Showing results for "The Promise" in Horror

Army veteran Lee Riker is staying in an Atlanta shelter and supporting himself with the odd carpentry job when his sister, Tara, summons him home to Indiana for the reading of their mother’s will. Riker boards a Greyhound bus in Atlanta with his duffel bag, less than $200 to his name, and a secret he must protect at all costs. Riker makes it to Middletown only to learn his sister has recently witnessed a gruesome death. Insisting she saw the victim rise from a pool of his own blood to attack the Samaritan rendering aid, Tara floats the idea that the man may have been a zombie.

After saving her rebel friends on the final day of the election, Elessia is on the run. But the danger is far from over. As she fights her guilt for betraying Loche, the man she foolishly believed could mend her broken soul, and wrestles with the unexpected emotions stirring within her for Merrick, her fiercely loyal guard, Elessia learns of the rebels' true plans—plans that threaten every loved one she's left behind.

A terrible storm is brewing in London, and Nathan Garrett, the sorcerer known as Hellequin, is the only one who can stop it. But his enemies have other plans. Harnessing the power of an ancient stone tablet, they cast Nate and his allies into another realm, where a bloody conflict rages between creatures twisted by magic. Meanwhile, with his friends' lives in danger, Nate must put centuries of differences aside, and place his trust in one of his greatest foes.

Finn has lost everything – her family, her love and her purpose. Betrayed and sold into captivity, she existed awaiting her end until she was mistakenly taken for a Magic Wielder and gifted to the brutal Destroyer General to be killed. Surrounded by her enemies, Finn makes a promise. One she will fight to keep.

Sybil Hart's ordinary life unravels the moment she collides with a silver-hairs stranger, pulling her into a hidden world of fae, ancient gods, and long-buried magic. A tempting job offer from the enigmatic Ambrose Farra quickly becomes a perilous path as Sybil's latent power awaken, threatening to consume her and strip away her humanity. As she's drawn deeper into a legacy she never knew existed, Sybil finds herself caught between two powerful men: Ambrose, a seductive manipulator with dangerous ambitions, and Samian, her brooding protector who urges her to take control of her fate.

With war brewing between the bitter enemies, the prince forces Queen Adaia to uphold an ancient treaty: she will send one of her daughters to his court as a political hostage for three months.

Curses run deep. Desire runs deeper. Welcome back to the City of the Damned. Suri survived Queen Lera's ceremony, but now she's trapped in the City of the Damned. Its ruler, Kol, believes she's the key to breaking the desert wasteland's curse, but Suri just wants to save her brother and escape the growing temptations of his court. As dangerous threats close in, Suri learns her blood bond might be the only way to stop Queen Lera. Spellbinding balls, glamours, blood witches, and dark prophecies await – but only if Suri dares to confront Kol's shadowed past.

After 12 years of captivity, Nora grows tired of the oppressive cage keeping her locked away from the free world. She escapes, only to find herself in the arms of another. A man, whose intentions spring from an obsession brought on by a prophecy written in stone. He will stop at nothing to ensure she remains with him for all of eternity.

Heavily pregnant, Ruby Davis has handed over the reins of her psychic business to Corinna, Theo, and Ness, who all lament the loss of her leadership. Corinna, at the helm, is determined to keep up their brilliant track record, with case after case continuing to come in. But something has caught her attention. Not a case, exactly, but a dark local mystery.

Andrew and Nathalie's love flourishes, but the secrets they keep from each other taint their relationship with doubts and suspicions. In the meantime, Sebastian and his men are getting bolder, and the storm that's brewing will shift the balance of power in the millennia-old conflict between Annani's clan and its enemies.

Possessed by the demon of Misery, Cameo isn't allowed to experience joy. If she dares, her memory is wiped clean. With no other recourse, she sneaks into a land more fantastical than any fairy tale, determined to find the one man with the key to her redemption. Lazarus the Cruel and Unusual rules his kingdom with a single unwavering focus: to build his army and annihilate his enemies. Nothing distracts him - until Cameo.

They promised to keep me alive. They promised to keep me safe. But what happens when death is payment for a debt I never knew? Death or an eternity in servitude? The Costello’s are steeped in betrayal. Lies and corruption taint my family’s bloodline, owing debts to monsters more dangerous than the Vampires I love. Now the Inner Circle has come to collect. Only I won’t go easy.

We thought we had all the answers. We were wrong. The government captured them, tortured them, ran experiments on them. But now they’ve escaped, and the hunted have become the hunters. Eveleen Spellman spent months in the Hollow, a government facility that claimed to be trying to find a cure for the deadly Cava V-20 virus. She escaped with her friends Brassard and Corrine—a move that cost the life of the man she loved and Brassard the life of his sister. But the government lied. The virus isn’t killing people—it’s changing them into vampires.

Friendship. Love. Two things Ainsley had found for the first time in her life, only to lose them in the blink of an eye. Betrayed and heartbroken, she must work to overcome the pain of her past. Now trapped in a new kingdom ruled by a king who wants far more from her than he’s leading on, she will have to find the strength to persevere. But as Ainsley becomes more sure of herself and her magical abilities, a force threatens to take away all she’s gained.

Pass auf, wem du vertraust Meliya erfährt, dass die Aydemir-Brüder ihr Versprechen, sie gehen zu lassen, nicht einhalten wollen. Obwohl sie sich zu den Brüdern hingezogen fühlt, bedeutet ihr ihre Freiheit mehr. Sie beschließt, zu fliehen und unterzutauchen. Die Flucht könnte allerdings ihren Tod bedeuten. Denn nicht nur die Brüder sind auf der Suche nach ihr, sondern auch die verfeindeten Kalkans. Eine andere Mafia-Familie, deren Klauen sie bereits einmal nur knapp entkommen ist. Es beginnt ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit …

There's a fine line between WHO you love and WHAT you hate. For Lucian Kincaid, that line may as well be a wall. As far as this Scottish shifter is concerned, the only good Faerie is a dead Faerie. With the Fae's deceitful nature, his wolf is forever on edge when they're around, ready to bust out at the slightest provocation. Until a chance encounter with a human woman captures the interest of the predator inside of him. His need to be near her is unexpected. His hunger for her insatiable. Before the truth of her identity is revealed…

One touch of Sevastee's skin will boil the magic from a person's blood. Because of this, she lives alone and in fear of harming others. But she longs to be a part of the world, and to view her condition as a gift rather than a curse. Beyond the safety of her forest home, a war for survival rages. The High Priestess has fractured the rebellion and conquered most of the known world, using her resources to siphon more of the gods' magic. But no one can get close enough to discover why.

In the shadows of ancient Benin, a demonic presence stalks an innocent girl on the cusp of womanhood. Seduced by this sinister stranger's fatal charm, the girl's soul descends into eternal damnation as she becomes one of the undead - a vampire slave to the merciless Promise Keeper. For centuries across continents, the Promise Keeper haunts his victim's every move, invading her mind with violent commands in an unholy pact sealed in blood. Just as she dares hope his reach cannot extend to the glamour of New York City, an ill-fated romance once again shackles the reluctant asiman to her master.

Faryn had arrived in the kingdom she had only ever heard of a year ago. She had no choice but to recruit the help of an unwanted ally—Daemon, Dante’s older brother—to get an army to save Thana.

Ava López's best friend from childhood is missing, and her former coven has asked for her help to find her. Despite all the pain the witches have treated Ava to with their rejection, she is determined to find Liv - even though her new allies harbor resentment. Ava hopes finding Liv will put an end to the feud between the two groups, but she realizes that to help the witches, she must turn her back on the vampires. But this is the least of her problems.