Showing results for "the rose" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Every citizen of England is granted one bargain from their immortal fae queen. High society girls are expected to bargain for qualities that will win them suitors: a rare talent for piano in exchange for one’s happiest childhood memory. A perfect smile for one’s ability to taste. But Ivy Benton’s debut season arrives with a shocking twist: a competition to secure the heart of the Queen’s fae son, Prince Bram. A prize that could save Ivy’s family from ruin… and free her sister from the bargain that destroyed her.

Once upon a time...there was a girl whose father inhabited the body of a beast for a time and whose mother couldn't seem to keep her nose out of a book. Mirabel can't imagine summer without the solstice ball her family throws every year—the music, the roses, everything looking picture perfect, like it came out of one of her mother's books. But when a young man at the ball snubs an enchantress in disguise and chooses Mirabel to dance with instead, the summer begins to look a lot less wonderful.

Ivy est désormais reine d'Angleterre, mais rien ne va plus : les pactes ont volé en éclats, le royaume vacille, et Bram s'est détourné du pouvoir. Bien décidée à retrouver ses proches disparus, Ivy franchit les portes de l'Autre Monde. Entre épreuves mortelles et choix impossibles, la jeune reine devra puiser dans sa force et son courage pour sauver les siens et tout un royaume.

In the pleasant town of Rose, Kansas, a breathtaking mansion stands alone on a windswept prairie. Its presence mystifies the locals almost as much as the three elusive individuals that live within its marble walls. They are known as the Rose Flock, and the rumors about them range from extraordinary to disturbing.

London 1848: Zur Heiratssaison stehen die jungen Adligen Schlange vor Fae-Königin Moryens Thron. Denn ein mit ihr geschlossener Rose Bargain verheißt Schönheit und Reichtum – für einen Preis. Als Kronprinz Bram verkündet, in dieser Saison seine Braut zu wählen, schafft es die in Ungnade gefallene Ivy überraschend unter die sechs Favoritinnen. Doch aus dem eleganten Wettstreit wird schnell blutiger Ernst. Und Ivy darf auf keinen Fall Brams Bruder Emmett zu nahe kommen, wenn sie ihr Herz – und ihren Kopf – behalten will.

What if vampires were the good guys and a human girl was the one to fear? Death of a Black Rose, book three in The Rose Trilogy, is a paranormal romance that concludes with a heroine who's now the one to fear, a vampire who vows to save the soul of the one he loves, and a vampire clan whose new Sire is already facing extinction.

Ivy est sur le point de passer son pacte magique avec la reine Moryen, une fae sanguinaire aux pouvoirs inimaginables. Ivy n'a qu'une idée en tête : défaire le pacte qu'a passé sa soeur un an plus tôt, dont elle ne garde aucun souvenir, et qui a poussé sa famille dans le déclassement social. Mais au moment du pacte des roses, la cérémonie où les jeunes filles de bonne famille passent leur pacte et marquant ainsi leur entrée de la société, la reine les surprend toutes. Elle compte marier son fils ainé, le beau Bram, héritier légitime du trône et fae comme elle.

Provincial France, 1700. Lana Moreau, beautiful daughter of a bankrupt nobleman, is desperate for a suitor with a brain. But things don’t go as planned when her father takes her to the local prophet, looking for insight into her many failed courtships. When the seer names her as the Belmorta, a woman doomed to love a beast and bring famine and destruction, Lana flees in hopes of reversing her dark fortune. Escaping the wrath of the frightened villagers, she finds salvation in a seemingly empty magical castle.