Showing results for "alexandra" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

The first rule of being Alpha of the Canine Pack is to protect their secrets from the humans at all cost. One look at the dying human at his doorstep, and Holden Carter knows he will have to break it. The broken woman with no hope at survival is his mate. When he forces the change on her to save her life, he not only sets forth motions that could risk both their lives, but the lives of every shifter in the world.

The spare heir must work with an enemy prince to discover who murdered her twin in this gripping slow-burn romantasy. As the younger twin, Merridan has never minded being the “spare” to the Rothian royal throne. She knows her brother, Von, will be an excellent king, and she’d rather spend...

Heartbroken and grappling with unwanted powers, Revna must work with the person she swore to forget if she’s to lead her people and unravel the secrets behind her new magic in this page-turning conclusion to the Blood & Souls Duology. After winning the Bloodshed Trials, Revna has the crown she...

The Wyrd Side is a New Weird / Folk Horror podcast that follows the paranormal investigations of Aiden Summers and Katherine Moore as they uncover the dangerous truth lurking behind the myths and legends of the islands of Britain and Ireland. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Als die junge Kunstgutachterin Eve Shaw in ihrem Büro einem silberhaarigen Herrn die Hand schüttelt, wird sie das Gefühl nicht los, diese schon einmal gehalten zu haben. Sie erfährt von einem rätselhaften Ort, dem White Octopus Hotel. Mythen von Zeitreisezimmern und magischen Gegenständen ranken sich darum. Eve beschließt, in dem verlassenen Anwesen, hoch oben in den Schweizer Alpen, nach Antworten zu suchen und findet sich plötzlich in dem prachtvollen Belle-Époque-Hotel zu seiner Glanzzeit wieder.

Nobody goes to sleep thinking it's their last day of normalcy. But what if it was? When the power goes out on Christmas Day, everyone thinks it's temporary. A storm, a car accident, human error. When it shows no signs of returning and society as they know it starts collapsing all around them, six strangers embark on a quest for survival. For Naveed, Tim, Luz, Jquan, Minh, and Shanice, the world may have stopped, but their lives have only just begun.

If you try to ignore it for too long, magic might just catch up with you. What happens when everyday life collides with the generational memory of witchcraft? Lilou learns it the hard way. After choosing accounting over witchcraft, Lilou is finally at peace. She earnestly leads a normal life: she is a wife, a mother, and an ambitious employee at a prestigious firm, trying to break the glass ceiling. Only the occult is all around her. During a moment of crisis, Lilou meets a domovoy, a hobgoblin who lives in her home and claims to protect her from harm.

Linda Kelleher, or Lilou, faces a dilemma. She is a regular Pittsburgh girl, growing up in the beautiful Shadyside neighborhood. She looks up to her older sister, tries to meet her mothers expectations and loves to study math with her father. Only something is never quite right. No matter how hard she tries to lead a regular life, the world of sorcery and magic has a claim on her: Lilou comes from a powerful family of witches.

Revenită în București după povestea dramatică trăită în satul V., Alexandra observă treptat că acele lucruri pe care le credea rămase în trecut o urmăresc. Viața ei este pe cale să se schimbe din temelii. Tot ce crezuse a fi doar legendă pare acum mai real ca niciodată. Singura care poate lămuri misterul este Aneke, care nu întârzie să reapară în viața Alexandrei, iar secretul tulburător pe care-l va afla adolescenta va fi punctul culminant al întregii ei aventuri în lumea fascinantei contese.

Armand, Lich Lord of the Necropolis, is bored. So very... very bored. He's guarded the greatest dungeon in the world against all comers, but the issue is, no one is coming anymore. No adventurers have fought his reanimated dragon. No heroes have fallen into the spike pits. No one's come to admire the menacing décor of skulls and warnings written in blood on the walls. Nothing! So what's a last boss to do when no one's good enough to challenge his dungeon? Why, build a party himself of course!

In Schottland geht das Grauen um. Der Familien-Clan der Abernathys ist Opfer eines jahrhundertealten, blutigen Fluches. Sobald die Dudelsackmusik erklingt, sind sie gezwungen, dem magischen Ruf zum See zu folgen. Dort wartet das Grauen auf sie. Doch handelt es sich hier wirklich um einen Fluch oder stecken andere Gründe dahinter? Die junge Studentin Sheila versucht, dem Geheimnis auf die Spur zu kommen. Doch als das erste Mitglied des Clans vor ihren Augen zu Staub zerfällt, muss sie erkennen, dass die Mächte der Finsternis stärker sind als sie.

Lilou is a witch. Now what? Having been initiated into the craft by her French grandmother, Lilou returns to Pittsburgh without a plan. Magic is of little help when dealing with a divorce. Nor does it help in her everyday job as an accountant. The only lifeline to her magical abilities is Josh, Lilou’s house-elf or a domovoy, as he likes to be called. Josh leads Lilou on a journey of self-discovery and helps her understand the parallel universe of household helpers.

Emily Talbot besuchte mit ihrem Mann das Grab ihrer Eltern auf dem Trinity Cemetery. Es war fünf Uhr nachmittags. Die Dunkelheit kroch wie ein Moloch über den menschenleeren Friedhof. Trübe flackerten Kerzenflämmchen im milchigen Nebel. Feiner Regen sprühte auf Edinburgh. Seine etwas jüngere Frau zündete die Kerze in der Grablaterne an. Ihr Blick ging dabei an ihrem Mann vorbei. Hinter ihm schälte sich eine dunkle Gestalt aus dem Nebel.

Cass is a drifter. When she inherits an old Queen Anne Victorian in rural Oregon from her great-aunt Alexandra, all she wants is to quickly offload the house and move on to bigger and better things. But the residents of the small town have other plans in mind. Her neighbors are anxious for her to help them thwart the plans of a land developer eager to raze Alexandra’s property, while a mysterious girl in the woods needs Cass’s help understanding her own confusing, possibly supernatural abilities.

Feeling isolated and alone with her beloved aunt about to move overseas, Alisa begins unpacking the boxes her aunt has had to leave behind. In one of them, she discovers her father’s old sketchbook with a mysterious drawing of a white egret at a waterhole. When the newly unearthed sketchbook is stolen, Alisa begins to experience a series of strange and magical events: a visit by an otherworldly stranger; a friend’s sister lost in the bush; animals around her imbued with an uncanny knowing, and the feeling that someone out there is watching her.

Er hörte das Keuchen und Hecheln hinter sich, glaubte sogar, bereits den heißen Atem seiner Verfolger im Nacken zu spüren. Dabei hatte er, Chefinspektor Earl Johnson, nur einen langgesuchten Verbrecher zur Strecke bringen wollen. Doch da gelang es dem Ganoven, Hilfe aus den Dimensionen jenseits dieser Welt herbeizurufen. Und Earl Johnson sah sich plötzlich an zwei Fronten kämpfen. Doch dieser Kampf schien bald zu Ende zu sein, denn ihn jagte die MEUTE DES SATANS.

Point Reeves – ein wunderschöner, aber abgelegener Badeort am Meer. Welcher Schrecken das junge Paar ereilen wird, das arglos die malerische Küste entlangfährt, kann niemand auch nur erahnen. Das idyllisch wirkende Fleckchen Erde ist ein Hort des Bösen und niemand weiß, was sich hier verbirgt.

Luisa Giglione sah im Schein der Lampe, wie eine schwarze, verdorrte Hand durch den Spalt in der knorrigen Tür griff und den Riegelbalken hochschob. Sprachlos vor Schrecken sah die junge Frau sie eintreten... Ein Zug aus sieben grässlichen Gestalten! Eingehüllt in vermoderte, schwarze Kapuzenkutten! Luisa blickte in mumifizierte, grausige Gesichter! Augenlos! Schwarz und vermodert! Und sie schrie!

In der Wüste von Nevada, nahe Las Vegas, errichtet der Paläontologe Sondstrup einen Vergnügungspark mit lebensecht nachgebildeten Dinosaurier-Skulpturen. Der Fotoreporter Craigh Sanders und seine Kollegin Betty sollen eine Reportage über das ungewöhnliche Projekt machen. Doch schon bald beschleicht die beiden ein seltsames Gefühl. Haben die grausigen Morde der letzten Nächte etwas mit dem Park zu tun? Es scheint, als ob die Opfer riesigen Bestien in die Klauen geraten seien.

Thalia of Tarkin is the last dragonslayer of a long and noble line. When dragons return to their ancient lands in the kingdom of Oghast, the crown prince offers her a proposition. Slay Malik, the Dragon Lord, and he will make her his princess, his bride. Fail or refuse, and she will die. But Malik is by far the largest and fiercest dragon Thalia has ever encountered, considerably more cunning than a common wyrm and infinitely more cruel. He is more than any animal and a much greater threat to the prince and his crown than she could ever guess.