Showing results for "Five" in Fantasy

A great primal power has risen. The Queen of Flesh and Fire has become the Primal of Blood and Bone—the true Primal of Life and Death. And the battle Casteel, Poppy, and their allies have been fighting has only just begun. Gods are awakening across Iliseeum and the mortal realm, readying for the war to come. But when Poppy falls into stasis, Cas faces the very real possibility that the dire, unexpected consequences of what she is becoming could take her away from him.

The stars have cursed us all. After the devastating events at Zodiac Academy, we have to deal with this hollow reality we're faced with. Lionel seeks to destroy us, the Nymphs seek to destroy the entire Fae race, and between all of it, we have to try and survive each day and prove our worth in this forsaken place. I'm afraid of everything falling apart, but it looks like it already has. Death lurks around every corner, and it wants to claim me and my sister. But together, we will overcome the darkness that seeks to defeat us.

Three years have passed since the widowed Dowager Royina Ista found release from the curse of madness that kept her imprisoned in her family's castle of Valenda. Her newfound freedom is costly, bittersweet with memories, regrets, and guilty secrets, for she knows the truth of what brought her land to the brink of destruction. And now the road, escape, beckons...A simple pilgrimage, perhaps. Quite fitting for the Dowager Royina of Chalion.

As unregistered wolf shifters living in secrecy, their very existence is technically illegal. Keeping that secret at all costs has been the number one rule the Durant brothers have lived by for nearly their entire lives. But, all is not what it seems, and soon they will be forced to make some difficult choices.

I keep my head down. In this backward pack, females rank low, and my bad leg makes me damaged goods. It doesn’t help that I’ve never shifted. I don’t mind the late-20s single life, though. No one’s paying any attention as I build an illicit farmer’s market empire. My roomies and I are doing it for ourselves, and if life under Killian Kelly is stifling, at least it’s predictable. We can deal. But when biology finally kicks in, I lose my mind. I claim our alpha as my mate. And he rejects me in front of the whole pack.

Le roi du Yusan est un dieu. Il ne peut être tué. Pourtant, les cinq menteurs les plus dangereux du pays ont été mystérieusement convoqués pour travailler ensemble à cette mission impossible : assassiner le Dieu-Roi Joon. Sous son impitoyable règne, les nobles prospèrent, tandis que les pauvres et les innocents sont emprisonnés, ruinés ou même vendus. Aucune des cinq lames ne peut résister à l’attrait suave de la vengeance.

As a volunteer at a shelter for lone shifters - the same one that rescued her - Makenna Wray has dedicated her life to finding homes for its residents. And when she discovers that a teen in her care is related to Ryan Conner, the broody, handsome-as-sin enforcer of the Phoenix Pack, she's eager to help connect the two. She just wasn't prepared to feel a connection of her own.

One minute, I'm solving cases in my small town of Mystic Harbor, and the next, I'm face-to-face with her. Ellie Landish. Witch. Former fiancée. And the biggest "what if" of my life. I still don't understand why she broke my heart three years ago, but now she's back, tangled in a case that reeks of magic and trouble. I should keep it professional, solve her problem, and walk away. But seeing her again stirs up everything I thought I'd buried. And worse? Every time I look at her, I want what we had back.

LOVE AT A CROSSROADS…Though Miyo managed to escape Usui after Kiyoka came to her aid, the Gifted Communion continues to gain power and influence across Japan. Foreseeing that Usui and his organization will make another attempt to capture Miyo, Crown Prince Takaihito proposes that she and...

Destiny has set sail, and once she alters her course, no one's life will ever be the same in this explosive conclusion to the USA Today bestselling Mageri series.

The terrorist attack on the Peace Conference has left Academy Island in a precarious position. Distrust of them has begun to run rampant among other nations. To fix the problem, the board of directors has decided to give Anthony, the person who almost single-handedly saved the peace conference delegates during the terrorist attack, the illustrious position of president. However, Anthony has no desire to become president. All he wants is to bring his brother out of a coma.

Ash's life is anything but normal these days. Having discovered his Dao, he's grown in power. Grown to the point that others are now aware of him and that he could be a danger. In this world of martial arts, only the strong and the ruthless survive. Everyone else is merely a stepping stone on their path of Cultivation or an obstacle to be overcome. Or knocked down. It's a world where the strong rule, and the weak die.

If I were mortal, the epitaph on my tombstone would read: ‘Here lies Isla Ríhbiadh, cherished daughter of Fallon and Lorcan, crown princess of Luce, and blunderer like no other.’ Luckily, I’m an immortal shifter sorceress, so my countless slipups haven’t resulted in my untimely demise. Yet. When my latest blunder lands me in the steam chamber of a very naked and very irritable Faerie king, I worry the pointy-eared Glacin will dispose of my body under six feet of solid ice. Instead, he suggests we get married.

This audiobook bundle contains the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth stories in the One True Mate series. Hear the stories of Mac, Bruin, Harlan, and Jaggar as they search for their true mates.

Like Nesbit's The Railway Children, the story begins when a group of children move from London to the countryside of Kent. The five children – Cyril, Anthea, Robert, Jane, and their baby brother, known as the Lamb – are playing in a gravel pit when they uncover a rather grumpy, ugly, and occasionally malevolent Psammead, a sand-fairy with ability to grant wishes.

Jericho isn't the famous rock star he once was, though he still plays in a local band and loves to party. Beautiful women come and go, but music is his only passion - until a sassy redhead named Isabelle Monroe shows up unexpectedly. Izzy has always loved the freedom and adventure of life on the road, but she has recently decided to settle down-as much as a rogue wolf can. When her boyfriend gets her a job working at a hot Shifter bar, she runs into the last person on earth she expected to see again.

They say I'm the key to everything, the Aether Gate, the end of the world, the beginning of something new. But I don't remember any of it. Not the power I once held. Not the men fate bound me to across lifetimes. Not why the Luminous are hunting me like I already belong to them. All I have are fractured memories, a broken past, and four dangerous warriors who claim to be mine. Death, War, Famine, and Pestilence—the Horsemen who burn for me, bleed for me, and would tear the world apart to protect me.

I et forsøg på at hjælpe Nesta videre, sætter Feyre og Rhysand den barske elverkriger Cassian til at træne Nesta til kamp. Ilden mellem de to voldsomme temperamenter er ubestridelig, og den brænder kun hedere, da de tvinges i nærkamp. I mellemtiden har de forræderiske menneskedronninger skabt en farlig ny alliance, der truer den skrøbelige fred, og nøglen til at stoppe dem kan meget vel afhænge af, at Cassian og Nesta ser deres fortid i øjnene. Kan de to stridsomme elskende overkomme deres traumer og redde både verden og deres egne plagede sjæle?

When an unknown plague starts to decimate the Earth, Cassius Black and Morgan King soon realize they're dealing with something not of the human world. As their allies gather in San Francisco to try and determine the cause of the contagion, unwelcome news reaches Morgan's ears. The Dryad kingdom has come under attack by an unknown enemy.

After the harrowing battle for the Tower of Thorns, Reyna Darragh yearns for solitude and peace. But she has little time to recover. The war-torn kingdoms depend on her for survival. She's the only one who can stop the Namhaid from cleaving the world. And if she fails, every soul alive will be lost to the flames of Unseelie's madness.