Showing results for "Rose" in Dark Fantasy

Corey is new to Clydebank, a small town where the "Clydebank Welcome" means getting beat up. Blistering his hands mowing lawns to buy his first guitar, Corey’s lonely world shifts when he encounters Shadow, a Maine Coon with hypnotic turquoise eyes and a terrifying, magical power hidden in the town's uncultivated gully. Inspired by the dualities of Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice, this story explores a world where souls can burn with rage or freeze from grief.

Set in a fractured United States, in the southwestern country now known as Texoma. A world where magic is acknowledged but mistrusted, especially by a young gunslinger named Lizbeth Rose. Battered by a run across the border to Mexico Lizbeth Rose takes a job offer from a pair of Russian wizards to be their local guide and gunnie. For the wizards, Gunnie Rose has already acquired a fearsome reputation and they’re at a desperate crossroad, even if they won’t admit it.

Empousai family roses have bloomed for centuries, thanks to the drops of blood their women sacrifice for their gardens. But Mikki would rather forget this family quirk and lead a normal life. Until she unwittingly performs a ritual, ending up in the strangely familiar Realm of the Rose. As its goddess Hecate reveals, Mikki is a priestess - and the Realm's been waiting for her.

On the fabled world of Krynn, Lord Soth finally learns that there is a price to pay for his long history of evil deeds, a price even an undead warrior might find horrifying. Dark powers transport Soth to Barovia, and there the death knight must face the dread minions of Count Strahn Von Zarovich, the vampire lord of the nightmare land. But with only a captive Vistani woman and an untrustworthy ghost for allies, Lord Soth soon discovers that he may have to join forces with the powerful vampire if he is ever to escape the realm of terror.

When Scarlet's brush with death leads her to the arms of the Reaper himself, she discovers that love can bloom in the darkest of shadows. Living among the sun-scorched streets of Phoenix, Scarlet mixes drinks, tends to her mother, and mends her broken heart, believing the worst is behind her. That is until destiny carves a treacherous new path. Zeke, the striking embodiment of death, enters her life with a task to claim her soul, but fate has other plans. A twisted accident intended to seal her demise instead forges an unbreakable bond between them.

Once, Tomas Piety looked after his men, body and soul, as best he could. Then those who ran his country decided his dark talents would better serve in the corridors of power. Crushed by the power of the Queen's Men and with the Skanian menace rising once more on the streets of Ellinburg, Tomas Piety is forced to turn to old friends, old debts and untrustworthy alliances. Meanwhile in the capital city of Dannsburg, Dieter Vogel is beginning to wonder if the horror he has unleashed in the Martyr's Disciples might be getting out of control.

Eline is a mother, a wife, and a survivor. But her life is about to change dramatically. Following an act of horrific - if righteous - vengeance, Eline is blackmailed into the service of the Queen's Men. She knows it will be a hard life of violence and fear. But Eline will do what it takes to survive, and to protect her children . . . and if she's lucky, she won't die in the process.

Lilith weiß seit dem Tag ihrer Geburt, dass sie bald sterben wird. Sie hat sich schon vor langer Zeit mit ihrem eigenen bevorstehenden Tod abgefunden, doch der Tod all derer, die sie liebt, ist eine ganz andere Sache. Und als ihre Stadt langsam in den Fängen einer mysteriösen, von Göttern verfluchten Krankheit verdorrt, unternimmt sie einen verzweifelten Versuch, die Dinge zu ändern.

Six hundred years ago, the Muir Court was wiped from existence, destroyed by an elite group known as the Black Rose Guard. Their captain, Mara, has a reputation of being a harsh woman who leads with unwavering conviction and fierce formality. During her long years of service, she has known pain, loss, heartache…and one great love. Edward, captain of the Royal Guard, loved her once. However, Princess Liza’s sweet innocence inadvertently stole the heart he had once sworn belonged to Mara alone.

My name is Princess Carmine, a.k.a. Rose Red. When I learn my longtime protector, Huntsman Draven, has been taken prisoner by my evil uncle, I’m beyond upset. Not to mention the fact that I’ve loved Draven for as long as I can remember. Promised to marry another, I attempt to escape a loveless marriage. But, in the process, I find myself in a precarious situation when my would-be husband decides to take matters into his own hands….

In this chilling sequel to the best-selling Knight of the Black Rose, factions vie for control of Sithicus as Lord Soth - darklord and former knight from the Dragonlance world - fights to keep his reign from crumbling. Even as he struggles to defeat his enemies, rumor reaches him that the White Rose haunts the land. Has Kitiara finally returned to Soth, or is this another spectre from the death knight's tragic past?

After her father's death, Snow shuts herself away in her grief cluttered chambers, but she is plagued by more than painful memories. She will never be safe unless she forgets how her father really died. At last, she escapes into the woods with nothing but a small knife. Rose leaves the sleeping village she grew up in for the first time in search of her missing grandmother.

The Silver Empire is in ruins. War is in the wind. Kagen and his allies are on the run from the Witch-king. Wild magic is running rampant everywhere. Spies and secret cabals plot from the shadows of golden thrones. Kagen Vale is the most wanted man in the world, with a death sentence on his head and a reward for him—dead or alive—that would tempt a saint. The Witch-king has new allies who bring a terrible weapon—a cursed disease that drives people into a murderous rage. If the disease is allowed to spread, the whole of the West will tear itself apart.

The battered Middlemist can barely hold itself together. Olden monsters terrorize the land. The gods are awakening from their ancient slumber, but if the vengeful Kilraith destroys them, all will be lost. And it's up to the Ashbourne sisters—demigods, daughters of the goddess Kerezen—to stop him. But the sisters are spread thin. Gemma and Talan travel the world in a desperate search for the gods. In the capital, Farrin and Ryder shelter countless refugees amid roiling unrest. And Mara Ashbourne, bound to the Middlemist and longing for a home she can never return to, is just trying to survive.

Réduite à une poignées d'hommes, la Compagnie noire a définitivement changé de camp. Sa nouvelle tâche est de protéger la Rose Blanche, seule capable de vaincre la Dame et ses forces du mal. Mais cette ultime confrontation doit avoir lieu lors du passage de la grande comète... et cette échéance est encore lointaine. Réfugiés dans la plaine de la Peur, un lieu cauchemardesque peuplé d'étranges créatures, les soldats de la dernière des compagnies franches de Khatovar s'apprêtent à subir le plus long siège de leur histoire.

Who or what is Taylor Lane? Taylor Lane survived the beast that killed her mother; now she has powers that threaten to expose her to a host of evil beings she used to believe were imaginary. Forced to fight for her own survival, she's thrown into the middle of an almighty war, where nothing is what it seems. Amidst the chaos, Lucian, her shadowy protector enters her life and heart. But there’s something dark inside of him: he’s a vampire, the original Dark One. Can they learn to trust one another and save the world around them?

Picking up right where A Longer Fall left off, this thrilling third installment follows Lizbeth Rose as she takes on one of her most dangerous missions yet: rescuing her estranged partner, Prince Eli, from the Holy Russian Empire. Once in San Diego, Lizbeth is going to have to rely upon her sister Felicia, and her growing Grigori powers to navigate her way through this strange new world of royalty and deception in order to get Eli freed from jail where he’s being held for murder.

Moving to an intentional community is supposed to be a fresh start for Milo. No Internet or television. Complete isolation from the outside world. He doesn't love the idea of moving, but his brother has been in charge since their parents' accident, and Milo knows better than to question him. Besides, it's not like there's anything to stay for, not after the recent incident that got him expelled from school and made him a social pariah.

I’m not alone. There are other Mystic wolves out there, and now I have to find them. And win the Alpha Trials, get my revenge on the supreme alpha, and of course, break my mate’s curse. Phew... And I thought things would be easier now that we’d finally completed the mate bond. I was very wrong. When Hunter takes matters into his own hands, a desperate decision escalates the situation from bad to worse. With our new relationship on the line, my jilted wolfy fiancé makes his move, trying to worm his way into my fragile heart.

Melody's sins have come to haunt her. As she works to find her place in the elven court, she is discovered by a group of assassins who know how she failed her kingdom. They hunt a bloody revenge. The Empire does not rest and looms threatening to the south, bringing more danger to the young queen and the new family she worked so hard to get.