Showing results for "Trust" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

*This is the final book in a why choose romance with very dominant and possessive male main characters. The female main character will not choose between the love interests. It's a full length romantasy and contains adult themes and descriptions that are suitable for 18+.

A world brought up on stories of alien invasions and wars with other planets is asked to open its arms to 300 aliens who are stranded in their crippled mining ship. The eyes of the entire world are focused on the village of Thatcham: the site of the first confirmed contact with an alien species.

When archaeologist Chloe Broussard accepts the contract to lead a dig in Ornes, France, she has no idea she will uncover the Veil of Veronica. When she does, she discovers a danger far greater than the demonic presence stalking her at night. Azazel wants her, as well as the Veronica, and his chosen minion is her brother. Her hope lies with immortal Templar Knight Lucan. Her life depends on oaths she knows nothing about.

We all want to believe. The truth is still out there. The X-Files have been reopened. IDW Publishing and series creator Chris Carter have authorized new investigations into the weird, the strange, and the mysterious. New York Times best-selling author and multiple Bram Stoker Award winner Jonathan Maberry brings together some of today's top storytellers for a series of anthologies featuring all-new stories from the X-Files. Scully and Mulder continue their journey into darkness as they face aliens, monsters, shadow governments, and twisted conspiracies.

Maryella reist in der Hoffnung auf ein besseres Leben nach Sydlehen, einer Kolonie von Greiffenfels. Doch nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern steht sie vor der Entscheidung, ob sie der Inquisition der Elemente beitreten soll oder nicht. Sie gerat in die Fange des Kults, der seine Experimente an ihr ausubt und versucht, sie zu ertranken. Doch Aqua, die Gottin der Gefuhle, erwahlt und rettet das Madchen.

Lorcán Kennedy is a take-no-prisoner vampire whose grit is tested when slain vampires start showing up in his sector. His investigation reveals a blessed weapon was used in the slayings, which leads him to a rogue hunter with a grudge against vampires. Christian Wolfe is a no-nonsense hunter who believes the only good vampire is a dead one, but his code of honor keeps his hatred in check. When his integrity is questioned, he will do anything to defend it, including work with his enemy.

Trust Issues is a love story about normal everyday folks in some not very normal situations. It’s about the magic of love and the power of trust and two people wielding both. Tony and Jeannie grew up in the small town on Amargosa. They have been in love with each other their whole life. It’s been a power struggle since the beginning, that Jeannie plays better. They have trust issues that are hard to escape from.

Juniper Smith is trapped in a prison that seems to be of his own design. Everywhere he looks are bits and pieces of the game worlds he used to make back on Earth. Now, he finds himself on the run from the law and helping out criminals, looking for magical solutions to centuries-old magical spirits trapped in bottles. Can he trust an elf that's been locked away since the bad old days of the Second Empire? Danger lurks around every corner, and trust is hard to come by, even within the party that grows more like family with every passing day.

While out searching for his father, Beau meets Karoline - a woman cursed to be a beast. Striking a deal with her to save his father's life, Beau is taken to Karoline’s home deep in the mountainous woods to live with her. During his stay he finds that there’s beauty within the beast and slowly, for the first time in his life, falls in love.

Ever since I discovered I’m not human, I’ve always believed wolf shifters are monsters, me included. Except the alpha and mayor of Blackwood Creek isn’t a monster at all. He’s my fake fiancé for my own protection. As the prime suspect in a murder investigation, I’ve got no choice but to take sanctuary with Ridge until I can clear my name. But my presence in town means the entire pack in Blackwood Creek are in danger from the hunters who are after me.

Depuis qu'elle est enfant, Madelynn Ripley n'a qu'un objectif : tuer l'assassin de ses parents et de son petit frère, Rasmus IV l'Égorgeur, le roi des vampires. Alors, le jour où elle est sélectionnée pour rejoindre les Kysk, ces réserves de sang destinées à la cour royale, elle est consciente que c'est sa chance et qu'elle ne peut décevoir les Fangless, la cause à laquelle elle adhère depuis des années déjà.

Caleb never wanted to be a hero. That was his brother's dream. Keep it simple, get away clean. Flying a ship packed with explosives into Janus orbit station isn't simple, and there ain't no way he's getting away clean. He knows the Fenrir Nine have sent him on a suicide mission, but he is not about to lay down his life for them. Caleb's not a hero, and he sure ain't no fool, despite what the Nine must think. There's another way, he just has to figure it out before the bomb he's carrying ticks down to zero.

In the three centuries since Galileo, science steadily advanced. In the early twentieth century, science and technology were the undisputed champions of everyday life. Now the pride of scientists was causing science to fail. Clemens Gerhardt, a distinguished scientist and member of the National Academy of Sciences, saw where this pride led. As science failed, it would lead to worsening conditions--and eventually to another Dark Age. Untold millions would die of starvation and disease. Like Galileo before him, he was ostracized by the elitist scientists as a heretic.

It is a time of Perpetual War. The legions of armored Archengardian warriors and the Noda—powered by dark technology—have been shedding each other's blood for as long as anyone can remember. The cause of the hostility has been lost to time, but the battle rages on.

Whisked off to Hell, I’m now at the center of a coup to overthrow Lucifer. The one I fell for. The man I love. War is approaching and the line between good and evil has never been so blurry. Who to trust is even less clear. A pact between witches and rogue demons has forced unlikely alliances. There are new players in this game, and they’re fierce. Lucifer will have to put his plans for me aside and rule Hell like he’s meant to. I’m nothing but a pawn for both sides, and that begs the question...who do I fight for? The answer is simple. Me.

Captain James Henry has finally gained what he long desired - redemption. Yet not even his restored military honors and reputation can wipe away the bitter taste in his mouth after 15 years weighed down by guilt and shame. Before deep-seated betrayal sends Jim to the bottom of another whiskey bottle, the past again rears its ugly head when the Shadow Wolf’s first mate is kidnapped by an unholy enemy alliance. To rescue her from their clutches, Jim swallows his injured pride and accepts assistance from an unlikely source.

The know dancing duet Tommy and Maria believed that their lives were in perfect order. Unfortunately, the pair was notified of the secrets that their parents have kept from their whole lives. Part of it entails being hunted by demons. They also entailed to Tommy's beloved mother Erinyes and Maria's father Thanatos were not only not their biological parents, but they were also demons living on Earth to protect humans. Witnessing their late parent's deaths caused Tommy and Maria to explore the abandoned hospital where Thanatos and Erinyes found them when they were babies.

In the exhilarating second romantasy novel in Rebecca Robinson’s Dark Inheritance Trilogy, a fiery couple forced apart must navigate a deadly maze of politics and power to reunite across a continent at war. Torn from her husband Reid’s arms and dragged back to her homeland in chains, Vaasa...

Nobody alive knew how the feud between Storn and Hammerfell had begun, but that didn't stop the fighting. When Storn's men burned Hammerfell's castle, his infant twin sons were separated, and each grew up thinking himself the rightful Duke of Hammerfell. Conn, raised in the mountains by his father's paxman, continued to fight the Storns. Alastair grew up with his mother in Thendara and planned to marry his cousin, Floria. But when Conn came to Thendara to seek King Aiden's help, and the twins encountered each other, it changed all their lives.

Entrusted with an ancient amulet by her eccentric Aunt Zenobia, Marilyn Sparks has no clue that she has just taken the first step on a journey that will lead her into the depths of terror. As it turns out, unlocking the secret of the amulet will mean releasing a great and terrible power. But that is the only way to put an end to a sorrow-laden curse that is thousands of years old. With her handsome neighbor Kyle at her side, Marilyn is soon pulled into an ancient world where she faces dangers, challenges, and choices beyond her imagination.