Showing results for "Mystery" in Science Fiction

Con la morte del marito Nick in un incidente stradale, il mondo di Sarah va in frantumi. Affrontare un futuro senza di lui sembra impossibile. Ma forse non deve farlo. Quando Sarah scopre EternaTech, il programma di intelligenza artificiale a cui Nick e il suo socio stavano lavorando in segreto, le viene data la possibilità di parlare con Nick dall’oltretomba. Sembra lui. Sembra davvero lui…

Twenty-two-year-old Cora Moreau has always lived a quiet life in Durango, Colorado—never had a boyfriend, never ventured far from home. But after a life-altering surgery, she uncovers a shocking secret: her blood holds extraordinary, untapped power. In an instant, Cora's world is turned upside down. Leaving behind her mundane waitressing job, she accepts an offer to work at a high-tech research facility in Spain—only to discover the job is more dangerous and mysterious than she ever imagined.

A country town, a brutal murder, a shameful past, a reckoning to come... The injustices of the past and dangers of the present envelop Aboriginal policewoman Renee Taylor, when her unwilling return to the small outback town of her childhood plunges her into the investigation of a brutal murder...

First in an all-new series where seductive danger and steampunk adventure abound in the gritty world of the Iron Seas. After the Iron Duke freed England from Horde control, he instantly became a national hero. Now Rhys Trahaearn has built a merchant empire on the power-and fear-of his name. And...

The stunning debut that began with Archetype— and has readers buzzing—concludes in Prototype, when a woman’s dual pasts lock onto a collision course, threatening her present and future. Emma looks forward to the day when she can let go of her past—both of them. After more than a year on...

Galaxy Quest meets Roswell in this quirky sci-fi rom-com from New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Ann Aguirre. He’s stranded. He’s desperate. He’s not looking for love. Alien Tamzir Jaarn, a.k.a. Seeker, is paying the price for risking an illicit holiday on an interdicted...

Silver, former combat robot turned rebel, is tasked by his leader with a highly sensitive mission – to protect Patricia, First Lady of the PanAmerican States, from a treacherous assassin. To get as close to her as possible, Silver takes on the role of her handsome companion. There’s just one snag: her powerful ex-husband sends a female robot to be her new bodyguard. Soul - the breathtakingly beautiful R9 model - distrusts Silver from the very beginning. Yet she has no idea that this high-tech rival will turn her mission upside down.

PanAmerican States, 2056: Lennox Copper can’t get over the violent death of his wife or his sense of guilt. When he is kidnapped by government troops and converted into a hybrid soldier, his fate seems to be sealed. He manages to flee and finds a new home with the rebels at Hunter’s Lane, but when he is tasked with saving global influencer and spoilt celebrity Jill Ambush from a treacherous assassin, using his charm to win her over for the rebel organization, his traumatic past catches up with him.

Existen lugares donde uno se queda y lugares que quedan en uno. Estos últimos son los que logran salvarte. Tras una serie de trágicas circunstancias, malas decisiones y una amenaza de muerte, Chloe Ackerman huye hasta Greening Island, un lugar recóndito en medio de la nada, marcado por un suceso del pasado. Durante el sosiego que garantiza la temporada baja en la que no se aloja ningún huésped, se esconderá en el Hotel Raventhorp que dirige su tía Lydia, tratando de evitar a quienes trabajan en él.

Raff Pineda has a certain reputation among the Animari. He’s the one to call if there’s a party starting, not the man to rely on when all hell breaks loose. Though he’s nominally the leader of the Pine Ridge pack, he defers to his second on the tough calls. Raff prefers to live fast and hard and keep his heart hidden, but a certain Eldritch princess won’t fall for his usual tricks, and their contract political marriage may be anything but convenient.

Forced to choose between her life and the lives of the vampires she loves, Briar made the ultimate sacrifice. For her, a world without Marcus, Hudson, Sylvain, and Valen was inconceivable. But her vampires didn't accept her decision and, at the last moment, transformed her from woman to immortal. Awakened to a new, utterly different life, the sun can finally shine on Briar Hale. With eternity in front of her, all she sees is love and hope. So when the creatures of darkness threaten everything she holds dear, Briar will not surrender.

The world didn't end with a bang, it didn't go out in a ball of fire and fury, nor did it end in ice. But in some strange way, ice was the end - or maybe it was the beginning of something more. When Bethany finds herself suddenly alone in a world that was alive only moments before, she flees into the streets of her town in search of her family. Panicked by the immobile people surrounding her, she is almost captured by the monsters hunting her until Cade steps in.

Eighteen-year-old Anna Morgan is on the run from the very government project that created her abilities. Now they seek to weaponize the gift she doesn’t want and can’t control: the invasion of her mind and her body by spirits, some of whom have their own unusual powers. Her latest “hitcher” is a former top Delphi executive. Unlike Anna’s previous guests, this one has taken over, and he’s on a personal mission of revenge.

Proud. Imperious. Impassioned. Until three years ago, those words applied to Dominic Asher, the leader of Ash Valley. His family has ruled the feline branch of the Animari for hundreds of years, guiding the pride through perilous times. Unspeakable loss drove him into seclusion, a feral beast nobody can tame. Now he's wrecked, a leopard king in exile, and he wants nothing more than to die.

On a rescue mission in the heart of the Indonesian jungle, Dr. Draden Freeman and his GhostWalker team need to extract the wounded as quickly as possible - or risk spreading a deadly virus unleashed by a terrorist cell. When Draden gets infected, he forces his team to leave him behind. He won’t risk exposing anyone else. He intends to find the ones responsible and go out in a blaze of glory. Shylah Cosmos’ mission is to track the virus and remain unseen. Her enhanced senses tell her that the gorgeous man eradicating the terrorists one by one is a GhostWalker.

The perfect afterlife or a never-ending nightmare? Isobel has it all: a steady relationship, the immaculate home and her dream job. Life, and even death, is completely under her control. For Isobel's generation death no longer means oblivion, thanks to firms like her employer, Oakley Associates. Isobel is their top Heaven Architect, crafting perfect afterlives for her clients: artificial paradises of the mind built from the memories they treasure most. Then Isobel meets handsome client Jarek....