Showing results for "marjorie" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Il y a 30 ans, les Super-Vilains se sont soulevés et ont tué tous les héros. Enfin, tous les héros qui comptaient. Seul survivant des Avengers, Hawkeye (Olivier Marchal) est maintenant une bête de foire, revivant le pire jour de sa vie pour un public qui paie pour voir ça. Il est bourru, brisé et perd la vue, mais il y a toujours en lui cette volonté d'être un héros et de prendre sa revanche en l'honneur de ses amis. Et il est prêt à faire ce qui doit être fait : se débarrasser de toutes les personnes responsables de la mort de ceux qu'il aimait le plus.

The first exciting Dirk & Steele novel by the incomparable Marjorie M. Liu, Tiger Eye is a breathtaking masterwork of paranormal romance - a stunningly original tale of magic, sensuality, desire, and danger, featuring a hero who is the answer to every romance lover’s fantasy. Tiger Eye is the one that started it all, ushering audiences into the Dirk & Steele world of shape-shifters, psychics, and extraordinary beings, showcasing one of the most inventive talents currently working the shadowland where passion and the amazing intertwine.

Jean Grey awakens in an unfamiliar room. She is weak, disoriented, stripped of her telepathic and telekinetic powers - and trapped in someone else's body. Also prisoner are her teammates Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, and Nightcrawler - their minds held hostage within the bodies of strangers. Who has brought them here, and for what purpose? The answers lead to a terrifying plan that threatens not only the X-Men, but all of mutantkind.

Briar, bodyguard for a body-stealing sorceress, discovers her love for Rose, whose true soul emerges only once a week. An apprentice witch seeks her freedom through betrayal, the bones of the innocent, and a meticulously plotted spell. In a world powered by crystal skulls, a warrior returns to save China from invasion by her jealous ex. A princess runs away from an arranged marriage, finding family in a strange troupe of traveling actors at the border of the kingdom’s deep, dark woods.

The (black) magical season is here - and whether it's a solstice seance gone demonically wrong with the incomparable Kim Harrison, a grossly misshapen Christmas with the remarkable Lynsay Sands, a blood-chilling-and-spilling New Year's with the wonderful Marjorie M. Liu, or a super-powered Thanksgiving with the phenomenal Vicki Pettersson, one thing is for certain: in the able hands of these exceptional dark side explorers, the holidays are going to be deliciously hellish!

Extraordinary is the word for the paranormal romance of New York Times best seller Marjorie M. Liu - who broke exciting new ground when she created the Dirk and Steele Detective Agency. The unique security organization comprised of psychics, telekinetics, and extraordinary supernatural beings faces its biggest challenge in The Last Twilight, when a powerful shape-shifter must return to his African homeland to free a beautiful virus hunter held captive by maniacs plotting the murders of millions of innocents.

A pyrokinetic former thief who fears the destructive power of flame at his fingertips.... A beautiful shape-shifter with fiery talents of her own hiding in the tunnels below Manhattan from those who destroyed her family and her race.... Put them together and you have Within the Flames, a powerfully sensual and totally gripping new Dirk & Steele romantic adventure from New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Marjorie M. Liu.

New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Marjorie M. Liu has captivated audiences with her remarkable Dirk and Steele novels, proving herself to be one of today’s most brilliantly imaginative creators of paranormal romance. Lui reaches new heights with In the Dark of Dreams, the breathtakingly sensual story of a young woman’s passionate reunion with a magnificent man from the sea - and the dark mission that binds them both.

A tormented shape-shifting hero - once almost a god, now much more than a man - freed against his will from an eternal darkness - must overcome his rage and the pain of his tragic past by accepting the love of a remarkable woman with an extraordinary gift.

New York Times best-selling author Marjorie Liu (Monstress) leads you deep into the heart of the tangled woods. In her dark, romantic, and spellbinding short fiction, you will find dangerous magic and even more dangerous women: a body-stealing sorceress, a bone-collecting apprentice-witch, a princess-turned-actress, and a warrior protecting China from her jealous ex. Concluding with a gorgeous full-length novella, Liu's first short fiction collection is an unflinching sojourn into her thorny tales of love, revenge, and new beginnings.

En descendant du train à Penn Station, le jeune homme se rend compte qu'il a tout oublié : son nom, son passé, son visage... Une seule certitude : quoiqu'il n'ait jamais mis les pieds à Manhattan, il est ici chez lui. Rien d'anormal, donc, à ce qu'un vieux taxi jaune à damiers s'arrête devant lui au moment où il en a le plus besoin. Il doit impérativement se rendre sur FDR Drive ; il ignore pourquoi, mais cela a sans doute un rapport avec les tentacules qui sèment le trouble à chaque coin de rue.

By day, her tattoos are her armor. By night, they unwind from her body to take on forms of their own. Demons of the flesh, turned into flesh. This is the only family demon hunter Maxine Kiss has ever known. The only way to live---and the very way she'll die. For one day, her demons will abandon her for her daughter to ensure their own survival---leaving Maxine helpless against her enemies.

With Soul Song, the sensational New York Times best-selling superstar brings listeners another marvelous tale of passion and otherworldly occurrences centered around the mysterious Dirk and Steele Detective Agency - as a tormented young woman with the precognitive power to foresee terrible futures must place her own fate in the hands of a mesmerizing prince of the sea.

Marjorie M. Lui has created a most unusual investigative organization in the Dirk and Steele Detective Agency - a collection of shape-shifters, psychics, and other uniquely gifted individuals - and in doing so has revitalized the paranormal romance genre. In The Red Heart of Jade, an ex-cop with extraordinarily heightened senses follow a trail of death to Taipei - and finds the woman of his heart there, the childhood love he once believed dead, whom he must now protect from an unspeakable evil.

In The Wild Road, a breathtaking, solitary creature, the last of his race, is irresistibly drawn to a mysterious woman with no memory of who she is but is in obvious peril. Discover why Booklist says, “If you have yet to add Liu to your must-read list, you’re doing yourself a disservice.”

Eye of Heaven is yet another dark and sensuous romantic winner from the extraordinary Marjorie M. Lui, arguably one of the boldest, most inventively original authors currently working in the paranormal romance field. Centered once again around the remarkable Dirk and Steele Detective Agency - with its shape-shifters, psychics, telekinetics, and others with astounding supernatural gifts - Eye of Heaven brings a tormented investigator to “Sin City”, Las Vegas, where a beautiful, feral headliner needs protection from a terrible darkness that is threatening her world.

Shadow Touch is the second title in New York Times and USA Today best-selling author Marjorie M. Liu’s remarkable Dirk & Steele series - inventive and breathtakingly passionate tales of shape-shifters, psychics, and extraordinary beings from one of the finest writers of paranormal romance. A story of a man with amazing abilities and a woman who can perform miracles with a touch drawn together into a terrifying conspiracy, Shadow Touch combines suspense, peril, and passion with a truly remarkable love story that will live in the heart forever.

On the ground, Lisa Thales, a 33-year-old astronaut in training, is selected to do a one-year tour aboard the International Space Station. Along with Lisa training in the parabolic flights where they simulate zero gravity and the underwater diving in preparation for space-walks is a certain cosmonaut, with whom she has a complicated relationship. Their relationship crosses certain lines just as her time to exit the globe arrives. 

Young Rupert, with an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and experience, has been raised in complete isolation from the world by his enigmatic grandparents. His life takes an extraordinary turn when a violent storm uncovers a long-concealed treasure. In the aftermath of the storm, his grandparents vanish.

You are already a prince. The odds are 149 to 1 that you will be chosen as crown prince—the future ruler of an empire that stretches across the known universe. Each contestant must perform an assigned task to demonstrate his worthiness, but is that the only factor that counts? Could something extra move the odds your way, some coercion, some bribe, some secret plan?