Risultati per "Romanzo Rosa" in Fantascienza e fantasy

Two young women. Heirs to altogether different hereditary burdens. Yet bound by a monstrous threat to their village. Gabrielle is the first woman in Alveus to carry the mantle of Hunter, which comes with an obligation to kill the faery beasts murdering travelers in Brimmond Wood. Wary of the power she wields as guardian of her people, Gabrielle is summoned by her first love, a seductress who shattered her heart into pieces a decade ago.

L'ho incontrata a sedici anni, quando la mia vita era in pericolo. Lei mi ha salvato, ma allo stesso tempo ha cambiato tutto. La sua famiglia mi ha accolto e protetto, ma con una regola: "Non toccare mia figlia". Per quattro anni ho rispettato quella promessa, tenendo a freno i miei sentimenti, fino a quando una notte tutto è cambiato. Il nostro amore è pericoloso, non solo per il mio cuore, ma per la mia stessa vita. I segreti che porto con me potrebbero distruggere tutto ciò che lei ama. Mentre il tempo scorre e la minaccia si avvicina, so che il nostro legame proibito potrebbe costarci tutto.

Un giovane principe destinato a grandi imprese e il ragazzo che gli deve la vita: un fantasy epico ricco di passione e azione, tra campi di battaglia e amori proibiti, intrighi politici e amicizie profonde messe a dura prova. Nell'arcipelago di Talassia, il re Doukas sta conquistando con forza brutale un'isola dopo l'altra, ma secondo una profezia non sarà lui a unire queste terre in un unico impero, bensì Aetherios, la Giovane Chimera, principe dell'isola di Corezia, carismatico e ambizioso.

Ho commesso il peggior errore della mia vita quando avevo ventidue anni: ho lasciato che l'amore e la paura distruggessero tutto ciò che ho sempre desiderato, e ora ho una scelta da fare. Ho sempre saputo che non mi era permesso amarla. Ho infranto ogni regola e soffocato ogni segreto per averla. L'unico problema è che quei segreti non mi stanno più solo dando la caccia… mi hanno trovato.

Dopo anni di pace tra i mortali e gli immortali di Darkmourn, la Guardia Cremisi viene corrotta da coloro che sono offuscati da un passato oscuro. Gli omicidi rimangono irrisolti. I segreti di famiglia sono intrecciati in una rete di spine. E ci vorranno coloro che hanno perso tutto per scoprire la verità. Anche se significa liberare una creatura pericolosa per le strade della città.

Mads Kornell est un prince froid et autoritaire, qui gouverne le royaume d'Uscaria avec droiture. Toutefois, une guerre civile fait rage et menace l'équilibre du pays. Pour assurer la défense d'Uscaria, Mads accepte de se fiancer à la princesse d'un puissant peuple de mercenaires. Le prince doit être un amant exemplaire lors de la Cérémonie de la Première Nuit. Astrid, fille du peuple « impur », s'est laissé capturer par la Couronne et propose au prince de lui enseigner l'art de la sexualité. Astrid compte bien remplir la mission qui lui a été confiée: assassiner Mads Kornell.

Arlo Gray farebbe di tutto per mantenere la promessa fatta ai suoi genitori: restare in vita e proteggere la sorella dal mondo e dai suoi pericoli. Soprattutto se i pericoli arrivano da un altro regno, quello degli elfi. Faenir Evelina è disprezzato per l'omicidio della sua famiglia. Quando viene rapito dal principe della morte, Arlo si ritrova invischiato in una rete di segreti, politiche familiari e magia fuori controllo, trovandosi faccia a faccia con il suo destino imminente.

They don't know I'm a girl. They all look at me and see a boy. A prince. Their kind purchase humans like me for their lustful desires. And when they storm into our kingdom to buy my sister, I intervene to protect her. I make them take me too. The plan is to escape with my sister whenever we find a chance. How am I to know our prison will be the most fortified place in their kingdom?

Dopo la morte della sorella Katrina, Eva, giovane stella del cinema, decide di abbandonare la California per fare ritorno in Cornovaglia, nella casa della loro infanzia e delle estati spensierate. Nonostante gli anni trascorsi oltreoceano, Eva sa che il legame che la vincola a quei luoghi è indissolubile. Ma in quella casa aleggiano anche i fantasmi del suo passato... e non solo. Tra le antiche mura Eva avverte delle presenze, gli spiriti di coloro che vi hanno vissuto prima della sua famiglia, fin dal XVIII secolo.

I am home, yet it does not feel like home. The chains on my wrists and ankles are gone, but those around my heart tighten. Is the world truly black and white, or is it just my vision failing? Does all food turn to ash, or is it merely my mouth forgetting how to taste? When the crows call, and the moon hangs heavy, does everyone else drown their sorrow in pillows, or am I the only one? Urai is hell. A kingdom of devils. Yet hell is my heaven. My dark devil—through these falling eyes—is my angel. I breathe, but I do not exist. I exist, but I do not live.

My mortal skin is gone. I’m one of them—one of the Folk—and all I feel is anger. I’m going to kill the Carlin and her sons for everything they did to me. It’s all I care about. But first, I have to navigate this new world, my new skin, my new brother, and, when I fall into her clutches, my fae mother—the Brid, the Seelie Queen. I don’t like what I’m becoming, but I can’t stop it. Something’s wrong with me. Something’s missing. There’s a hollow ache in my chest, and I can’t fill it, no matter what I do. It’s like I’ve forgotten something vital from my time on unseelie land.

The kingdom of Farsala is broken and black clouds hang heavy over the arid lands. Former grand-mage of the high court, Cyril Laverre, has spent the last decade hiding himself away in a hut by the sea, trying to catch fish for his cat familiar, Shoestring, and suppressing his guilt over the kingdom's ruin. For he played his part—for as the king, Eufrates Margrave, descended further into paranoia, violence, and madness, his grand-mage—and husband—Cyril didn't stop him.

Cerani is supposed to die under the dust of Teria, a tired widow with soil-stained hands. Instead, she is stolen from the only home she knows and sent to a hellish mine on a red, burning moon where most people's lungs wither—except hers. Cerani grows stronger even as the others wilt, and she cannot ignore that. She confronts Stavian, the Controller, a Zaruxian male who should be her enemy. Instead, she is drawn to his guarded eyes.

Lilas never expects salvation to come in the form of a ruthless space pirate. Auctioned off to an alien harem, she has steeled herself for a life of captivity—until Razion and his crew storm the ship, taking her as their own spoils. But freedom with the Zaruxian rogue comes with its own dangers. As she fights for a place among his outlaw band, her walls crumble, and she surrenders to the fire Razion awakens in her. Yet, when she overhears a secret that makes her doubt everything they have built, fear overpowers love, and she runs before he can shatter her.

Mercedes Midnight is a reaper in debt with exactly one year left before hell comes to collect. Lucy Corvine, the devil’s daughter and revered professor, is imprisoned by a contract she never agreed to. For nine long years, Midnight scoured graveyards and grimoires for a loophole, while Lucy wore a gilded smile and dreamed of revolt… Until a chance encounter sparks a pact neither of them can afford to break.

Fivra, a resilient Terian female born in a penal colony, is uprooted when alien raiders abduct her and her friends and sell them at a galactic auction. Thrust into the dazzling world of Erovik—the elite, galactic brothel that bought her—Fivra draws the eye of Cyprian, the enigmatic director of Erovik. As their romance grows, Fivra learns that the Axis—the shadowy force that imprisoned her people—plans to seize the stolen females, including her.

Sevas has always known her fate wasn't her own. Raised in a penal colony where survival meant submission, she never expected to end up in an Axis-run arena, where bloodshed is entertainment. But she refuses to be a pawn. When she meets Takkian, a powerful Zaruxian warrior with fire in his blood and rebellion in his heart, escape becomes more than just a dream—it becomes her mission. But when the arena pits them against each other in a death match, Sevas must enter the arena to fight the male she loves—or die at his hands.

My role as Moric—ruler of a small and prosperous fiefdom in a quiet corner of the world—has always been painfully dull and stifling. Until a beautiful, otherworldly creature with pink skin and a mane of golden hair falls through a strange void that has appeared in my guestroom. I am instantly captivated by him. I have never seen anything like him. I have no idea where he came from, and what else is through that unsettling void—another world filled with soft-skinned, defenseless creatures like him? No tails, no horns, no claws, no sharp teeth. Tiny clothing, rounded ears, bright blue eyes.

Running from strife in her homeland, Maribella Waters becomes the new owner of the fabled Cozy Quill. After finding squatters on her property, she employs Asteria Helsdottir, a giant, barbarian warrior woman more accustomed to swinging an axe than opening a book. Together, the odd couple must make a success out of the bookshop—and survive a dizzying procession of seasonal festivals. But the local evil noblewoman has other plans in mind.

Necromancy is a secret that thirty-year-old Cora will take to her grave. If only she could stay in it. As war erupts between gangs of mages, hiding in plain sight, Cora haunts the shadows of London's magical underworld as the Unweaver. Blackmailed by gang boss "Mother," Cora pries secrets out of corpses like worms to feed the magpie spy's insatiable appetite for intrigue. Only a few of the living and scores of the dead know the Unweaver's true identity. If anyone discovers Cora, mages will condemn her as an abomination, and humans will execute her as a presumed murderer.