Showing results for "Jacquelyn" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Nice Victorian ladies don’t run off to find legendary lost cities. One trifling little arrest shouldn’t have cost Ellie Mallory her job, but it’s only the latest in a line of injustices facing any educated woman with archaeological ambitions. When Ellie stumbles across the map to a mysterious ancient city, she knows she’s holding her chance to revolutionize Pre-Colombian history. There’s just one teensy complication.

UNE ROMANCE HISTORIQUE, FANTASTIQUE ET PALPITANTE. Avril 1918. Dans une Europe dévastée par quatre années de guerre, une unité de soldats d'élite italiens est tuée de façon aussi brutale que mystérieuse. Le pouvoir qui court dans les veines de Strangford peut faire la lumière sur ce massacre... mais à quel coût ? Pour sauver l'homme qu'elle aime et empêcher le monde de sombrer à tout jamais dans les ténèbres, Lily n'a d'autre choix que de faire confiance à un don qui ne l'a pas épargnée par le passé. Même si cela doit les propulser au cœur de la guerre.

UNE ROMANCE HISTORIQUE, FANTASTIQUE ET PALPITANTE. Londres, hiver 1914. Depuis toujours, Lily est assaillie de funestes prémonitions, qu'elle tente, en vain, d'empêcher de se réaliser. Mais pour sauver la vie de son amie, elle n'a pas d'autre choix que de révéler ses plus sombres secrets à un homme qui ne lui inspire pourtant aucune confiance : lord Strangford, baron solitaire hanté par ses propres pouvoirs extraordinaires.

Magnus is a man of contradictions - a spiritual leader in a warrior's body. To him, laws are for enforcing and visions must be followed - even if that means freeing a beautiful slave and making her his reluctant handmaiden. Betrayed once before, Magnus can barely bring himself to trust another woman. Yet Daenaira's fiery innocence is drawing them both into a reckless inferno of desire. Daenaira grew up hearing tales of a fearsome priest who seemed more myth than reality. But Magnus is very real - every inch of him - and so is the treachery surrounding them.

UNE ROMANCE HISTORIQUE, FANTASTIQUE ET PALPITANTE. Près d'une année a passé depuis que Lily Albright a découvert le Refuge, trouvant acceptation et amour auprès des charismatiques qui s'y sont assemblés. Mais l'homme qui l'a encouragée à déployer ses ailes a disparu, et la guerre l'a éloignée de deux de ses plus chers amis, la laissant plus vulnérable que jamais alors que son monde vole en éclats.

UNE ROMANCE HISTORIQUE, FANTASTIQUE ET PALPITANTE. La suite des aventures d'un groupe de héros extraordinaires. Cinq mois ont passé. Alors que l'ombre de la guerre se profile sur Londres, Lily tente tant bien que mal de dompter son pouvoir hors du commun. Cependant, une nouvelle vision ne tarde pas à poindre, et il lui faudra tout risquer pour déjouer l'avenir et ainsi sauver ses amis charismatiques – et lord Strangford, dont la capacité à lire dans les recoins les plus sombres de son âme menace l'équilibre de leur relation.

Sandman. Angus. Morpheus. He is known by many names, except his true one, Adrian. When he departs his world, it is to enter the sacred space of sleep, and he is not there to sow sweet dreams. Adrian's mission is to reap the dark energy of nightmares, work that has twisted his soul as well as his once-handsome face. Now, he lives only to await the day darkness finally overcomes him...and to collect exquisite reminders of what he's lost. But there is one treasure that stands apart. Having risked everything to obtain her, Adrian soon realizes his mistake. For Kathryn has a wholly unexpected power over him,

Discipline. Penance. Order. A Sanctuary priest's life revolves around such things. But when Sagan is taken captive and thrust into the Alaskan wilderness, he encounters a woman who challenges his faith and his self-control. Valera is a natural born witch who almost lost herself to the lure of dark magic. By rights, Sagan should shun her, but convention will count for nothing in the face of a passion that could change the world of the Shadowdwellers forever.... As Chancellor of the Shadowdwellers, Malaya's first duty is to her people. Her bodyguard, Guin, knows this only too well.

Devon Candler is nothing like the helpless, vulnerable woman Liam expected when he agreed to provide security for her secluded Catskill Mountain estate. Yet her life is at risk. Her enemies monsters. Her secrets devastating.Liam Nash is a trained killer who takes no prisoners, fears no man. But to him this woman is seductively, devastatingly...dangerous.

As a guardian for his colony, Julian Sawyer travels to Earth to bring back the Chosen: women who possess energy potent enough to help revitalize his people. The stunning, silver-clad beauty who strides into his club one night radiates a sensual magnetism unlike any he's encountered, and Julian realizes that Asia Callahan is not just Chosen, she is his kindra: his one true mate. For months, Asia has tracked the beautiful and mysterious Julian across the country, convinced that he's behind the disappearance of her sister and a dozen other women.

Among the Shadowdwellers, Trace holds power that some are willing to kill for. Without a stranger's aid, one rival would surely have succeeded, but Trace's brush with death is less surprising to him than his reaction to the beautiful, fragile human who heals him. By rights, Trace should hardly even register Ashla's existence within the realm of Shadowscape, but instead he is drawn to everything about her-her innocence, her courage, and her lush, sensual heat.

As punishment for plotting with his brothers to steal immortality, Garreth is suffering a freezing torment until the end of time. Again and again his fierce fighter's physique is frozen into a chiseled ice sculpture, his heart hardening like a diamond in his chest - only to thaw and resume the chilling torture. Until, like his older brother, Dethan, he is offered a reprieve from a goddess - in exchange for his allegiance in a celestial civil war.

After drinking from the fountain of immortality along with his brothers, Maxum is condemned by the gods to be entombed in the earth. Even though he has now been granted a reprieve by day, each night he is buried anew, his rock-hard body immobilized, his bones crushed by the pressure. When he emerges, his body heals, but his spirit remains scarred. There is only one way for Maxum to be completely free: He must kill the god who cursed him.

After being chained to a star to burn endlessly as punishment for stealing immortality from the gods, Jaykun has been unshackled to wage war alongside his brothers. But his freedom comes with a price: each night Jaykun must still suffer - his body burning from the inside out. One early morning, recovering from his torment, he encounters a beautiful stranger on the beach.