Rayan voss (23 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - At Lantern Academy, every child belongs to a kind of Light. Every child except Rowan Finch.>At the Academy, children are Kindled into Hearths: Emberlight, Tidelight, Rootlight, Stormlight, Mirrorlight, Starlight, and more. But when Rowan steps into the Ring of Lanterns, every light goes out. His gift wakes as Shadowlight, the rarest and most feared power of all, the same dark magic once carried by the Hollow King. Now the school whispers that Rowan is dangerous. When students begin to go grey and empty, everyone knows who to blame. To clear his name, Rowan must trust a sharp-tongued girl who asks impossible questions, a kind boy with a brave green heart, and the darkness inside him that may not be a weapon after all. Because something ancient is stirring beneath the Academy. Behind the Unlit Door, a grief-hungry darkness is waking. And the boy nobody chose may be the only one who can hold it back. The Boy with the Shadowlight is the first book in The Lantern Academy, a richly imagined middle-grade fantasy about found family, hidden magic, and the courage to become the thing the world has taught you to fear.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Some family secrets are buried in silence. Some are painted over.After exposing the truth about a stolen painting, Evelyn Bellamy loses the museum career she built her life around. Disgraced, guarded, and newly uncertain of her own instincts, she retreats into quieter work: restoring old objects, reading the damage people leave behind, and pretending the past can stay exactly where she put it.Then her estranged grandmother dies.Rose Bellamy leaves Evelyn a crumbling mansion above the river, a ruined estate wrapped in rumors, and one locked room Evelyn swore she would never enter again.Inside the sealed Blue Room hangs a portrait someone tried very hard to erase.Beneath layers of overpaint, Evelyn uncovers the face of Lydia Ashcroft, a vanished heiress whose powerful family spent fifty years turning her life into a silence. But the portrait is only the beginning. Hidden inside the walls of Bellamy House, Rose left behind an archive of lost objects, coded records, and buried promises that some people are still willing to kill to protect.As Evelyn follows the trail from a forbidden love affair in 1968 to a present-day legal claim that could cost her the house, she begins to understand that Bellamy House was never just an inheritance.It was a warning.And the closer Evelyn comes to restoring Lydia's truth, the more her own past begins to crack open.The Portrait in the Blue Room is a luminous, atmospheric mystery about erased women, inherited lies, forbidden love, and the dangerous work of bringing buried truths back into the light.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Bellwether Hotel has a room ready. It always did.At 12:17 a.m., on a flooded highway, the Vey family's car meets a stranger's headlights. Then the road simply disappears.When help arrives, it is not an ambulance. It is a white vehicle with no medical supplies, driven by a man who says that everyone who needs collecting gets collected. He brings Sera Vey, her husband Callan, and their injured four-year-old daughter, Romy, to the Bellwether Hotel: a grand old building that asks no names, takes no payment, and hands them a key to a room that should not exist.Room 1217.In a hotel with only four floors.Sera wants one thing: to get Romy to a hospital. But the phones do not call out. They listen. The lobby clock is stopped at 12:17. The guests move through the halls as if they have forgotten how long they have been there. And Callan-calm, careful Callan-remembers more about the crash than he will say.So Sera begins to do what any mother would do. She tests the locks. She hides a key and watches it return. She follows her husband into corridors that were not there the day before. She writes down every impossible thing the hotel cannot explain, because someone inside this marriage is lying-and she is no longer certain whether it is Callan, the Bellwether, or her own breaking mind.Then Romy begins to sleep deeper. Each morning she wakes with stories of another room: a humming room, a room with a singing bird lady, a room that wants her to stay.And at last, Sera discovers the Bellwether's only unbreakable rule.Children cannot stay.Someone must let Romy go.Warm, patient, and impossibly beautiful, the Bellwether does not take people by force. It waits for love to become fear. It waits for devotion to become refusal. And Sera's love-the fierce, desperate kind that will not open its hand-is exactly what the hotel knows how to keep.Room 12:17 is a haunting supernatural suspense novel about a marriage unraveling inside an impossible place, a hotel that preserves the lost the way archives preserve the past, and a mother forced to discover whether love can save her daughter-or hold her back from living.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - No one is saved alone.When an F-15E goes down over hostile territory, Captain Caleb Rourke survives the crash-but survival is only the beginning. Wounded, hunted, and alone in the mountains, he must keep moving long enough for rescue to find him.Above him, a rescue pilot races against time in a sky that leaves no room for error. In a windowless operations room, an analyst hears a phrase no one else understands and realizes the map may be wrong. A commander must decide how many lives, aircraft, and secrets can be risked for one missing man.On the ground, far from the official story, a schoolteacher tries to keep her family invisible. A young girl learns that mercy can be dangerous. A pump mechanic is taken for a cup of water he never gave. And a father inside the security apparatus must choose between the truth, his duty, and the medical permit his sick son desperately needs.From mountain passes to war rooms, from flight decks to nameless villages, The Last One is a gripping novel of rescue, mercy, and consequence-where every choice leaves a mark, every map leaves someone out, and bringing one man home may cost more than anyone is willing to admit.Perfect for readers who enjoy emotionally powerful military thrillers, morally complex rescue stories, and literary suspense about the lives hidden behind official reports.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A man who should have died four centuries ago is still young.A dying scientist has rediscovered the secret he tried to erase.And the archivist who uncovers them both is about to learn that every miracle leaves bodies in the record.Antwerp, 1571. When plague takes Matthijs van Aelst's wife, the physician devotes himself to defeating the one enemy medicine cannot cure. Six years later, at fifty-nine, he tests an experimental treatment on three desperate patients.All three die.The fourth subject is Matthijs himself.His scars vanish. His hair darkens. His failing body begins to reverse its age until he appears thirty years old-and remains that way.Terrified of what rulers, armies, and wealthy patrons would do for immortality, Matthijs destroys every formula, dosage, sample, and process capable of reproducing the treatment. For centuries, he survives beneath borrowed names, erasing records and silencing discoveries whenever science comes too close to uncovering his secret.Then, in 2026, Chicago archivist Mara Baptiste finds the same face in photographs taken in 1894, 1919, 1942, and 1965.Her search leads to a fire-damaged file labeled SUBJECT IV-and to Dr. Lena Ortiz, Matthijs's brilliant longtime partner, whose independent research may have discovered a second path to human rejuvenation.Lena is dying. Her work could save her life. It could also unleash a treatment that governments would weaponize, corporations would monopolize, and millions would kill to possess.Matthijs has protected the secret for centuries, and he has already made his decision: Lena's research must disappear.But Mara is restoring the names of the people he erased. Lena refuses to let an immortal man decide what happens to her body. And as the truth closes in, Matthijs must confront the question he has avoided for four hundred years: Did he save the world from immortality-or simply appoint himself its ruler The Undying is an epic historical science thriller about grief, dangerous knowledge, medical power, and the devastating difference between protecting humanity and choosing its future.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - He made himself impossible to abandon. Then he built an empire no one could escape.Adrian Vale learned early that money changes the temperature of a room. Quiet, watchful, and terrified of being left behind, he made a private vow: become valuable enough, and no one would ever leave.Decades later, the world calls him the first trillionaire in history.Adrian owns pieces of the future governments cannot function without: power grids, hospitals, robotics, orbital rockets, and the first factory ever built on the Moon. Presidents wait for his calls. Markets rise and fall on his silence. His name is spoken in boardrooms, courtrooms, and Senate chambers with equal parts awe and fear.But every company Adrian built cost him something no valuation could measure.Maya loved him before he became a myth. Claire helped build the empire and refuses to let their children mistake his calendar for his heart. Lena will not become another scandal he can bury. Sofia will stand beside him only if he stops treating love as something to be earned after victory.And then there are the children the world knows-and the ones Adrian hid behind trusts, lawyers, and silence, telling himself secrecy was protection.When a leak threatens to expose what his fortune truly cost, Adrian's carefully engineered life begins to fracture. Buried injuries. Bought silences. Risks softened into probabilities. People turned into acceptable losses on the road to tomorrow.With a launch window closing, a Senate hearing approaching, and his empire trembling beneath him, Adrian faces the one problem he cannot optimize, acquire, or outrun.He can protect the mission, the money, and the myth.Or he can tell the truth-and watch everything he built come apart.Sweeping, intimate, and morally charged, The Trillionaire is a literary saga of ambition, love, power, family, and consequence. For readers drawn to sprawling family dramas and complex portraits of empire builders, it asks one unforgettable question: What is the point of owning tomorrow if everyone you love is still trapped in yesterday.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - She came to Paris for love. She woke to a city with no one left in it.Nineteen-year-old Mira Hayes has spent her whole life in Cypress Bend, Florida, dreaming of somewhere bigger, brighter, and impossible to reach. Then Julien appears: a beautiful Parisian stranger with a voice like a promise, a hand-drawn map of secret places, and a version of Mira's life that finally feels worth running toward.So she flies to France.For twenty-three days, Paris becomes theirs. Rain on stone streets. Late-night trains. Cheap coffee in hidden cafés. Kisses beside the river. A city turning golden under Julien's careful, intoxicating attention.Then Mira wakes up alone.The hostel is empty. Cars sit abandoned in the middle of the streets, engines still humming. Phones charge beside unmade beds. Trains have stopped between stations. Birds circle the rooftops. Rabbits move through the parks. And every human being in Paris has vanished.Including Julien.Desperate for help, Mira posts videos online. The world can see her. Millions begin watching the girl trapped in an empty Paris. But the impossible truth soon emerges: the videos are not coming from the present.They are coming from 2035.Eight years earlier, journalist Nora Chen begins receiving Mira's messages and realizes the girl on her screen may be more than a viral mystery. She may be a warning.To find Julien and uncover what happened to Paris, Mira must follow the romantic map he left behind, retracing every beautiful place he once showed her. But each location hides something darker beneath the memory. Each clue makes the city feel more alive. And each answer brings Mira closer to the question she is most afraid to face: Did Julien choose her because he loved her.or because he needed someone left behind to tell the story The Last Girl in Paris is a haunting romantic speculative thriller about first love, vanished cities, viral obsession, memory, consent, and the terrifying difference between being chosen and being free.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.