Cordelia Naismith, de legendarische bevelvoerster in de Betaanse Expeditie Macht, paste eigenlijk in geen enkel hokje. Toen ze trouwde met een bevelhebber van de verslagen planeet Barrayar was ze van plan voortaan een rustig leven te leiden en kleine Vor-prinsen op te voeden, met af en toe een offici?le verplichting als vrouwe Vorkosigan. Maar het liep anders. Aral Vorkosigan bleek een zeer vooraanstaande Vor-heerser, die toen de keizer stierf de last van de heerschappij wel moest opnemen. En Cordelia had geen andere keus dan haar man te steunen. Geen van beiden realiseerde zich welke rol Cordelia en haar ongeboren zoon zouden gaan spelen in de bloedige geschiedenis van Barrayar.
Gedurende het Tweede Imperium van het grote Aardse ruimterijk wordt plotseling een ruimteschip van onbekende herkomst ontdekt dat, aan de koers te zien, afkomstig is uit de richting van ‘Murchisons Oog’. Dit betekent het allereerste contact met ‘buitenaardsen’. Murchisons Oog is de enige ster in de Kolenzaknevel die op grote afstand nog te zien is. Het is een grote, rode ster, met in een hoek een klein wit lichtend puntje, dat De Splinter in Gods Oog wordt genoemd.Een kleine expiditie van twee schepen wordt derwaarts gestuurd en men maakt al snel contact met de vreemde Splinterbeschaving. Door ...
Sinds de dood van koning Robert worden de opvolgingstwisten om de IJzeren Troon steeds feller voort. Zo schuwt Roberts oudste broer geen middel om zijn aanspraken te bekrachtigen, van zwarte magie tot broedermoord. Vooralsnog zonder resultaat. Duidelijk is dat koningin Cersei alles op alles zal zetten om te heersen tot Roberts zoon volwassen is. Een hele opgave. Want terwijl de vijand oprukt naar de hoofdstad, heeft Cersei haar handen vol aan de vele hofintriges. Daarbij is niet duidelijk wat de geslepen en altijd manipulerende kobold Tyrion Lannister precies in zijn schuld voert. De Noordlanden, waar als vanouds de Starks heersen, hebben intussen eigenmachtig een koning benoemd, Robb Stark. Met zijn legers trekt hij op tegen de perfide Lannisters om de moord op zijn vader te wreken. Maar daarbij blijft zijn erfgoed vrijwel onverdedigd achter, open voor een verrassingsaanval…
Als er plotseling een stralende paars en gele planeet aan de Aardse hemel verschijnt, breekt er een rampzalige tijd aan. De maan wordt verpletterd, vergruizeld en verslonden; aardbevingen en stortvloeden teisteren de machteloze wereld. Nederland loopt weer eens onder…Belevenissen van een willekeurige groep mensen, meegesleurd in een adembenemende visie van Grootmeester Leiber.
SHERRILYN KENYON'Shadow of the Moon'Angelia has fought her entire life to make herself strong. Now, with her patria under fire, she has to protect her people from Fury and his werewolf clan. Vowing to bring him to justice, Angelia sets out alone—until the hunter becomes the hunted, and the only way for her to survive is to trust the very wolf she's sworn to kill.J.R. WARD'The Story of Son'Claire Stroughton is a beautiful lawyer who would rather spend the night with a legal brief than the man ...
Except for Sookie Stackhouse, folks in Bon Temps, Louisiana, know little about vamps—and nothing about weres.Until now. The weres and shifters have finally decided to reveal their existence to the ordinary world. At first all goes well. Then the mutilated body of a were-panther is found near the bar where Sookie works—and she feels compelled to discover who, human or otherwise, did it.But there’s a far greater danger threatening Bon Temps. A race of unhuman beings—older, more powerful, and more secretive than vampires or werewolves—is preparing for war. And Sookie finds herself an all-too human pawn in their battle.
Teenager Amber Borden, who has the ability to step into someone else's body-and life-returns in this second Dead Girl novel. This time, she steps into the body of her boyfriend's college-age sister, who has an obvious drinking problem and a psycho stalker.
In this third book in the engaging Dead Girl series, Singleton continues to blend young adult fiction with the paranormal for an out-of-this-world story.
Now, was I supposed to go left or right at the Light?Seventeen-year-old Amber Borden has a lousy sense of direction — so lousy that she takes a wrong turn when returning from her near-death experience. She ends up in the body of the most popular girl in school, who has just tried to commit suicide.Can a girl who can't even navigate the halls of Halsey High discover the secrets of her new identity and find her way back to her own life?
Claire has her share of challenges. Like being a genius in a school that favors beauty over brains; homicidal girls in her dorm, and finding out that her college town is overrun with the living dead. On the up side, she has a new boyfriend with a vampire-hunting dad. But when a local fraternity throws the Dead Girls' Dance, hell is really going to break loose.
After enduring torture and the loss of loved ones during the brief but deadly Faery War, Sookie Stackhouse is hurt and she's angry. Just about the only bright spot in her life is the love she thinks she feels for vampire Eric Northman. But he's under scrutiny by the new Vampire King because of their relationship. And as the political implications of the Shifters coming out are beginning to be felt, Sookie's connection to the Shreveport pack draws her into the debate. Worst of all, though the door to Faery has been closed, there are still some Fae on the human side-and one of them is angry at Sookie. Very, very angry…
..Suddenly, and without warning, a terrifying plague breaks out on Banoi. Resort guests, hotel staff, islanders are infected overnight…and transformed into the ravening, flesh-craving living dead.For those few who, for some reason, are immune to this apocalypse it becomes a race against time. To survive, to get off the island and warn the world before it’s too late. But first they must escape the clutches of the zombie hordes…
When the dead call, she answers.Bounty hunting is a helluva job, but it pays the bills. And it lets Necromance Dante Valentine forget her issues--like struggling with her half-demon side and the memory of her lover's death.Now psychics all over the city are being savagely murdered--and a piece of the past Dante thought she'd buried is stalking the night with a vengeance. Too bad she's got no way to tell which fiend-or friend-to trust. Or that her most horrifying nightmares are gathering to take one kick-ass bounty hunter down for the count.But that's only the beginning. The Devil just called. He's looking for Dante's lover-the one he killed…
Blighted by an eye disease, Joanna Raines undergoes a corneal transplant operation to stop her going blind. The procedure is successful, but in the weeks that follow she begins to see dark coronas surrounding certain people. By turns fearful that something has gone wrong and worried that she’s going crazy, Joanna searches for an answer to the phenomena.What she finds will change her life forever. The transplant has opened a door in her mind, and the strange coronas are not legacies of the operation but proof that a legion of demons plans to invade the earth! Now the only thing that stands between the demonic horde and their plot to take over the world is Joanna, a young woman with the power to see them for what they really are.Seeing is believing.The demons are real.Joanna just has to convince everyone else before it’s too late.
