Showing results for "Swans" in Fantasy

Facing down an unprecedented malevolent enemy, the government responds with a nuclear attack. America as it was is gone forever, and now every citizen - from the President of the United States to the homeless on the streets of New York City - will fight for survival. In a wasteland born of rage and fear, populated by monstrous creatures and marauding armies, earth's last survivors have been drawn into the final battle between good and evil, that will decide the fate of humanity.

The Empire of the Wolf simmers with unrest. Rebels, heretics and powerful patricians all challenge the power of the imperial throne. Only the Order of Justices stands in the way of chaos. Sir Konrad Vonvalt is the most feared Justice of all, upholding the law by way of his sharp mind, arcane powers and skill as a swordsman. At his side stands Helena Sedanka, his clerk and protégé, orphaned by the wars that forged the empire.

In the dying port town of Gdansburg, Sir Konrad Vonvalt finds the unthinkable: a fellow Justice imprisoned for the murder of a young boy. Despite the furious insistence of the townsfolk, the only evidence is a question written on a piece of paper by a dead man: What is The Scour?

Cuando encuentra un huevo de dragón, su vida cotidiana da un vuelco de la noche a la mañana y aterriza en un mundo repleto de antiguos secretos y magia peligrosa. Perseguida por los soldados del rey, no solo debe luchar por su vida, sino también proteger el secreto del huevo de dragón. Su única esperanza es Kilian, el cazador de dragones más poderoso del reino. Basta una sola mirada suya para que su corazón se dispare a alturas insospechadas. Pero el cazador de dragones oculta un secreto que podría ser su perdición.

Swans Song - Buch 1: Nach dem Ende der Welt. Der legendäre Endzeit-Thriller. Düster, brutal und mit epischer Wucht erzählt. In diesem Endzeit-Thriller beschreibt der Bestsellerautor die Welt nach der atomaren Apokalypse. Die menschliche Zivilisation bricht zusammen und die wenigen Überlebenden werden in eine vorindustrielle Welt katapultiert, in der sie zu hungrigen Bestien mutieren. Der nukleare Winter senkt sich wie ein Leichentuch über die verkohlte Erde.

La révolte gronde dans l'Empire du Loup. Les rebelles, les hérétiques et les puissants patriciens contestent tous le pouvoir du trône impérial. Sir Konrad Vonvalt est le Justice le plus redouté de tous, faisant respecter la loi grâce à son esprit vif, ses pouvoirs arcaniques et son habileté à l'épée. En enquêtant sur un meurtre, ils découvrent une conspiration qui s'étend jusqu'au sommet de la société impériale et qui prend racine dans le royaume démoniaque de l'après-vie.

In this debut collection from C. S. E. Cooney, a swan princess hunted for her bones, a broken musician and his silver pipe, and a rat named Maurice bring justice to a town under fell enchantment. A gang of courageous kids confront both a plague-destroyed world and an afterlife infested with clowns but robbed of laughter. In an island city, the murder of a child unites two lovers, but vengeance will part them. Only human sacrifice will save a city trapped in ice and darkness.

In Irish Mythology, Otherworld is a happy land and Underworld is a foul land. These worlds exist alongside Earth. Wizard Drowe is sentenced to be a swan, but he escapes. He has tricked Ciarán, his apprentice, into becoming the swan. Granny and Aoife pursue the swan because Granny believes it will lead her to her lost village. Hunted by Wizard Drowe and the vampire Dearg-due, Ciarán and Aoife move from initial dislike to romance. These, in turn, are pursued by Venus and the Drimnagh Witches, servants of the Faerie Queen.

After his wife's untimely death, a powerful sorcerer dedicates his life to seeking revenge against all womankind. He turns his captives into beautiful swans - who briefly regain human form by the fleeting light of the moon. Only Odette, noblest of the enchanted flock, has the courage to confront her captor. But can she gain the allies she needs to free herself and the other swan-maidens from their magical slavery?

The king of wolves was more beast than man, more tyrant than king, and so much more than he seemed. Raised to avenge his murdered parents, he’d been trained and conditioned until nothing but violence and hatred lined the walls of his dead heart. For nearly four years, I’d done all I could to help my kingdom as we faced the wolf king’s unconquerable evil — hardly anything at all. As the only heir to the Gracewood line, I’d been relegated to menial

Sera Swan hätte die mächtigste Hexe Englands werden können. Aber aus Liebe beging sie einen unverzeihlichen Fehler und verlor ihre Magie. Seither leitet sie eine kleine Pension in Lancashire und kümmert sich um ihre außergewöhnlichen Gäste. Da entdeckt sie eine Möglichkeit, ihre Fähigkeiten zurückzugewinnen. Doch dafür benötigt sie die Unterstützung des abweisenden Historikers Luke Larsen. Der hat allerdings ganz eigene Gründe, sich nicht in die Machenschaften einer gewissen grummeligen Gastwirtin zu verstricken. Und niemand ist überraschter als er selbst, als er es doch tut – und es genießt.

Screw honey, this bear craves chocolate. Mason, a true ladies' man and a big teddy of a bear, is on a mission to protect the shifter community. Who is he to complain if that task requires him to guard FUC's tech wizard - a curvy mocha hottie who knows how to bring him to his knees?

Sera Swan hätte die mächtigste Hexe Englands werden können. Aber aus Liebe beging sie einen unverzeihlichen Fehler und verlor ihre Magie. Seither leitet sie eine kleine Pension in Lancashire und kümmert sich um ihre außergewöhnlichen Gäste. Da entdeckt sie eine Möglichkeit, ihre Fähigkeiten zurückzugewinnen. Dafür benötigt sie die Unterstützung des abweisenden Historikers Luke Larsen.

After brilliantly reimagining the worlds of Oz, Wonderland, Dickensian London, and the Nutcracker, the New York Times bestselling author of Wicked turns his unconventional genius to Hans Christian Andersen's ""The Wild Swans,"" transforming this classic tale into an Italian-American girl's...

When the goddess Demeter shows up to a party on Olympus in Hades' signature color, he decides to react to the slight by stealing her beloved swan. However, as soon as they cross into the Underworld, the swan changes into a woman revealing that she is Persephone, daughter of Demeter. Eager to continue his plot to annoy Demeter, Hades agrees to help Persephone break the curse on her, but he soon finds that she is nothing like he expected. What starts as a harmless revenge scheme turns into something else entirely.

'Love, passion, drama, violence, menace and peril, and characters you fall in love with!’ – Santa Montefiore, author of Shadows in the Moonlight The mystery of St Kilda's residents are all revealed in the epic conclusion to Karen Swan's historical series set in Scotland. Jayne Ferguson has...

A fourth anthology from the editors of Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears presents contemporary retellings of traditional fairy tales in Gregory Frost's "Sparks", "The Dog Rose" by Sten Westgard, and other works by Jane Yolen, Joyce Carol Oates, Nancy Kress, and John Crowley.

Il lavoro di un giudice non ha mai fine. La battaglia di Galen's Vale si è conclusa, ma la guerra per il futuro dell'Impero è appena cominciata. In senato, i patrizi si esprimono apertamente contro l'imperatore, mentre i fanatici predicano la santa vendetta per le strade.

"Far from here, in the land the swallows flee to in winter, lived a king who had eleven sons and one daughter, Elisa." So begins the story of Elisa and her brothers. At the beginning, everything was well, they lived peacefully in the castle and were loved and indulged by their father, the king. But, one day the king decided to remarry and their stepmother did not want them. None of them. Elisa was sent to the country and the eleven boys were turned into swans.

Trying to accept her mother's belief that the women of the Towne family are blessed, not cursed, with supernatural abilities, twenty-seven-year old Alice leaves a disapproving Boston husband to housesit for the summer in tiny Hawthorne, a historic village famous in the 1800s for its peppermint farms and the large, herbal-essence distilleries that flourished around the Massachusetts township. She settles into a beautiful old home with a tragic reputation.