Showing results for "becoming" in Science Fiction & Fantasy

Tessa McCaide has a unique talent for getting into trouble. Then again, it isn’t easy for a girl with psychic visions to ignore what she sees. Luckily Tessa and her family are leaving California and moving halfway across the country, giving her the perfect opportunity to leave her reputation as “Freaky Tessa” behind. But Tessa doesn’t realize that kissing the wrong guy in her new Texas town could land her in far more trouble than she ever imagined. Like being forced to attend St. Ailbe’s Academy, a secret boarding school for werewolves.

In the first book of the Shaw Confessions, the companion series to the New York Times best-selling Mara Dyer novels, old skeletons are laid bare and new promises prove deadly. This is what happens after happily ever after. Everyone thinks 17-year-old Noah Shaw has the world on a string. They're wrong. Mara Dyer is the only one he trusts with his secrets and his future. He shouldn't. And both are scared that uncovering the truth about themselves will force them apart. They're right.

Every three years, Amber Hopkins explodes. Okay, not a blown-to-smithereens explosion, but whatever it is always hurts like hell and leaves her life a shambles. She's already worked her way through five foster placements, and she's doing whatever she can to avoid getting blasted into a sixth. As her 18th birthday approaches and she feels the strange and powerful energy building, disaster looms. When the inevitable explosion occurs, her life gets its biggest shakeup yet.

Arianna Grace is about to turn 17, and her life has been very complicated lately. She is the leader of four clans of night humans: dearg-dul, baku, tengu, and lycan. While the four clans seem to get along better with one another, there is internal conflict on both sides of her family, not to mention the three boys vying for her attention. Devin is set on keeping her safe above all else. Turner's goal is to make her happy. And Andrew wants her for himself. At some point Arianna will have to choose between them, but first she needs to survive the plots against her.

Azra has just turned 16, and overnight her body lengthens, her olive skin deepens, and her eyes glisten gold, thanks to the brand new silver bangle that locks around her wrist. As she always knew it would, her Jinn ancestry brings not just magical powers, but the reality of a life of servitude, as her wish granting is controlled by a remote ruling class of Jinn known as the Afrit. To the humans she lives among, she's just the girl working at the snack bar at the beach. But behind closed doors, she's learning how to harness her powers and fulfill the obligations of her destiny.

Mike Wilson, a junior at Cypress Christian Academy, discovers he's been reading minds by accident. The day after he gets his license, he can drive as well as his Driver's Ed teacher, Mr. Clark. He has a full day of memories straight from the mind of Zayden Perez, the most loved and hated guy at school. This year at CCA, the world-famous tech entrepreneur, Henry Jacks is teaching at the school. Mike inadvertently downloads his mind during the first day of class and now Mike's a tech genius, too.

As a Reaper, it is Mary’s duty to guide the dead to the afterlife. For the past 50 years, her assignment has been to retrieve souls in terrifying war zones. When a simple mission pushes Mary to her breaking point, she is banished to the mortal world. When everything she’s ever known about humanity is turned upside-down, Mary is forced to leave her past behind and open her heart. She realizes that all Humans aren’t as terrible as she believed, but some are much worse than she ever imagined.

Carter doesn't believe in aliens. And he certainly doesn't defend his dad's claims that they exist, even if they aired on national television. But then, the girl he's falling for starts doing strange things, magical things, things that seem a bit out of this world. Kokab hungers to be a Perfect in a world where her emotions are her greatest flaw. But when her planet faces extinction, her sympathy makes her the best ambassador to persuade humans to accept her people.

I thought I had my future planned: turn 18, graduate high school and head to college; until an attack on my house changed everything. Turns out I’m not human. On my 18th birthday I’ll awaken as a vampire, unlock my magic and be bonded to an element, giving me extra abilities. But even that doesn’t go according to plan.

What if Cinderella was already a princess? What if her step-sisters weren't mean? What if she learned to control the animals? What if her family, her crown, and her love were ripped away from her? What if, in her grief, she made a terrible mistake? Maybe not all fairy-tales have a happy ending...

Being Jinn is Azra's new reality. As she grants wishes under the watchful eye of the Afrit council, she remains torn between her two worlds: human and Jinn. Soon, secrets spill. Zars are broken. Humans become pawns. And rumors of an uprising become real as the Afrit's reach extends beyond the underground world of Janna. Straddling the line between these worlds becomes impossible.

Wenn dein Leben eine Lüge ist... Als die junge und schöne Elektra Hamilton bei einem Reitunfall ums Leben kommt, erhält Isabel ein unerwartetes Angebot. Sie, die Elektra wie aus dem Gesicht geschnitten ist, soll deren Platz einnehmen. Sie muss lediglich für immer verschweigen, wer sie wirklich ist. Ein Leben in Luxus winkt ihr - und die Verlobung mit dem attraktiven Phillip von Halmen. Zunächst scheint keiner Verdacht zu schöpfen. Doch Elektra hatte eigene Geheimnisse und während diese sie langsam einholen, wächst in Isabel die Gewissheit, dass Elektras Tod kein Unfall war.

Emlyn Perry never expected to be demon hunting in the most notorious haunted house in Savannah, Georgia. Before her mother died, Emlyn was an average teenager, preparing for her senior year with her best friend and boyfriend. After discovering a secret Emlyn's parents kept hidden for 17 years, Emlyn embarks on a journey to embrace a lineage of Celtic magic but soon realizes a life of witchcraft comes with consequences. As soon as she accepts her powers, Emlyn becomes the target of the Ainbertach Coven, a powerful organization of dark witches with roots dating to early-1300 Ireland.