Dunsany, a writer known for his contributions to fantasy literature in the early 20th century. The story revolves around a mermaid and her husband, exploring themes of love, longing, and the complexities of relationships across different worlds. The narrative presents the mermaid as a creature of beauty and the sea, caught between her oceanic home and the world of humans. The husband, who is a human, represents the terrestrial life that clashes with the enchanting but perilous allure of the ocean.